I admit that when I read "hoo-hah" it makes me laugh. I think it's rather endearing! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by martinkap
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I admit that when I read "hoo-hah" it makes me laugh. I think it's rather endearing! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by martinkap
Conversate.
No. It's converse.
ain't
My brother-in-law says ain't and it pisses me off. My own mother hates the word so much that if we refused to stop using it she spanked us. She came from a working class family that greatly valued education and she viewed it as ignorant.
The thing with my brother-in-law is he does it to be more "country". My husband refuses to use the word and hates when his brother does, he tells me his mom raised them much like mine. I also dread the day my little nieces start saying ain't to me. :mad:
and when my 40 year old niece corrects her 10 yr old daughter's English but can't get her own past participles right. :eek::eek::eek:
Ain't is not a word that I use, but it's very old English and IN the dictionary. My husband likes to use it for effect from time to time (yes, he's affected too :cool: ) . And one of my college educated grad student sons uses that word now too. Hopefully, again, just for effect.
Got nothin' :D new to add here.
Overuse of F word and "like" is tiresome. Hard to even want to listen to a speaker who uses either of these words for nearly every sentence.
Driving home from Colorado a couple days ago I found a public radio station and the guy was doing a show about Ben Carson, the neurosurgeon and speaker and author ... and a primary theme of the show was the incredible importance of reading and education.
The guy doing the show, however, kept referring to "John Hopkins" hospital. GRRRRRR~!~! Education is important but you can't get the name of the hospital right? Talk about sending the message "Education is important - but we're going to be hopelessly ignorant anyway!"
Ah, many of these irritate me from time to time. In casual conversation, most of my friends and associates, or even I(!), will use some variation listed here, just for effect. No problem there. And in a post in a forum such as this, the grammar and pronunciation isn't all that important to me. Occasionally, it can be confusing, and I hate it when I've included some typo that makes it appear that I don't know the correct word...and don't notice until it's too late to edit.
It is publications and news broadcasts that I wish would get it right!
The sports player did not miss a game because he has a groin. Everyone has a groin! He missed the game because he has a groin injury!
There is no such thing as stick-to-it-iveness. The word is tenacity! Good gravy!!
Gosh, those are just the first two that come to mind. If I think of more, I'll share. :o:D:rolleyes:
Hugs and butterflies,
~T~
I'm sorry, I don't know the correct name of the hospital. A google seach reveals that there is a John Hopkins hospital in Baltimore.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Geonz
Impact instead of affect or effect. Yes, it's correct but once again, overused.
I kind of like that one.Quote:
Originally Posted by indigoiis
"FRICKEN" instead the "f-word" ... Half the time when people say FRICKEN, it sounds so much like the F-word, you might as well have just said it....
I personally like friggin'Quote:
Originally Posted by ttaylor508
It keeps me from really cussing when I'm angry. Or mad, as in insane.
That would be Johns Hopkins. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by LBTC
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/
And yet the F-word was a good old Elizabethan verb!
At the moment, I am angered by any word used in a pre-recorded phone message. Both our home phone line and my business line are on the Do No Call Registry and yet the friggin' :p idiots call them anyway.
Oh yeah, and "very unique".
I actually like word play. My English teacher dad always used oderarmdeunderant and irrigerated the lawn.
Maybe that's a cheap knock-off or the walk-in clinic at the drug store ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by LBTC
Think of how much money they save by providing only one John . . . . . .
Wow, this really set off a firestorm...
I thought of another one that makes me want to scream: disrespect used as a VERB. It's an adverb, damn it. "He treated me with disrespect" or "He treated me disrespectfully" NOT "He disrespected me". AAaaaaarrggh!
I still like "wicked".Quote:
Originally Posted by Veronica
These grate on my nerves:
utilize
drill down
collaborative
And for some reason, "sweet" just irritates me. Not sure why. I probably didn't like the first person who said it to me. :)
How about chaffing? Really, my bicycle shorts do not cause me to have the hulls of wheat on my buttocks!! (although I imagine it could feel similar)
The word "folks" makes me cringe, especially when used by news reporters and politicians.
Have you actually checked on that lately?Quote:
Originally Posted by LBTC
yup! I'm wheat-free, all the way! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl
Why can't i say guys/dudes? I have a workmate(guy) that calls me doll or honey & don't care.
