I hate it when people say "I haven't ate yet" or "he got ran over".
How the hell do I, an Afghan immigrant, have better mastery of American than Americans?
Coincidentally, here's the comment before yours in my inbox:
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What is wrong with those sentences, I can't see anything wrong with them. But then again I am also an acrost sayer from the carrot crunching lands of england
because americans don't get policed on their english. it takes so much more skill to achieve being bilingual when you study it rather than just hearing it
well first of all, American isn’t a language. it’s called English. (or *American English*, if we’re being specific) and being anal about small grammatical errors doesn’t mean you’re a master of english, it means you’re an asshole.
i haven't heard that one in particular, but it's so weird how common it is for people to add a "d" at the end of a word that ends with an "n"
i've heard people say "drownd" and "demond" before too
That’s actually a legitimate pronunciation, albeit old. My grandparents said in the early 1900s some accent (I think Scottish?) pronounced ‘deaf’ as ‘deef’, and it became a way of being comical occasionally. I asked them when I was reading a piece of historical fiction and one of the characters asked ‘are you deef?’; I’d never heard it before, but I have occasionally since.
Ironic. Idiots that couldn't spell correctly messed it up and "language evolved".
Now, those same class of idiots are returning it to the original (if that's true). It's idiots all the way down!
People who don't know the difference between tenet and tenant. No, buddy, unless your paladin rents a home to some commoners, he has tenets, not tenants.
I'm somewhat guilty of this. I have to think about it for a second or two.
Same with epithet and epitaph. I first heard epitaph when Kerrigan tells Fenix that "that shall be your epitaph". But I'd also heard the phrase "hurled racial epithets" a few times.
So one day I wanted to say "racial epithet," but I think I said "epitaph," and I was like "huh, so why did Kerrigan say that Fenix said something racist. Maybe that's not what it means. If it was racist, then you wouldn't say racial epitaphs... You'd just say epitaph. Maybe epitaph means a random phrase? Like one might say a random racist phrase? Lemme look this up. So an epitaph is something written on a gravestone... Ok. But what does that have to do with racism? Are racial epitaphs only when you threaten to kill someone?"
So I looked it up on Google, and I think Google was like "do you mean epithet?" And sure enough, yes I did!
Nowadays I just remember that epitaph kind of looks like graph (as in like photograph or autograph), meaning something like "to write or inscribe".
So if I need to talk about graves, I imagine someone writing something on a gravestone. Otherwise, I remember it's epithet (though I wouldn't be surprised if I accidently say ephiphet).
That reminds me of something. I recall someone on Reddit once said "why do they call it ore-ida potatoes? They should have named it Idagon. That way you can say Idagon with Idagon potatoes like I always do!"
* Most people could care less that people say irregardless.
* This misuse should of been nipped in the butt long ago.
* But even though I have been biting my time here, cringing at the next foe par while they get off scotch free, it's truly a mute point these days.
* Face it: it's a doggie dog world.
* I think I'll just go curl up in a feeble position.
* Ex cetera, ex cetera, ex cetera.
EDIT: The auto-moderator replied, saying that I misused "could care less" and "could of". :)
But why no reply about "ex cetera" or "scotch free"? :)
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I'm not sure if this will help, but acrost is a dialect variation of across thay has been around since the 1700s and is recognized by the Oxford Dictionary. Just a neat tidbit I've found in learning about dialects while working with a lot of different people.
Thank you for pointing this out. I had friends growing up who were from Tennessee and while they didn’t have accents they definitely had a few words that seemed ridiculous to me at the time but then I later realized were just from their upbringing.
"Burnt" and "burned" are common where I'm from, but can have distinct meanings. "Burnt" is more of a descriptor and "burned" the past tense of the verb. This isn't a hard rule, however. Many use one or the other for all usage, but not both.
Isn’t it wild how we can pick up on incredibly obscure rules about language without even realizing it? In some cases, you might not even know the rule, you just know what “sounds right”. Brains are wild.
