The point is moot!

[Nette]

Another Joey quote is the one where he's trying to figure out what "supposibly" is wrong. Haha!

Supposably? Supposably. Did she go to the store. Sup-oh-sably.

I love that line. Joey was awesome.

 

[DizneeMommy]

One that gets me is this:
"Hooray! I've booked free dinning. . ."

It's dining, people!!
(This is one of the MOST common mistakes on the boards!)

 

[HoneyBee06]

I used to work in a daycare and one of my co-workers used to say "counch" instead of "couch." I assumed she just pronounced it weird. But then one day a kid fell off the couch and got a scratch so she had to fill out an incident report. She asked me to proofread it. She even spelled it "counch." I told her there was no N in couch. She said, "counch? counch. counch." Over and over trying to figure out how it wasn't spelled with an N. She never did figure it out and to this day she still believes the word is "counch."

I could never understand how a 58 year old woman doesn't know that it's COUCH and not couNch.

 

[HoneyBee06]

Supposably? Supposably. Did she go to the store. Sup-oh-sably.

I love that line. Joey was awesome.

I can never remember the actual line so I looked it up on youtube. It's something like "did they go to the zoo? Supposably." too funny!!

 

[lindalinda]

I used to work in a daycare and one of my co-workers used to say "counch" instead of "couch." I assumed she just pronounced it weird. But then one day a kid fell off the couch and got a scratch so she had to fill out an incident report. She asked me to proofread it. She even spelled it "counch." I told her there was no R in couch. She said, "counch? counch. counch." Over and over trying to figure out how it wasn't spelled with an R. She never did figure it out and to this day she still believes the word is "counch."

I could never understand how a 58 year old woman doesn't know that it's COUCH and not couNch.

Ok. You know you put "R" and I am guessing you meant N?????

Just to be sure, there is not an "r" in couch, or an "n" either.

 

[phamton]

Ok I'm more than a half century old and I just found out that it is not a wheelbarrel. What the heck is a barrow anyway?

 

[Teresa Pitman]

One that bugs me - when people say (or write) "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes."

Teresa

 

[Teresa Pitman]

And it's "something piqued my interest" not "something peaked my interest."

Teresa

 

[Quest4fun]

One that bugs me - when people say (or write) "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes."

Teresa

And it's "something piqued my interest" not "something peaked my interest."

Teresa

Two really good ones!

 

[Mickey Fliers]

Has anyone heard the new song on Radio Disney by Mitchell Musso and Emily Osment?


"I wouldn't have nothin' if I didn't have you"


What the heck does that mean? Does it mean they would have everything?

 

[rayelias]

Jewlery instead of jewelry
Valentimes Day instead of Valentines Day
Ignorant means without knowledge not rude
Picstures instead of pictures

And conversate

 

[Quacktatty]

Here's some of my favorites (or least favorites as the case may be):

People who say "says" instead of "said", as in: "And then I says to him." Instead of "And then I said to him"

Or people who "seen" something. "You'll never believe the Disney stuff I seen at the store!" Sorry kids, but actually I'll never believe the Disney stuff you SAW at the store! Or if you are so hung up on saying "seen" please but a had or a have in front of it for my sake.

I had to actually stop reading a trip report once because the writer kept using @ as an abbreviation for "about". And it wasn't just once or twice - it was all over the place!

My all time favorite came at work one day when I was asked be a colleague what the name of the & symbol was - she couldn't remember. I yelled over the wall "it's an ampersand". I hear back "oh that's right, an 'and for stand'!" ACK!

There was a thread on I think the WISH board a while back, "Loosing Weight for Mickey". It was all I could do to go into the thread and ask the person who started it to please change the spelling.

I also know a guy who says "heighth" instead of "height".

 

[Kimmielee]

There were a couple of these that I heard all the time when I lived in New Mexico and it drove me crazy.

One was, "Sign your John Henry right there." Really? John Henry was a steel drivin' man and not known for his penmanship. I believe you are thinking of John Hancock--the guy with the fancy signature on the Declaration of Independence.

Perhaps someone from down south can help me with this one. My Dad is from KY and his nickname for YEARS has been John Henry and we always thought it started when someone asked him to put his "John Henry" on a document? His real name is John Thomas?

