Strange phrases or misuse of the english language...can you give some examples?

Question

I'll get everyone started with some examples...

- " Gone Missing" - doesn't this sound strange? "Bob has gone missing again".
- "Them are" - Them are some nice lookin' pigs you got there Jeb.

Give it a shot...

Answer 1

I live in the south and we have tons of weird phrases down here.

BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint herd from him in munts."

IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - noun. A tool.
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck my brother from Jawjuh
bard a few munts ago."

ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

FAR - noun. A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my pickup truck, that things
gonna catch far."

BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git back to work, your bahs is
gonna far you!"

TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git a flat tar in my pickup
truck."

TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see that Eiffel Tire in
Paris sometime."

HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.
HOD - adverb. Not easy.
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."

RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65."

TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."

LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."

FARN - adjective. Not local.
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some farn country."

Answer 2

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Answer 3

These are examples of Southern dialect, which are almost always grammatically incorrect.

"Gone Missing" = missing
"Done gone" = gone
"Them are" = those are
"Ain't" = aren't


Here's a cute joke that uses these same types of language - see if you can "figger it out":

M R Snakes
M R not
M R 2
C M B D I's
L I B
M R Snakes

Answer 4

Have you ever seen the signs at Wal Mart or Albertson's that say 10 ITEMS OR LESS
on them? Well, technically, it's 10 ITEMS OR FEWER.
I don't know how that misconception got started.

PS- My high school mascot was THE ELKS (Elk plural is Elk).

Answer 5

"Gone missing" is a British phrase and though it may sound strange I don´t think it´s grammatically incorrect because it´s an idiom.

A few misuses that bug me are "So don´t I" instead of "So do I", "alright" instead of "all right" and "a couple minutes" instead of "a couple OF minutes".

Answer 6

hide out doesn't make much sense to me.

let us (like, let's go to the park), it's like you're asking permission

turn it on (turn on the tv), i guess that's from the days when yout turned stuff on with a dial, but still, you think we could change.

I also think the word cannot is confusing, because it can be cannot or can not, and it doesn't make a difference. Oh there's another one. make a difference.

drive me crazy.
hang around.
fall down-pretty much redundant. it's not like you're going to fall in any other direction, is it?

Answer 7

My favorite is "Continue on" umm, continue means 'to go on' so, actually, they're saying 'go on on' which is funny. I live in NYC, I hear a lot of misuse and abuse of the word 'be',and it's conjugations. My pet peeve "I been had it" huh??? Idiocy is not cool, no matter what you label it.

Answer 8

Military intelligence
Jumbo shrimp
Boneless Ribs
"peace without honor"

Answer 9

people seem to get the words loose and lose mixed up alot

Answer 10

******** ......thats some nice blow you got there jeb ..job