Le mot juste - does it matter, who cares anyway if it is the right word?

That’s ?
Maw you certainly didn’t ruffle my feathers. I always thought it was ‘internment’

crazyH

That’s ?
Maw you certainly didn’t ruffle my feathers. I always thought it was ‘internment’

I mix words up, don't know when I do. But not the elk of the photo.

Acyrologiphobia My tongue just got into a knot trying to pronounce that word. Do hope we haven't caused you to have a complete metal breakdown

Loved that Maw

I love crosswords so always knew about interment/internment (they simply wouldn’t fit the same, would they!) but I do love it when one friend struggles with pronouncing imminent (liniment) and reverts to ‘coming soon’!

No feathers ruffled here either. Having not heard or read it- I thought it could well be just a typo, and that many GNeters might not be aware that interment' is a posh (Norman) word for 'burial'. And that in the grand scale of things, it is not vitally important. Simple.

Enjoyed that Maw!

In French interment / burial is inhumation. Interesting that we use exhumation, but do not (generally) use the reverse.

A very useful word Maw, thank you.

I didn’t know there was a fancy word for what I call malapropisms. Every day on Gransnet is a school day.

Mamie

In French interment / burial is inhumation. Interesting that we use exhumation, but do not (generally) use the reverse.

Wikipedia

L'enterrement ou inhumation est un rite funéraire pratiqué dans la majorité des cultures, consistant pour l'essentiel à l'enfouissement d'un cadavre, ou d'un cercueil le contenant, dans le sol ou dans un caveau aménagé dans le sol.

Great article though Maw, and a new one for me!

That's so funny Maw.

love it Maw pedants corner always seems to ruffle feathers, why I don't know. An interest in words and their usage ( use?) is surely not a bad thing.

lol, no. But, as said, in the very difficult and unprecedented current circumstances - a bit of tolerance for those journalists having to make it up and fill the gaps as they go along, would not go amiss.

There are times ... and times, to be pedant, methinks.

Thanks for the laugh, Maw.
I remember my barely teenaged DD falling about laughing when she heard a barrister, no less, telling the world on R4, that he was very “articulated”. She claimed that she was too, could bend her arms and legs…

Brian Bilston nails it again.

I love it!

I also thoroughly agree with being annoyed by using the wrong word - particularly when it's from presenters.

Internment/interment is a big bugbear of mine, as is prostate/prostrate.

I love language, and it Does matter, AFAIC ?; maybe I'm just a piranha. ?

Stings and arrows? Bet they would hurt!
Very good Maw

I don’t know how to describe a lovely friend who gets words wrong - Preemart for Primark, funedral for funeral and Mataland for Matalan. She also drinks Melbac, not Malbec. Still love her.

That gave me a chuckle Maw! ?

My dear old dad always used to insist that a group of three related things was a triology!

Love this! My daughter has been using the wrong words for monkey's years...

My darling late Mum told everyone she had been on a stimulater ride when she had in fact been on a simulator ride

Thanks maw, you've started my Saturday off with a chuckle.
DH rolls his eyes as I constantly correct presenters, newsreaders and others on the television.

Blondiescot

My dear old dad always used to insist that a group of three related things was a triology!

Albeit less commonly used than trilogy, he was not wrong.