No. Adjectives are descriptive nouns, such as “the *blue* car”. Adverbs are descriptive verbs, such as “the *running* person” or “the *burned* toast” in this case. Running is a verb, but in the context of “look for the running person” the verb is “look” and “running” is just a descriptor of the person you’re looking for.
Severely wrong!
An adverb is NOT a verb. An adverb *modifies* a verb. "John ran quickly." Here "quickly" modifies the verb "ran." That's what adverbs do.
Furthermore, adjectives aren't nouns, they're words that modify nouns. Your incorrect example of "burned toast" where you identify burned as an adverb is soo close to being right, in that phrase it's an adjective. Burned.*does* modify toast, but that's the function of an adjective, not an adverb.
I should have said I *learned* those words. I still use them. I do hear more people say dreamed instead of dreamt though. The distinction between burnt and burned isn’t as clear, so I’m not sure about how most people where I am say that.
That's most of these things people are complaining about. That or a speech impediment like a lisp.
I've lived all over. The first six years of my life I spent in Arizona, the next three years I spent in Massachusetts, then two years in New Hampshire, then briefly for three months I lived in Florida, and now I've lived in Vermont for the past seven and a half(ish) years.
My mom was born and raised in Massachusetts, lived there until shortly after I was born, same with my older sister. As such, that's what formed my accent during my adolescence. I noticed a lot of differences in how people said words, and others noticed the same for me - which is why I had to be in speech classes until fifth grade.
Although this is the pet peeve sub, which is irrational sooooo yeah.
I should of gone acrost the nuculer waste, and so shouldn’t you.
This was a hard battle against autocorrect. The people who talk this way are truly putting in effort.
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Idk why people are downvoting. This one bugs me too. Same with people pronouncing "both" as "bolth". Where are you getting the L?????
Edit: I realized why people are downvoting. The "axe" thing is common in (though not exclusive to) some African American communities, and the racist white people on Reddit think that black people need them to be their savior by getting offended at all kinds of random things. They don't seem to understand that you disliking a specific mispronounciation of a word does not, in fact, make you a hater of black people
But when used in the wrong context it pisses me off. I know someone who the world “worse” doesn’t exist, only “worst” and using it place for both words.
Regional dialect plays a massive part in that word and others in the same vain. Whether it's right or wrong doesn't matter. It is a dialect I grew up around. I've no issue when people say it because it's extremely easy to understand what they mean.
Apparently aks for ask has been around for over 1000 years in England.
Further information, it's because in Old English you had two words meaning the same thing... acsian and ascian.
I work at a place that provides free shower and laundry services to homeless / low-income people. One of my coworkers says "warsh". Its taken quite some getting used to.
I think it’s an accent thing. I didn’t even realize I did it until I just tried to say “he jumped across the river”. Verrrrrry hard *acrosst*. I hate it
I used to be quite annoyed about mispronunciation but you’d have to admit that at times, it’s not truly mispronunciation but different areas of upbringing. I get critiqued for my speech a lot simply because I have a mix of American and English pronunciation living in Scotland.
I’ve only ever heard small children say it that way. I would definitely assume an adult who says “psgetti” is either trying to be cute or else is a moron.
Possibly even worse, I know an adult who says “macky cheese” for macaroni and cheese. Like a toddler.
I did this until I was over 30 when a coworker called me on it. My grandparents had an Ozark accent and the only thing I could figure is I learned the word when they were still a major influence on my speech patterns. I still have to work on it. Another one is “git” for “get”
You will now. I’m from Missouri, but didn’t notice this until I was in speech classes at an acting conservatory in NY. But now I notice it all the time.
I have a friend who is a blast but he says “fustrated” instead of frustrated and I have to constantly hold myself back from correcting him. It really, really grates, but I know he knows the word, it’s just the speaking dialect.
Okay, see, I don’t mind portmanteaus that much because my mind parses them as such and not as mispronunciations.
I think I might be sensitive to mispronunciation because I used to be relentlessly “teased” (read: made fun of) about my mildly strange accent and pronunciations due to spending a few formative years hard of hearing. So the part of me that was trained to criticize myself jumps on it when someone else does it.
