You are MURDERING the King's English!!

I work with a guy who butchers English worse than anyone I ever met. He is a serial killer of the spoken word.

When answering the phone: "PremiuN Audit, Mr. Green speakin'" or "We was Conversatin'"

Another time he told a guy who just grew a beard that he "looked very extinguished"

Of course my grandmother used to put "Gazebo" beans in salads.

Yesterday my 2+ year old daughter was spinning in a circle and said "Daddy, I gonna get bizzy"

What father ever wants to hear his daughter tell him she is "gonna get busy"?

Let's hear some more.

Wrong by 95% of Letsrun posters.

"chOmping on the bit"

"card sharK"

card shark is so wrong that it has become right. Even magazines (i last saw it in an article on Wired.com) use the phrase.

My two personal favorite butcherings are supposebly and fustrated.

I try to use these two words whenever I can.

Spitting Image - (Should be Spit and Image)

and

Percolate - (Does not mean increase, means decrease!!!!!)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I hate it when otherwise intelligent people say acrost instesd of across.

Jayson Williams wrote:

card shark is so wrong that it has become right. Even magazines (i last saw it in an article on Wired.com) use the phrase.

"Card shark" has never been right.

I used to get annoyed when people used the word "peruse" to describe scanning something quickly. It means just the opposite. Eventually, I realized that everyone uses the the word the wrong way, and there is nothing I can do about it.

dean moriarty wrote:

I used to get annoyed when people used the word "peruse" to describe scanning something quickly. It means just the opposite. Eventually, I realized that everyone uses the the word the wrong way, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Very odd. I've never known anyone to use peruse incorrectly.

Not really "murdering" the English language, more like a parking violation: fewer than one in twenty pronounce "flaccid" correctly. Fewer than one in one hundred can spell "bestiality" and not one in a thousand can pronounce it.

I've never heard "card sharp" before. I just looked it up, actually, is that what you mean instead of "card shark"?

My latest favourite is "You're loosing it..." (Instead of losing), but that's written English.

Here in Ireland, we have a big politician (OK, he's the Prime Minister!!) who once mentioned wanting "...to emanate our predecessors", instead of emulate, and who referred to Minister of States, (should be Ministers of State), and a motor racing commentator who thought that the plural of Grand Prix was Grand Prees.

I could go on and on...

I happen to know a man who always says nucular... man that guy pisses me off.

I thought it was the "QUEENS ENGLISH"? Maybe I missed the sarcasm.

jimmy buffett.......... wrote:

Of course my grandmother used to put "Gazebo" beans in salads.

So, I love those beans. No really, I like how it's not only blacks but now more whites that use "ax" in place of ask. They've also replaced strength with "strenth". I suppose the africans can't help it but the whites?

E wrote:

I happen to know a man who always says nucular... man that guy pisses me off.

Yes, Jimmy Carter used to say "nucular." Ironic, considering he was a nuclear engineer by schooling.

Aluminium, enough said.

Jaffa wrote:

Aluminium, enough said.

Aluminum.

Nuff said.

I hate it when people write "Ritz" or "Geb" or "El G" instead of Ritzenhein, Gebrselassie and El Guerrouj.