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Pet peeve thread......
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
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
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 :pNo. 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.
/shrugs/ don't ever come to the south then, otherwise you will want to strangle many, many people.
You say Potatoe, I say Tator.
Tater* :p LOL