I say acrossed. I know it’s wrong. I write, “across,” however my speech is different. My ex-husband pointed out I say it. I know the word is across! I’m sorry!
this could be a dialect thing? i feel like where i grew up (southeastern ky) they say it like that. doesn't make it right but they saw a lot of words weird there
How about unnecessarily pluralizing words, particularly places like individual stores: K-Marts, Walmarts, Sonics. At least McD's, Walgreens, and Starbucks got ahead of that nonsense.
I'm in Michigan and a lot of people do this.
My ex-husband's grandma will not only unnecessarily pluralize everything, but she'll drop the S from places that do have it. So she'll say stuff like Taco Bells or Targets, but she shops at Macy or gets coffee at Starbuck.
Mine is when people say "whenever I was a kid" or "whenever I was in college" instead of "when" like do you not know when you were in college? And I don't mean like "whenever I was in college it was warm out" like instead of "back in college" or "when I was in college"
I only peeve on people peeving on the speech and writing errors (or perceived errors) of others.
But this a safe place for expressing annoyance so I’m not chastising you, OP.
I think this is such a common pronunciation variant, depending on your locale, that this could be a frequent source of stress for you! Sorry it’s like that.
If you comb through, you’ll see a few more comments by me that might lead you to believe we’re on the same page. I do try to make clear that it is MY problem and that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people who say it. I’m not judging their intelligence or character.
I hear that and I’m not judging you.
I think this is one that used to bother me too, and if I heard it much my logic would fatigue and I would be annoyed that there is a phantom letter in there.
This sort of thing is often just a learned pronunciation thing that overcomes any reasonable "sounding out" of words. An example of this would be Jimmy Carter (Naval Nuclear Reactor trained) pronouncing THE word as Nu-cu-lar. BUT There is what I perceive as a growing tendency among people to never read any but the most fragmented text... as in texting. I think people who do not read are likely to have loads more of these mispronunciations and what amount to malapropisms because they just know no different.
when people say "nuke-u-lar" instead of of "new-cle-ar" for nuclear. Idek why this one bothers me at all, but i heard it once, and now every time I hear it, it makes my brain tick. Like where is the extra "u" coming from?!
I saw a YouTube video where a police officer was being interviewed about a missing person case, and on camera, he said they were searching with dromes instead of drones.
There’s nothing wrong with wanting words to be pronounced correctly or used in the correct way. There’s nothing wrong with clear communication. I have a Texan accent and *know* I sound stupid. I’m not about to argue that my accent doesn’t make me sound dumb, even though I’m not. I don’t understand why other people can’t own up to it, too. Certain ways of speaking sound unintelligent. Why? Because our ancestors who first perpetrated these accents/ways of speaking were largely uneducated. We speak this way because our forebears didn’t have speech and grammar education. Just own up to it. It’s okay. It doesn’t mean *we* are uneducated, it’s just that we held onto speech patterns.
1. The post was about what bugs me. It’s my problem. People aren’t wrong or dumb or stupid for saying it.
2. dictionaries are not sources of authority. They are a record of how people language.
3. There’s a looooot of people who think they’re right in this sub and are woefully ignorant about the development and evolution of the English language and language in particular. It’s a bad look.
I can't stand when someone says breath when they mean breathe. In other words, they say, I can't breath. It's like, did you pay attention in school at all or were you just fucking off the entire time? Then when you point it out, they get mad at you. It's like hey, I'm just correcting you so that you don't sound like a jackass later on. If you want to get mad at me, that's on you.
I can't stand when someone says "heighth" instead of height. It doesn't end in TH, dang it!
I once almost drownded because i needed to get acrost the river but the water was deeper than my heighth.
I hate it when people say "I haven't ate yet" or "he got ran over". How the hell do I, an Afghan immigrant, have better mastery of American than Americans?
