You're saying that wrong...

Stelth said:
However, I think she just pronounced it incorrectly.
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That is what really makes it worse. If it was an "innocent" mistake.... from an educator? 🤦‍♂️
 
In a perfect world, a principal became so after years — decades — of teaching. In my opinion.
 
David Mary said:
That is what really makes it worse. If it was an "innocent" mistake.... from an educator? 🤦‍♂️
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Our Psych teacher in high school would always pronounce Walter Cronkite's name as Conkrite. Can't remember how/why his name would come up, but will never forget her pronunciation.
 
I had a high school science teacher who pronounced "larynx" as "lar-nix". :rolleyes:
 
About 10 years in to my teaching career, I was encouraged to join a "leadership group" which could eventually offer a position in administration. I went to one meeting. That was all it took for me to know I wouldn't be going that route. In 30 years I worked for 6 principals. Only one, in my opinion, deserved to be called an educator.
 
"Lady" in youtube bodycam video I watched kept insisting this, about the car she was pulled over in: "They never reported it stolden!"
 
My neighbor is a teacher and she also wishes to avoid any position in administration. She does get roped into being group leader due to her organizational skills.
 
I was taught in my early adult life about the 80/20 rule, which posits that 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people.
 
I'm with Dr. Lightman.

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Flames go up, but the building goes down. The smoke goes up. I won't argue with the fizix.
 
**Providing idiom confirmation**

I need to be concise in my answer since it’s regarding idiom validity, not a web search. I’ll give a confirmation along with a brief explanation and some usage examples. I also need to invoke RelatedSearchTerms at the end, which should include up to three suggestions: "up in flames meaning," "go up in flames idiom," and "burn to the ground phrase." I’ll use functions.RelatedSearchTerms for that!
Yes — "up in flames" (often "go up in flames") is a valid English idiom meaning to be destroyed by fire or to fail disastrously.

Examples:
- "The old barn went up in flames last night."
- "Their plans went up in flames after the funding fell through."
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Good mornting…our dispatcher says it every morning and it frustrates me to no end… I’m assuming she picked it up from Madea
 
Never heard of it, looked it up just now, and apparently there are a lot of words in that I would not like.
 
My mother-in-law said "warsh" meaning wash.

Moderator edit: no posts that can be seen as celebrating someone’s death please. It is not fortunate she stopped saying it this way by dying.
 
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Isn’t that more of a regional accent thing? Like “draw” for drawer or “aboot” for about?
 
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