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Chris -- 2018-04-11
In Brazil, children who don’t show proper manners and are impertinent are told to stop being ‘mal educado.’
I would say around 75-100 attended and most dressed formal (Tux). We sat with fellow pax from the UK that taught us uninformed yanks the proper educate for the event.
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why couldn’t someone tell me how to do that and still be following the proper educate for dealing with this sort of business?
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His companions copied his actions as though unsure of the proper educate for the situation.
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Sometimes prom will test your knowledge on silverware usage ( I kid you not, my Consumer Ed. Teacher showed us a video on proper dining educate. )
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There’re lots of these, probably a mix of Cupertinos and genuine eggcorns.
If these are siliceous in origin, it makes you wonder whether spell-checking is spawning confusions that are then picked up and spread because of eggcorn consistency.
Last edited by David Bird (2012-02-28 22:56:17)
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