Thursday, January 8, 2009

Keep me appraised

Charley Rose to Andrea Mitchel at the end of their conversation last night: Keep me appraised.

I know it's nitpicking, but with all it takes to put together a show like that, you'd think someone over the 16 years Charlie has been doing this would have taken him aside and explained the difference between appraise and apprise.

Monday, January 5, 2009

Cachet of weapons

Cache (pronounced cash): hiding place.

Cachet (pronounced cash-ay): prestigious connotation.

I often hear military personnel and reporters talking about finding cachets of weapons. They mean caches, of course.