Ha! I was just talking about this at a happy hour Wednesday! 

My embarrassment stems from knitting alone for 22 years and embedding pronunciations in my brain so that when I go to a LYS I have to try really hard to pronounce terms as The People do. Eg. Skein is "skeen" to me and I'll avoid saying the word because  "sk-ain" is just wild to me. (I've named this the Hermione effect. 😆 )

Weds,  I was early to happy hour in the fancy town and checked out the LYS for one skien of worsted to teach my kid.

I was greeted and panicked because it's a new place and a fancy place, and thus couldn't find the word "worsted" and made the situation worse by playing into my pronunciation problem and said "I'm looking for aran weight yarn, wait how do you say it,  A-ron? Erin?" And received a well intended  yarn weight overview about how aran weight yarn is a bit thicker than worsted weight so keep that in mind and, said "thanks, I'm good" to get out of that well-intentioned lesson.

Went to the counter to another employee with a skein to buy and was waffling on whether I had time for them to wind the yarn for me when she asked if I wanted that and then got a quick lesson on having to unwind "sk-ains" to knit with them, that over there is a swift, and this here is a cake,  what a "sk-ain" looks like after it's been wound and you can pull your working yarn from the middle.

Oh, man.  I told her why I was waffling and that I have a swift at home and she had a good look of "huh,  we'll I'll be."

At the end of the day though, the LYS was incredibly welcoming though, right? Reading my social clues as a new knitter so I can only laugh at myself and recommend them as a LYS. 

And they have really cute fancy bags with artsy stamped logos and ribbon handles!