Because I'm petty, I'm going to gather you all around and tell you about that time JK Rowling was extremely wrong about something and, by being wrong about it, poisoned Google search results for it for years afterwards and generally made the world ignorant about it
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And the issue here clearly isn't that she went digging and digging and found a very obscure piece of knowledge and misinterpreted it It's that she glanced at something in passing once, had it stick in her mind as a "cool word", and then never looked it up again
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As someone who will double check before tweeting words/phrases I've used for years to make sure I've not somehow been misusing them, this baffles me.
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