Oh man, where are my editors when I need them? I just sent an email that said that a polite conversation was "markedly gentile." Bwahahahahahaha... I blame Mobile, Alabama. (I once pronounced the word "sublime" as "suh-bleem" and was teased by a friend who said "Why in the world would you think it was pronounced that way?" It took me months to think of a common two-syllable word ending in -ime that is pronounced "-eem.")