The wordsmith takes a holiday

As the New York Post’s Phil Muschnick notes, WFAN’s Mike Francesa continues to talk down to his audience. In the process, he looks like more of a moron than he believes his listeners to be.

Professa Mike Francesa was at his see-through best on Friday. Addressing the Cliff Lee hunt, he said that Lee has “fungibility.” Then, His Highness’s sense of noblesse oblige kicked in. He explained the word’s meaning to his audience of serfs, peons, vassals and the ill-bred.

Fungibility, said Fran-say-so, means “uniqueness, unique.”

Gong! It not only doesn’t mean unique, it means almost the opposite. Fungibility means to possess such similar qualities that the items can be interchangeable.

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