Neopreme...

[miesemer]

I might as well add one of mine...

"alot" is not a word
"allot" is a word but doesn't mean "a lot"

 

[miketsp]

..and as for those people that confuse loose and lose, well they're just losers (not loosers).

 

[Mo2vation]

Now this thread is rockin'.

All-right.

errr...allright

uumm...allrite

aahhh....awl-right

I mean, OK!

 

[simbrooks]

This guy continuously puts up the same auction. I have seen it for months and he still doesn't change the the spelling.

Its spelled LENGTH not LENGHT

I get annoyed by people saying hie-th instead of height (with a t at the end no less), i have gotten over most other butcherization of this language when i came here. However i will say that mil is a shortening of millimetre as well as 1/1000" - just not in this country. I wear a 3 mil suit, my GF says she wears a 3M suit (either its 3 metres thick or its made out of post-it notes - i havent worked out which yet ). Her dad was brought up in MN and he drops a lot of H's as silent letters at the start of words like uman (human), uge (huge), umurous (humourous) come quickly to mind. I wont say my speach isnt perfect, i drop the odd T here and there like twenny, thurdy, fordy etc for 20, 30 40. I am sure i have other little things too.

BTW, are we talking of the spoken word here or the written word such as you might find on SB?? In the latter case the there/their, your/you're type mis-spellings are just a pain to read.

 

[wstein]

Boy you guys would have fun with me. My accent is a cross between North Carolina hick and Florida-New Yorker (if you live anywhere south of Orlando, you'll have a slight New York accent). So I say war-sh, watter, and such

Paul

 

[Mo2vation]

Her dad was brought up in MN and he drops a lot of H's as silent letters at the start of words like uman (human), uge (huge), umurous (humourous) come quickly to mind.

A buddy from the midwest does that. He also has the most unusual pronounciation for Onion: UNG-yun

I love language. Its one of my fav things in the world. (wuhld) Accents, dialects, and regional pronunciations are wonderful, and I celebrate the diversity and generally love listening to them.

Typos and mis-spellings are what they are. I'm a poor typist and I really don't care. I'm too lazy to look stuff up so some of the time I guess... OK. Whatever.

HOWEVER, ignorant butcherings (i.e.: NeopreEME, and others) are another deal altogether and deserved to be skewered on sight.


K


PS: I should start another thread sometime for endearing / unusual turns of phrase. Words are fun... put a bunch together and you get poetry or hash.

 

[simbrooks]

Not meaning to be racist in anyway, but the word that really has always gotten on my nerves is axe (ask), a couple of guys at work axe me questions all the time - i know Bill Cosby had a big thing about the African American language recently in a speach that was highly publicised.

 

[Jersey]

A few from the right coast:

Arn = iron
Ack-a-mee = Acme
Picks-chore = picture
It-lee = Italy
Youse guys = you plural, in South Philly & The Sopranos
Al-blum = album
Idear = idea
Alot - thank you Jeff - strike the word(s) from the language!

One I am guilty of - wood-er = water (it's a Jersey thing. Gives me away every time)

 

[LeFlaneur]

While we're at it... what is this sudden affection for the simple little apostrophe?

It seemed to know its place for years but suddenly it is cropping up like worms after a summer shower. What is so hard about understanding the difference between possessive and plural?

Where do those apostrophes come from? I think they have all been stolen from the word you're, which people can't seem to handle either.

 

[alaity47]

Wow, I never realized there were so many other language nitpickers out there! (Not that I'm complaining)

Anyone read "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" yet? Very cute book. Lots of griping about apostrophes.

Along with the liberry/library one: I had a friend who always used to say "birfday" instead of "birthday." I have no idea why; none of her other th's had mutated to f's....