Tome-deaf

What is Tome-deaf?


1.

Someone who has read more words than they know how to pronounce.

From Atlantic Monthly Magazine's Word Court column, March 2003.

(Talking about someone who is inebriated)

"She's so inehbryated."

"Hah! You're tome-deaf, it's pronounced 'in-ee-bree-at-ed'."

See tone-deaf, literate, illiterate, intelligent


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