I HATE it when people say something but they misspelled it.


For example, my adopted sister says he's instead of his, and his instead of he's. It irritates the crap out of me! You can distinctly hear the spelling of the words and it drives me nuts.


Can anyone relate or am I on a lone island of insanity? ha ha

I've never heard someone mispronounce something that badly lol. I've heard people use bad grammar and THAT drives me nuts. That's really weird that she says "he's" instead of "his" lol.

I'm going to get it on camera. Or voice recorded. It's very bizarre ha ha.

We have a friend who always does that, and it doesn't matter how many times you correct her, she still does it. We went out to a fairly posh restaurant here in Spain once, and she asked for 'basmati vinegar' to dress her salad. The waiter didn't understand her, so he went and fetched the chef. Luckily, I buy BALSAMIC vinegar regularly, and know how to ask for it in Spanish, so I was able to tell him what she wanted when I worked it out for myself.

'Wouldn't you think a chef would know what basmati vinegar was?' She asked. No, I wouldn't, since there's no such thing!

Ha ha he's out back going "what the hell is rice vinegar? Who here has google?!"

It's actually quite common, though I agree it's also very annoying. 

My spelling bugbear is actually:  Lose/loose - which I see done wrong SO many times.  Grrrr!

Man that would be so irritating ha ha. I hate does dose.

I want to know what "nukyular" is. Is that some scientific term I haven't met yet?

What frightens me is that people who should know better, people with doctorates from good universities pronounce the word nuclear this way (I have no idea how they spell it, though). That's not the only one, of course, just a common one that makes me wince every time I hear it.

Then/than bothers me a great deal, also. I used to wonder when I became such a language snob, but now I don't think about it. I just own it and go on.

Omg yes I hate that too!!

Oh I have all sorts of pet peeves when it comes to how people pronounce words. My top ones are when they add letters that aren't actually in the word or leave out key letters:

punkin instead of pumpkin
nakin instead of napkin
liberry instead of library
suppoebly instead of supposedly

Gah!

Ha ha I say Liberry sometimes by accident .

I hate proly. What the hell just say probably lol.

Or mebe instead of maybe.

vit-amins instead of v-eye-tamins...

Vitamins (short i versus long i) tends to be regional, I think. The others you mentioned...laziness, mostly, I would say.

Lemme axe yoo sump'in ...

Why y'all dizzin' me? Sheeit, mofo ... ain't hardly no thang.

Plim-plizzle, my nizzle, don' foget bouts tha six-fo, chuch, dawg up in da hood, chilly my grilly. Fo sho.

Towah of Powah

Yoo gots to git dose Benj'mins so's you kin git dat bling-bling fo yo ride





Thank Buddha Ebonics is dead. 

SifuPhil (03:46am Tue, Apr 30, 2013)

Lemme axe yoo sump'in ...

Why y'all dizzin' me? Sheeit, mofo ... ain't hardly no thang.

Plim-plizzle, my nizzle, don' foget bouts tha six-fo, chuch, dawg up in da hood, chilly my grilly. Fo sho.

Towah of Powah

Yoo gots to git dose Benj'mins so's you kin git dat bling-bling fo yo ride





Thank Buddha Ebonics is dead. 

Are you sure?? I still hear a lot of this. Oh, and the chirren and chirdren are learning it too.

Trace (08:34pm Tue, Apr 30, 2013)

Are you sure?? I still hear a lot of this. Oh, and the chirren and chirdren are learning it too.

You're right, of course - the language isn't dead, just the enforced teaching of it in public schools. I distinctly remember the uproar when they trotted THAT little number out ...

I know someone who pronounces "golem" as "Gollum" (the Tolkien character). It's funny to listen to him discuss "Iron Gollums"

Although apparently it is a legitimate pronunciation, so maybe I just find it funny.

Phil, the "axe" gets me, too.

I understand that it's how some people are taught to say it....but it just sounds ridiculous. I had a teacher one year who was highly educated (doctorate), very well-spoken (99% of the time), and pretty much never grammatically incorrect.

Unfortunately, she did say "axe" instead of "ask." I don't want to stereotype or come across as racist either, but I can only assume it was because of her upbringing in a black, ghetto area (tends to be very common there). It's the one telltale habit that she never broke and any time she said that you could "axe" her anything, she just no longer sounded very educated.

Ahh!

Unless a misspelled word is an accident due to fast typing, it is absolutely preposterous that people misspell common words they use regularly in conversation. I think this is mainly due to the fact that almost everyone texts more than they actually type, and people are becoming more lazy than usual.

isis6 (06:02pm Sat, May 11, 2013)

... and people are becoming more lazy than usual.

That's a pretty high bar to clear ... I mean, our bodies have already adapted to soft furniture, our organs have learned to deal with McDonald's and KFC with only slight mutation and now our fingers are going to evolve into button-sized digits.

My youngest daughter does this all of the time.  When she's not sure of a word she says it really fast and although most of the time I can figure out what she's saying, sometimes I just have no idea.

SifuPhil (09:11pm Tue, Aug 20, 2013)

now our fingers are going to evolve into button-sized digits.

LOL Oh god that would be terrifying

I know of a lot of people who say "he's" instead of "his" as well, but that's mostly around the area that I live in, so maybe there is some aspect of it being a regional thing. It does annoy me, though, because it's clearly not the right word at all!

I have another friend who uses the word "brought" instead of "bought". For example, "I've just brought a new car" and that drives me insane. I don't know how you can possibly get to mid forties and still not know that it's not the right word.

My partner doesn't pronounce the R in irony, so says "iony", which drives me mad. Having said that, I pointed that out to him, and he does try his best to add the R in now.

Another thing that I hate, and this is REALLY random, is when people add a "g" on the end of orang-utan. They say "orang-utang". My computer even took the "g" off automatically then, and I had to add it back on again for the effect! There are probably many others, too, but I am rather picky about things like that, so I could post about it all day really!

Ha ha I was watching Americas Next Top Model and they were saying "important" without the first t....so...

"Impor-ent"
"impor-ant"

I hate that so much .