While I am thinking about it, I want to point out to any and all readers that the word “melee” is pronounced “may-lay” not “mealy”.  Don’t believe me?  Follow this link, click the audio icon and hear for yourself:

http://www.answers.com/topic/mel-e

I bring this up because people are constantly fucking this up.  I don’t think I have ever heard it pronounced right on any podcast I have ever listened to.  I was watching an IGN review for Naopleon: Total War on youtube and the well spoken gentleman doing the review screws it up (it happens around the 2:40 mark).  IGN is a well funded site.  These people are not amateurs.  They should know better.  Someone along the ediding line should have heard that and said: “Hey Joe, it’s may-lay you insufferable prat!”

I have heard that British pronunciation tends to be more like “mealy” but they are just all wrong and I am of course 100% right.  Don’t even get me started on people who pronounce grimore like “grim -o-ray”.  I think it is funny that these words occur often enough in my life for this to be an issue.  However, I will stop now before a mealy breaks out and I have to call out muh-day.