When people use words that aren't even words...

[Hedy]

I hate people who say:
Delish
Sammie or sammich
And who drop the h in huge or human.

 

[floridafam]

Cousint. Last time I checked, there wasn't a t at the end of cousin.

I sometimes say Q-pon but it drives dh nuts as he says coo-pon.

My mom and dad say dishwarsher.

 

[pigletz]

Half of the people at the school where I teach say liberry including the principal. It drives me crazy. The principal also can't pronounce math so her announcements come out sounding like "Would all the maff teachers meet in the liberry?". It makes me want to scream. I also can't stand "seen" when it's used wrong as in "I seen you at the mall yesterday". My students last year had a habit of saying I'm am instead of just I am. No matter how many times I told them that they were actually saying I am am they just kept insisting that it was correct. Thankfully, I haven't heard yet this year.

 

[kennancat]

I used to be guilty of "alblum" until DH forced me to correct it.

And I'm surprised that no one's mentioned our Boston friends when they "paak their caas"

 

[PrincessTiff]

"Can i AXE you something?"

 

[Alaska Catdog]

My mom was raised in "Warshington DC" but has since moved to "Washington" State. When she is trying to pin you down on a topic she wants to know "pacifically" what you mean to say.

My boss loves reading because it increases his vocabulary and he learns all sorts of "monosylabic" words, you know, the really big ones.

My roommate in college would always join me for "breskfast" after a late night at the local pub.

I once tried to to buy a convection oven at sears but the salesman there insisted they only had "confection" ovens in stock and since I'm not much of a baker I got my convection oven elsewhere.

but my favorite of all is my DH who hates it when he forgets to take out the meat to "de-thaw" while we are at work (as luck would have it either way the meats frozen when we get home).

 

[Hixski]

Instead of breaKfast, DH says "breafast". Leaves out the "K" every single time. You'd think it'd get less irritating after 15 years, wouldn't you?

Another irritating one: I "seen" that movie or whatever. It's have seen or saw, Darling Husband, please say it correctly once before I die!

My cousin says breafkast. As in I didn't type this wrong but breaf-kast. She is 47 like me and has been saying this since she could talk.

 

[Buckalew11]

Ideal for idea. That drives me nuts.

I am guilty of some of these, LOL. I often end sentences with prepositions. Sorry to all I offend. (Don't worry, I speak that way also!)

 

[DeterminedOne]

Half of the people at the school where I teach say liberry including the principal. It drives me crazy. The principal also can't pronounce math so her announcements come out sounding like "Would all the maff teachers meet in the liberry?".

Thanks guys! This thread had me LOL with tears streaming down my face. I laughed so hard on the above I could hardly catch my breath. Thanks!

 

[Caropooh]

I'm amazed at the number of people here in the Seattle area that call the big aerospace company located here, "Boeings." I don't know about all of them, but I'm quite sure that I work for "Boeing."

 

[Hixski]

My MIL says eye-talian for Italian. She asked us to get her some eye-talian dressing at the store. DH started laughing and said "Mom do those eye-talians live in eye-taly". She is 92 and told DH he better watch it because she is not so old that she can't still smack him.

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

prime example:

New York on Flavor of Love(i watched the recap) when she said something about Flav being "beneful" For her.............***?? what does that even mean??

 

[LindsayDunn228]

prime example:

New York on Flavor of Love(i watched the recap) when she said something about Flav being "beneful" For her.............***?? what does that even mean??

That show is the ultimate example of bad grammer and speech. It's pathetic. Talk about all of the "axe," "wiff," "w'choo," etc. BLECH!!

 

[SplshMtnLvr28]

It's a word, but I hate it when people are like, "I talk good" or "Will they fit on my feet good". Omigod, even on the internet it makes you sound like a hillbilly!

 

[lulu71]

My butcher, when talking about steak, always recommends the ones with better "marvelling."

DH says "Vietmanese." I ask him if he means people or things from Vietman?

He also says, when referring to places, that they are "off" whatever street they are actually on. You know, like that restaurant that is off Canal Street? No, it is ON Canal Street, honey.

My dad says avrocado instead of avocado.

 

[ncbyrne]

2 that get me are prolly (probably)

and when people pronounce calamari

CAL A MARY instead of gal a maad

LOL....I live in an area heavily populated with Italians. Drives me nuts when I hear the REAL pronounciations of food items, as the one you quoted. How in the world are Americans (without an Italian grandma) supposed to know that? Another is cavatelli...gavadeel? Yeah right...to me, it is and always will be, ka-va-tel'-ly...or mozzarella...what happened to the "a"? Go ahead, flame me, I can take it...I'm a square head, I'm Swedish (or maybe I say Sveedish?)

My biggest pet peeve is the Ebonic jargon!! "Where you at?" "I be home."
WHY oh WHY do business managers give people with poor grammar a job answering the telephone?

 

[JCJRSmith]

Another e-mail from him started with, "Hey, don't shoot me. I'm just the massager."

Words to live by: Don't shoot the masseur

 

[JNorris]

My husband says "posed to" instead of "supposed to" (I'm not posed to do it, you are!).

He also says "Wal-Mark".

I have several friend that pronounce "picture" as "pitcher". Drives me nuts!

I used to have a boss that was the king of mis-pronunciation:
Instead of Office Depot, he called it "Office Depp-O"
Instead of "invisible", he called it "invincible"

 

[JCJRSmith]

Well, we had better start correcting folks. We should nip these in the butt right away.

That one makes me want to scream loud and long

 

[cybrkitn]

I don't like to hear 'flustrated' it is either flustered or frustrated!

LOL! I'm guilty of doing that. I start out wanting to say one word and at the last second, change it. So it comes out as a combined word.