I think my BIGGEST pet peeve these days is the butchering of the English language. "Especially" is the worst pronounced word today. I always want to say: "Look at how it is spelled!!!" But then I think, they probably don't know that either!
Even on TV...regular shows...NOT reality TV...people you would expect to be educated don't know how to speak properly.
I know this isn't a questions...so...
What is YOUR pet peeve in how people butcher the English language???
2006-12-09 12:43:36 · 14 answers · asked by Cinna 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Here are a few of mine:
no: We had went to a party.
yes: We had gone to a party. Or, We went to a party.
(Do you think she should have went?)
no: She hasn't got her diploma yet.
yes: She hasn't gotten her diploma yet.
(Do you think she should have got her diploma?)
no: I'll call the real-a-ter.
yes: I'll call the real-tor.
no: I'm afraid I'll loose it.
yes: I'm afraid I'll lose it.
(Ya think she'll lose it if she looses it?)
no: There's plenty of people who know English.
yes: There are plenty of people who know English.
ATM machine? Automatic Teller Machine Machine?
PIN number? Personal Identification Number Number?
I could care less about what people think about my grasp of the English language. Oops, I mean I COULDN'T care less about what people think...
And when did these words become so popular?
-diddint, wouldant, couldant, shouldant...
"Irregardless," these are some of my expecially annoying pet peeves, because you axed me. :-)
Peace.
2006-12-09 19:16:16 · answer #1 · answered by Luna 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
that is purely how some human beings pronounce the words. It does not mean they at the instant are not knowledgeable. (I also have a school degree and use suitable grammar, and that i nonetheless say "ex-cape.") I often attempt to forget approximately approximately little issues including "pitza" for pizza (which i'm responsible of too), "warter" for water, and "chimley" for chimney. you could attempt to dazzling them. It does not mean you will injury their habit. they won't be too chuffed with you the two. by using ways, this may well be an odd question coming from somebody who's Yahoo! id is "poyzin."
2016-10-18 01:08:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I feel the same way about the word "asked". It is not pronounced "axed"!
Another thing that bothers me is when people say things like "I will be there at 6 am in the morning." That's a little redundant isn't it? I've heard advertisements saying similar things.
2006-12-09 12:49:50 · answer #3 · answered by margarita 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How about the abuse of the word "it's"???
Then there is the word "nuclear" -- I'm a Republican, but I fear that Dubya has changed the word to "nuke you lahr" forever.
And then there is the belief that the "N" word is somehow appropriate and cool if you end the word in "gga" instead of "gger".
2006-12-09 12:53:19 · answer #4 · answered by geek49203 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I think the funniest one is how Bush says (or maybe it was just once) "new-cular" for "nuclear" but not that he said it. What's great is that my US government teacher is always talking about how dumb Bush is, and then he says nuclear the same way! I got a big kick out of the irony in that one.
2006-12-09 13:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by APenny 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People that repeat questions (questions which have already been asked multiple times on this site, mind you) just to include some other tidbit of information that no one cares about annoy me. Nevermind that this repeating is against the guidelines.
2006-12-09 12:46:05 · answer #6 · answered by Belie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Summary executions would solve the problem of this ongoing assault upon the Queens English.Nuclear annihilation of America may not be to extreme a start.
2006-12-09 12:59:07 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ask is not axed!!! You cannot say "you was there" it is "you were there." I can't think of anymore right now but, it drives me crazy to hear people speak like that!! I wonder if they realize how ignorant they sound??
2006-12-09 12:54:55 · answer #8 · answered by catrustie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a New Yorker and many NYer's (not me) constantly say "like." Not just girls but big men, say something simular to this "I was like in big trouble, ya know?" ITS SO ANNOYING!
2006-12-09 13:02:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How Social Security is changed into sosecurity.
2006-12-09 12:47:33 · answer #10 · answered by DRAGON LADY 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