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

[Linnie The Pooh]

I just thought of a few my family says:

Skyool instead of school
deeshes instead of dishes
deevorce instead of divorce (makes sense, see above)

My friend lived on Custer Street but always called it Custard. Drove me nuts.

My mom pronounces diabetes like dia bee tus.
I call an attorney a lawyer, as in loy-yer. She calls it a law-yer as in someone who practices "law." Her pronunciation sounds better to me, but I can't change now, I'm too old.

We had a pastor who always called it a burt-day instead of birthday.

When Princess Di was killed, my friend kept saying it was the fault of the "pots er atzi's." My other friend finally corrected her and she said "papparazi" once, then went back to calling it "pots er atzi's." It reminded me of being hounded by a bunch of Potsie's from Happy Days.

 

[lyzziesmom]

I used to have a pastor who always said "dint" instead of "didn't." It was very distracting!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

My sister misuses words. She grew up with a learning disability. She can often catch herself...we just playfully joke when she misuses it though--something along the lines of me saying something followed by her saying shut up---or just beating me to the punch. (mostly when she says nethermind)

She has some issues in writing as well. She can write coherent papers for the most part--but has some word misusage. She works around it very well and her bosses are understanding (She does accounting, so not a whole lot of writing where it would be obvious of her issue). She makes up for it with high attention to detail and thoroughly following through in tasks.

I'd hate for someone to think she does that on purpose though.

 

[lyzziesmom]

One more:

My mom contantly calls a trash can a "wastepaperbasket" as if it's all one word. She will use this term for ANY trash can, including the big ones in the garage. It makes me crazy!!

She also likes to say "hinder" (with a long I sound, as in high-nder) instead of butt. I hate that one! Hate hate hate!!!

 

[goofygirl]

I am also guilty of saying dia-bee-tus. So is my mom, who has dia-bee-tus.

My mom asked me "Who is Bee-yonse?" She meant singer Beyonce.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I did want to say my mom often uses baby talk/little kid talk and it is so annoying.

She thinks she's being cutesy wootsie--but all of us kids are sick of it. We grew up with some of it--but it has gotten a whole lot worse. She can speak normal---she just chooses sometimes not to "in the name of cuteness".

ICK!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

A pet peeve of mine is when waiters say "and what for drink." My kids have started saying it too. I'm constantly saying "what would you like to drink." Some day they will get it.

DS5 has a speech problem and can't say the C or K sound but we are working in it. Last week he said three with the TH sound, I was so excited!!

My MIL says Cincinnata instead of Cincinnati, and Worchester instead of Wuster (phonically speaking).

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

I used to have a pastor who always said "dint" instead of "didn't." It was very distracting!

Was he related to my dad????? My dad always said "dint."

Has anyone ever heard someone say, "dudn't" instead of "doesn't." As in' "He dudn't like you anymore,"

Lisa Loves Pooh, my DS7 has a disability-it's called auditory processing disorder. He hasn't been formerly diagnosed yet (have to have a language level of approximately a 6 year old's to be formerly diagnosed and he doesn't yet) but we're positive that he has APD. Anyway, his disability causes him to actually hear words/sounds incorrectly. I wonder when people chronically mispronounce words if it's because they have a form of APD. They just don't hear the words like others do. It can also manifest itself in learning disabilities that go undiagnosed and severely impair reading comprehension.

DS will see it's snowing outside and yell, "It's snowman outside." He calls it "sammich" instead of sandwich and others that I can't think of right now. His brain scrambles the words before they leave his mouth.

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

Worchester instead of Wuster (phonically speaking).

Whoa..... wait just a darn minute- so it isn't Wor-ches-ter?? Is Worchestershire sauce pronounced "Wuster Shire???" I always thought it was "Wor-ches-ter-shire." Eek!! I notice I mispronounce a lot of these words people are talking about! I'm appalled at myself.

My brother always says "Pot Por ee" for potpourri. That always makes me smile.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Was he related to my dad????? My dad always said "dint."

Has anyone ever heard someone say, "dudn't" instead of "doesn't." As in' "He dudn't like you anymore,"

Lisa Loves Pooh, my DS7 has a disability-it's called auditory processing disorder. He hasn't been formerly diagnosed yet (have to have a language level of approximately a 6 year old's to be formerly diagnosed and he doesn't yet) but we're positive that he has APD. Anyway, his disability causes him to actually hear words/sounds incorrectly. I wonder when people chronically mispronounce words if it's because they have a form of APD. They just don't hear the words like others do. It can also manifest itself in learning disabilities that go undiagnosed and severely impair reading comprehension.

DS will see it's snowing outside and yell, "It's snowman outside." He calls it "sammich" instead of sandwich and others that I can't think of right now. His brain scrambles the words before they leave his mouth.

