Words That Are Misspelled And-Or Mispronounced That Drive You Crazy
When you are having a conversation with someone who continually mispronounced certain words, does it get on you nerves?
There are a few words that are mispronounced that really irritate me to no end....such as....
Steroids........NOT .....stiroids
Italian..........NOT Eyetalian
ambulance....NOT amblance
Washington....Not Warshington
What mispronounced or even misspelled words get on your nerves??
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I hope you will feel free to vent about people that mispronounce or misspell words. I just found a couple words that I misspelled, and I see no way to correct them.......;-(
drag your mouse over the upper right corner of your comment window, you'll see a wheel and a trash can, click on the wheel to edit your comment, you have 10 minutes to do it
Thanks Pat.....too late to correct it......:-(
Highlight the whole thing and copy it. Then delete the post and re-post it. You get more correction time. Of course it might be out of place, but you can always copy and paste what you were responding to, to make it seem like you knew what you were doing.
BTW, the first 5 or 6 new smileys suck!!! They look like the Stay Puft Marshmallow man from Ghostbusters!!!
Generally people have their feelings hurt, or they get upset, when you point out misspellings to them. I think the most egregiously misspelled word on the internet is lose. I have seen something like "I might loose my keys" or "you are a real looser" , more times than I could count . Some people just misspell words, but I am convinced that millions of people think loose is the proper way to spell lose.
Don't know why.
Good one John, I don't get it either.....sigh
"inflammable" and "irregardless" are like finger nails on a blackboard for me.
Good ones Pat, I forgot about inflammable! Hubby pronounces Italian.....Eyetalian.....being Italian, it REALLY drives me crazy.....not hurt my feelings just drives me nuts!!! ggrrrrrr
lose (meaning when not able to find something) whereas "loose" means not tight - constantly seen on NT.
it's (means "it is") not to be confused with "its" which is possessive.
I will not get into the fact that American English drops the "u" from many words in the English language, such as neighbour, labour, honour, etc. or the second "l" in travelling. (My illiterate computer thinks I'm misspelling those words.)
For pronunciation, how about POlice? aBAWt (about?), ChiCARgo (Chicago?)
I won't get into grammar here, except for this: I recall meeting a young American here who was teaching English to Chinese students. We were conversing about places we had seen in China, and he said: "Oh yes, we was there." I pity his students.
I always mix up its and it's...
Pat, I'm sure I have some of these "quirks", but, at that moment, I can't think of any words I mispronounce or any particular words I misspell...and I'm sure there are several......
Buzz....."We was there" ??? EEEEK!!
Wildwood...Not...wawood
I have never encountered the pronunciation of "wildwood" being massacred, but I can only imagine how it would get on a person's nerves.
That's how we say it in Philly, I think or is it just me.
Pronouncing the "s" in Illinois
Adding "s" to words that have no plural...like shrimp, you, sheep (especially you, everyone knows the plural is ya'll!!).
Or how about Eyewa instead of Iowa?
Uh oh. I say Eye-o-wah... Is that wrong?
Also, folks, it is not Louisville, (Louis-ville), or Louieville, it is appropriately pronounced Lullvull. Or Loo-uh-vull.
That brings up the related issue of the extra letter "u" . Unless it is used at the beginning of a word its only purpose is to confuse the enemy ... I say we should just get rid of the extraneous "u"s in words completely ... or if you have to just replace them with a "w" . Eg . I've got a "cowf" with my cold . Is that too "tuff" ? I think it's easier !
Leave it to Petey to propose rewriting the English language.
Sometimes I say Dees Moiness, just to bug people from Des Moines. Mean person am I.
Athiest. I think people spell it that way just to annoy me.
Maybe they think that's the way to spell the superlative. The comparative might be spelled "athier".
Just tell them that Geesus loves them! lol
Me too. I think they do it on purpose and I wonder how they'd feel if I suddenly starting spelling Christan, Chrsitan or Jewish, Jewsih all of the time. Once or twice is OK. We all have typos, (hell, I've done it myself a few times) but all of the time? Don't they notice the little red wiggly line under it? And always the same word? Bullshit.
Randy , tell the same thing.......Geesis loves them........lol
LOL! Cheeses loves them, this I know, 'cause my Gouda told me so!
I spell it that way because I am dyslexic and I spell a lot of words like that wrong.
Anyway, everyone knows there is no such thing as atheists. They are a lot like independents
Independents are political agnostics.
Well, that works Randy, since I am an agnostic.
Ax instead of ask. Drives me nuts. Oh you axed him? Did he live?
Like.... over and over...Like this guy came over he was like big like 6 feet or so. So I like let him in and he like took a seat, and he seemed like really comfortable.
And for those of you who have never heard this one..... conversating. Used as follows:
So I was conversating with him and it was really intense.
LOL the spellcheck only picked up on of those conversating.
Stewpid spell check!
