Last year, a friend bought a new house and gave us a walk-through, proudly naming the rooms as we entered. "This is the Great Room", which we would call the 'dining room'. "Here is the "Master Suite", or 'large bedroom' as we knew it. And at the back of the house was the "Lanai".
I choked back a chuckle since we are many thousands of miles from Hawaii, and a forty-mile-an-hour cold wind was blowing rain against the windows over a barown lawn with bare trees under gray skies.
Originally posted by Proofreader: If massive sailing vessels are "tall ships", what would qualify as a "short ship"? A kayak?
Some kayaks are fairly long - as long as canoes. And,being a palindrome, you can paddle one, or pronounce, in either direction. I used to own a sea kayak. Loads of fun crossing a power boat's wake at anything other than perpendicular, and wakes don't go that way.
As for "lanai," he mispronounced it. He meant, "lie." It's something salesmen are adept at, as are politicians.
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti
