What's the worst you've heard?

bregalad5

My mother says "tah'l" for towel. I have absolutely no idea where she gets that from. Never heard anyone else say that in my life.

Oh, and any Bah'stin pronunciations. I want to rip my ears off every time I hear someone speak with that accent.

VeganGal84

One of my professors says "supposebly" :noway:

Helice

I like to swap "i said" for "i goes".
or "she goes", instead of "she says"..
So il say "and i goes you cant eat that!"
Drives my parents nuts lol.

auntfanney

Your = belongs to you.
You're = you are.

My3Rayz

"Do you understand the charges?" Well, yeah... but do you honestly think I'm going to make this easy??

lmao!

Gotta say...axe is one of those "nails on a chalk board" things for me...If I axed you, we wouldn't be having this conversation!

DannyMussels

Your = belongs to you.
You're = you are.

Your shure about thise?

Erindipitous

When I lived in Pennsylvania years ago, people would use "Yins guys" as in, "Yins guys want to go to the movies with us?"

YOU GUYS, perhaps? Thanks.

Drove me up a WALL.

"I seen" makes me want to punch people.. And using "them" when referring to objects: "Where did you get them socks?"

lor007

When people don't pronounce "Illinois" with a silent "s".

My3Rayz

ok...two more...

Its Cray on not crown and it's all of a sudden not all the sudden!

All the sudden? huh??

DannyMussels

"yous guys"

fuuuuuuuuu

Deathwithab

i think its suposta be supposed to


oh and applecockers.... yeah figure out that one lol

Erindipitous

If I axed you, we wouldn't be having this conversation!

:laugh: :laugh:

LauraMacNCheese

When people don't pronounce "Illinois" with a silent "s".

Ditto :mad:

Brandzilla

irregardless

ha ha. I used to say that all the time until my father corrected me and I felt so foolish.

AdAstra47

Nook-you-ler instead of nuclear... :explode:

"getting my hair did." :noway:


And, as I work at the Renaissance Faire, another pet peeve is when people try to get in character by adding "eth" to every single word, not just to singular verbs:
"We justeth arrivedeth at thy faireth village..." Aaarrrgh!
(For the record, it's he/she arriveth, we arrive, they arrive, he/she hath arrived, we have arrived, they have arrived...)
But at least those people have the excuse that they're trying to speak an unfamiliar dialect. There's no excuse for people butchering their own native language!

ilookthetype

Oh, and any Bah'stin pronunciations. I want to rip my ears off every time I hear someone speak with that accent.

I love a good Boston accent. It sounds like home.

pkiesch

Your = belongs to you.
You're = you are.

THANK YOU!!!


Terlit instead of toilet. Common in South Texas..

kennethmgreen

After a really loud concert, or sometimes after swimming.

bregalad5

"yous guys"

fuuuuuuuuu

Yes!

Brandzilla

This is a bad one. But instead of saying "retard" my kid and my husband say "Ruh-tard" like you hear in the movie "The Hangover" And yes I think it's bad to call anyone retarded.

quitmakingexcuses

Your = belongs to you.
You're = you are.

THIS!

There, their, they're.
I just don't understand how people still get this wrong. Didn't we all learn this in 3rd grade?

And when people say "sherbert" when it's actually "sherbet" and "mis-chee-vee-us" instead of "mischievous".

trybefan

I live in MO....old timers here call is "Mazzoura". They also call Lancaster," Longcuster"...

Grinds my gears

sdwelk11

My cadillac converter got stolen last night ..
Hey stupid! It a Catalytic converter!!!!!!!!!!!

ChitownFoodie

I hate it when people say "ax" instead of "ask"...like, "Let me ax you a question"

killagb

Your = belongs to you.
You're = you are.

THIS!

There, their, they're.
I just don't understand how people still get this wrong. Didn't we all learn this in 3rd grade?

And when people say "sherbert" when it's actually "sherbet" and "mis-chee-vee-us" instead of "mischievous".

Sherbert is an accepted form of the word sherbet(maybe not by you...but..).

From Merriam-Webster dictionary:
sher·bet also US sher·bert /ˈʃɚbət/ /ˈʃɚbɚt/ noun
plural sher·bets also sher·berts 1 [count, noncount] US : a frozen sweet dessert made from fruit or fruit juices

VeganGal84

I hate when people say "oh" for "zero" for some reason. But I think that's a pretty normal thing, and just a personal pet peeve of mine!

live2dream

BRUNG instead of BROUGHT.
My sister says this along with a hundred other words/spellings that baffle me. I don't know how we grew up in the same household.

Also...

YA'LL... and FIXIN' TO DO SOMETHING.. sorry you southerners...it just doesn't make sense to me!

killagb

When I lived in Pennsylvania years ago, people would use "Yins guys" as in, "Yins guys want to go to the movies with us?"

YOU GUYS, perhaps? Thanks.

Drove me up a WALL.

"I seen" makes me want to punch people.. And using "them" when referring to objects: "Where did you get them socks?"

That's mostly just a Pittsburgh thing(yinz), I have family there, it's funny to hear and my aunt absolutely uses the term.

redfroggie

There is a WAH forum that I mod on and there is one person there who always types 'pust' in place of 'supposed' and it drives me crazy. I always want to go in and correct her posts, 'how am I pust to help this person' we've often wondered what it would be like to actually speak to her.
My daughter and her boyfriend lived with us for a bit, we are American living in the UK and her boyfriend is British. He says free in place of three. Our house number is 43 and he always says fortyfree. He can say three but says it's effort. Makes me crazy.

2Bgoddess

we're going to the "libary". instead of library.

and before you cook the meat, you have to "unthaw" it first. if "unthaw" were a word, it would actually mean "freeze". derp.

smoke coming from the "chimley"

eating a "sammich"