One of my co-workers was asked to write a memo. In the memo, she stated that we would work with the agencies to “devise a plan”. After she completed the memo, she submitted it to the management for approval. One of the managers corrected the memo by changing devise to advise because the manager said that there was no such word as devise. Another one of the managers applauded the first manager for catching the mistake.

My coworker was just a little miffed by the whole thing. She did a cut and paste from an online dictionary and emailed it to everyone.

The irony of this is that for both of the managers English is their second language.  I guess they think that they are more fluent in the language than us natives.  What ever.