How To Not Sound Dumb: It's Moot, Not Mute.

It is not the preferred use of the term, but saying something is "a moot point" as a smarty-sounding way of saying it's "beside the point" is considered proper. But please, please, please: if you are going to try to use big words, say them properly.

Click these links, then click on the little speaker icons on the dictionary.com pages that come up, to hear the proper pronunciation.

Moot: debatable, or (as above) irrelevant.

Mute: Not what you meant to say, but what you did say, that made you sound like a government school graduate.

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