words that make you grit your teeth

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

How about chaffing? Really, my bicycle shorts do not cause me to have the hulls of wheat on my buttocks!!

Have you actually checked on that lately?

[spindizzy]

"chester drawers" (for chest of drawers)

"pitch red"

"julury" (for jewelry)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

"julury" (for jewelry)

I actually saw a jewelry store once that had a big fancy sign hanging out front that said "JEWLERY". Unbelievable!

[salsabike]

Flustrated.

Although you can see how that word came about...

[beccaB]

But I'll confess- the other day I had typed "handelbars" instead of handlebars. I caught it just before I posted it though! I attribute it to too much exposure to classical music in my youth.[/QUOTE]


George Frederick Handel-
a German born composer who lived most of his life in England and considered himself English although he never developed a good grasp of the English language. It is especially noticed in his oratorios, the way not so important words fall on important parts of the measure. I LOVE music history! Trend setters, those composers are!

[Crankin]

As a former English teacher, I can assure you that very few people (except the extremely learned posters on this forum) get the homophone or apostrophe things. It was torture to teach these and to try to think of ways to get kids to remember the rules for these things.
My husband used to say "He don't" instead of "He doesn't" when we first met. I realized it was because his parents said it, so I just came out and said it sounded ignorant and wasn't proper English.
He never used it again.

[OakLeaf]

Funny how a lot of the things people are posting are just regional variations in pronunciation. I mean, really, repeat this sentence and the last one using phonetic pronunciation. I don't consider anyone's accent to be "ignorant," although sometimes it can be hard to ignore my own cultural biases. What's the difference between "nucular" and "iern," except that the latter is the majority pronunciation?

I go overboard with the ellipsis okay... I admit it... since we've digressed into punctuation with the apostrophes.

But to me (another overused phrase), I think slang is all about the context. E.g., the only time I write "ain't" is to make a point, and obviously I'd never have used that word in court when I was practicing, but I use it in casual conversation all the time, as do my peers.