Lingual Pet Peeves: Monday

[Rebel Yell]

Hot. PM T Storms.


TOTD: What are mispronunciations that really get under your skin? I think the worst for me, and I had almost forgotten about it til I heard it on TV last night, is Baze. Example: Last night, I was watching My Strange Addiction and there was a woman who poured bleach in her bath water every day. Her friend was telling her how dngerous it is to be "bazing" in bleach.

[linda22003]

Are you sure you want to get me started?

The first that comes to mind is "nucular" instead of the correct "nuclear".

[Rebel Yell]

Are you sure you want to get me started?

The first that comes to mind is "nucular" instead of the correct "nuclear".

I knew you'd be the first one to jump all over this one.;):)

[linda22003]

Here's another one - even if people know what the little 'star' means, which is decreasingly common, they pronounce it "asterix" instead of "asterisk".

[fettpett]

my dad pronouncing Boba Fett, BoDa Fett :rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Novaheart]

Valley talk

Inappropriate rising intonation - also known as high rising terminal. Better known as irishmen and American public school teachers as well as annoying teenagers who end every sentence with a question mark. Oh, and let's not forget useless corporate trainers who do this. The appropriate response to this is, "Are you making a statement or asking a question?" Followed by, "Then stop that. It's annoying."

Oh and another thing, Southern is not a synonym for ignorant. Rural is not a synonym for ignorant. There are indeed regional differences in delivery, but everything uneducated cannot and should not be written off to "dialect" whether it's Southern, Brooklyn, Chicagoan, or "urban dialect" formerly known as "black english."

Jennifer Lopez

[Novaheart]

Anyone else remember this?

My grandfather and some younger folks who are hoking it up for the tourists, will refer to "a package of cigarette" , "a bushel of crab", "two dozen crab".

I never have been able to figure out what determines the singular and the plural in Southern Lowland dialect, even though northerners think I have one.

Also, a huge pet peeve goes out to PBS and their documentary makers who seem to feel a need to "correct" long standing usages and pronunciations. No one in school ever read about "Sah- kah ga wee ah." we read about "Sacka jaweeah". By the same token, and I realize this is somewhat defensible, if there is one cannon, there is one cannon. If there are ten cannons, there are ten cannons. If there is a row of cannons, there is a row of cannons.

[noonwitch]

My dad always had a few he never got right:

His secretary was his "sepetary". Church council was "console". It drove my mom crazy, especially when she found out he was fucking his sepetary while she was at church console meetings.

[Rebel Yell]

My old man doesn't help you work on your truck. He'll be glad to "hope" you with it, though.

[Madisonian]

"aks" instead of ask, fer instead of for, seben instead of seven and politician instead of lying, theiving piece of shit.

[malloc]

My family is from Western North Carolina, but I grew up in New Mexico and Arizona, which are probably the most accent neutral places in the English speaking world.

Here's my pet peeves from my family:

warsh == wash
potatah == potato
windah == window
pillah == pillow
Any day of the week is a dee, Mondee, tuesdee, wednesdee, etc.

Other mispronunciations that even accent neutral Arizonans commit:

libary = library
Febuary = February

[Big Guy]

It bothers me to hear people saying "Gut" instead of "Good" or "Ambalance". Them there are the "Brothers" in Memphis that say "Main" instead of "Man".

Then there are people who ask questions such as "What is you doing" it's like fingernails scratching a chalk board.

[Rebel Yell]

ANother is the smoke coming out the chimley.

[ralph wiggum]

My family calls a "creek" a "crick". I don't care for that.

[malloc]

What I've never really known how to pronounce is Missouri. Some people tell me it's like mizz-ur-uh and others like miz-ur-ee. I'm not really sure which it is, any Missourian locals wanna clear that up?

And here's some more I thought of:

both is not bolth! There's no "L" in the word.

And there's aigs and laigs intead of eggs and legs. And steer it around instead of stir it around.

My step-daughter, the oldest one, has some horrific spelling problems because she learned to mispronounce so many words, and no one bothered to correct her.

[fettpett]

My family calls a "creek" a "crick". I don't care for that.

but that is the proper way to pronounce it:D:D