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Verbal pet peeves

brownponytail80 — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:24:04 GMT

One of mine just happened on the Q during the Dooney show. They meant to say "cavalry" (battles, war, guns, etc.), but they both said Calvary (Jesus, cross, crown of thorns, etc.)

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kittymomNC — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:28:38 GMT

People who should know better saying "jewlery" instead of "jewelry" - SG designs and sells it, but she never pronounces it correctly!

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Moonchilde — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:35:39 GMT

"Aks" for ask.

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kittymomNC — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:38:35 GMT

Remember "W" ? Famous for "nucular" instead of "nuclear"...

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hckynutjohn — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:39:36 GMT

Non-verbal peeve? Texting! Dumbest technological regression this techno-nut has ever seen.

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blackhole99 — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:44:07 GMT

@kittymomNC wrote:
People who should know better saying "jewlery" instead of "jewelry" - SG designs and sells it, but she never pronounces it correctly!

I think it's just a slip of the tongue, she knows better, she's an educated woman.

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kittymomNC — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:50:57 GMT

@baker wrote:
@kittymomNC wrote:
People who should know better saying "jewlery" instead of "jewelry" - SG designs and sells it, but she never pronounces it correctly!
I think it's just a slip of the tongue, she knows better, she's an educated woman.

I know she is, which is all the more reason for the correct pronunciation, but she NEVER pronounces it correctly.... I'm sorry, but I don't consider that a slip of the tongue. Maybe once or twice, but she always pronounces it the same way. I used to sell jewelry and do fashion shows for women's groups... sometimes there were kids there and they could pronounce it correctly.

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gidgetgh — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:55:52 GMT

That being said or with that said
Realaty instead of realty
Jewelery
We're pregnant
Little man for a baby or toddler boy
Aks instead of ask
Loose when they mean lose
You got this (my latest addition to the list)
It's all good (no...sometimes it really isn't)
Change is good
Belly (instead of stomach)

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Joey Heatherton — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:54:21 GMT

Every time I hear someone say "between you and *I*," I get stabby.

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Moonchilde — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:08:06 GMT

Many of my verbal pet peeves are just wrong pronunciations that anyone on national television should not be doing, and I hear them on the news, in program narrations, and on a variety of television shows.

I watch a channel now called AWE (A Wealth of Entertainment), formerly Wealth TV, which caters, or used to, to wealthy men and their female companions.

Their "show hosts", and the narration for almost every program broadcast, are women with the most execrable voices I have ever heard. They are meant to sound babydoll-ish and "cutesy-dumb", and this is combined with some appalling pronunciations that I can only guess are the result of heavy, unattractive regional accents being modified by voice lessons that never quite took.

What is most wince-inducing are the travel shows (mainly why I watch at all), where foreign words are totally mispronounced in very deliberate way - like as bad as saying tay-co for taco. On national television. On a channel geared towards wealthy world travelers. I think of the narration as bimb*-speak. Presumably it makes the male viewers all warm & fuzzy.

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ritasNo1Fan — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:15:42 GMT

Bathroom instead of restroom. "I" in place of "me". "Awsome" to describe anything.

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cherry — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:18:39 GMT

Do you know what I'm Saying, about 10 times ,in a short space of time

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beach-mom — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:24:52 GMT

I teach English, so I've probably heard them all!

Some of the ones mentioned are cultural dialects. Two others that come to mind for me:

"bu-tt" - when it means a specific part of your body

"Me and (insert name)" used as a subject

We were waiting in line once for a popular ride at a theme park. The wait was about one hour (our children were young at the time). The party in front of us kept changing, as different members would come and take the place of others waiting. That was bad enough, but one girl in her late teens kept turning and shouting to someone, "Me and Jen are going on (insert ride) after this." And when I put "insert ride," I meant she named them ALL - over and over at the top of her lungs. She was right on top of me when she turned around. She was also hot and wet from another ride. It was all I could do not to correct her!

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LilacTree — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:23:42 GMT

@kittymomNC wrote:
Remember "W" ? Famous for "nucular" instead of "nuclear"...

Some dumb congressman was on CNN last night saying it the same way. I muted it.

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kittymomNC — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:26:25 GMT

@LilacTree wrote:
@kittymomNC wrote:
Remember "W" ? Famous for "nucular" instead of "nuclear"...
Some dumb congressman was on QVC last night saying it the same way. I muted it.

Sometimes I can't believe what I hear come out of the mouths of supposedly "educated" people, and they get elected to office!

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cherry — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:26:40 GMT

@LilacTree wrote:
@kittymomNC wrote:
Remember "W" ? Famous for "nucular" instead of "nuclear"...
Some dumb congressman was on CNN last night saying it the same way. I muted it.

Ike said it the same way.

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lulu2 — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:30:46 GMT

Her/him and I as the subjects of a sentence.

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SHIRAZ — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:31:47 GMT

I'm getting really sick of "buttah" (butter)

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kittymomNC — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:36:35 GMT

I seen it on TV....

We've went there before....

Oh, give me strength when I hear variations of those...

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Reba055 — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 20:42:52 GMT

Nassau for NASA. And I did it the other day, I couldn't believe it! My husband just looked at me like, really? And I said "omg did I just say Nassau?" What?? Lol