Things people say that annoy you...

[TinkBoo&ElliesMum]

Drives me nuts when people use seen instead of saw. I have this urge to bang my head on the wall every time I hear someone say "I seen ......"

UGH!

 

[Diva of Dragons]

Hi!
I haven't been around the DIS in ages, so I want to say hello before I list my language peeves!! You have covered a lot of them already but here are some more.

1) REALTOR: Real-uh-tor instead of Real-tor

2) JEWELRY: JewLERy instead of Jew-el-ry

3) Most importantly...adding the ly doesn't increase its importance.

4) EXpresso...even people who sell it, don't seem to know there is no X in Espresso.

5) Death instead of deaf...One is a hearing problem, the other is much more serious.

6) Sim-yoo-lar instead of Similar

7) The word "outage", as in power outage...huh? What's wrong with power failure? When the power is restored, do we call it an inage or an onage?? I just don't get this one and it is so widely used by everyone, especially on T.V.

8) Written peeve: Everyday as one word when it should be two (or vice versa).
ie...Sunrise is an everyday occurence. and, The sun rises every day.
I see a lot of.. Every day low prices when it be should Everyday low prices.

9) The latest craze of adding a preposition to the end of every sentence.....
"Where are you at?" ..."I painted it up."...."I changed it out."

O.K., I know it's a lot but Mom was an English major/Lingusitics M.A. So, it's in the blood. The ones that don't bother me are the "Missouruhs" and "warshes" etc.. because they are linguistic norms for their regions.... O.K., it bugs me if someone isn't from those regions but does it anyway!! LOL!!

 

[MariettaC]

acrossed?????

 

[marlasmom]

One of the worst - "prolly" instead of probably - and I see it here all the time. I agree with all the rest except for the Missouri dialect. And I hate it when people end a sentence with a preposition. My DH does it all the time and it makes my teeth ache.

 

[Kitty 34]

Using see and saw and come and came incorrectly drives me nuts!

 

[MeanLaureen]

Ughhh a lot of these really get to me. Most of these I find when I am hiring people for work.

I hate to hear the word AXE instead of asked.

I get a lot of applications for employment and in the space where they are to write the reason they decided to apply for a job with us, the most common response is "I seen the sign in the window". Oh yeah, I'm calling you back in for an interview - NOT!

I hate when they use the word GOT in place of HAVE. "Do you GOT a pen?"

Double negatives! Sometimes even triple negatives! "I ain't got none neither" (Can you tell my applicant pool needs more chlorine?)

One word that drives nails through my ears is when people pronounce SCHEDULE like SHEDYOUAL. For all I know it might be a proper pronounciation. I pronounce it SKEDUAL.

 

[Cinderellagrl]

This is probably a local thing...

The car went dawn (down) the mawntin (mountain), say?

The people around here have a bad habit of adding "say" to the end of a statement/question. I even catch myself doing it every once in awhile...yikes...I guess b/c I've grown up around it.

 

[jpd3]

"At this time." What a waste of three words.

 

[jrydberg]

I could care less -- which means you do care at least a small amount.

 

[DMickey28]

axe for ask
ain't for isn't
don't for doesn't


and when people pronouce theater as "The Ater" What is that?????

I am sure there are more.... My friend does the Warsh and I always make fun of her....

 

[ncgolfer]

I love to hear people say their going to "The Walmarts". I sometimes ask how many are you going too.

 

[MosMom]

"I don't mean to be a pain" and then they proceed to be a pain.

 

[KMH1]

I co-taught with a social studies teacher who had horrible grammar skills. As an English teacher, I would flinch whenever he mangled something. I tried never to embarrass him in front of our students, but some of them grumbled about it too.

The one that got to me the most was eXspecially instead of especially. GRRRR!

Amy

 

[SC Minnie]

Pacific instead of specific. Drives me crazy. I was on a conference call this morning and a woman kept saying 'pacifically'.

Broke instead of broken as in-- My arm is broke.

Another one-- set instead of sit. I just had an email stating that a truck was 'setting' somewhere.

 

[spb999]

Using "myself" instead of "me"..... I see it used often in business communication and it makes me cringe..... " if you have any questions, please contact Bill or myself" ....it's "Bill or me"....... I've also seen memos that say "contact myself".......drives me nuts!

 

[gopherit]

Ughhh a lot of these really get to me. Most of these I find when I am hiring people for work.

One word that drives nails through my ears is when people pronounce SCHEDULE like SHEDYOUAL. For all I know it might be a proper pronounciation. I pronounce it SKEDUAL.

Well, it's proper in the UK / Australia, anyway. I lived in Adelaide (Australia) for a year and it took me a while before I figured out what they were talking about! (Who is this Shed Youell, and why is he always so busy and under such monitoring?)

Being in the science field, I had one particular grouse long before the Prez ever came on the scene: nuclear. It's new-clee-ur, not new-que-lar. Ugh. Jeff Foxworthy captures many of the Southern euphemisms: "used ta could" and "yont-to" (want to?) and "djeetyet" (did you eat yet). Heard ALL of those growing up. Just got a message from a coworker in Tennessee: "If you don't care, gimmee a call!" (Hmmm... but if I don't care, why would I bother?) Some folks say, "Hey, if I don't see you again, have a great weekend!" Does that mean I should avoid them for the remainder of the day, so that I have a great weekend? And if I DO see them, will they wish otherwise for me?

Just to prove it's not all "down south", my New York cousins all said "youse guyz". Drove me nuts. My northerly MIL says "antee-BEE-otic" (for antibiotic) -- that one drives me to insanity. She is even trained as a nurse, so go figure.

I do, however, consider myself lucky that nothing thus far has ever driven me to the point of wanting to stab myself in the ears. That image is just way too grisly -- ewwwwww.

 

[MI mom of 3]

but simple grammatical mistakes drive me crazy, too. I used to work with a woman who always said (among other things) "seen" in place of "saw," e.g. "Oh yeah, I seen that show last night." Absolutely made my skin crawl.

Oh that makes me want to scream!!! I also can't stand the phrase "at this point in time." I don't know why, but it is like nails on a chalkboard for me.

 

[Winka]

I don't pretend to be perfect but here goes:

When otherwise educated people don't know when or how to apply the subject and object pronouns 'I' and 'me'.

Drives me batty.

 

[Deb in IA]

I don't pretend to be perfect but here goes:

When otherwise educated people don't know when or how to apply the subject and object pronouns 'I' and 'me'.

Drives me batty.

Me too. As in, "Please pray for DH and I" -- when it should be "Please pray for DH and ME."

 

[Winka]

Bless you, Deb. BLESS YOU! Lol.