but....isn't it 'brouhaha'?

it's beyond baffling to me that someone would not double-check their spelling on something like this. or that the printer didn't notice. sigh.

but i could be wrong, maybe it's an alternate spelling or a different word entirely that i'm not aware of. i don't know. i hope so.

Hey themonkey.

I do agree with you for the most part, but wanted to expand a bit on the 'embarrassment' thing. I do speak up to my close friends sometimes (very gently, I like to think?) in order to save them possible FUTURE embarrassment. Only when I'm quite certain about something, of course, and only when I'm with a friend who I know cares about such things. For instance, one of my close friends used the (to me, non-)word 'irregardless' the other day, and I think I said something along the lines of, "funny how that word has crept into use...". I didn't scold or sneer, I just sort of shook my head, because it really does fascinate me how that sort of devolution/evolution works. Anyway, we had a brief conversation about it and both ended up laughing. Bottom line, he was mildly resentful of having used it for so long. It was almost like telling someone they have a smear of mustard on their face; it's pretty much harmless to leave it, but I'm not sure it's such a bad thing to point it out, either. I would never want to hurt anyone's feelings, but in certain instances isn't it just a natural reaction to defend certain rules/words that one holds dear? Even if one isn't sure, isn't it good to talk about language? I consider it sharing as opposed to one-upping somebody.

Um, apologies for picking on your spelling, but I think you meant to use the word 'dexterous' (or 'dextrous'; both spellings are okay). That is, unless 'dexterious' is some terrible new hybrid word that people are using.