I love you all, but Ohana is NOT an Irish Pub!

[kcrew]

Oh boy.... What comes around goes around I guess !!!!No argument here. I still love this thread and am glad I could contribute even if the jokes on me!

Okay I see the I missed the the ' in joke's. That WAS a typo

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

One of my pet-peeves is when people refer to mulitple LEGO bricks as LEGO's. LEGO is the plural for LEGO. ie .... "Johnny, please pick up all of those Lego before playing outside." I use to work at LEGOLAND and it was something I learned while working there.

You used to work at LEGOLAND.

(Is this a test?)

 

[Tam1067]

You used to work at LEGOLAND.

(Is this a test?)

Thank you for getting that! This is one of my huge pet peeves too!

 

[ScottOKW2K]

This thread is entertaining! Since we are venting about our little grammatical pet peeves, here is mine: using the word anxious in the place of eager.

The word anxious means: Uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter; worried. Attended with, showing, or causing anxiety: spent an anxious night waiting for the test results.

It does NOT mean that you are looking forward to something such as "I am anxiously waiting our Disney vacation". Instead you are "eagerly" waiting for your Disney vacation.

Well, their, I mean, they're, oops....there you have my $.02.

Maybe they have just recieved they're/there/their quote from the WDW Travel Co. in the male/mail, and they now have reason to be more anxious than eager. I eagerly await you're/your response .

BTW - the answer on where you bury dead people ( aka "life challenged" ) is easy. You bury them in the ground .... <flame suit on>

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

Maybe they have just recieved they're/there/their quote from the WDW Travel Co. in the male/mail, and they now have reason to be more anxious than eager. I eagerly await you're/your response .

BTW - the answer on where you bury dead people ( aka "life challenged" ) is easy. You bury them in the ground .... <flame suit on>

LOL

I eagerly peruse my planning documents.

I anxiously open my Visa bill once I'm home.

I'm surprised no one else mentioned my pet peeve- when people refer to WDW as "Disneyland". ( I mentioned this earlier, but it was the last post on a page.) I know several people that will call WDW "Disneyland", even those who have been there several times. It drives me insane.

 

[carolinagirl]

Maybe they have just recieved they're/there/their quote from the WDW Travel Co. in the male/mail, and they now have reason to be more anxious than eager. I eagerly await you're/your response .

Love it!!!!

 

[kaytieeldr]

Interesting. So if I have a welcome sign on my front lawn, it should read:

"WELCOME TO THE SMITHS' HOUSE"

Not necessarily. More than one Smith lives there, right? So... oh, the heck with it. Just paint "Welcome to the Smith house" on the darned sign and be done with it!

 

[mjkaferle5]

Should we now discuss the 400 different spellings of Hoop-dee Doo Revue I have seen on the DIS!!

 

[kcrew]

Should we now discuss the 400 different spellings of Hoop-dee Doo Revue I have seen on the DIS!!

Sure, because I'm so anxious now that we have are reservations

 

[BibbidiBobbidiBOO]

I'm surprised no one else mentioned my pet peeve- when people refer to WDW as "Disneyland". ( I mentioned this earlier, but it was the last post on a page.) I know several people that will call WDW "Disneyland", even those who have been there several times. It drives me insane.

And on that note, people who refer to Magic Kingdom as WDW makes me cringe.

Typing "our" instead of "are" bothers me.
Referring to Cinderella as "Cindy" gets to me a bit too.

 

[dkostel]

Things like other people's grammar or misuse of words don't really bother me, but, I used to have a co-worker who thought it was Old Timer's disease instead of Alzheimer's disease (and we worked at a hospital). I often wondered if she really thought the medical and scientific communities would be so cruel.

 

[mickeymousemom]

I haven't read this thread since posting yesterday(so not sure if any of these are repeats), but being on another Disney board reminded me of a couple more. Twice, by two different posters on that board, I saw the word EXCAPE. I thought my toes were going to curl right off!

And...I've seen this NUMEROUS times on these boards also....

It's INNOVENTIONS people...not innovations or inflammations or any other in- word....this drives me cuckoo.


