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"Please leave a message and I will call you back at my earliest convenience." In other words- I don't care about you, when it it convenient for me, I'll return the call.
"Please leave a message and I will call you back at my earliest convenience." In other words- I don't care about you, when it it convenient for me, I'll return the call.
How is this a misused phrase? It may be overused, and you may find it rude, but that doesn't mean it's an error of word usage.
I'll never forget the time my uncle sent me an email and in it he'd meant to say "voila" and he said "whallah" spelled just like that. I was ROFL that was too much. I don't think I ever told him either.
Congeries. The word is correctly used as a singular ("A congeries of bricabrac was collecting dust"). And it is pronounced with a soft G, accented on the second syllable. con-JEER-eez. There is no "congery", as one might suspect to be the singular form. Similar in form to "series" or "species", which are singular themselves.
If you're speaking of a disordered collection of a species of large marine eels, they are pronounced with a hard-G: CONG-erz. "A con-JEER-ies of CONG-ers is lurking about the buoy". (We'll discuss 'buoy' and 'fluorescent' tomorrow.)
I'll never forget the time my uncle sent me an email and in it he'd meant to say "voila" and he said "whallah" spelled just like that. I was ROFL that was too much. I don't think I ever told him either.
I see that one ALL THE TIME, drives me nuts. Doesn't anyone read anymore?
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