Horse Throat at the Laundrymat

What mispellings/mispronunciations drive you nuts?

A couple on my hate list are:

Laundrymat (instead of laundromat)
Libary (Library!)

Mustache!
I know it's right but...WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT SPELLS moustache... ;_;

You. Why does everyone forget the "yo" in "you"? >:[

Editra: Nah, the real answer is "definitely". Definitely < Definite < Finite. Not "definately".

Either of those are acceptable spellings of the word, Ki Ki.

They're, there, their.
You're, your.
All right, alright

I also dislike when people refuse to recognize "ain't" as a contraction, even though it is.

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I also dislike when people refuse to recognize "ain't" as a contraction, even though it is.

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Ain't is a contraction of "are is not".

definitely. :monster:

Last night on Desperate Housewives the "perfect" one said wheelbarrel instead of wheelbarrow. I was going to flick her but then I remembered it was the TV.

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Originally Posted by Xaven

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Originally Posted by Bunny

I also dislike when people refuse to recognize "ain't" as a contraction, even though it is.

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Ain't is a contraction of "are is not".

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It is a nonstandard contraction of "am not" and "are not". It is typically used in informal speech and more often used by the uneducated, however, it is still a proper contraction despite most people not understanding this.

The origin of "ain't" is a contraction of "I am not." It became less-than-fashionable when the lower classes began to generalize it's use. Same with the current use of the word "axe" instead of "ask" by the lower classes. "Axe" is actually the originial pronounciation, and it's switched a few times during it's use, but it's current use it by lower classes so it's being rejected by the majority of society.

And then, on the flipside, more and more upper class individuals are over correcting the "He and I" usage when it sometimes should be "He and me" on occassion, and so always saying "I" is fairly standard at this point.

Uh, anyway... This is me avoiding homework.

More so.

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Originally Posted by Ki Ki

Mustache!
I know it's right but...WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT SPELLS moustache... ;_;

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I spell it moustache too.

I say library as lieberry. xD And apparently, my boyfriend and another friend of mine claim that I say mountain wrong. I pronounce it "mowdin" or "mao din" so I was accused of being a communist. ;_;

I have a hard time pronouncing "ask." I say "can I ass you a question?" It's subtle, but still, my whole family really can't pronounce it that well. :p

Haha, a friend of mine (a really smart girl, an English major, which makes this even funnier) says lie-berry instead of library also. I take the piss out of her all the time with it. Example:

"Megan, are we going to the lie-berry later?"
"No, FRIEND, I was gonna go to the truth-berry after class. It's a better berry."
"I hate you so much."
"Yeah, it's worth it, though."

I love it when people spell grammar as grammer.

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Originally Posted by fire_of_avalon

Haha, a friend of mine (a really smart girl, an English major, which makes this even funnier) says lie-berry instead of library also. I take the piss out of her all the time with it. Example:

"Megan, are we going to the lie-berry later?"
"No, FRIEND, I was gonna go to the truth-berry after class. It's a better berry."
"I hate you so much."
"Yeah, it's worth it, though."

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Oh god. xDDD I'm so lucky no one has ever done that to me yet.

DAR-BEE - derby >:( if it wants to be pronounced darby then dont spell it derby :(

Im always spelling another as 'anouther' I seriously don't know why ;___; Its just something Ive grown up doing.

Oh oh oh!

Colour for color.

GET WITH THE TIMES FOLKS CHAPS. And while you're at it, stop using the metric system.

Thanks for reminding me, Zeldy. You're perfect just the way you are.

Oh I'm sorry, is my history wrong? Was it the Americans that were using the language first and colonised England, and it's the English who have messed around with it?

Silly me. I'd better go give myself thirty lashings.

Oh yeah. I hate it when people use "to" instead of "too", and when people write "fourty". DROP THE DAMN U.

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

DROP THE DAMN U.

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That's all I'm saying, Mr. Quin.