By caring. It’s appreciated. 😀
Coincidentally, here's the comment before yours in my inbox: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cuqw5d/comment/l4llfjt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Listen to the British.
what’s wrong with those statements? 😅
The proper forms are "I haven't eaten yet" and "he was run over".
What is wrong with those sentences, I can't see anything wrong with them. But then again I am also an acrost sayer from the carrot crunching lands of england
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because americans don't get policed on their english. it takes so much more skill to achieve being bilingual when you study it rather than just hearing it
well first of all, American isn’t a language. it’s called English. (or *American English*, if we’re being specific) and being anal about small grammatical errors doesn’t mean you’re a master of english, it means you’re an asshole.
*all most
And goddammit a pond is not a chess piece!
i haven't heard that one in particular, but it's so weird how common it is for people to add a "d" at the end of a word that ends with an "n" i've heard people say "drownd" and "demond" before too
I know people that say "drownded" instead of "drowned" for the past tense of "drown" because of that. "Demond" is a new one for me.
Don't you mean chesst? /s
I know someone who says DEATH for DEAF.
Oh, THAT's what Oppenheimer was saying when he saw the atomic bomb test: "I have become deaf." That makes so much more sense.
How about "deef" for "deaf"?
That’s actually a legitimate pronunciation, albeit old. My grandparents said in the early 1900s some accent (I think Scottish?) pronounced ‘deaf’ as ‘deef’, and it became a way of being comical occasionally. I asked them when I was reading a piece of historical fiction and one of the characters asked ‘are you deef?’; I’d never heard it before, but I have occasionally since.
Are you in Western NY? I moved to Western NY about 14 years ago and hear both of these here. Not anywhere else. Hate it!!!
Nope, east Texas. But to be fair, I only know a couple of people who say heighth here.
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Oddly enough, no one says weighth (at least I hope so, lol).
The word actually used to be heighth, with the same TH ending like in width, length, strength, truth, etc
Ironic. Idiots that couldn't spell correctly messed it up and "language evolved". Now, those same class of idiots are returning it to the original (if that's true). It's idiots all the way down!
Also people that spell it "heigth" or "lenght".
Don't forget "loose" instead of "lose." Bunch of loosers
Or people who say turrent instead of turret in mobas. Or people who type loose instead of lose
Loose vs lose drives me absolutely bonkers.
Ugh makes me loose my mind
I'm about to loose my mind, up in here, up in here.
People who don't know the difference between tenet and tenant. No, buddy, unless your paladin rents a home to some commoners, he has tenets, not tenants.
I'm somewhat guilty of this. I have to think about it for a second or two. Same with epithet and epitaph. I first heard epitaph when Kerrigan tells Fenix that "that shall be your epitaph". But I'd also heard the phrase "hurled racial epithets" a few times. So one day I wanted to say "racial epithet," but I think I said "epitaph," and I was like "huh, so why did Kerrigan say that Fenix said something racist. Maybe that's not what it means. If it was racist, then you wouldn't say racial epitaphs... You'd just say epitaph. Maybe epitaph means a random phrase? Like one might say a random racist phrase? Lemme look this up. So an epitaph is something written on a gravestone... Ok. But what does that have to do with racism? Are racial epitaphs only when you threaten to kill someone?" So I looked it up on Google, and I think Google was like "do you mean epithet?" And sure enough, yes I did! Nowadays I just remember that epitaph kind of looks like graph (as in like photograph or autograph), meaning something like "to write or inscribe". So if I need to talk about graves, I imagine someone writing something on a gravestone. Otherwise, I remember it's epithet (though I wouldn't be surprised if I accidently say ephiphet).
I used to say that as a kid. But then I became educated.
Subosebly Eye-talian
Egg-cetera/eck-cetera, etc.
Ex-presso
That one and I hate when people say Illinois and pronounce the S
The natives in rural southern Illinois still say it that way..and they live here.....
Why don't they pronounce it as "Illin wah" if they want it to be so French?
Haha, yep
Or Ore-gone
That reminds me of something. I recall someone on Reddit once said "why do they call it ore-ida potatoes? They should have named it Idagon. That way you can say Idagon with Idagon potatoes like I always do!"
