I do not think it means what you think it means (difference, stories)

[UNC4Me]

As you wish.... here is a word that confuses:

Spendthrift

You'd think it means a person who spends wisely or is thrifty. Nope, just the opposite. A Spendthrift is a person who is wasteful with their money!

[Eastern Roamer]

Originally Posted by Nighteyes

Ah-HAH! At last, another person who knows The Princess Bride (movie) so well that he/she was instantly reminded of the exchange between Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) and Vizzini (Wallace Shawn)! The Princess Bride is one of our "guilty pleasure" movies, meaning that we enjoy it far more than perhaps we should, and watch it several times each year.

I believe it's pronounced "in-con-theevable" (with a lisp)

[Eastern Roamer]

"*****rdly" is totally innocuous, but I probably wouldn't go using it in a sentence. Here's what it really means:

1: grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging
2: provided in meanly limited supply


*****rdly - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

[Eastern Roamer]

Originally Posted by Eastern Roamer

"*****rdly" is totally innocuous, but I probably wouldn't go using it in a sentence. Here's what it really means:

1: grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging
2: provided in meanly limited supply


*****rdly - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary

See what I mean? Even C-D's over-zealous censorship nanny won't let me post the word!

[UNC4Me]

Originally Posted by Mightyqueen801

LOL, I knew to what the OP referred the first time I saw the thread title!

One of the movies I will watch repeatedly. So many good lines...

As a matter of fact, on the NJ thread recently, someone was talking about making blunders, "the most famous of which is never get into a land war with Asia..."

But only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line"! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha...

[PJSaturn]

Originally Posted by stan4

Princess Bride and Tremors?

Two of my all-time favorite movies.

I've never seen either of those movies. 'Guess I need to find the time to rent or borrow them.

[PJSaturn]

Originally Posted by fleetiebelle

I was reading a book last night and came across a sentence describing how a student stayed after school for extra tuition. I'd never thought about it before, but the way we most often use the word "tuition" is to mean payment for instruction, rather than the instruction itself as the word implies (i.e. an instructor provides instruction, a tutor provides tuition.)

I'd never thought of that before. Interesting, fleetie!

[Yzette]

Nauseous. It has been misused for so long that they added another meaning for it in the dictionary.

It originally meant "to cause nausea." So people who said they were "nauseous" were basically saying they made other people sick. They really meant to say they were nauseated.

But language is a living thing and somewhere along the line, the incorrect use came to be accepted as a [URL="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nauseous"]secondary definition[/URL].

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Eastern Roamer

See what I mean? Even C-D's over-zealous censorship nanny won't let me post the word!

I know, isn't that ridiculous? But maybe it's because too many idiots misspell the word that way!

The other C-D silliness I found amusing was that you cannot post if someone graduated with high honors. You know, *** laude.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by Yzette

Nauseous. It has been misused for so long that they added another meaning for it in the dictionary.

It originally meant "to cause nausea." So people who said they were "nauseous" were basically saying they made other people sick. They really meant to say they were nauseated.

But language is a living thing and somewhere along the line, the incorrect use came to be accepted as a secondary definition.

Yes, that one seems to be a lost battle. I will always say "nauseated", though.