Mispronunciations, misspellings, and...

[Larry Flyntz]

... grammatically incorrect phrases.

What are the five (mis)pronunciations (I added the parentheses because some words actually have multiple pronunciations, but they can still piss you off), misspellings, and grammatically incorrect phrases that you hear or see in everyday life that piss you off the most?

1. Water pronounced "wooder."
2. Crayon pronounced "crown."
3. "Down the shore." The complete absence of the words "at" or "to" really bugs me.
4. "Your" instead of "you're."
5. "There" instead of either "their" or "they're."

[Shire Le Buff]

-"That's/It's ironic"  - when it is only a coincidence.

-"Yes but technically... *THIS* is true" - when technically the original statement was.  

-"Literally" - used in any manner where the phrase that is supposed to be taken "literally" can not be taken any other way. (Example: "I walked to the store.... LITERALLY.")

- Flyntz's threads suck.

- "Ignorant" - It's pretty ironic that this of all words is used so incorrectl, so frequently.

[Larry Flyntz]

I like your #4.

Also, your #3 reminded me of one. "Literally" being used when "figuratively" is meant. "The auditorium was so crowded, people were literally standing on top of each other!" Were they really standing on top of each other? No? Then "literally" should not be used.

[The Ocean]

"Nuclear" pronounced "Nucular." I don't remember ever hearing ANY politician.. EVER, pronounce this word correctly.

"Mischivous" pronounced "mischeeveeous" I just hate it.

"your" vs. "you're"

"its" vs. "it's"

This is kinda related: Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jethro Tull, being refered to as "him."

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

"preventative" vs. "preventive" - I dunno about you guys, but it really bugs me when people add imaginary syllables to words.

"Acame" vs "acme" - on that note, what's with Philadelphia accents?

"wooder" vs. "water" - I'm with Flyntz on this one.  It bugs the fuck out of me, to the point that when people order "wooder" from me at work, I make it a point to repeat back to them "Water?"

"jew-la-rey" vs. "jewelry" - this one goes unnoticed a lot, I think, and its pretty common, but it still bugs me because its not the goddamed word!

 It really bothers me when people make an "sh" sound in words with an "str" in them.  It's slurring your words, which is just fucking lazy.  If you're going to speak, then please do so properly, or please don't do it at all.

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

1. Crik vs. Creek - I haven't chose a side, but seriously, who gives a fuck?...
2. Idear - yeeesh...

[الله أكبر]

5) Use of the word "literally." People liked using it at my high school, so I often heard stuff along the lines of "he got the crap literally kicked out of him!"

4) "Espresso" vs. "Expresso." The letter "s" isn't pronouced as "x" in English, nor in Italian.

3) "Ruff" vs. "Roof." The two o's are there for a reason, dammit.

2) "Ask" vs. "Aks." Seriously, this one is just fucking stupid. Is it that hard to pronouce 3 letters?

1) I had never heard people do this one until I started working at Delancey St. Bagels in Wynnewood. People refrain from using the plural of the word "bagel" when ordering more than one at a time. It is not unusual to say someone like "I'll take 6 pumpernickel bagel, please." Hearing someone say "a dozen bagel" makes me cringe, and there's no end in sight for this silent killer.

[Larry Flyntz]

That's bizarre, I never knew about the non-pluralization of "bagel," but I have noticed that people often pronounce it "begel" instead of "bagel."

[The Ocean]

That's bizarre, I never knew about the non-pluralization of "bagel," but I have noticed that people often pronounce it "begel" instead of "bagel."

People around where I live pronounce it "baggle/baagel"... long "a" sound. It's just re-Goddamn-diculous.

[Larry Flyntz]

How do you pronounce it? Because I pronounce with the long a. Like "bay gull". Well, not "gull," but I couldn't think of a word to better convey the sound. Ooo! Like "bull," but replace the b with a g. Bull and gull don't rhyme, so it does make sense, I think.

[The Ocean]

How do you pronounce it? Because I pronounce with the long a. Like "bay gull". Well, not "gull," but I couldn't think of a word to better convey the sound. Ooo! Like "bull," but replace the b with a g. Bull and gull don't rhyme, so it does make sense, I think.

That makes sense, that is how it should sound. Bay gull.

[oatmeal fetish....]

As far as the Water/Wooder thing I was always under the impression that that was just a case of accent.

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

Well that doesn't make it any less stupid.  I mean, it's still in correct.  The word isn't "wooder."  It's W-A-T-E-R, with an "a."

Okay, I don't have a full list, but this one really bothers me as well. People who say "rum" instead of "room."  If you've never heard this, it's unbelievable.  Espicially because they only use it to refer to their bed room.  Meaning, it would not be very possible to hear the sentence "There's a lot of room in my rum."  How fucking stupid is that?

[Larry Flyntz]

I don't know if the water/wooder thing is an accent, because I know someone who pronounces the last name "Waters" how it should be pronounced but pronounces "water" "wooder." So, they can say water, but for some reason, they think they are right when saying "wooder."

[Rhino......................]

My Drawing II professor pronounced the word "rather" as "rahther." It wouldn't have bothered me if she had a British accent or something, and thus pronounced all of her short A's as if they were short O's, but it was just that one word. And she said it every damn class at least three times. I hated it.

"Meece/Mooses." The plural of "moose" is "moose," jackasses.

"Moneys." Get back on the retard bus. Your stop is somewhere far away from me.

"Ack least" vs. "At least." As far as I know, Steve's the only retard who says it that way. Everyone point and laugh at his inferior attempts to speak.

"Kashyyyk" vs. "Kasheek." Samuel L, buddy. What happened, man? We used to be cool.

[Larry Flyntz]

The whole adding an apostrophe when pluralizing thing really pisses me off. Someone at work wrote "Sharpie's" on a box of sharpies. I thought to my self "A sharpie can possess things? This is news to me!"

[oatmeal fetish....]

If you go up to the northeast everyone calls it "wota." The british call it "wateh." Its not a case of pronouncing it incorrectly, its just their accent.

[Larry Flyntz]

Yeah, I understand that, but in those cases, those accents permeate throughout the speakers' entire vocabularies. People who say "wooder" oftentimes do not mispronounce anything else. That's the only reason I have trouble believing that it is an issue of accents.

[TemporalRift]

In my little shithole of South Jersey nobody uses the letter T if it's in the middle of a word, myself included if I don't think about it, so I pronounce it wader (soft d). Didn't even realize it until I read this thread and said water a few times

[The Ocean]

In my little shithole of South Jersey nobody uses the letter T if it's in the middle of a word, myself included if I don't think about it, so I pronounce it wader (soft d). Didn't even realize it until I read this thread and said water a few times

That's more than a Jersey thing. I notice that people in PA and even California never pronounce Ts in the middle of a word (mountains = moun'ins, pontiac = pon'iac, etc).