"Libary" just reminded me of one that bugs me: relator instead of realtor - I even hear it in ads!!! It's RE-al-tor folks, not RE-la-tor. *sigh*

Tom

 

around here we dont say soda or pop. we say what we want...a pepsi or a coke, or a cherry pepsi, diet coke,etc.

the thing that drives me insane is people with lazy accents. Its one thing to have an accent, its another thing to say your words all wrong.

heres a few examples that drive me absolutely insane:

scurred = scared
warshington dc = washington dc
ballmore = baltimore
sheesewuz = she was
eyeswuz = i was
yo, i gotta fake eyedeedoh = yo, i have got a fake ID though

people who say "mmmhmmmmmmmm" drive me crazy too.

ugh, i had to call an insurance agent for a customer one time. The agents office was located in the inner city, so the heavy accent was on their automated voice options.

without sounding racist or anything, the voice was what many would consider to be a 'ghetto' voice. i literally was saying "Report an accident" as clearly as i could. it just kept asking me to "try again". Unfortunately the [proper] pronunciation my customer finally had to say for me was along the lines of "weepoight an asseedent"

ugh that drives me crazy.

 

 

not an expression but a couple of mistakes that make me scratch my head

1. It's not "If I WAS an orange"
If I WERE an orange!!!!

2. Damn it it's not WOULF OF!!!!!!!!!!
would HAVE

 

ok i have the best one of them all

Git-R-Done

 

mine, mines...ugh

and it's Sonic, not Sonics

Ihop, not Ihops

 

Giterdone is so done.

Hella was old the first time I heard it 5 years ago.

The one I really hate is: know what I'm sayin?. You know, if you'd stop asking me if knew were you saying, and just say what it is you think you're saying, I'd have probably know what idea you are trying to get across.

Yup. "What kind of coke do you want?" "Dr. Pepper." I thought it was only Texas, but it's good to know others have picked up on that now.

 

On the subject of pronounciations:

It sounds like this: New-klee-er, not New-que-lear

New Orleans is New Or-lins or Nawlins, not New Or-lee-annes.

I'd spell out how to pronounce Norfolk, VA, but the profanity filter won't let me get the last syllable...ryhmes with "luck".

 

Near everyday I hear "enemy combatant" on BBC news, except it's pronounced "Kumba-tent" via the bbc, instead of Com-bat-ant. I had to think for a second the first time i heard it. what is a "Kumba-tent"?

and every once in a while, someone will IM speak "your" or "you are" as "yr" instead of the common "ur".

"yr" = year, even in IM speak. and it looks like "why are"

 

Everyone knows that many commercials go overboard, or contain flat-out lies, but one 'phrase' that just annoys the heck out of me in commercials if where the announcer says something like "Our prices are lower that any dealer (or store) in the state!"

Since all dealers (or stores) in the state are eliminated by that statement, what is being advertised either isn't a dealer or isn't in the state...

Saying "our prices are lower than any other dealer (or store) in the state" may be true, but saying it the other way is not.

It's just plain sloppy language usage, and turns what may even have been a true statement into gibberish or a lie (choose one).

I get terribly annoyed with imprecise language usage - I'm ****, I'm an engineer...

Tom

 

When people pronounce milk with an "e"... melk?

and pillow too... pellow?

Come on now people!

 

it's PICTURE
not "pitcher"

we don't take pitchers of water!

 

Actually we do take pics of water but you get what I mean...

 

oh...and it's ESPRESSO not eXpresso

 

^ 2 diffrent answers at da same time

 

what?

 

howd u do that ? show me

 

oh the tripple posting

;)

 

ahem, so is it "common" or come-on" ?

 

c'mon... :D