I spent the last week at school saying "axing" instead of asking, waiting [View all]

[Bucky]

for one of my students to correct me. None of them did. Maybe by late March they're already ennured to my ironic abuse of the English language. Maybe they get the joke. Or maybe really aren't aware of the difference between the two words. But every now and again I'd like to be reassured by one of my brats interrupting me by saying "Asking!" when I do that.

I have a colleague who gets all huffy and sanctimonious when the office clerk gets on the PA and calls for someone to report to the "lieberry" instead of library. I think next time she does that, I'm going to call her a hypocrite since she mispronounces the word "Wednesday." She says it Winz-day like a barbarian. The nerve!