I was in Borders over the weekend looking for books on Tesla without much success (which surprised me, you’d think one of the most famous scientists of the early 20th century would have plenty of material.  Plenty on Edison though, that fat son of a bitch.)  Bored trying to find real books – something Borders doesnt seem to carry anymore – I headed over to the comic books to see what kind of hardbacks they had.  Again, not finding anything worth looking at I was turning to leave when two guys around my age came up and started talking about Uncanny X-Men.  Only he pronounced it with a long U.  You-ncany X-men.  How does someone not know how to pronounce that word?  I mean its used in movies and on TV and stuff, so they must have heard it spoken before.  How did they get this far in life mispronouncing such common words?

(Thats an open ended question, but Im going to go ahead and blame the comic books.)