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captainjoe wrote:I always hate it when people from outside of Illinois pronounce the "s" at the end of it. Illinoize is not our state name. Whenever I hear it, I say "The S is silent like the P in swimming"!

That's one that drove me nuts when I lived there, and still does to this date.


Or O'HarA instead of O'Hare airport.


There's also a town in CO called Westminster. And folks pronounce it WestmInister.

Theirselves instead of themselves.

Four Play wrote:Theirselves instead of themselves.

Grrrr...


Or our, are.
You're, your.
There, their.
To, too, two.



I need to stop now.

SMLCHNG wrote:

Four Play wrote:Theirselves instead of themselves.

Grrrr...


Or our, are.
You're, your.
There, their.
To, too, two.



I need to stop now.

They call me the grammar police at work....Thank God I have back up...

When my daughter was 3...and I know I have told this story on here...

One of my friends sneezed and said "Excuse Me!"...

Laura looked at her and said "Miss Carolyn? It's Excuse me when you walk...Pardon me when you talk"...


I just looked at Carolyn and said..."Well..we have the grammar down. Now we are going to work on Manners"......




BTW, Carolyn is a PhD...Professor of Humanities and Literature....

OK so when did we quit using the word an
now everyone uses a

like a rum and coke..

but never an example

SuperTrooper wrote:

LIPH wrote:people who pronounce "height" as if it was spelled "heighth"

not knowing when to use "you and me" instead of "you and I"

growing a business - how the f*** do you grow a business? Throw your employees out on the lawn and water them every day?

Don't forget the organic fertilizer.

like the niter gen. That's one that I can't stand.

How about...

thegoatgod wrote:i was -4 then, but still cooler then the gulfer

Cubbie Bear wrote:Time to go, I have to WARSH my clothes

There is no freakin' R in WASH

Out here they go warsh their clothes in the crick as opposed to the warshing machine....

Ohhhh yes and another one that drives me absonuckinglutely futs is when I hear people say supposably or supposavely in place of supposedly....especially when it's coming out of the mouth of a person with a masters degree.......

speaking of going

nu cu lar...

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/nucular.html

"My education message will resignate among all parents"; "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."

island_hopper wrote:Ohhhh yes and another one that drives me absonuckinglutely futs is when I hear people say supposably or supposavely in place of supposedly....especially when it's coming out of the mouth of a person with a masters degree.......

That makes me nuts, too.



Another is often. The original/correct way to pronounce it is a silent 'T'. But so many people starting using the 'T', now it's acceptable.




Oh, and another? Is when someone ASKS a question and doesn't use a question mark.

SMLCHNG wrote:

island_hopper wrote:Ohhhh yes and another one that drives me absonuckinglutely futs is when I hear people say supposably or supposavely in place of supposedly....especially when it's coming out of the mouth of a person with a masters degree.......

That makes me nuts, too.



Another is often. The original/correct way to pronounce it is a silent 'T'. But so many people starting using the 'T', now it's acceptable.




Oh, and another? Is when someone ASKS a question and doesn't use a question mark.

well let me ask you this???

that drives me crazy..

Oh Oh Oh...I hear folks say this one all the time...especially newscasters.

Wreck havoc.

Hello you idjits, it's WREAK havoc. It sounds like reek!

You'd probably have to be from the South, but I just want to slap 'em with they say SHREVESPORT instead of Shreveport.

Or PEETSBURG instead of Pittsburg (Texas, not PA).

And, the mayor (not of Winnsboro) says, "I and this Council were against it," or "I and the city staff want to see this happen."

We call him the "I, myself and me" mayor.

East Texas Parrothead wrote:And, the mayor (not of Winnsboro) says, "I and this Council were against it," or "I and the city staff want to see this happen."

We call him the "I, myself and me" mayor.

Just reading this makes me feel like I have sand in my teeth.... .

In college, I had a teacher for a 7:30 AM class that consistantly said
I have an IDEAR.....since when did idea have an R at the end?

Like nails on a chalkboard, especially that early in the AM

I know of a gal who thinks of herself as the epitomy of proper...however, she perpetually has a problem with the verb "say".

"They says"

"Yesterday, I says"



And, several years back I had a coworker who would get into these long, complex discussions and invariably use a word that didn't quite fit right. Once in a while I'd wonder whether I'd misunderstood a word's meaning, but I'd looked a couple things up, and then others would sometimes comment on his "unusual" word choice. I wish I could think of some examples (because some of them were pretty out there and funny)...it was as though he'd make up his own meaning for words.

Oh yeah, and a college friend once told about an exchange student who'd lived with her family. One day the exchange student had come home and noticed her host-family-father wasn't in a good mood. She'd asked what was wrong and he'd replied "I'm just feeling kind of ornery today." A couple weeks later at the dinner table the exchange student was out-of-sorts and when asked, she replied "I'm just feeling rather horny today." (Ah, learning another language the hard way; I'm sure she never mixed up those words again!)

Obliviate (this isn't even a word!)

as used in a brilliant proclamation such as: "Dude... last night... I got obliviated!"

When I would hear this nugget of stupidity, I thought to myself,
"They've must've been oblivious to the fact they obliterated a few more brain cells!"

springparrot wrote:In college, I had a teacher for a 7:30 AM class that consistantly said
I have an IDEAR.....since when did idea have an R at the end?

in Boston...... Idear, tequiler, Alabamer, Florider.... almost anything that ends in an "a" gets an "r" added to the end up here.....

(gotta do SOMETHING with those R's and G's that southerners are always dropping.... )

SchoolGirlHeart wrote:

springparrot wrote:In college, I had a teacher for a 7:30 AM class that consistantly said
I have an IDEAR.....since when did idea have an R at the end?

in Boston...... Idear, tequiler, Alabamer, Florider.... almost anything that ends in an "a" gets an "r" added to the end up here.....

(gotta do SOMETHING with those R's and G's that southerners are always dropping.... )

they migrate north to live in MA...

and in the shop, a new line of cigars: Bolivar. Named after Simon Bolivar, the guy for which they named Bolivia. My boss, insists on calling them "Boulevard" cigars. Of course, he also had never heard of Simon Bolivar, despite a degree from "Harvard on the Hocking"... His 16 year old son told him the history of the name... I just winced.