"Peccadillo" is a word I learned from Johnny Carson. I have no specific memory of what was happening on a particular show, but every single time I have ever heard or read it, muscle learning memory kicks in and says, "Carson."
If I have closed captioning on while watching a true crime show, it makes me crazy to read, "A grizzly discovery." A bear found something? Something of a bear's was found? "Grisly," people.
Do not get me started on misplaced apostrophe's.
(See what I did there?)
Nor on people putting emphasis on the wrong word when reading or speaking, either.
(I did it again.)
Not a peccadillo, just something weird. In my e-mail inbox today, a message from "Orgasms." No, I didn't click through. The mind reels at possible content, though, huh?
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