Speaking of the written word vs. spoken, in 6th grade I had to give an oral talk on current events. So I prepped well, being me, and started by saying that the event took place in Tuckson, Arizona.
My mother recounts her first day in college in Freshman English. The Prof. went round the room and asked everyone her name. One young woman said,” Pish Smith.” The Prof. asked her to spell it. Her mother was a farm girl AND an avid reader and loved the name “Psyche.”
Certain hirsute people on this site, in spite of having been given a second chance, are still recalcitrant; they won’t give up their obsessions, no matter how boring and repetitive the rest of us find them. I am not sanguine that they will change, but – hey- we could simply toss them out the window.
Will Rogers said that you had to use a word three times before it belonged to you (paraphrasing).
I LOVE this question…oh, the other rule is that you cannot use these words and cool or suck in the same sentence——>The Calder Manuel of Style.