Mopar Tim said

My wife makes the same mistake.

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adjective
adjective: mute
1.
refraining from speech or temporarily speechless.
"Irene, the talkative one, was now mute"
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moot
/mo͞ot/

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adjective
adjective: moot

1. 1.
   subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty.
   "whether the temperature rise was mainly due to the greenhouse effect was a moot point"
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   debatable
   open to debate
   open to discussion
   arguable
   questionable
   at issue
   open to question
   open
   doubtful
   open to doubt
   disputable
   contestable
   controvertible
   problematic
   problematical
   controversial
   contentious
   vexed
   disputed
   unresolved
   unsettled
   up in the air
   undecided
   yet to be decided
   undetermined
   unconcluded
2. 2.
   having little or no practical relevance, typically because the subject is too uncertain to allow a decision.
   "the whole matter is becoming increasingly moot"

verb
verb: moot; 3rd person present: moots; past tense: mooted; past participle: mooted; gerund or present participle: mooting

1. raise (a question or topic) for discussion; suggest (an idea or possibility).
   "Sylvia needed a vacation, and a trip to Ireland had been mooted"
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   raise
   bring up
   broach
   mention
   put forward
   introduce
   advance
   present
   propose
   suggest
   submit
   propound
   air
   ventilate

noun
noun: moot; plural noun: moots

1. 1.
   historical
   an assembly held for debate, especially in Anglo-Saxon and medieval times.
   • a regular gathering of people having a common interest.
2. 2.
   Law
   a mock trial set up to examine a hypothetical case as an academic exercise.
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Old English mōt ‘assembly or meeting’ and mōtian ‘to converse’, of Germanic origin; related to meet1. The adjective (originally an attributive noun use: see moot court) dates from the mid 16th century; the current verb sense dates from the mid 17th century.
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Moot | Definition of Moot by Merriam-Webster

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adjective. open to discussion or debate; debatable; doubtful: Whether that was the cause of their troubles is a moot point. of little or no practical value, meaning, or relevance; purely academic: In practical terms, the issue of her application is moot because the deadline has p

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