Okay-here is another one. I HATE it when people put letters in words that don't belong there, like saying WARSH instead of WASH. "We have to go WARSH the clothes". AAAHHH!
I grew up saying "warsh." I got it from my mom; I can only assume it's a Pennsylvania thing (that's where she was from). I tell people there's in invisible "r" in "wash"; it's the same concept as the silent "e" in a word like "gate." Oh, and it's George "Warshington", not "Washington."
"Maysure" for "measure" is another pronounciation I take a lot of heat for. And I have a terrible tendency to say "acrosst" for "across," which really makes me sound illerate. It drives my SO . I'm trying to work on it.
My boss really likes the "keeping abreast." I'm sure it is just immaturity on my part, but it drives me . Everytime I see that phrase, I picture a couple of breasts. (Am I in sixth grade? Honestly, it seems like I should be able to get over this.) We publish a newsletter and he added a section to it entitled "Keeping Abreast"; it bothered me so much that I finally had to quietly change it to "Keeping Current."
OMG this post really took off!!! Most of the good ones are taken already! I was going to mention WARSH and lib-erry and the apostrophe and homonym ones too....and no offense if you do this but I get so distracted reading posts Where Every Word Gets Capitalized. Who wants to work that hard? Or the chat jargon, saying u r instead of you are, though I'm guilty of LOL a lot.
As a nurse I just cringe when people say they have "sugar" or even "sugar diabetes" My MIL even referred once to her husband's "sugar-beeties", but I thought that was cute...or men with "prostRate problems"--it's prostate!
My SIL hates the word "putt-putt", she says we should say we're going miniature golfing. My husband hates when people say "whatnot."
My son has a friend who always says he's "bout to" do things, like "I was bout to go do that." We have a friend who literally always ends his sentences with "an, that" like "What'd you think of that football game an that?"
I know I have more, but it IS almost 5am (insomnia SUCKS!) so I'll pop back in tomorrow. And, even though all this stuff drives me nuts, I can't say I'm not guilty of a lot of them. In fact it's my peeve on some sites where people can't let those things go, call others out on their mistakes and make a big deal over them. Like the whole point the original person was making is somehow swept aside by a whole other conversation about the structural mistake? But like I said, I'm also guilty of cringing and rolling my eyes a bit when I see them....
ugh...I was just chatting with a friend on Instant Messenger, and she told me something "would of" been perfect. Please keep in mind that she is currenly employed as a technical writer
I always hated when my boss would say, "We have to 'ramp up' to get these machines installed on time". It would conjure up images of playing with Hot Wheel tracks as a kid and we'd 'ramp up' the track to see who could get their car to fly the farthest. Or is it furthest? I think its farthest.
Magick is the correct spell in certain pagan/wiccan subsects.
Yes, and sometimes the spelling magik is also used. This brings up another one for me...I hate it when people pronounce the holiday/festival Samhain wrong-and they say "SAM-HAIN". (It is pronounced Sow-en (rhymes with cow).
And then there's "anyways", "continue on", "repeat again" and "congradulations"!
By the way, regarding capitalization of all words in a post, when someone uses all caps LIKE THIS, the system automatically changes the text to capitalize just the first letters. I've posted a sample. I entered "SAMPLE OF ALL WORDS CAPITALIZED".
By the way, regarding capitalization of all words in a post, when someone uses all caps LIKE THIS, the system automatically changes the text to capitalize just the first letters. I've posted a sample. I entered "SAMPLE OF ALL WORDS CAPITALIZED".
Wow, that is good to know. As annoying as it is to read a post where the first letter of every word is capitalized, it is definitely not as bad as a post where EVERY letter is capitalized (which, of course, in the text world, conveys YELLING).
I figured Magick was correct somewhere. The "k" on the end just seems a little hard to me, as though I might accidently release some spittle I did not intend. I see it most often when people are describing their fantasy novels. Perhaps the spelling is enough to imply Wiccan, but there is often nothing else in their description to infer that relationship.
Also, in my line of work, "sonometers" for dilation drives me nuts. It's a regional term, and I can always tell when someone trained on the East coast.
Since people have mentioned regional terms, I have to post about "pop" vs. "soda." I grew up in the midwest and came over to the east coast to work. I remember having mentioned orange pop and my coworker just put on a little smirk as if I had done something cute. After that I learned that over here, that beverage is called soda. I'm so aware of that when I go back to the midwest to visit relatives. I'm trained to say soda, but they all say pop. I've also heard that down south, people call any carbonated beverage "a coke" regardless of the brand.
Okay-here is another one. I HATE it when people put letters in words that don't belong there, like saying WARSH instead of WASH. "We have to go WARSH the clothes". AAAHHH!
I grew up saying "warsh." I got it from my mom; I can only assume it's a Pennsylvania thing (that's where she was from). I tell people there's in invisible "r" in "wash"; it's the same concept as the silent "e" in a word like "gate." Oh, and it's George "Warshington", not "Washington."
Yeah! What she said! So leave us alone! I'm from West By God Virginia. I once asked my husband if he'd like me to warsh the coffee cup he was setting on the other side of the kitchen counter while I was doing dishes. He said no. Told me I could WASH it, but he wouldn't let me warsh anything of is.
Well now we're back in WV dagnabbit, and grannie says warsh and so will I. So neener neener.
Since people have mentioned regional terms, I have to post about "pop" vs. "soda." I grew up in the midwest and came over to the east coast to work. I remember having mentioned orange pop and my coworker just put on a little smirk as if I had done something cute. After that I learned that over here, that beverage is called soda. I'm so aware of that when I go back to the midwest to visit relatives. I'm trained to say soda, but they all say pop. I've also heard that down south, people call any carbonated beverage "a coke" regardless of the brand.
I don't know what to call it these days. It's not a midwest thing. In WV, I grew up saying pop. But when I ordered a pop in a MA Outback, she looked at me like I'd grown two heads. I said again...pop. Saw the way she was looking and I said Coke or Pepsi. Her eyes went wide and she said "You mean a SODA!" She told me she thought I was asking her to hit me and was confused. LOL This was quickly followed by my ordering a baked sweet potato and her saying: "Honey, that's a southern thing."
AAAHHH!
. I'm trying to work on it.
