Pronunciation Errors That Drive Me Nuts

internet pet peeve:

People who use "loose" for the word "lose." See it so much, I wonder if these people came from "creative" spelling classes. They'll write "I'm trying to loose weight", when it should be "I'm trying to LOSE weight." The proper use of "loose" is "I lost weight, now my pants are LOOSE."

annoying mispronunciation wrote:

I hate when girls pronounce "I consent to this sexual act" as "get out of my dorm room before I call the police."

I never get it pronounced that way.

I work in an emergency dept and patients are forever saying their condition "just got worser". I always say nicely "Oh it's gotten worse?" but it never sinks in.

preacherman wrote:

...unless you're from You-ston, Texas, like I am. People aspirate there less than Bill Clinton inhaled.

I've lived my whole long life in Houston and we don't say You-ston. We do pronounce bayou as bye-oh, however.[/quote]

NYC dandees pronounce Houston St as "HOUSE-ton". Creepy.

"I says.." My mom does this all the time and it drives me nuts.

"I was at the store earlier and this woman stepped on my shoe, and I says 'b****, you just stopped on my shoe!'"

RN wrote:

I work in an emergency dept and patients are forever saying their condition "just got worser". I always say nicely "Oh it's gotten worse?" but it never sinks in.

Lol. You do know that "gotten" isn't correct English, right?

RN wrote:

I work in an emergency dept and patients are forever saying their condition "just got worser". I always say nicely "Oh it's gotten worse?" but it never sinks in.

I'm sure patients at the ER appreciate your grammar advice.

say it, don't says it wrote:

"I says.." My mom does this all the time and it drives me nuts.

"I was at the store earlier and this woman stepped on my shoe, and I says 'b****, you just stopped on my shoe!'"

Your mom talks like this?

Is speaking that difficult wrote:

The words are...

...Eastern and Western, not EastREN and WestREN.

...wash, not waRsh.

...athlete, not aKlete.

...especially, not eKspecially.

...nuclear, not nucULAR.

...ask, not aKs.

Not worth griping about, but it still makes my ears bleed.

I can't stand the way Americans are unable to say adverbs. "I'm doing real good" instead of "I'm doing really well, thank you"

When people mispronounce "angers me" as "grinds my gears". It makes them sound like a grouchy dyke.

Ruud Van Naughty Boy wrote:

It's not a pronunciation, but the expression "my bad" grinds my gears like nothing else.

There is NOTHING more cringeworthy than 40+ yr olds using this expression. Just yesterday a colleague of mine sent an email response to about 10 of us which said simply "My bad LOL". He's at least 50. I had to forcibly restrain myself from throwing my chair across the office at him

Batardized English wrote:

Is speaking that difficult wrote:

The words are...

...Eastern and Western, not EastREN and WestREN.

...wash, not waRsh.

...athlete, not aKlete.

...especially, not eKspecially.

...nuclear, not nucULAR.

...ask, not aKs.

Not worth griping about, but it still makes my ears bleed.

I can't stand the way Americans are unable to say adverbs. "I'm doing real good" instead of "I'm doing really well, thank you"

The entire English department at my school says it wrong, except for one.

I can't stand the way Americans are unable to say adverbs. "I'm doing real good" instead of "I'm doing really well, thank you"

Also, dropping the ly from the end of adverbs. "He moved quick" instead of "he moved quickly."

Here in PA, "to be" is generally dropped from sentences. "The car needs washed" instead of "the car needs to be washed."

Is speaking that difficult wrote:

The words are...

...Eastern and Western, not EastREN and WestREN.

...wash, not waRsh.

...athlete, not aKlete.

...especially, not eKspecially.

...nuclear, not nucULAR.

...ask, not aKs.

Not worth griping about, but it still makes my ears bleed.

You're from the Carolinas aren't you?

The only words that I have heard mispronounced from what you listed were wash, ask, and nuclear.

expresso

That is because us NYC Dandees know it's named for William Houstoun a member of the Continental Congress Not Texas Sam..Somewhere around the mid 1800's the spelling changed but I don't know why. Early maps have it spelled Houstoun. His wife Mary Bayard Houstoun is a double street gal.

Flatty wrote:

preacherman wrote:

...unless you're from You-ston, Texas, like I am. People aspirate there less than Bill Clinton inhaled.

I've lived my whole long life in Houston and we don't say You-ston. We do pronounce bayou as bye-oh, however.

NYC dandees pronounce Houston St as "HOUSE-ton". Creepy.[/quote]

..are you kidding me????!!!!

somali pirate wrote:

When people mispronounce "angers me" as "grinds my gears". It makes them sound like a grouchy dyke.

Ruud Van Naughty Boy wrote:

It's not a pronunciation, but the expression "my bad" grinds my gears like nothing else.

There is NOTHING more cringeworthy than 40+ yr olds using this expression. Just yesterday a colleague of mine sent an email response to about 10 of us which said simply "My bad LOL". He's at least 50. I had to forcibly restrain myself from throwing my chair across the office at him

You're a 'my bad' kind of guy, I get it

Is speaking that difficult wrote:.

...ask, not aKs

Typical racist LetsRun. Ever heard of African American Vernacular English? It's a real dialect that is as internally consistent as the dialects of English that most of us speak.

You also might want to read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_English_consonant_clusters#S-cluster_metathesis

Educate yourself!