Look up the word first... it can be spelled as either highfalutin or hifalutin, both single words so it's perfectly possible to miss out the 'a' when typing and and add an apostrophe to make up for the missing 'g' at the end... OK there's no apostrophe but quite understandable...
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Originally Posted by taosaur
The substitution of two unrelated words complete with apostrophe was a typo? C'mon guy, we all have gaps in our vocab, and often fill in etymologies that seem about right but are very, very wrong. I once described myself as "scatological" in conversation, thinking it meant something along the lines of "jumping from topic to topic."
Go ahead, google that shit if you don't know it off the top of your head  |