OK, happy holidays! Here we go......
I hate, hate the "in line" versus "on line" thing. Many use "on line" to describe standing "in line". Drives me nuts!
So instead of standing "in" a line of people you are standing "on" a line that isn't even there?
Though this doesn't really have much to do with the holidays, my biggest pet peeve is people pronouncing commonly used words incorrectly, though I usually don't say so as it makes me sound "snobby."
For instance...
It's REALTOR, not REALITOR.
It's ESPECIALLY, not EXPECIALLY. And along those same lines, it's ESCAPE, not EXCAPE.
It's JEWELRY, not JEWLERY.
And one of the ones that's like nails on a chalkboard: It's HEIGHT, not HEIGHTH. There's no TH sound at the end. Ugh! With so many people saying HEIGHTH, it's strange that you never hear people say WEIGHTH. :p
C0RR0SIVE wrote:
Some of your peeves are from different accents found all over the country... Around here, most everyone says it the way you don't like. :p
Creek vs. Crick :p
No. And accent is an accent, and there are a lot of them in this country. A mispronunciation is a mispronunciation. Two entirely different things.
Crick can be considered an alternative pronunciation of creek, which is related to "accents" as it concerns the pronunciation of the vowel, which is a component of the differences in accents. What I listed are mispronunciations, not alternative pronunciations, nor differing accents. They're mispronunciations. They're also not restricted to any particular region. They're mispronounced everywhere.
BTW, I used to say crick when I was a little kid. It's common in this area.
"It's REALTOR, not REALITOR. "
But Realitor makes a great name for a cheesy sci-fi character.
"With so many people saying HEIGHTH, it's strange that you never hear people say WEIGHTH."
I like it. I may start using these and see if I can make them go viral.
"No. And accent is an accent, and there are a lot of them in this country. A mispronunciation is a mispronunciation. Two entirely different things." <-- agreed.
Americans pronounce a lot of things differently than we do across the ocean. It's been quite interesting for me, as I had always thought the differences weren't as significant as they actually are. (Then there's using completely different words for things, like torch vs. flashlight).