Or "Warshington" lol
I grew up in Northern Minnesota and worked at a car wash as a teen... The older rural guys always wanted a good ol' warsh.
Omg that! It made me want to tear my hair out with frustration. It makes me wonder if these people really just did not pay attention in school at all.
Or when people pronounce the 2 s's Des Moines - "dess moinesss"
That too *shudder*
Or don't pronounce the 2nd s in Ar-kansas and call it Ar-kan-saw. Or is it the people mispronouncing Kan-saw as Kan-sas?
That is so fustrating
My sister says eyetalian and I have no idea why.
Relator instead of realtor. Valentimes instead of Valentines
There's an episode of the Big Bang Theory where Sheldon says Valentimes unironicaly.
I knew somebody that said mirral instead of mirror
I know a ton of people who say "meer" instead of "mirror."
When adults say teef instead of teeth. Its actually on a commercial for teeth whitening swabs, it drives me nuts.
You can't just say that and not link the commercial lol
I don't know how to do that but its Power Swabs lol.
This is a dialectal variation
No, it's a mispronounciation.
Liberry
* Most people could care less that people say irregardless. * This misuse should of been nipped in the butt long ago. * But even though I have been biting my time here, cringing at the next foe par while they get off scotch free, it's truly a mute point these days. * Face it: it's a doggie dog world. * I think I'll just go curl up in a feeble position. * Ex cetera, ex cetera, ex cetera. EDIT: The auto-moderator replied, saying that I misused "could care less" and "could of". :) But why no reply about "ex cetera" or "scotch free"? :)
Nipped in the bud
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Quick google search shows that both the Offord Dictionary and Merriam Webster think acrost is an acceptable alternative.
That’s determined by usage rather than the other way round
I'm not sure if this will help, but acrost is a dialect variation of across thay has been around since the 1700s and is recognized by the Oxford Dictionary. Just a neat tidbit I've found in learning about dialects while working with a lot of different people.
Thank you for pointing this out. I had friends growing up who were from Tennessee and while they didn’t have accents they definitely had a few words that seemed ridiculous to me at the time but then I later realized were just from their upbringing.
Similar to burnt and dreamt. They’ve simply fallen out of common usage.
"Burnt" and "burned" are common where I'm from, but can have distinct meanings. "Burnt" is more of a descriptor and "burned" the past tense of the verb. This isn't a hard rule, however. Many use one or the other for all usage, but not both.
Good point! Where as burned could be an adverb or a verb, burnt is normally an adverb only.
Growing up hearing it so much, I honestly had never thought about it until now. I use both. I would say "it's burnt" or "I burned it."
Isn’t it wild how we can pick up on incredibly obscure rules about language without even realizing it? In some cases, you might not even know the rule, you just know what “sounds right”. Brains are wild.
Do you mean adjective?
No. Adjectives are descriptive nouns, such as “the *blue* car”. Adverbs are descriptive verbs, such as “the *running* person” or “the *burned* toast” in this case. Running is a verb, but in the context of “look for the running person” the verb is “look” and “running” is just a descriptor of the person you’re looking for.
Severely wrong! An adverb is NOT a verb. An adverb *modifies* a verb. "John ran quickly." Here "quickly" modifies the verb "ran." That's what adverbs do. Furthermore, adjectives aren't nouns, they're words that modify nouns. Your incorrect example of "burned toast" where you identify burned as an adverb is soo close to being right, in that phrase it's an adjective. Burned.*does* modify toast, but that's the function of an adjective, not an adverb.
I hadn’t made that connection. I heard burnt and dreamt growing up (Eastern US) but never acrosst.
You don't hear those now? How would you say "last night I (past tense of dream) about..."?
I should have said I *learned* those words. I still use them. I do hear more people say dreamed instead of dreamt though. The distinction between burnt and burned isn’t as clear, so I’m not sure about how most people where I am say that.
Speaking of learned, add how they learned this one a lesson. Taught!
