Comments on: Pet Peeves

By: Mockarena

Mockarena — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:36:33 +0000

You know what I love? When posts like this come back from the dead. Thanks ashdyyy for bringing it back.

Here’s one that I’m guilty of saying all the time but which is completely wrong:

That’s a whole nother story.

By: ashdyyy

ashdyyy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:07:58 +0000

Do you know what I really hate? When pepole say “pitcher” instead of “picture”. That drives me crazy!

By: Riding the Short Bus

Riding the Short Bus — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:39:04 +0000

My boss consistenly spells the word Lose (as in lose the sales) as LOOSE!

Seriously I work for him!

By: Jill

Jill — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:39:08 +0000

I can’t stand it when people pronounce ‘realtor’ like this: ‘real-a-tor.’ Grrrr!

By: Crabby

Crabby — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:27:25 +0000

I hate hate HATE when people say kinchen instead of kitchen. My stepfather said it all the time…Thankfully he and my mother divorced.

I also have to agree with what another mocker said about a commonly used phrase in Illinois…probably starting around Peoria…and that’s warsh…I hate hate HATE that! And the further south you go in Illinois, the worse it gets. They use terlit instead of toilet. Or stool instead of toilet. I thought I would need a translator!

By: footprints

footprints — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:54:21 +0000

Erinn- “y’all”…the country folks down here slur everything together. There are folks down here that I have to ask them to repeat themselves several times before I can figure out what they are saying. I’m from somewhere else, I claim no southern-ness.

Another one down here that drives me insane… “Don’t mean to get in your bidniss, but….” (bidniss means business.)
THEN DON’T!!!
folks always lead their getting into your business with that statement

By: Hatchetwoman

Hatchetwoman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:57:15 +0000

Thank you, ER! Glad I brought a little cheer to you!

One more, and then I’ll stop before I start making people sick.

What’s with this truncated English? I can’t stand it — how many of you have heard someone say words to the effect of “We will provide you paper”? It’s missing a word! Where is the word “with”? It’s “We will provide you with paper.” I’m in California, and whenever I attend a meeting, I absolutely know someone will be saying something along these lines.

The reason is that “provide” is a transitive verb in the above example, so it needs an object, which in turn needs a preposition. Even if you were to transpose the sentence, or re-word it, you’d still need a preposition: “We will provide paper for you.”

By: Erinn

Erinn — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:50:05 +0000

Footprints… what is up with “all y’all” (southern thing….)

In New York or Brooklyn it is “youts” instead of just plain you.

Yeah… group therapy!

By: Tammy

Tammy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:31:45 +0000

Synergy. I absolutely hate that word.

By: cobrien

cobrien — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:16:22 +0000

I hate it when people say “if you will” -what does that mean anyway?? If I will what?

And to The Anonymizer 3000-I live in Illinois also but I hear the “warsh” thing more in Indiana.

The thing that drives me nuts here is “I am going BY his house” instead of going TO a place. I catch myself saying it all the time and I hate it!!