I knew I'd regret saying that. ;)

It's not to late to take it back!

(SPOILER)hehehe

NEVER! I EMBRACE OUR CONFUSING EXCEPTIONS!

That's another thing. You wear BRACERS on your arms, and BRACES on your torso/teeth. If anyone says they're getting BRACERS I'll slap them. Unless, of course, they are actually buying bracers. In which case I salute them, because most people look like idiots when they wear them.

I have never heard someone mistake the two of those in all of my long years. I have heard people mistake acception for exception though.

That's just giggly-fun.

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Originally Posted by Ki Ki

Mustache!
I know it's right but...WHY AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT SPELLS moustache... ;_;

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You're not :mad2:

I did have one, but I forgot what it was. :monster:

BoLth

It is both. There never was, and never will, be a cursed L in the word both.

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Originally Posted by Nominus Experse

Bolth

It is both. There never was, and never will, be a cursed L in the word both.

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I actually have one friend who pronounces a number of O sounds like that (phone, home, stone, &c.). She voices it too far back in her throat and it ends up sounding like a cross between a Boston accent and a warble.

And more on topic, the malapropisms that agonize me the most are the usual ones--your, their, bla bla bla.

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Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill

I love it when people spell grammar as grammer.

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You suck the red pill. I was going to say that one.

OK, um... how about this:

First of all i don't watch the english verson anymore because of Joey's crush on Mai episodes fusied into one they skipped the 1st season on how the 4 met and they even edit Yugi's mother forceing us to think Mai is his mother. and second you are not thread started and to not a joke it is a what if.

I know it's not a prime example but, hey, it's darn funny.

"Hey guys, I had an ideal!"

Calm, when people say cawlm instead of keeping the L silent, and saying calm. It just infuriates me. Everyone who tells me to cawlm down gets thrown through the window.

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Originally Posted by Odaisé Gaelach

Calm, when people say cawlm instead of keeping the L silent, and saying calm. It just infuriates me. Everyone who tells me to cawlm down gets thrown through the window.

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I've never heard anyone say calm with a silent L. In any case, according to m-w.com, both pronunciations are acceptable.

Not that it drives me nuts or anything, but I always spell check (as in those pieces of paper tied to your ban account) c-h-e-q-u-e. I find it weird when people do not spell it that way.

'Per say' is a misspelling that bothers me a little, but it's not too bad.

The mispronunciation of 'Antarctica' as 'Anardica' really gets to me, though. So many letters left out or changed.

Loose is the opposite tight.
Lose is the opposite of gain.
Get it straight.

That's my biggest complaint aside from the regulars (to, too, two, etc.).

Oh, I forgot the word draw. It's not drawl! The L sound at the end makes people sound like they're 4 years old. :D

when people around here pronounce toronto without the second T...so it sounds like TORONNO

One day I sat down and learnt the difference between your and you're. It took me 30 seconds and now I always get it right if I have the energy.

I think you're all bitches. :D

Leet speek always burns me up :mad2:

1 t0t477y n0 w4t u m33n.

I'm a horrid speller, and thank god Firefox added a auto spell check to the quick reply option. ^_^

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

1 t0t477y n0 w4t u m33n.

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Ack, bad spelling and leet speak.

BAD QUIN BAD

It's a heart condition. Whenever I see the word leet 1 4m 4sd 2 5p33k liek d1s.

I'm a grammar nazi and a human dictionary/thesaurus. Pretty much EVERYTHING gets on my nerves.

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

It's a heart condition. Whenever I see the word leet 1 4m 4sd 2 5p33k liek d1s.

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So then why wasn't the first part of your post in leet speak? This is not a very good heart condition, Quinny. You are bad at this.

Fora, not forums. Get it right, people.

You were waiting for it.

People say "I could care less...." when they mean "I couldn't care less..."

I used to know a couple of kids who would spell usually like "ushully"

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

People say "I could care less...." when they mean "I couldn't care less..."

