Grumpy Grammar Grinch Grouses...

[wannaduacentury]

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The 2 that confused me most were, "fixin to" "I'm fixin to go meet my ma"
and the usage of the word "learn" "Boy - I'm gonna learn you some manners".

Scary stuff.[/QUOTE]

Those were the ones I couldn't remember earlier. "fixin" is quite popular and "What is your teacher gonna learn you at school today?"

Y'all
Pronunciation: 'yol
Function: Contraction
Ye all or you all.

[CyclChyk]

The 2 that confused me most were, "fixin to" "I'm fixin to go meet my ma" Scary stuff.

Ok - guilty. I have said "fixin' to" since I was "knee high to a grasshopper".

Also, the one phrase I have that drives my husband insane (but I have caught him using it once or twice) is "might should" as in "I might should give her a call to see if she is ok" kinda thing.........

Guess I will always just be a wannabe yank.

[DeniseGoldberg]

Thanks V for starting this thread - but I think it needs a bump out of obscurity again. My eyes have started seeing posts again where women must be selling their bikes...

• peddling = selling
• pedaling = riding

I don't know about you, but I pedal my bike; it's definitely not for sale!

[Bad JuJu]

My department chair just circulated this review on the book The War Against Grammar. I find it refreshing to hear that I and the other grammar grinches here are not alone in our distress over the state of grammar these days. I can't wait to read the whole book, now that I've seen the review.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I thought it was funny when we (unfortunately) wound up eating at a big buffet style chain restaurant a couple of years ago, and after you got your main course on a plate, you could go over to a huge condiment bar with a big sign that read "FIXIN'S". Did the food somehow need to be "fixed" before it was edible??

[Trek420]

There really are Grammar police

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_ka...ture=topvideos

[shootingstar]

Methinks some of us need to straighten out the use of complimentary as found in the topic thread about personality of significant other. (See under "Cycling".)

It's..uh.."complementary". But no doubt, there will be compelling, but not totally accurate reasons for the other adjective.
http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=30937

I know, I know, as the song by C. Lauper goes: "We're just GIRLS..and we wanna have FUN.

[Trek420]

I know, I know, as the song by C. Lauper goes: "We're just GIRLS..and we wanna have FUN.

It's "girls just want to have fun" which is very different from "we're just girls"

Oh nooooo, now it's on to the "lyric grinch"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVwFeQpy_Us

[Aint Doody]

How about "mis-cheev-ius" as a pronunciation for mischievous? I abhor that. I even heard Ann Curry say it incorrectly doing the news on the Today Show a few months back.

And there's a local commercial for a restaurant in Tri Cities, WA, that has a versa-tile menu.......yikes! What do they serve???

I like "fixing to." I grew up in the Deep South and didn't realize that everybody else in the US didn't say that until I moved out to the Pacific Northwest.

[michelem]

How about "mis-cheev-ius" as a pronunciation for mischievous? I abhor that. I even heard Ann Curry say it incorrectly doing the news on the Today Show a few months back.

Yes, annoying! I guess it happens often enough for a note from Dictionary.com:

Pronunciation note:
Pronunciations of mischievous with stress on the second syllable: [mis-chee-vee-uhs] or, less commonly, [mis-chee-vuhs], instead of on the first: [mis-chuh-vuhs], are usually considered nonstandard. The pronunciation [mis-chee-vee-uhs], with the additional syllable, occurs by analogy with such words as previous and devious.

[pinkbikes]

My two pet peeves are:

infer vs imply

and

led vs lead

I am SO sick of reading job applications telling me about how some applicant "lead a team on a project." He might want to lead a team and he may have led a team, but he probably didn't dunk them in a vat of molten lead!

[Biciclista]

congradulations? ERRGGGG ARGHHH!!!!

[Andrea]

Yes, annoying! I guess it happens often enough for a note from Dictionary.com:

Pronunciation note:
Pronunciations of mischievous with stress on the second syllable: [mis-chee-vee-uhs] or, less commonly, [mis-chee-vuhs], instead of on the first: [mis-chuh-vuhs], are usually considered nonstandard. The pronunciation [mis-chee-vee-uhs], with the additional syllable, occurs by analogy with such words as previous and devious.

I think that the 4-syllable version sounds more fun.

[Pedal Wench]

alot instead of a lot
abit instead of a bit

breath and breathe, however, confuse me.

[Veronica]

Alot starts young. I beat my 5th graders about it a lot. It doesn't help.

Veronica