The point is moot!

[ammo]

Two that drive me nuts, the most frequently heard first:

"I could care less" when the speaker means he or she couldn't care less.

"For all intensive purposes." What is an intensive purpose? It's "for all intents and purposes."

 

[CarolG]

I saw one this week that had me puzzled until I finally deciphered the intended meaning.

The person used "in tack" instead of "intact". And used "in tack" more than once in the same post, so I don't think it was a typo.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I assume you are putting the "correct" words on the left?

If so, then with UTMOST respect, I have to correct your 2nd one.

Both upmost and utmost are words. Upmost means the uppermost or top of something.

UTMOST means greatest. So, when someone says "I have the utmost respect for something." That is a compliment. Saying they have great respect.

Edit to add: Also.....both "Spit and Image" and "Spitting Image" are correct. The term "Spitting Image" dates back to the early 1900's, while "Spit and Image" dates back even further.

Thank you for posting that. I thought I had been wrong all these years.

 

[phamton]

I've not seen a lot of these used. I do remember once in college, we had a "guest instructor" (our regular instructor was ill) and when I walked in the room, I saw he'd written a sentence on the board (this was English class, of all things) and part of it said, "...taken for granite."

"Never take life for granite because that is what tombstones are made of." Hank the Cowdog

About the duct/duck tape controversy: It was first named Duck tape and was not intended to be used on duct work. I do call it duct tape as that seems to be the most acceptable word unless I am actually referring to the brand Duck Tape. http://www.ducttapeguys.com/duckvsduct.html

 

[Quest4fun]

I assume you are putting the "correct" words on the left?

If so, then with UTMOST respect, I have to correct your 2nd one.

Both upmost and utmost are words. Upmost means the uppermost or top of something.

UTMOST means greatest. So, when someone says "I have the utmost respect for something." That is a compliment. Saying they have great respect.

Edit to add: Also.....both "Spit and Image" and "Spitting Image" are correct. The term "Spitting Image" dates back to the early 1900's, while "Spit and Image" dates back even further.

That thar was a typo. I'm well aware that upmost is incorrect.

Hooray for spitting image. I've been using that since I was 5.

 

[Quest4fun]

Please edit your post titles..

Someone is remoldeling instead of remodeling.

How about the rocket scientists with typos in their signature? Frankly if you don't catch it after a few weeks of using it then you're not guilty of a typo anymore. You're just dumb.

 

[Jennasis]

What kills me is confirmation/conformation. When i am listening to someone tell me about their horse's bodily shape, I just want to gouge my eyes out when they say confirmation. It's Con-FORM-ation!!

 

[Handbag Lady]

And don't forget nuke-yuh-ler (nuclear)

This one scares me.

I am slightly hard-of-hearing and I can't hear the differences in this word. I've had my husband repeat it over and over to me so that I am saying it right, but I can't tell the difference.

So, I just don't say the word at all!

 

[Liberty Belle]

How about the rocket scientists with typos in their signature? Franky if you don't catch it after a few weeks of using it then you're not guilty of a typo anymore. You're just dumb.

Wow. I didn't think we were supposed to be sarcastic and rude.

And, I think you meant "frankly."

 

[HoneyBee06]

Wow. I didn't think we were supposed to be sarcastic and rude.

And, I think you meant "frankly."

Obviously that was a typo.
And who is the one being sarcastic?

 

[Missy1961]

I won't enlist the services of a realtor who uses the word "real-a-tor." There's no "a" in the big middle. If a person cannot even pronounce their profession, I don't have a great deal of confidence in them.

My pet peeve is "should of" instead of "should have." It's "I should have known how to pronounce realtor." It's not "I should of known how to pronounce realtor."

That's my pet peeve as well. I know someone who actually writes it that way, too.

 

[Quest4fun]

Wow. I didn't think we were supposed to be sarcastic and rude.

And, I think you meant "frankly."

I was dead serious. No sarcasm at all. How many times do you have to look at something before you notice it's wrong. Most everybody will spot it after a few glances and fix it.

PS: I fixed my typo.

 

[krismom]

On the Jungle Cruise last trip the guide said,"You'll meet up with head shrinkers, hyenas, water-spewing elephants, and other frankly fake wildlife on this 10-minute boat ride." Clearly, he meant headhunters as not many psychiatrists are in the jungle. I thought it was funny that he used the wrong word every 10 minutes all day long!

the other one that gets me on here is "Ohana's" restaurant at the Polynesian. It's not O'hanas as that would be Irish!

 

[Jingle]

I know someone who has a hard time keeping "Tract" of things.

My co-worker also frequently tells me about her "Dorsal" (docile) dog.

 

[Liberty Belle]

I was dead serious. No sarcasm at all. How many times do you have to look at something before you notice it's wrong. Most everybody will spot it after a few glances and fix it.

PS: I fixed my typo.

I meant the rocket scientist comment (when I mentioned sarcasm). I just thought your post was overly harsh.

 

[NMAmy]

I was dead serious. No sarcasm at all. How many times do you have to look at something before you notice it's wrong. Most everybody will spot it after a few glances and fix it.

PS: I fixed my typo.

You made me check my signature. I don't actually read my own signature. Heck, I had a new tag for about three weeks before I noticed.

 

[Quest4fun]

On the Jungle Cruise last trip the guide said,"You'll meet up with head shrinkers, hyenas, water-spewing elephants, and other frankly fake wildlife on this 10-minute boat ride." Clearly, he meant headhunters as not many psychiatrists are in the jungle. I thought it was funny that he used the wrong word every 10 minutes all day long!

the other one that gets me on here is "Ohana's" restaurant at the Polynesian. It's not O'hanas as that would be Irish!

Trader Sam near the end of the ride is a head shrinker. He shrinks heads and has several for sale. It's a pretty good deal too. Two of his heads for one of yours. Either way you slice it you come out ahead.

 

[HoneyBee06]

On the Jungle Cruise last trip the guide said,"You'll meet up with head shrinkers, hyenas, water-spewing elephants, and other frankly fake wildlife on this 10-minute boat ride." Clearly, he meant headhunters as not many psychiatrists are in the jungle. I thought it was funny that he used the wrong word every 10 minutes all day long!

the other one that gets me on here is "Ohana's" restaurant at the Polynesian. It's not O'hanas as that would be Irish!

No, I think they actually mean head shrinkers....because of the heads at the end of the ride.

EDIT - Quest4Fun beat me to it.

 

[KyraS]

Honestly I really don't care about any of it. If I know what someone means that's all that matters. To much seriousness in the world to bother with petty things.

 

[crashbb]

On the Jungle Cruise last trip the guide said,"You'll meet up with head shrinkers, hyenas, water-spewing elephants, and other frankly fake wildlife on this 10-minute boat ride." Clearly, he meant headhunters as not many psychiatrists are in the jungle. I thought it was funny that he used the wrong word every 10 minutes all day long!

But didn't they shrink the captives heads after chopping them off? Maybe that's what the guide meant - just trying to give him the benefit of the doubt! To me, a headhunter is a person you gets you a job.

My issue with "moot point" is that, at least in North America, it means two different things:
1) A debatable point
2) A point over which it is useless to debate

I'd only ever heard it as the second meaning until a recent conversation and was greatly confused since I didn't think that the point was useless to debate (it wasn't and he was using the phrase under the first meaning).