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Don’t Flaunt Your Tendency to Flout the Rules….

Posted by Editormum on Wednesday, 2 July 2003 in Usage and Diction |

… it might make you look silly. Here are a couple of words that are oh-so-frequently interchanged — incorrectly. Flaunt (pronounced “flawnt”) means to ostentatiously display your behaviour, to show off. The little girl who has just gotten a new dress will show off, strutting about and making it obvious to everyone that she knows […]

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