[Red Badger]

Elizabeth Blaine, who was barely tall enough to see over the podium,

A 'podium' is NOT the thing you stand behind. It's the raised platform on which you stand. The thing you stand behind is a LECTERN................PJ Media must be using Common Core journalists..............

[Cuttnhorse]

PJ Media must be using Common Core journalists

LOL...very good!

[BatGuano]

Unfortunately the misuse of podium has become common. Lectern is proper. It annoys me to hear an airline gate agent use the word podium. In defense of the agent, although the desk that he or she is behind looks like a lectern, they are not preaching or making a speech, which are the common uses for a lectern.

We are losing our beautiful language as programs such as Common Core evolve towards the lowest common denominator.

[SgtHooper]

Precisely!! I key on that one as well. So misused.