"Laxadaisical"

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:56 pm

Is it just me or do people get the word lackadaisical wrong so often that it might as well actually be laxadaisical? I guess it's a conflation of lax and lackadaisical. Or am I missing something?

Joseph Krol · Post by **Joseph Krol** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:01 pm

I pronounce it lackadaisical.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:02 pm

I don't hang around with people who use that word. What about "congradulations"?

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:36 pm

Jon O'Neill wrote:Is it just me or do people get the word lackadaisical wrong so often that it might as well actually be laxadaisical?

You could make the same argument for "perculator", "anenome", "Febuary", "seccetry", "haitch", "goverment" and hundreds more.

However, I'd rather you didn't.

Jon O'Neill · Post by **Jon O'Neill** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:40 pm

Yeah, true. This one gets to me though. If you've got the fortitude to use a word with so many syllables, you should at least have it down, you know what I mean?

Michael Wallace · Post by **Michael Wallace** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:43 pm

Jon O'Neill wrote:Yeah, true. This one gets to me though. If you've got the fortitude to use a word with so many syllables, you should at least have it down, you know what I mean?

Totes. It's like when people say "x and I" when they actually mean "x and me", because they know that saying "and I" is what SMRT people do, but haven't actually worked out that it's not always correct.

Graeme Cole · Post by **Graeme Cole** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 8:44 pm

Phil Reynolds wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:Is it just me or do people get the word lackadaisical wrong so often that it might as well actually be laxadaisical?
You could make the same argument for "perculator", "anenome", "Febuary", "seccetry", "haitch", "goverment" and hundreds more.

However, I'd rather you didn't.

There's always this approach.

Gavin Chipper · Post by **Gavin Chipper** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 9:15 pm

Graeme Cole wrote:
Phil Reynolds wrote:
Jon O'Neill wrote:Is it just me or do people get the word lackadaisical wrong so often that it might as well actually be laxadaisical?
You could make the same argument for "perculator", "anenome", "Febuary", "seccetry", "haitch", "goverment" and hundreds more.

However, I'd rather you didn't.
There's always this approach.

In the sentence starting at about 1:06 I think Webb was lucky not to die. Shouldn't it be "wrongly"?

Phil Reynolds · Post by **Phil Reynolds** » Mon Jun 13, 2011 10:07 pm

Gavin Chipper wrote:
Graeme Cole wrote:There's always this approach.
In the sentence starting at about 1:06 I think Webb was lucky not to die. Shouldn't it be "wrongly"?

Nope - wrong can be an adverb as well an adjective, as in "What did I do wrong?"

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