What's the worst you've heard?
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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".
Yes I'm pretty sure it's mis-chee-vee-us. :bigsmile:0 -
I live in MO....old timers here call is "Mazzoura". They also call Lancaster," Longcuster"...
Grinds my gears
Oh I hate that! :explode: I'm from Missouri and there's no "A" in Missouri.0 -
'congradulations'- HATE that!
'renember'
'ax' (not ask)
and the usual terrible mispronunciations that have already been outlined! makes my ears hurt and my teeth itch!0 -
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!
I agree. O (oh) is a letter and 0 (zero) is a number. They're not interchangeable.0 -
Scrimp!
Scrimps! I lived in New Orleans for 10 years and my Mississippi born husband and I always laugh about this one when we eat them. Mmmmmmm, scrimps.0 -
Oregon: Ore-GONE instead of Ore-gun.
As for "axe" a question, only used to hear that from Indian co-workers.
You mean I'm pronouncing Ore-gun wrong too? :huh:0 -
I went to college in the redneck riviera...aka Myrtle Beach, SC. You were lucky if you could understand anything that came out of anyone's mouth!
LOL I grew up in SC and never heard that one. But I'm not a redneck, of course. But y'all believe whatcha wanna, I reckon.
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Lmao reading these, so funny ! I hate when people say "Anyways" ...
Shudder!! My co-worker says that and it drives me crazy. She always talks about how she went to a private school, but they didn't teach her to say "anyway" instead of "anyways"?0 -
Betty, could you possibly consolidate those 5,000 replies a little bit? :noway:0
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Betty, could you possibly consolidate those 5,000 replies a little bit? :noway:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Sorry.0 -
Ingredientses
Really? REALLY?0 -
Betty, could you possibly consolidate those 5,000 replies a little bit? :noway:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Sorry.
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We just recently move to TN and almost everything they say down here annoys me.
"Ya, reckons?" "Keeps ya hand to yaself" "Warsh" (instead of wash)
I can go on and on-- the things people say makes them sound so stupid, not being mean but its true.0 -
OK, I do need to jump in here and defend "warsh." In certain rural areas, that is the correct pronunciation. It's all very scientific:
The Law of Conservation of Consonants:
Consonants like the letter R cannot be either created or destroyed, only moved around. Therefore, every time someone from Boston says "pahk the cah" or "dahling," those Rs migrate to the rural midwest, where they insert themselves into "warsh the clothes" and "squarsh that spider."
See, now the Universe makes sense. You're welcome.0 -
The Ar-Kansas river...It's pronounced Are-kan-saw...not are-kan-zis...0
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my doc tole me I have fireballs in my girl parts (fibroids)
I think I just peed my pants!0 -
i think its suposta be supposed to
oh and applecockers.... yeah figure out that one lol
What is applecockers?? I've been sitting here, saying it outloud and I can't figure it out. Sounds very bad, me sitting here saying "applecocker... APPLE... COCKER... APPLECOCKER...."0 -
My husband (of southern descent) says this when he wants me to change the channel on the TV: "turn it over"
Makes me want to turn the TV upside-down.0 -
what grinds my ears is when people say "me & so-n-so", instead of so-n-so & I!!! ARGH! i want to pull my hair out on that one!0
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The Ar-Kansas river...It's pronounced Are-kan-saw...not are-kan-zis...
Isn't there an obscure law on the books in Arkansas that makes it illegal to pronounce it as Ar-Kansas?0 -
Nook-you-ler instead of nuclear... :explode:
How often in someones life could this ever come up?
I can't honestly remember if I've used that word in a conversation, ever.0 -
My mother is hardcore PA Dutch, so I used to get to "red up" aka clean my room. We would "outen" the lights, or turn them off. That never irritated me, but it irritates my dad beyond belief!
My irritations are people in this area. Specifically, phrases like "I'm gon' do this."
You're gon' do what? Gonna? Or perhaps GOING TO?
VOKESwagon. No, VOLKSwagon. Cowwege. No, coLLege. Dowwars. No, dollars. Also, people who use the word "utilize", because there's no reason for it at all, and "ignorant" when rude should be used. We get a lot of that. "That's so ignorant!" No, no that's rude. It seems like it's a very local thing. It's weird.0 -
Nook-you-ler instead of nuclear... :explode:
How often in someones life could this ever come up?
I can't honestly remember if I've used that word in a conversation, ever.
YES.
My husband says this all the time and I correct him every. Single. GD. Time.
NEW
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I always say 'worser' and ive not long realised its not actually a word in the dictionairy! Ive been saying that word all through high school and college, and no one corrected me or told me that its not a real word!0
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The Ar-Kansas river...It's pronounced Are-kan-saw...not are-kan-zis...
I have to defend that, its a regional difference. The people in Colorado and Kansas where the Arkansas river is, named it Ar-Kansas, so that's what is it. The state is Arkansaw, The River is ArKansaS.
Same thing with towns in Kansas:
El DorAYdo is in Kansas- Eldorahdo is the legenday golden city in South America. (El Dorado)
Sal-Eye-na is in Kansas- Sal-EE-na is the late Tejano singer. (Salina)
They do that just to be difficult.0 -
Nook-you-ler instead of nuclear... :explode:
How often in someones life could this ever come up?
I can't honestly remember if I've used that word in a conversation, ever.
YES.
My husband says this all the time and I correct him every. Single. GD. Time.
NEW
CLEE
AR.
I was told by a science professor that the scientific community accepts the mispronunciation because it make it easier to differentiate between nuclear (nook-u-lar) as in pertaining to the nucleus of a cell, and nuclear (nook-lee-ar) as in, the bombs. However the contraction nuc'lar (nuke-lar) is not.0 -
Irregardless is one of mine. Here is a short story from a friend who works in a game store. Mom and child are in game store looking at different items. Child says to mom "Mom, look at these 2 dices! They are so pretty!" Mom says to child "Honey, it's not called dices, its called a pair of dice!" Hmmmm...where I grew up it was always called a pair of die.
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"Your getting banged tomorrow" One of my children came home from school with this one... I said pardon? You are getting banged?? Explain please ..................... It means hit. xx0
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Irregardless is one of mine. Here is a short story from a friend who works in a game store. Mom and child are in game store looking at different items. Child says to mom "Mom, look at these 2 dices! They are so pretty!" Mom says to child "Honey, it's not called dices, its called a pair of dice!" Hmmmm...where I grew up it was always called a pair of die.
Either is acceptable I think, but pair of dice is preferred.
Die is singular, dice is plural. So you can have a pair of die or a pair of dice; technically, the difference would be that the first version would connotate 2 dice used in the same game for different purposes, whereas the second pronunciation would indicate two dice used always together and for the same purposes.0 -
fin-uh for fixing to0
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