I may watch too much television

[slemslempike]

[Poll #1084483]

I think the main thing that would make teaching immeasurably better is if the students didn't. to a woman, have much better skin than me. I demand a return to spotty eighteen year olds!

When I was younger and watching Fist of Fun on TV, I thought Stewart Lee was the most beautiful man who ever lived. Then a few years later, watching This Morning With Richard Not Judy, I still liked him (obviously) but decided that it must have been a childish infatuation and he was perfectly normal looking. In the last few weeks I watched the FoF live video, and I wasn't wrong, I wasn't. He was heavenly.

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am mostly interested in popular rather than Latinate!

Which does it prefer for labia? (I haven't got access at home, and also find the pronunciation guides beyond me!)

[spiralsheep.livejournal.com]

I can't be arsed to sign in to the online OED but my most recent paper edition gives lay-bee-uh for the plural (in both cases the emphasis is on the first syllable). It'd be interesting to look the word up in a standard medical dictionary which gives Latinate pronunciations though because, if it's not an Americanisation, a change in pronunciation might reflect a shift in the balance of popular usage from the conversational (where I reckon slang is more likely) ro the medical (because women are now allowed to discuss their anatomy with professionals without resorting to euphemisms).

I ♥ phonetic renderings.