A guest on The 11th Hour tonight: “vius versa.” And another guest, a couple of minutes after that: “stimmied,” for “stymied.”
Tuesday, February 2, 2021
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
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comments: 4
Yep. It's a doggy dog world out there.
It occurred to me after the fact that the speaker probably never watched Our Gang shorts (Matthew Beard played Stymie).
I heard her say "stimmied" and it made me look up the pronunciation to make sure I haven't been wrong all these years. I was pretty sure I had been correct, but I'm open to being wrong!
But given there's a typeface called Stymie and I know how that is pronounced... I was pretty sure.
I saw that someone mentioned it on Twitter too. I’m not outraged — anyone can make a mistake, and you’re looking at someone who for the longest time thought that Goethe was pronounced “goath.” But it did surprise me.
That’s a real modernist font. I had no idea.
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