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    What's the worst you've heard?

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    • Posts: 3,965 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 938 Member
      One of my professors says "supposebly" :noway:
    • Posts: 1,075 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 2
      Your = belongs to you.
      You're = you are.
    • Posts: 373
      "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!
    • Posts: 1,842 Member
      Your = belongs to you.
      You're = you are.

      Your shure about thise?
    • Posts: 1,234 Member
      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?"
    • Posts: 884 Member
      When people don't pronounce "Illinois" with a silent "s".
    • Posts: 373
      ok...two more...

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

      All the sudden? huh??
    • Posts: 1,842 Member
      "yous guys"

      fuuuuuuuuu
    • Posts: 462 Member
      i think its suposta be supposed to


      oh and applecockers.... yeah figure out that one lol
    • Posts: 1,234 Member
      If I axed you, we wouldn't be having this conversation!

      :laugh: :laugh:
    • Posts: 7,173 Member
      When people don't pronounce "Illinois" with a silent "s".

      Ditto :mad:
    • Posts: 51 Member
      irregardless

      ha ha. I used to say that all the time until my father corrected me and I felt so foolish.
    • Posts: 823 Member
      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!
    • Posts: 3,021 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 259 Member
      Your = belongs to you.
      You're = you are.

      THANK YOU!!!


      Terlit instead of toilet. Common in South Texas..
    • Posts: 1,759 Member
      After a really loud concert, or sometimes after swimming.
    • Posts: 3,965 Member
      "yous guys"

      fuuuuuuuuu

      Yes!
    • Posts: 51 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 906 Member
      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".
    • Posts: 488 Member
      I live in MO....old timers here call is "Mazzoura". They also call Lancaster," Longcuster"...

      Grinds my gears
    • Posts: 825
      My cadillac converter got stolen last night ..
      Hey stupid! It a Catalytic converter!!!!!!!!!!!
    • Posts: 1,562 Member
      I hate it when people say "ax" instead of "ask"...like, "Let me ax you a question"
    • Posts: 3,280 Member
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      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
    • Posts: 938 Member
      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!
    • Posts: 614 Member
      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! ;)
    • Posts: 3,280 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 591 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 1,096 Member
      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"
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