Just the Two of Us

Note: On Fridays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there.

It’s surely happened to you. You mispronounce or misuse a word while you’re with a group of people. Or maybe everyone knows you’re trying to lose weight, and you go ahead and order that mudpie for dessert. Then, someone feels the need to “helpfully” point out that one doesn’t pronounce the T in “often” or the calories in that dessert pretty much account for the to...