It's Cinderella Castle or Sleeping Beauty Castle. The princesses don't OWN the castle. Don't say "Cinderella's Castle"


NOW...

It IS quite OKAY for my 2.5 yo to say:

Princess Jamzun
Moddowail
Cinderelly
Sleeping Judy

 

[carone0318]

What a funny post!

My MIL is the queen of saying things wrong....

yellow - yella (my ds-5 corrects her)
window - winda

The ones that bother me the most and it is not just my MIL

crowns - crayons
liberry - library

I think that I hear most people pronounce these two words wrong more than I hear them pronounced correctly.

 

[sleepydog25]

It's truly amazing that we can understand one another with all of the regional sayings, misspeeeleedd words and gram-atical errors.

My mother never had the opportunity to finish high school (due to parents moving around a lot). But her entire life she always used the wrong "big words" in sentences. When I was an adult I asked her why she always tried to use those big words if she didn't understand them. She replied, "I guess I'm trying to make up for not having an education, I hear them on tv or someone using them and it makes me feel smarter in spite of my lack of education". It used to drive me absolute crazy and when I was a teen it embarassed me. My mother passed away last year, but what I wouldn't give to hear her use the wrong word in a sentence just one more time!

So whenever I see the wrong words used or not spelled correctly on this board, it makes me smile and remember my mother. She was a wonderful women who came from a broken home and humble beginnings. She cared enough about her children to give them the education she always wanted, but could never have.

That's truly a heart-warming story. . .made me all misty-eyed and thankful that I had great parents, too. Thanks for sharing.

As for the "Joneses," it is also alright (and once was the most common way) to merely use an apostrophe since they name ends in an "s" or "z" sound: the Jones' house.

Good old Strunk and White. Lovely book.

I must go run now but. . .its sew hard too tear me myself away form this board. . .I can't help it as I still say "own" for "on" sometimes and "fixing to" vice "about to." East Texas did that to me!

 

[LuluLovesDisney]

Things like other people's grammar or misuse of words don't really bother me, but, I used to have a co-worker who thought it was Old Timer's disease instead of Alzheimer's disease (and we worked at a hospital). I often wondered if she really thought the medical and scientific communities would be so cruel.

I thought that until I was about 9.

 

[Laura]

As for the "Joneses," it is also alright (and once was the most common way) to merely use an apostrophe since they name ends in an "s" or "z" sound: the Jones' house.

Actually, no. Possessive of plural Jones would be Joneses'. The Joneses' house. Jones's or Jones' would indicate something belongs to only one Jones, not more than one Jones.

 

[katlas&kids]

repeat, this is not spell checked! I am one of those lovelyu people whose fingers go faster than my brain or the other way around. I almost always type aslo for also, jsut for jsut and a few otehr wonderful words. I have offered a special translation to my friends to help them udnerstand me if they can't. Thankfully it only takes them a few times to understand me. :

And I did do a quick through to change 4 words that I either mispelled or didn't look "write, right or rite, whichever word it is! (see how many are still wrong! ACK!!)

kath

 

[katlas&kids]

As long as we're on the topic of words that aren't words...


WTH (acronym - might mean 'what the hey') does 'kewl' mean? Why would a grown person type it? It's not as if a person is saving keystrokes... Is it now cool to misspell cool? It's not even phonetically correct...

As a mom of "young adults" it is the way they say it to be different. Its not "cool" water it is "kewl" as in different than mom's way and a "teen/young adult thing"! Whatteverrr Oh and it is pronounced "kkeewwll"

 

[Tam1067]

Actually, no. Possessive of plural Jones would be Joneses'. The Joneses' house. Jones's or Jones' would indicate something belongs to only one Jones, not more than one Jones.

Thank you for getting that right!

 

[cinjam]

Not necessarily. More than one Smith lives there, right? So... oh, the heck with it. Just paint "Welcome to the Smith house" on the darned sign and be done with it!

LOL - I've decided to paint the sign to say, "Welcome to our home" -- and be done with it!!!