It is NOT called a 'menage'!

[Pedantic]

Quite right, ofukdioffdiforumotherto

 

[Mondy]

The OP is glad she bothered with this thread - she finds it all tremendous fun!

The bastardised quote from Cato the Elder is a deliberate joke. As other posters have picked up on, it ties neatly into the general drift of this thread. There is something tragi-comic about the use of barely understood words without a self-subverting dimension.

Keep going, keep going.

 

[Penny Less]

Oi sum of us nevah got a eddication

Going off piste slightly, re use of horsey terms, lungeing in our household is "twiddling the horse on a bit of string "

 

[MileAMinute]

Standard rule for HHO: If one shalt declare war on spellings and grammar, one must ensure one's post is accurately written in the first place

 

[philamena]

Mondy, please, you’re besmirching the image of pedants and, being one, I take that personally! To have a respect for precision in language is to be applauded and will serve you well. You sound like you’re trying too hard though. It’s better to allow people to infer your “intelligence” from the quality of what you say, rather than to shove it down people’s throats by unnecessarily tarting-up how you say it.

As the poster from France has mentioned: even when we spell or pronounce it correctly, we’re wrong to use the word to describe an outdoor school anyway, so the argument for pedants should really end there.

 

[spotty_pony]

I rode in the Menage yesterday!

 

[lazybee]

Pseudo-intellectuals "R" us

 

[lazybee]

I call ours the 'schooling ring' even if it is rectangular.