Pet Peeves

[azurbanclucker]

Maybe my vocabulary is limited to what I use and I need you to expand my knowledge. In some areas the vocabulary is pretty well limited to whomever they are allowed to spend time with, or, the school teacher doesn't know proper english any better than all the rest. It might be the only thing they know.

You encounter this a lot when the person is a non-native English speaker or has grown up in an ESL house where the dominant language is not English. Particularly when they've had to pick it up from someone who's pronunciation is ALSO influenced by the linguistic rules of their mother tongue.

I work closely with a lot of Maltese and Serbian folks every day. English is one of Malta's officially spoken languages, but Maltese is still the native dialect (and evolved from Medieval Sicilian). You can get some funky pronunciations of words based on vowel emphasis in romance languages vs the mutations that made it into English, or just totally different names (Pineapple is one of the great examples of a whack-a-doodle English name change). Serbia is more amusing, because they do the V/W swap common in germanic and slavic language families, so words like "working" and "marvelous" are totally different beasts. We hire folks over there who have excellent comprehension of english and can communicate effectively written and spoken, but sometimes it's still a struggle to talk to one another.

And of course, there are our friends in England, who yell at US to speak proper English, as well...

 

[azurbanclucker]

UGH! I popped a crown! Talk about peeves! GRRRRRRRR

 

[Liz Birdlover]

If the past tense of lead is led,
Why isn't past tense of plead, pled?
When I hear the word pleaded, it just sounds weird.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

They package 8 hot dogs in a pack,
But the hot dog rolls are 6 to a pack.
Is that why the spaghetti & sliced hot dog combo was created?

 

[Isadora]

If the past tense of lead is led,
Why isn't past tense of plead, pled?
When I hear the word pleaded, it just sounds weird.

I've heard people say pled. Is that not an actual word, then?

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I've heard people say pled. Is that not an actual word, then?

Maybe both are acceptable, but I hear pleaded said on the TV shows...sounds odd.

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Peeve...when you find a few particular products you really, really like, and one day, just like that, they stop making them!

 

[azurbanclucker]

Maybe both are acceptable, but I hear pleaded said on the TV shows...sounds odd.

Lets ask Webster:

"

Pleaded vs. Pled​

Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled (or sometimes plead, which is pronounced alike). From the beginning, pled has faced competition from the regular form pleaded, which eventually came to predominate in mainstream British English. Pled was and is used in Scottish English, which is likely how it came to American English. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, pled was attacked by many American usage commentators (perhaps because it was not in good British use). Though still sometimes criticized, it is fully respectable today and both pled (or plead) and pleaded are in good use in the U.S. In legal use (such as “pleaded guilty,” “pled guilty”), both forms are standard, though pleaded is used with greater frequency. In nonlegal use (such as “pleaded for help”), pleaded appears more commonly, though pled is also considered standard."

From:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plead

 

[azurbanclucker]

Peeve...when you find a few particular products you really, really like, and one day, just like that, they stop making them!

RIGHT?

 

[Liz Birdlover]

Products & stuff I really miss!

A penny candy...
looked like the red striped mints but they literally melted in your mouth. No not the ones today, I haven't seen these since early 70s, not a creamy melt but more like a hard cotton candy melt

Cocoa Chanel light body oil spray...was so delicate, this allergy girl could wear it. Also it moisturized lightly, not really a slimy "oil" at all

Earthborn Green Apple & Breck Protein Conditioners...I used to mix them, the light clean smell was amazing & didn't aggravate allergies or weigh down fine, flyaway, straight yet frizz-prone hair, my hair was never so shiny

Climatress...another awesome hair moisturizer, gone forever

Ionax or Ionex Lemon scrub...this was the 1st exfoliation product I'd ever used or even heard of, this was before they even started using the word exfoliation

Shepherd's cream moisturizer...all natural no frills, no allergies, was great stuff

Lipton Peach Tea in the 1 gallon jugs...the tea was a bit too sweet but 1 gal cut with water became 2 gal. The jugs themselves are what I miss most! I only have 8 left & once they're gone, that's it. They hold up well for daily watering chores, mixing the ACV, garlic or oregano etc. Yes there are other gallon jugs out there, but they are flimsy & do not hold up like these have

A big chapstick the dollar stores used to have, they were great, didn't get lost & didn't turn into a melted mess in a hot summer truck

Good ole fashioned monkey bars at a park, playground or school yard...they're all gone! No more free gravity back traction for my aching back. The big metal slides are gone too, as are merry go rounds. Why? We grew up with them & lived through childhood!

I'm sure there's more...y'all chime in!