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What is the term for a person who "speaks beyond their scope or knowledge?" I feel like this has been a.word.a.day but I can't locate it in the archives. Thanks.
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I don't know if its been AWAD choice, but here's a worthless® one:
ultracrepidarian - [adj] Going beyond one's proper province; giving opinions on matters beyond one's knowledge. [n] One who ventures beyond his scope; an ignorant or presumptuous critic.
source: OED2
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Why not just say what Hamlet said of Polonius: These tedious old fools!
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Tsuwm got there fustest with the mostest. His word seems perfect fit. Sufficiently
erudite to be in very good taste, leaving no retort I can think of.
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ultrapcrepidarianIs the "PC" version a typo, nunc? And if not, how the heck do you pronounce it?  Great word.
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yes pshona, it were a typco, and no spellcheck in the known universe were likely to help.
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...and no spellcheck in the known universe were likely to help.Excuse me Mr.tsuwm, you seem to be going beyond one's proper province; giving opinions on matters beyond one's knowledge.The World's most accessible spellchecker --> Atomica<--just corrected ultrapcrepidarian to ultracrepidarian in a matter of .001 seconds. 
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>The World's most accessible spellchecker -->Atomica<--just corrected ultrapcrepidarian to ultracrepidarian in a matter of .001 seconds.
well actually, Atomica merely found the latter via a Google in .001 seconds; verification would take a tad longer. now if I had tried ultrapcrepidarianism....
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