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no see that's sarcasm.

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Originally Posted by Odaisé Gaelach

Calm, when people say cawlm instead of keeping the L silent, and saying calm. It just infuriates me. Everyone who tells me to cawlm down gets thrown through the window.

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Cawlm dowm

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Originally Posted by rubah

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

People say "I could care less...." when they mean "I couldn't care less..."

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no see that's sarcasm.

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It can be sarcasm, and that would be a correct usage of the phrase. However, it's often used literally as a declarative statement, and thus incorrectly.

How's that telepathy going for you?

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

Oh I'm sorry, is my history wrong? Was it the Americans that were using the language first and colonised England, and it's the English who have messed around with it?

Silly me. I'd better go give myself thirty lashings.

Oh yeah. I hate it when people use "to" instead of "too", and when people write "fourty". DROP THE DAMN U.

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Americans use a form of English closer to the "original" (Insofar as there is one) than the English currently do. :monster:

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Originally Posted by Yamaneko

How's that telepathy going for you?

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It's good. It has to be, because obviously it's completely impossible to tell when someone's saying something sarcastic otherwise!

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Originally Posted by outlaw starwind

Cawlm dowm

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I don't know which one's worse: the beginning "Cawlm", or the "dowm" that followed it.

Either way, Mr. Boomstick and myself want to talk to you about something. C'mere...

"For all intents and purposes" goes through some fairly impressive transformations sometimes. [q=Yams]How's that telepathy going for you?[/q]Something I've always found slightly odd... telekinesis and psychokinesis are more or less identical, yet a telepath and a psychopath are glaringly different.

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

It's a heart condition. Whenever I see the word leet 1 4m 4sd 2 5p33k liek d1s.

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So then why wasn't the first part of your post in leet speak? This is not a very good heart condition, Quinny. You are bad at this.

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I didn't see the word leet unt17 1 r03t 1t.

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

People say "I could care less...." when they mean "I couldn't care less..."

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I always stick with the special: "I could care less, but it would take effort that, quite frankly, you don't deserve. Now shut up, and leave me alone."

Jehova's Witnesses hate that one.

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

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Originally Posted by Bunny

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Originally Posted by Quin 'n' Tonic

It's a heart condition. Whenever I see the word leet 1 4m 4sd 2 5p33k liek d1s.

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So then why wasn't the first part of your post in leet speak? This is not a very good heart condition, Quinny. You are bad at this.

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I didn't see the word leet unt17 1 r03t 1t.

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Seems like your condition has a condition of it's own. That condition being that it is blind.

I woke up this mornin with the sundown shinin in
I found my mind in a brown paper bag within
I tripped on a cloud and fell-a eight miles high
I tore my mind on a jagged sky
I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in

AAACHOO! Oh dear, I seem to have become allergic to your posts. It must be all the dust that has collected when intelligence left.


Damn that was weak, but I'm tired and hungry so leave me alone.

Oh come on I used Kenny Rogers. That's worth like two points at least.

Only in your twisted world.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

It became less-than-fashionable when the lower classes began to generalize it's use.

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One misspelling I can't help but notice is people using "it's" instead of "its", or vice versa.

Also, misspelling misspelling is amusing. Good job Martyr.

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I always stick with the special: "I could care less, but it would take effort that, quite frankly, you don't deserve. Now shut up, and leave me alone."

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That is acceptable.

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

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I always stick with the special: "I could care less, but it would take effort that, quite frankly, you don't deserve. Now shut up, and leave me alone."

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That is acceptable.

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Excellent.

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Originally Posted by Kikyo

I'm a grammar nazi and a human dictionary/thesaurus. Pretty much EVERYTHING gets on my nerves.

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I'm exactly the same.

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Originally Posted by Raistlin

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I always stick with the special: "I could care less, but it would take effort that, quite frankly, you don't deserve. Now shut up, and leave me alone."

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That is acceptable.

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I could care less.