Pet Peeves

[Buckeye Amy]

My DH says Illinoise. Pronouncing the S! (My toes are curling as I write this, lol!) The Catholic nuns in my elementary school really beat that sort of thng out of us! Along wth Lie-berry, of course.

But the one that actually gets a physical reaction out of me is: co-conspirator. It curls my toes, makes me shudder, and I actually yelp when I hear it! I can't help it! You even hear it on the news from people who should know better.

The one that gets me is "disassociative". That word doesn't exist. It's "dissociative". Same for "incidences" which is very rarely correct. "Incidents" is usually the correct word.

Something I recently learned to help me remember the correct use of "affect" versus "effect".
Affect = verb
Effect = noun

And just because...I live near the Davis Besse Nuclear Power Plant, which is not pronounced "New-cue-ler" despite what "W" says.

 

[Love Donkeys]

Railroad crossings! When you drive over them they knock the heck out of your vehicle!

 

[Buckeye Amy]

Railroad crossings! When you drive over them they knock the heck out of your vehicle!

 

[talkinboutchickens]

One of our dogs would bop my foot with her cold wet nose.

My problem is the weight of covers on my feet, so they are often outside the covers.

That's totally valid. Also...Just a dog booping it's nose on my foot would scare me haha!

 

[talkinboutchickens]

When I was a teen, I would pronounce "hors d'oeuvres" like "whores de ovaries". No one corrected me for a very long time because they probably had no idea what I was trying to say.

OMG THAT'S HILARIOUS I'M LITERALLY STILL LAUGHING

 

[talkinboutchickens]

My DH says Illinoise. Pronouncing the S! (My toes are curling as I write this, lol!) The Catholic nuns in my elementary school really beat that sort of thng out of us! Along wth Lie-berry, of course.

But the one that actually gets a physical reaction out of me is: co-conspirator. It curls my toes, makes me shudder, and I actually yelp when I hear it! I can't help it! You even hear it on the news from people who should know better.

I met a lady from Maryland on a cruise and she pronounced "Michigan" as "mitch-uh-ginn" instead of "mish-uh-ginn".

 

[ShrekDawg]

My mom called them "horses ovaries".

OMG THAT'S HILARIOUS I'M LITERALLY STILL LAUGHING

The above killed me too hahaha

 

[talkinboutchickens]

How to pronounce
"hors d'oeuvres" .
You say it:

Or durvz.

Try to keep up.

ahh I didn't even know that that word is a word I already knew. I thought it was spelled "orderves".

 

[BigBlueHen53]

ahh I didn't even know that that word is a word I already knew. I thought it was spelled "orderves".

You're welcome.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

It's French.