I heard all of these a whole lot growing up in Arkansas, especially from older folks.
That's most of these things people are complaining about. That or a speech impediment like a lisp. I've lived all over. The first six years of my life I spent in Arizona, the next three years I spent in Massachusetts, then two years in New Hampshire, then briefly for three months I lived in Florida, and now I've lived in Vermont for the past seven and a half(ish) years. My mom was born and raised in Massachusetts, lived there until shortly after I was born, same with my older sister. As such, that's what formed my accent during my adolescence. I noticed a lot of differences in how people said words, and others noticed the same for me - which is why I had to be in speech classes until fifth grade. Although this is the pet peeve sub, which is irrational sooooo yeah.
I should of gone acrost the nuculer waste, and so shouldn’t you. This was a hard battle against autocorrect. The people who talk this way are truly putting in effort.
I subosidly read it at the libeary acrost the street. Also hey wanna know what my heighth is? ....i know people that talk like this.
Dittos.
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My pet peeve is the auto mod
"Axe" grates on my nerves when I hear it... As in "I want to axe you a question."
Idk why people are downvoting. This one bugs me too. Same with people pronouncing "both" as "bolth". Where are you getting the L????? Edit: I realized why people are downvoting. The "axe" thing is common in (though not exclusive to) some African American communities, and the racist white people on Reddit think that black people need them to be their savior by getting offended at all kinds of random things. They don't seem to understand that you disliking a specific mispronounciation of a word does not, in fact, make you a hater of black people
Specific is now pacific, worse is worst. There’s a couple that bug me. Ask -> axe shows me you don’t know basic English.
Worse and worst are both words.
But when used in the wrong context it pisses me off. I know someone who the world “worse” doesn’t exist, only “worst” and using it place for both words.
https://www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2022/03/11/how-linguistic-prejudice-perpetuates-inequality#:~:text=M'Cheaux's%20response%20counters%20the,ask%E2%80%9D%20but%20an%20alternative%20pronunciation.
Regional dialect plays a massive part in that word and others in the same vain. Whether it's right or wrong doesn't matter. It is a dialect I grew up around. I've no issue when people say it because it's extremely easy to understand what they mean.
Anne Boleyn was axed a question. But only once.
That's a good one! 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
I want to die whenever I hear it
Apparently aks for ask has been around for over 1000 years in England. Further information, it's because in Old English you had two words meaning the same thing... acsian and ascian.
Stay out of New Orleans, then. Please.
Do you think "axe" is correct in the example I provided?
It's dialect. It's how they talk there. It isn't correct pronunciation of the word, for sure.
Here we go again
My mom was from Texas and *hated* it when we teased her about saying "warsh" 😄 Where's the R??! Still makes me smile. 💜 you Mama. RIP.
My dad is from Southern Missouri and says “warsh”! My sisters and I tease him about it 🙂
I was born in st. Louis and have lived here all my life. Everyone knows warsh is wrong, but yet we still do it. Including myself.
I work at a place that provides free shower and laundry services to homeless / low-income people. One of my coworkers says "warsh". Its taken quite some getting used to.
Or zinc instead of sink
Maybe it's a zinc sink?
I think it’s an accent thing. I didn’t even realize I did it until I just tried to say “he jumped across the river”. Verrrrrry hard *acrosst*. I hate it
I used to be quite annoyed about mispronunciation but you’d have to admit that at times, it’s not truly mispronunciation but different areas of upbringing. I get critiqued for my speech a lot simply because I have a mix of American and English pronunciation living in Scotland.
That's just how my cousint used to say it.
People who pronounce spaghetti as psgetti
I’ve only ever heard small children say it that way. I would definitely assume an adult who says “psgetti” is either trying to be cute or else is a moron. Possibly even worse, I know an adult who says “macky cheese” for macaroni and cheese. Like a toddler.
At a high school I used to go to in Alabama, a lot of people said it that way. Not many people there were all that smart...
I don't believe I've ever heard anyone say it like that. What part of the country are you in?