I have one... this DROVE me nuts for years when I was first divorced and looking at personal ads: "I am looking for a nice WOMEN." Buddy... if you are looking for more than one WOMAN, I'm not the WOMAN for you!"

 

[Master Mason]

Or if you are so hung up on saying "seen" please but a had or a have in front of it for my sake.

Glass Houses? Believe it or not, this is an internet discussion board, people make typo's and some of us, including me can't spell worth a damn and there isn't a spell check either.

But to the point, one of the gramatical errors that drive me nuts is the usage of me, I, and myself.

 

[darlak]

I haven't read all 7 pages, so I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but I hate it when people use the word "conversate". Folks, it isn't even a word! You can have a conversation with someone or you can converse with them, but you cannot "conversate". You would be amazed at how often I see college-educated social workers use this non-word in a court report, which, once entered as evidence, becomes part of the legal file.

 

[Quacktatty]

Glass Houses? Believe it or not, this is an internet discussion board, people make typo's and some of us, including me can't spell worth a damn and there isn't a spell check either.

But to the point, one of the gramatical errors that drive me nuts is the usage of me, I, and myself.

Ohhh...you got me alright

But I wasn't referring to things that are written in that case - that's one that I HEAR all the time. Which makes it even worse. For the most part, I can forgive typos, especially where spell check wouldn't catch it. I am guilty of that myself, we all are. But if you want to be like that...you spelled grammatical wrong.

Get the Google toolbar - built in spell check

 

[Master Mason]

Ohhh...you got me alright

But I wasn't referring to things that are written in that case - that's one that I HEAR all the time. Which makes it even worse. For the most part, I can forgive typos, especially where spell check wouldn't catch it. I am guilty of that myself, we all are. But if you want to be like that...you spelled grammatical wrong.

Get the Google toolbar - built in spell check

If I only spelled one word wrong that was pretty good for me I drove my dad nuts as a kid, he could not understand why I couldn't spell, with time I simply accepted it.

 

[jeanadave]

I think this one's funny. A friend of mine was complaining about her boss and said (in all seriousness), "He is just a thorn in my thigh."

 

[bumbershoot]

All I know is, if you dont know a word isn't a word, how are you supposed to know that you dont know?!

I can speak from sad, sad experience here.

Similar experience here. I was in college, a junior if I recall correctly, and I was in a class with "maintenance" in the name (Exercise Science major). I was absolutely certain that it was spelled "maintainance", since you maintain something. I thought they were all idiots!

And then one day I saw a notice on the board with "maintenance" on it, and a person I trusted was the author of the memo, so I looked it up. Ugh.

What's sad is that no one told me, despite using it on many papers!

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!

The proper way to say it is new-klee-ar. Or maybe new-klee-er.

When saying it the wrong way, it comes out as newk-you-ler. Also possible to write it out new-kew-ler, depending on how you hear the k placement (that's a whole 'nother thread, though...where the K is heard).

But the important part is using the sounds of the letters that are in the word...new-klee-er instead of letters that aren't in the word when saying new-kew-ler. (kew = Q if that wasn't clear)

The other was saying "whenever" instead of "when." My own dd does this and it makes me bananas--I'm constantly correcting her but all her friends say it. For example, "Whenever I went to the grocery store, I bought some eggs."

I noticed you live in Michigan, but you used to live in New Mexico. Was your daughter born or mainly raised in Michigan? If so, it's probably just a regional thing. Unless they buy eggs every single time they go to the store!


Example of that is "might could", which I heard all the time in South Carolina (and I quite like it as well, and use it sometimes to express something that other words don't express).

Another example was from friends from western Pennsylvania...I knew them in chiropractic school, so a common sentence that I might say is "I need to be adjusted". But they would say "I need adjusted". The whole "to be" part of the phrase was just dropped right off.

And your daughter's use of whenever sounds to me like those examples.


I really love "might could" and think it should become part of proper English!

 

[HoneyBee06]

Ok. You know you put "R" and I am guessing you meant N?????

Just to be sure, there is not an "r" in couch, or an "n" either.

Haha...yes...I meant N. I was doing about 50 other things while typing that post.