That is how "squirmish" is said-- skirmish is probably what it was based on, but they're not said the same. (I usually hear the word just as she said it in relation to sports-brawls; never heard anyone but military [or battle-gaming] fanboys use 'skirmish.')
Funny, one of the top responses in google is the line "I’ll take a commentator’s “squirmish” over a commander in chief’s “corpsemen,” any day". On google. Dang.
It's not the word, but how she pronounces it.
ReplyDeleteOr the fact that she pronounces it at all.
ReplyDeleteThat is how "squirmish" is said-- skirmish is probably what it was based on, but they're not said the same. (I usually hear the word just as she said it in relation to sports-brawls; never heard anyone but military [or battle-gaming] fanboys use 'skirmish.')
ReplyDeleteFunny, one of the top responses in google is the line "I’ll take a commentator’s “squirmish” over a commander in chief’s “corpsemen,” any day". On google. Dang.