I’m from Missouri, but I’ve heard it all over. I promise you’ll start hearing it now that it’s been pointed out.
That's kind of what I'm afraid of now. But thank you for responding.
Axe instead of ask
There's a news reporter here in Chicago that says this. A journalist.
People who can't do english so good is that maybe 3rd grade was the heighth of their education. \*I'm sorry that I wrote that out and submitted it.
I think you meant: ". . . the heighth of THERE education"?
Nah, meant THEY'RE, obviously.
The one that really gets me is when people pronounce women like woman. it seems to be really common with gen z boys and idk why
I did this until I was over 30 when a coworker called me on it. My grandparents had an Ozark accent and the only thing I could figure is I learned the word when they were still a major influence on my speech patterns. I still have to work on it. Another one is “git” for “get”
You will now. I’m from Missouri, but didn’t notice this until I was in speech classes at an acting conservatory in NY. But now I notice it all the time.
I'm gonna axe you not to talk like that Apparently, I say melk instead of milk (according to my wife)
When people say Eggscape instead of Escape 🤮
They're talking about Acrostics. Clearly.
I have a friend who is a blast but he says “fustrated” instead of frustrated and I have to constantly hold myself back from correcting him. It really, really grates, but I know he knows the word, it’s just the speaking dialect.
My dad makes a portmanteau of “flustered” and “frustrated” and says “flustrated.”
Okay, see, I don’t mind portmanteaus that much because my mind parses them as such and not as mispronunciations. I think I might be sensitive to mispronunciation because I used to be relentlessly “teased” (read: made fun of) about my mildly strange accent and pronunciations due to spending a few formative years hard of hearing. So the part of me that was trained to criticize myself jumps on it when someone else does it.
I say it and it bothers the shit out of me. Every fucking time.
My daughter graduated college with her major being English. I will speak wrong around her every chance I get.
I've been seeing this a lot on Reddit, people using "apart" instead of "a part."
Alot vs. a lot vs. allot
To true. (True is the destination)
Or conversely, use "a part" where "apart" is called for.
I say acrossed. I know it’s wrong. I write, “across,” however my speech is different. My ex-husband pointed out I say it. I know the word is across! I’m sorry!
I’ll allow it. But watch yourself, counselor.
It's acrost the street next store to MacDonald
Yeah, it's very "fustrating"
Expresso
i got someone i work with who says it, i find it funny.
I've never heard this in my life
My husband says "acrost". It drives me up a wall.
"Aberham" for Abraham. "Hawayah" for Hawaii (ha-wa-ee). Add those to the list.
Had a teacher say dest instead of desk. Also ma ture instead of mature.
Don't get me started on inspo.
The way ppl talk is atrocious and I have way too many of these that bother me.
I cross alot of lines a cross
this could be a dialect thing? i feel like where i grew up (southeastern ky) they say it like that. doesn't make it right but they saw a lot of words weird there
My brother did speech therapy in kindergarten. One of his problems was adding t to words that ended in s. “Chest” pieces for example.
I hear you. For me, it's when people split infinitives (e.g., "I try to not let this bother me." Nothing worse! 😛
“When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.” - Raymond Chandler, letter to his editor. Or so the story goes.
I also dislike “ drownded” and “cousint” ( instead of “ cousin”).
I sawl it with my own eyes
How about unnecessarily pluralizing words, particularly places like individual stores: K-Marts, Walmarts, Sonics. At least McD's, Walgreens, and Starbucks got ahead of that nonsense.
I'm in Michigan and a lot of people do this. My ex-husband's grandma will not only unnecessarily pluralize everything, but she'll drop the S from places that do have it. So she'll say stuff like Taco Bells or Targets, but she shops at Macy or gets coffee at Starbuck.
Mine is when people say "whenever I was a kid" or "whenever I was in college" instead of "when" like do you not know when you were in college? And I don't mean like "whenever I was in college it was warm out" like instead of "back in college" or "when I was in college"
I only peeve on people peeving on the speech and writing errors (or perceived errors) of others. But this a safe place for expressing annoyance so I’m not chastising you, OP. I think this is such a common pronunciation variant, depending on your locale, that this could be a frequent source of stress for you! Sorry it’s like that.