Spell check does not catch homonyms, or any word improperly spelled for the context in which it's used even if it's a proper spelling.
I have misspelled snad and garvel so frequently, that spell checker thinks that is right, now...
stewpid, stoopid, stupid... all the same to me, LOL!
How about when people mis-spell or mis-pronounce your name?
My husband is French, therefore, my married name is French. It doesn't bother me when people mispronounce it, but it irritates hubby!!
Perrie, I hate to correct you, butt, it's spelled stoopid!!
Pople ought to come will a built in speel chequer....
Ax instead of ask. Drives me nuts. Oh you axed him?
That's becoming a cultural change. It seems to happen mostly in the the South and with inner city blacks. It's lazy language. Soon though it will become a normally accepted way to pronounce it. We may be seeing an actual accepted change in a word. It appears to me to be a word evolving. Words evolve and (as much as I hate this one) it seems to be a word actually evolving into a new pronunciation. The current proper pronunciation of the word "ask" may soon become a pronunciation that is archaic.
Acapoco. It is spelled Aca pul co, not poco. Drives me out of my mind...
Here in KY, we are known for our mispronunciations. We call Versailles, Ver-sales. We don't speak French here, obviously... Indiana calls LaFontaine, La Fountain, Peru as Pee-ru, and Fairmount as Fairmont. So we're not alone. Lima, Ohio is Lima like the bean, not Lima, Peru...
Oh well... I'm not good at pronouncing things, either. I thought the New Hebrides, was New He-Brides, as opposed to She-Brides. (When you only know of something that you've read about, it's sometimes hard to get the pronunciation down pat...) I always thought that Gladly was a cross-eyed bear, too-- not "Gladly, the cross I'd bear".
It is spelled Acapulco, not poco.
I have been there 6 times and I still have to look up how to spell it. It's a brain block thing for me and it drives me nuts!
Or....excetera instead of etcetera
bob wire, instead of barbed wire
artic instead of arctic
Speaking of Barb Wire :
or.....foilage instead of foliage YIKES!!
I've heard rebar pronounced rebarb. Rebar is the steel in reinforced concrete.
In my line of work, there's a term for the wire that anchors telephone poles to the ground - it's called a "guy" wire. I don't know where or how it originated, but it's so widely known amongst my profession that everyone knows it ... except my old boss, who always called it a guide wire. Everyone would roll their eyes and laugh about it behind his back. Wasn't surpising, since he was about the dumbest person I've ever met. Funny how those are the people that rise to the top in government.
One of he things that drive me crazy is when people add an sh or sch sound to a word that doesn't have one. Like when the say schtright instead of straight! It's ST! It's NOT SCH!!! And there are a lot of words people do that on and I just want to punch them!
Hey Six,
Is that me tawking or you?
In Manhattan, NYU is pronounced, NY Youse by the English and Speech Therapy Departments.
What are youse trying to say Enoch ?
I had absolutely no trouble understanding what you said! I love the accent!!!
"nucular" instead of nuclear
"fedral gummint" instead of federal government
All the usual missed homonyms:
you're / your / yore
there / their / they're
and so on...
I agree with Feronia:
More than that, I find it disturbing when someone shrugs it off or accuses someone else of being an internet "spelling nazi" or "grammar nazi" if the correction is noted.
IMNAAHO, this is a matter of courtesy. I try to pay attention when I read something -- to respect the text, to give it the consideration it deserves. So when I slam into sloppy usage, I feel kinda betrayed. Here I am, trying to respect a text... whose author apparently did not make the effort to return the favor.
I make a distinction for people for whom English is a second language...
Question for everyone: Do you always re-read before you hit the send button?
Bob is my new best friend for making the exception re English being a 2nd or 3rd language.
Chi-miigwetch, Maarsii.
French speakers may recognize the second word above. Maarsii is merci, in a language that is a combination of 3 different languages called Michif, or Metis for the French speakers.
No, I don't always re-read my comment before hitting send.
Actually... I was giving myself a pass... for my French...
I make a distinction for people for whom English is a second language...
Excellent point Bob, glad you made it!
My old boss always said 'installation' for 'insulation'. We used to make fun of him all the time.
My old boss always said 'installation' for 'insulation'. We used to make fun of him all the time.
Hunnert, instead of hundred! Blaming this one on you east-coasters.
Or drownd instead of drown
Wonnerfull ting aboat Hebrew is that it is spelled phonetically.
They don't even teach spelling in Israel. Waste o time.
Don't make me go nucular on words like form instedda from.
Piece and Abuncha Blessins
Aynoch
ROFLOL Hi Enoch!
I offin wunder wy Hanaku sumetimes is urlier sum yeers then uther yeers.....
Its becausah daylite savins time, and also dat Chanuka is confoosed wit Hanukah and Chanukah.
I blame it on dah hoe in dah ozone layer.
Oh...pursonulee, I theenk it's thu calundur makurs misteak.