Asklemmy

"Sorry."

Man, I'm learning some weird stuff about British people. I've never heard of encephalitis being associated with HIV or a nonce being any kind of person.

Not a word but I thought the idiom toe the line meant basically the same as push the envelope. As in you're testing the boundaries of something by walking right up to the line and nudging it with your toe to move it further.

Turns out it means pretty much the opposite, essentially the same as fall in line.

The word "nauseous" is parallel to "noxious" and means "causing nausea". If you're experiencing nausea, you're nauseated -- the thing that made you nauseated is nauseous.

I don't use it very often but I misuse the word "Gattaca" on purpose sometimes. In reality it's the title of the 1997 film that's named from the letters G,A,T, and C, referring to guanine, adenin, thymine and cytosine, the four nucleobases of DNA.

But on the TV show The League, the character Rafi (Jason Mantzoukas) screams it as his battle cry during paintball, completely oblivious to what it actually means or that it's the title of a movie. I urge you all to misuse this word at some point as well -- if you ever need to hype yourself up, try screaming "GATTACA!" as your battle cry!

Callow. It just means immature but I somehow got it in my head that it meant cowardly.

Inconceivable!

Terrence Thatcher, T. May, Terroris, Ttruss;
Terry-Tories, Terry-Tories, make a fuss!

It also gives a different meaning to the citizens of British Overseas Tories!

With English as my second language, the difference between terrible and terrific has always confused me.

Depreciate.

I'm going to Depreciate this computer. That means to get its loss of value on taxes....not to shut it down. The word I meant was Deprecate

Portuguese ⟨bisonho⟩. I always used it as "needy", "demanding excessive attention" (like a child). Until someone informed me that it was supposed to be "weird".

I mean, homonyms exist, confusing them/not knowing a word has one doesn't make it "wrong". Surely you (e: plural, not having a go at you op lol) could tell tories and Tories apart by context (if not capitalisation)?

Redux. I've always just used it as a fancier 're-do'. Still going to keep using it as such. I like the word too much.