Here I'm allowed everything all of the time
I’ve been hearing the country Qatar’s name being pronounced so many various ways in all the war coverage — from “gutter”, “cutter” and “gatter” to “guitar” (or maybe it was “gitter”)(!) — I started to wonder just how the heck it’s supposedly properly pronounced (in American English)… According to Merriam-Webster and their online audio pronunciation, …
farrago (f&-‘rä-(“)gO) noun A confused mixture : HODGEPODGE Date: 1632
Pyrrhic (‘pir-ik) adjective Achieved at excessive cost (a Pyrrhic victory); also : costly to the point of negating or outweighing expected benefits (a great but Pyrrhic act of ingenuity) Etymology: Pyrrhus, king of Epirus who sustained heavy losses in defeating the Romans
glabella : the smooth prominence between the eyebrows. New Latin, from Latin, feminine of glabellus hairless, diminutive of glaber. Date: circa 1823 – gla
