Continuity mistake: When Elle is visiting Brooke in jail, the magazine in the basket in front of Elle is in the back of the basket. In the next shot of Elle it's in the front of the basket, but in the next shot it's in the back of the basket again.
Continuity mistake: When Elle is talking to Brooke at the jail, when they are speaking Elle's hair is under the phone and then it is over the phone. Then the hair goes back under it.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Callahan is trying to get Elle to fess up the alibi, you can see laptops in front of Enid and Warner in the wide shot. When the characters get their close-ups the laptops disappear. This happens several times within the scene.
Continuity mistake: In the scene when Elle and her two friends are jumping up and down because they are excited about the road trip, one of the girl's sleeves falls down, in the next scene it's up again.
Continuity mistake: After the trial is over and Elle is leaving the courthouse, Werner stops her and tries to get her back. During this exchange, Reese Witherspoon is wearing a wig; her hair is a different shade of blonde than in the previous scene, it is styled differently, thicker, and does not move like her natural hair did moments earlier.
Continuity mistake: When Elle is in the elevator and Vivian accuses her of sleeping with Professor Callahan, Elle's hair is down but it's crimped where you can tell her hair has previously been in a ponytail. In the next scene, she gets out of the elevator and runs into Emmet. During their conversation, her hair is perfectly smooth and sleek.
Continuity mistake: When Emmit and Vivian go to see Brooke in jail, Emmit stops in front of the TV and appears to turn up the volume by turning a knob. But as he walks away, we see that there are no knobs, just buttons.
Continuity mistake: When Elle Woods gets to Harvard, stood outside, her nails are manicured. She mentions that Bruiser looks parched, and as she pours Evian water into the bowl, her nails not manicured, but natural and filed. They then go back to being manicured before entering the building.
Answer: She was talking about the word "semester." Since it is similar to the word "semen," Enid says that the word favors males. She wants to change it to "ovester." Since that word is similar to the word "ovary," it would favor females.
Paul Christian Pepiton