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Sayings that irk me
That reminds me of how jarring it is to my ears to hear anyone refer to a soft drink as a "pop," when obviously the correct term is "soda." ;-)
maratsade, Let's all get with the British way and just "queue up" and be "in the queue!"
GabeU, my mother, who was an English teacher, and even more of a grammar/spelling/pronunciation police officer than I, would have loved you and your list! Three terms I would add:
•Frustrated, not fustrated
•Library, not libary
•February, not Febuary
Things I cannot abide seeing in print:
•I need to loose weight.
•I want to see that show to.
•Anything with the word "prolly."
•I actually saw this in a submitted academic journal article from a full professor: I like to have my students pier review each other's work. (What does this entail? Study groups sitting out on a pier? Critical analysis done at the local Pier One Imports?)
•I wish I wouldn't of done that.
•Your welcome!
debbie.jean.bro wrote:
GabeU, my mother, who was an English teacher, and even more of a grammar/spelling/pronunciation police officer than I, would have loved you and your list! Three terms I would add:
•Frustrated, not fustrated
I occasionally hear people say flustrated, as well.
Oh, and another one: it's corroborate, not cooberate. No one has ever cooberated someone's story. :p
One of my biggest faults, which ends up happening far too often, is using an apostrophe in the word "its" when I don't need to. I sometimes misuse commas, as well. :(
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One more, which I heard again tonight, and which has to do with the military, is cache. It's pronounced as cash, not cashay.
"One more, which I heard again tonight, and which has to do with the military, is cache. It's pronounced as cash, not cashay."
I hear this one often. I wonder if people are thinking of touche? Annoying all the same. As for touche, I know someone who uses it incorrectly all the time to mean "kudos." "Oh, you fixed the water cooler! Touche!" Groan.
GabeU wrote:One more, which I heard again tonight, and which has to do with the military, is cache. It's pronounced as cash, not cashay.
I've seen "frutile" constantly misused instead of "futile" by an amateur videoblogger.
Even worse is that it's caught on as a catch phrase.