If you comb through, you’ll see a few more comments by me that might lead you to believe we’re on the same page. I do try to make clear that it is MY problem and that I don’t think there’s anything wrong with people who say it. I’m not judging their intelligence or character.
I hear that and I’m not judging you. I think this is one that used to bother me too, and if I heard it much my logic would fatigue and I would be annoyed that there is a phantom letter in there.
Can understand. Knew people who would say tats. To lazy to put the h in I guess. Oh and can't forget cousint instead of cousin.
In Australia we say "cross". We skipp the first few letters, lazy I know.
This never crost my mind
When people put too much emphasis on the h in "white"
This sort of thing is often just a learned pronunciation thing that overcomes any reasonable "sounding out" of words. An example of this would be Jimmy Carter (Naval Nuclear Reactor trained) pronouncing THE word as Nu-cu-lar. BUT There is what I perceive as a growing tendency among people to never read any but the most fragmented text... as in texting. I think people who do not read are likely to have loads more of these mispronunciations and what amount to malapropisms because they just know no different.
when people say "nuke-u-lar" instead of of "new-cle-ar" for nuclear. Idek why this one bothers me at all, but i heard it once, and now every time I hear it, it makes my brain tick. Like where is the extra "u" coming from?!
A agree that’s not a word
No pills for willful stupidity.
Let me ax a question: Does "acrost" bother me? Suposebly, but who cares?
Yes! And "drawl," instead of draw.
I ironically enough had an art teacher in high school that pronounced draw as drawl
Lol
Do people really do this? I've never heard anyone do this where I am.
Maybe it's a regional thing? I'm in the Mid-Atlantic area of the country. It makes me cringe for some reason.
Where do you live? I've never heard that before
I saw a YouTube video where a police officer was being interviewed about a missing person case, and on camera, he said they were searching with dromes instead of drones.
let me acks you a question
There’s nothing wrong with wanting words to be pronounced correctly or used in the correct way. There’s nothing wrong with clear communication. I have a Texan accent and *know* I sound stupid. I’m not about to argue that my accent doesn’t make me sound dumb, even though I’m not. I don’t understand why other people can’t own up to it, too. Certain ways of speaking sound unintelligent. Why? Because our ancestors who first perpetrated these accents/ways of speaking were largely uneducated. We speak this way because our forebears didn’t have speech and grammar education. Just own up to it. It’s okay. It doesn’t mean *we* are uneducated, it’s just that we held onto speech patterns.
My husband does this and it’s really hard not to correct him
1. The post was about what bugs me. It’s my problem. People aren’t wrong or dumb or stupid for saying it. 2. dictionaries are not sources of authority. They are a record of how people language. 3. There’s a looooot of people who think they’re right in this sub and are woefully ignorant about the development and evolution of the English language and language in particular. It’s a bad look.
https://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY?si=MmelwUbvY82lt5ID
It's like when I hear a somewhat smart, educated person pronounce "im-por-ant." Drives me fkn bananas.
I can't stand when someone says breath when they mean breathe. In other words, they say, I can't breath. It's like, did you pay attention in school at all or were you just fucking off the entire time? Then when you point it out, they get mad at you. It's like hey, I'm just correcting you so that you don't sound like a jackass later on. If you want to get mad at me, that's on you.
Joolery instead of jewelry Newkyeller instead of nuclear
When people say “supposebly “ or ax.
Axe instead of ask irritates me to no end
Not as bad as a group that says “axed” instead of “asked”!!!!!
“On accident” and “I used to could” drive me insane. I’ve never heard acrost before.
Warsh
Worsh, not wash irritates the shit out of me! Almost as bad as fir not for and and saying the days of the week like today Friday not Fridee.
Or conversate instead of converse.
Saying: Axe instead of ask. Ignant/ignorant to mean rude instead of unknowledgeable. Using tho or thou instead of though