In which I demonstrate that wanting to share an amusing story trumps my sense of decency

The other day Mabel said her version of how she thought the word “minuscule” was pronounced, and it came out as “minoscular.” (Note: I tried to say “miniscule,” but Firefox’s spell checker didn’t like that, so I went to Dictionary.com and learned that “miniscule” is a “variant of minuscule.” Which is their polite way of saying, “You misspelled this word, but so do a lot of other people.”)

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A conversation with Ike from a week or two ago:

Isaac: “Did you know where the word ’snafu’ comes from? It’s from the military, and it’s an acronym for ’situation normal, all blanked up,’ only blank is a very bad word.”

Me: “I’ve used that word before and never knew its origin. I guess I’ll just have to think of it as ’situation normal, all fouled up.’”

Isaac: “Well, to me it will always be the other word.”

(Great.  Thanks a lot, Wikipedia. On further inquiry I learned that Isaac learned this while researching Charles Lindbergh, because the Lindbergh article used the word snafu, which linked to the article on “snafu,” with, as Isaac puts it, “The etymology very first!”)

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And a conversation from this morning:

Isaac: “So, for a temple recommend, you have to be able to push, pull, or lift 85 lbs?”

Me: “What?”

Isaac: [Goes to find a paper in Dean's pile on the kitchen counter -- Dean's current church calling is secretary to the bishop.] “Oh, it’s for a church job opportunity — and for the job you also have to have a temple recommend.”

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