An interesting word misuse that I see often here on the edge of Dixie is "ideal" in place of "idea." I have not been able to decipher the thought processes of the miscreants, but chalk it up to ignorance.
Ooh, that one drives me nuts! Something that also drives me nuts isn't necessarily grammar or an usage error, it's when people say "warsh" instead of "wash." My mom does it and some other people I know that came from Michigan (and Colorado) say it, but it seriously makes my skin crawl much like nails on a chalkboard.
That made me laugh out loud. My husband is from the south, and I have to give him a hard time about how he says some things...adding the 'R' sound to the end of a word seems to be a common theme for him..."warsh", "yeller", etc. After 16 years, I still look at him like, did you really just say that?
Yup, I've given up on saying, "Mom, there is no "r" in wash." It's pointless!
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” Stuart Chase
An interesting word misuse that I see often here on the edge of Dixie is "ideal" in place of "idea." I have not been able to decipher the thought processes of the miscreants, but chalk it up to ignorance.
Ooh, that one drives me nuts! Something that also drives me nuts isn't necessarily grammar or an usage error, it's when people say "warsh" instead of "wash." My mom does it and some other people I know that came from Michigan (and Colorado) say it, but it seriously makes my skin crawl much like nails on a chalkboard.
That made me laugh out loud. My husband is from the south, and I have to give him a hard time about how he says some things...adding the 'R' sound to the end of a word seems to be a common theme for him..."warsh", "yeller", etc. After 16 years, I still look at him like, did you really just say that?
“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.” Ralph Marston
We also had kids bring in vocabulary lists that their teacher's had typed and photocopied. One list had 40% of the words misspelled on it. We didn't see the list at first. The child asked for a dictionary, we gave it to him down and he looked up the words. Then the child came to the desk and said he couldn't find some of the words. That was because none of those words were in any dictionary. These were not typos either. The words were just misspelled.
Several years ago, in an intentionally un-named city, as an exec in one of the large ad agencies in town, I was asked to address a HS Extended Education (read "work study") business class on how ads are made.
The speech went fine.
Two days later, I received a thank you note from the teacher which read (honestly) "Us at Westfield would apprecieate thanks you for comming to our class." (all spellings as in note.)
THE TEACHER!!
HIGH SCHOOL!!
Democrats think the glass is half full. Republicans think the glass is theirs. Libertarians want to break the glass, because they think a conspiracy created it.
There is one thing that drives me up a wall and that is "liberry" for library. It bothers me the most for staff to do that. Where I work now, we don't have anyone who does that. In my last library, we had a manager who did that and whenever she answered the phone I cringed.
One of our former library assistants became a teacher. She always mutilated the English language and was voted Teacher of the Year. This bothered me to no end because she teaches second graders whose brains are still changing and developing on a linguistic level. I think good English is most important in the early grades. That is when language is acquired for life.
An interesting word misuse that I see often here on the edge of Dixie is "ideal" in place of "idea." I have not been able to decipher the thought processes of the miscreants, but chalk it up to ignorance.
Ooh, that one drives me nuts! Something that also drives me nuts isn't necessarily grammar or an usage error, it's when people say "warsh" instead of "wash." My mom does it and some other people I know that came from Michigan (and Colorado) say it, but it seriously makes my skin crawl much like nails on a chalkboard.
"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible." George Chakiris
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.” Stuart Chase
CB- Mom was an English teacher, and misspellings grate on me no end---so nope, no "favorites." The one that occurs to me immediately, however, that i REALLY hate, is "loose" instead of "lose." i honestly have a hard time squelching my desire to go all schoolmarmish on people, and just let 'em be themselves. And just as honestly, there are days when i simply cannot resist. Warmest regards- Hatman
i resist that temptation too, Hat. I've even been told that only loosers worry about spelling errors.
I don't worry about them too much, and in fact I feel good when I see things like the graffoetus (this was real) that said "If its to loud your to old."
I'd rather be to old than to illiterate.
My favourites are always homonyms (I think they should be called homophones) errors.
King Charles I sat upon the thrown.
I could here her sighs all the way across the room.
...--or--...
I could hear her size all the way across the room.
Three of a kind beats two pears.
My doctor said my vanes were to close together. She said I had very close vains.
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