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The DMV employees feed you a lot of rigmarole about their application process , but it is only five hundred simple steps

I really miss the folks who had been there since dirt. They knew how to cut through the BS.

13 minutes ago, Ron said:

Anecdotal information: Growing up I’d always heard this word spoken as rigamarole — sort of like someone saying irregardless, I suppose.

It's just a less common usage.

16 hours ago, Ron said:

Anecdotal information: Growing up I’d always heard this word spoken as rigamarole — sort of like someone saying irregardless, I suppose.

16 hours ago, drpaladin said:

It's just a less common usage.

Yeah, with Word of the Day, I'm only posting 1-3 definitions of the word.  Quite a few words have different uses and different meanings beyond what I post.  English is a crazy language

36 minutes ago, Myr said:

English is a crazy language

It's the truth!

English is a difficult second language to master.

35 minutes ago, Ron said:

I would like to add that it’s entirely possible that it’s the way rigmarole is pronounced by the individual or region that’s responsible for the phantom ‘a’ in the middle. The word has three syllables rig-ma-role but when said quickly it sounds like ri-gm-a-role with the ‘gm’ making a sound like gam, as in gamble. As @drpaladin says it may just be that people in Northern Ohio, where I grew up, say rigmarole in such a way as to include the phantom ‘a’ in actual speech.

It's not just there. The A version was familiar to me as well.