West Coast Kid wrote:
for real wrote:It's strides, not striders!!!!!!!!!!!
For me it is when someone refers to the state championship as "states." There is not more than one state competing. Only one. It is called "state."
I think this may be more of a east coast v west coast thing, as my roommate is from California and he hates the 's' addition, but I'm used to seeing it added to everything and naturally do it being on the east coast
I have seen the airer of my ways.
Chup wrote:
takk for the moose wrote:To air is human.
To forgive is the vine.
Tush-ay.
Which dictionary?
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/dictionary/american/err
More precisely, wrote:
Actually, the correct name for them is "aragorns."
A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship and call them "striders," but it is not this day.
An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the Age of Men comes crashing down and people call strides "striders," but it is not this day!
This day we fight to call them strides!
By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand and call them strides, Men of the West!
https://youtu.be/EXGUNvIFTQwWater strider?
Sorta like hard loping???
I can't stand the way you Americans say absolutely all the time, quite often two or three times 'Oh absolutely, absolutely, absolutely...". Just say yes for fecks sake.
Pshna. It's striders. You gumby.
Native Hearer wrote:
phonetic wrote:I guess you are not a native speaker if you need a dictionary to tell you what you are hearing. "Air" and "err" are quite different. Are you able to hear the differences between beer, bear and bare?
Bear and bare are homophones, as are air and err (I don't know why you have beer in there). I will admit that some people may try to pronounce them differently, but many do not. So the point is for the person who gets annoyed when he or she "hears" "to air is human" and thinks the speaker is a moron, chances are quite high that the speaker is simply not adhering to the expected pronunciation of the listener. I would bet that geography also plays a large part in that perception differential. In the same way that someone from Boston pronounces the word "car" differently than someone from Alabama, people have different approaches to how they pronounce "air" v "err", and it has more to do with pronunciation norms than vocabulary intelligence.
This person is right, and the people who are upset about the pronunciation of err are morons. No American that I have ever met would pronounce it as "er". It is pronounced as "air", probably because this pronunciation is consistent with its more commonly used derivative, error.
The assertion that "bare" and "bear" are pronounced differently is even more ridiculous.
I also concur that "striders" is a dumb word.
Just say yes for fecks sake. wrote:
I can't stand the way you Americans say absolutely all the time, quite often two or three times 'Oh absolutely, absolutely, absolutely...". Just say yes for fecks sake.
I absolutely agree with you.
Stim wrote:
I also concur that "striders" is a dumb word.
I am glad this has been aired.
A "stride" is something a runner does. Lots of people do strides.
A "strider" would have to be a runner from a town beginning with an S, in need of a club name, like "Stopsley Striders". These are quite a small part of the running population.
afluenza wrote:
for real wrote:It's strides, not striders!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel the same way when I hear people say, "Reflect back." or "Air on the side of caution."
Irony^
OMG it's a real stride-athon!
afluenza wrote:
for real wrote:It's strides, not striders!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel the same way when I hear people say, "Reflect back." or "Air on the side of caution."
"err on the side of caution."*
did strides yesterday wrote:
I'm glad this is on the boards, I hate it with a burning passion as well
It burns like him or roids.
FWIW, wrote:
I can't run striders now because we're pregnant.
I see what you did there, +1
HardLoper wrote:
There's nothing irrational about the rage you feel when people add unnecessary syllables to perfectly good words.
Just trying to get a reaction from you...lol