What's wrong with saying *****?
I find it annoying when people get countables & non countables incorrect. My former manager would say " there are some fruit over there" ARGHHHHHHHHH :mad:
What really bothers me is when someone says
Oh, my God!!
It even bothers me when it's OMG and OMFG!
It really is just disrespectful all the way around.
Umm excuse me, some of us aren't religious & don't see why we can't say "oh my god"..
I'll keep saying it
I say "oh my god" all the time. It's MY god, right? (Notice small g here). She doesn't seem to mind. ;)
I hate stay-cation. I don't mind invented words as long as they're not used seriously, or in a "trendy" manner. And I absolutely hate when the press latches on to a specific word or pronunciation of a word and uses it over and over.
Seriously, I never heard staycation until about 2 days ago. I've heard it endlessly since then. Crazy!
If you're talking a cat about it's fine. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
If you're talking about a female or female anatomy it has some derogatory connotations.
V.
Just heard two of my pet peeves on the "coming up on Project Runway":
"ginormous"
and
"didn't" pronounced "di-nt".
I also hate "whatever!" when used by someone who is pissed off....
Emily
I'm guilty of both ginormous and whatever. :D
V.
CC- Umm - this must be a U.S. thing, but to answer your question, it's a female anatomy reference, generally intended in the dirtiest of ways. That is what is wrong with it. Wow - will I ever be embarrassed when you all come back and tell me I'm wrong!:oQuote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
I'm afraid I use "guys" to refer to just about everyone. :rolleyes: It just feels so nice and casual, and as close to unisex as I can find. However, I DETEST "doll", and if you are going to call me honey or hon (hun?), you'd better be my mom or my DH. Actually, I take that back - there are a tiny handful of people out there who could call me that and it would be okay, because they would be using it sarcastically, and we'd both know it wasn't some sort of empty show of fake affection.
I have far too many pet peeve words to even try to list any. I guess irregardless is at the top of the pile. Oh, and when Office Max or somebody was running an ad where they used office as a verb (I think it was "The new way to office", or something equally horrific), I truly wanted to shoot the tv.
I thought he got it from his mother, who is a redneck (the nicest kind) from rural Florida. But his DAD is from MICHIGAN! Maybe that's where SHE got it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrea
Karen
well, we're certainly a diverse lot!
Forte.
If you don't know how to pronounce it correctly you ought to simply say that something is not one of your strengths.
I'm from Chicago. I use "guys" to refer to everyone, even little action figures.
I do NOT like the p-word. I greatly prefer "girly-bits" in the context of this forum--at some point the right words will trigger the filters. I think it's best that we don't use words that would have the perverts coming in because they searched the proper words.
There's a mixed up word Bush used that I very nearly can't avoid saying as if it were real: misunderestimated. It's ALMOST right!
Karen
OMG!*
As in "Oh my goodness" or "Oh my gosh!"
That "G" can be very diverse. :D
Prolly for probably. Makes me crazy.
I agree with the posters upthread with the inappropriate uses of apostrophes or homonyms (there, they're, their; your/you're; no/know; to, too, two) Or using "then" for "than".
Ok, I feel better now. :rolleyes:
Somehow my husband has inadvertently picked this up, but the most frustrating part is that he cannot hear that he is saying it incorrectly.... He insists he is saying nuclear and will get very angry if you tell him he said nucular.... but I'm not nuts, someone else heard it too....Quote:
Originally Posted by Grog
That reminds me....I cringe when people say "addy" instead of "address".Quote:
Originally Posted by nancielle
Yes we are all different.
I think 'the P word' is only derogatory if it's used in a derogatory manner. It can also be a loving term. :)
What's that Eleanor Roosevelt quotation?-
'No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.'
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I seen (instead of saw) them.
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Just the other day I was wondering if I'm overly sensitive, or if people who "seen" things spend more time telling others what they "seen" than people who "saw" things do. (I really was!):rolleyes:
My father had a rough early childhood (pushed through foster system) and struggled in school. When he is talking he says:
secetary
"I says" instead of "I said"
And his spelling is terrible probably the worst I have seen. When I first got to college AOL IM was very popular and I would talk to my dad on it often, my roommate and I would laugh at some of his spelling. At the same time it hurt me because he loves educational programs but because of where he started he can sound ignorant.