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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
"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).
Was going to say... I consider myself pretty well-versed at English (vice American) and still come across a zinger that I have to ask about once in a while.
Makes you wonder how, after more than 240 years language can significantly change.
(brings up one of my peeves... adverbs come before verbs, no?)
Maybe I should have said dialect instead of accent. >.>
Great map...learned a couple of words: gullah and ocracoke.
maratsade wrote:"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).
When I was a little kid I actually spoke in a somewhat noticeable British accent due to my both my grandparents being Brits and my mother being born in Birmingham. I lost it as a got older, though.