Interesting. My mom thought Dyslexia for a bit-asked me if I heard her switch things around--and she didn't do that.

I don't know if she ever got diagnosed formally, but she did have Special Ed classes (sorry if that is not PC--that is basically what it was and what I think her school called it at the time)...this helped her to get additional help in reading and writing.

But it is quite possible--the words she mispronounces, like "nethermind" are almost nonsensical. The words I see here--people are omitting letters or doing phonetic pronunciations of what they think the word is. She doesn't do that.

She did a reading for my wedding and I had to help her b/c she was mispronouncing words all over the place. I trained lectors for my church so did some of those exercises with her...it worked BEAUTIFULLY--until they couldn't locate the reading. And she was soo frazzled...that the word Gazelle that she practiced so hard to say correctly...came out Gazz--ul . The way she had initially processed the word. Poor girl!

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

Whoa..... wait just a darn minute- so it isn't Wor-ches-ter?? Is Worchestershire sauce pronounced "Wuster Shire???" I always thought it was "Wor-ches-ter-shire." Eek!! I notice I mispronounce a lot of these words people are talking about! I'm appalled at myself.

My brother always says "Pot Por ee" for potpourri. That always makes me smile.

Nope it's "wustersheer", my dad is from Massachusetts so we get corrected all the time. Peabody, Mass is not Pea Body either it's Pee- be- dee.

One that's funny is my DS10 used to say ambluyance instead of ambulance. That took about 2 years to break.

I also can not text l8er for later, ur for your, or any of the other short cuts. I have to type them out.

 

[kennancat]

He use to say "brang" instead of "brought".

Oh wow, this brings back a bad memory for me. When I was a kid (probably 8 or 9 years old) I went to the park one day with my mom. I was playing and happened to run into another girl from my nursery school, where I went for after-school care. She came up to me and asked me who had "brung" me to the park. Not even thinking, I first corrected her and said, "brought" and then went on to tell her I was there with my mom. This didn't bother her at all. Her mother turned to me and said in a very nasty way "don't you correct my daughter". I decided that was a good time to leave and go find my mom.

Sometimes I wish I'd replied, "fine, if you want your kid to sound like an idiot, more power to you!"

 

[Brooknwdw]

I didn't read the whole thread..so this may have been mentioned..but here is one of the southern (& sad) slang around here:

Fixin'...like "I'm fixin to go to the store". Instead of GOING to.

My grandmother & grandpa used to say two things that boggled my mind as a child. They would say "pure dee out ole" in one breath... As in "He just puredeeoutole lied!".

And he would say "Well Allswaney!" I figured out later that that was a shortened, country way of saying "Well I'll Swoon" or I'll faint.

 

[Brooknwdw]

Oh & this gets one my nerves: When someone says "kindly" instead of "kind of".....like "I am kindly tired".

My sister adds an S to the word anyway...it is hilarious to hear her say, "Well anyways..."

 

[BernardandMissBianca]

I didn't read the whole thread..so this may have been mentioned..but here is one of the southern (& sad) slang around here:

Fixin'...like "I'm fixin to go to the store". Instead of GOING to.

My grandmother & grandpa used to say two things that boggled my mind as a child. They would say "pure dee out ole" in one breath... As in "He just puredeeoutole lied!".

And he would say "Well Allswaney!" I figured out later that that was a shortened, country way of saying "Well I'll Swoon" or I'll faint.

I lived in GA. for 4 years(and DH is from there) and I still say fixin' to and ya'll. I doubt I will ever get rid of those two words. I also call a shopping cart and a stroller a buggy, another southern term. Oh and don't forget reckon', we say that a lot instead of I guess.

 

[lyzziesmom]

Another one I heard on the radio this morning was "most funnest." As if funnest on its own isn't bad enough, they had to add a most to it.

 

[cybrkitn]

I know someone who says Circus Olay!

I hate hate hate "puter" for computer and "rents" for parents.

Kimya

Our DS4 used to say "puter" before he could pronounce it. Currently, the only thing he has trouble saying is "Mystic Force" (Power Rangers). He calls is "Mystic Forest".

 

[cybrkitn]

merry  [mer-ree]
marry [mar-ee]

Short 'e' vs. short 'a' sound

Unless you are from NY, then they sound very much alike

 

[Dalton5]

Has anybody ever seen the episode of "Just Shoot Me" when Elliot and Finch changed Nina's word of the day calendar?

It was hilarious....

So, to all of your pet peeves...Aren't you being just a tad bitsacockel?

 

[Missamoncus]

"Prolly" instead of "probably". This annoys the heck out of me. DBF uses it all the time and I am ready to smack him one. The word doesn't even make any sense.


That is my biggest peeve. Probably has three syllables, people.