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Pet peeve thread......
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 o...
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.
You say Potatoe, I say Tator.
Tater* :p LOL
gokartergo24 wrote:You say Potatoe, I say Tator.
Let's call the whole thing off.... :)
Well....I just watched Mudbound and what a wakeup! Very sad what was happening even in the 40's and 50's. I'm old enough to know much of that actually happened, or very similar. To think people who fought in the war had to come back and experience that. Shameful.
Another pet peeve.....predjudice.
BirdDog wrote:Another pet peeve.....predjudice.
Yes, of any kind. At some point, we'll become a single race of humans instead of something akin to a tribal society based upon artifical labels and classifications. Unfortunately that won't happen in our lifetime.
Contributing to the pet peeve theme is how people automatically, and incorrectly call something 'racist' rather than 'prejudice' nowadays, probably because it has more shock effect.
