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Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: ScaryTooth on Tuesday, August 07, 2007, 07:27:35 PM
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And it's POPULAR, not POPALUR. And it's SPECIFIC, not PACIFIC!
Thats all I got!
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Its PROBABLY, not PROLLY.
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It's CUTLERY, not CUTTLERY.
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Its POLICE, not POE LEASE.
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And it's SPECIFIC, not PACIFIC!
That one drives me insane when people say it wrong.
Its WINDOWS (WINDOZE), not WINDUHS?
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DONT AXE WHY BUT I SOUND POPALUR!
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I've got more of these than I could type in a year.
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It's Microsoft or MS, not Micro$oft or M$ or MicroSuck (that's what she said about keebs and gpw).
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This isn't really the same, but I want to strangle people when they use the term "baby bump" when referring to a pregnant lady. Seriously, this term fills me with rage.
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I think anything even remotely relating to babies fills me with rage, but that's definitely up there on the list, closely following "baby daddy".
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It's jewelry (or accessories) not Bling-Bling..
On that note it's Bling-Bling not Blang-Blang.
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I was interviewed last year at an insurance company, by a black child with name I heard twice and still didn't understand. She axed me a lot of inane questions. Gotta love New York . . .
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expecially, and irregardless both annoy me to no end.
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Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.
Kind of like inflammable. That drives my logic-oriented brain up a fucking wall, even though it isn't actually incorrect.
Inflammable and flammable both mean “combustible.” Inflammable is the older by about 200 years. Flammable now has certain technical uses, particularly as a warning on vehicles carrying combustible materials, because of a belief that some might interpret the intensive prefix in- of inflammable as a negative prefix and thus think the word means “noncombustible.” Inflammable is the word more usually used in nontechnical and figurative contexts: The speaker ignited the inflammable emotions of the crowd.
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I think they should just readjust the spelling of "inflammable" to "enflammable" .. y'know stuff you can enflame!
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I work with a couple black guys, which is weird because they're not related and those two guys represent about 25% of the black population in this city. One's pretty whitewashed, and one's straight from Africa. Like he's here on a soccer scholarship or something and he's been outside of Ghana for like 2 years. No ghetto blacks, and yet neither one can fucking swim. I find that funny...no one else does.
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It's bouganvilla not bong-gan-villa. That always drives me nuts.
hospital not hostipital.
spaghetti not pasgetti.