Cricket Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Ya'll I can't stand that word. It just makes someone sound so uneducated. I love it! :D Maybe that's because I love listening to my Mississippi cousins talk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SquirrellyMama Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I mean it really is wicked cold here! lol Is the use of "wicked" an Eastern thing. We were just watching snowboarding and my dd asked if they would jump wicked high. I called my dh and asked him who she has been hanging out with and he said, "It must be someone from Boston." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Elf Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 My DH says he hates when people try to make verbs out of nouns or adjectives when there are already appropriate verbs. Recent ones he's heard: configurate - We need to configurate the new servers in the lab. orientate, instead of orient definitize instead of define He also dislikes when people are referred to as resources. He's heard people in his company talk about the number of employees in a particular office as the number of resources there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Especially when they misspell it! Hehehe...glad you said it first! That happens to be my number one *spelling* peeve... Y'all is a contraction, you + all. The apostrophe takes the place of the missing o, u, and space between the words. Now y'all can always spell it correctly. :D Just don't say it, it bugs people.:lol::lol::lol: And it really bugs me when I hear someone use the term y'all to refer to just one person. Hollywood is famous for that. It's ALWAYS plural! It's the Southern plural form of you. So now y'all have had a grammar lesson, too.:smilielol5::smilielol5::smilielol5: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuntieM Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 And one more golden-oldie-groaner from the world of corporate speak: paradigm Ick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Virginia Dawn Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 My college son recently told me he hates it when some people his age say "lol" when something is funny. That is the internet "laughing out loud." Apparently it rhymes with doll. I've never heard it myself, but I can understand how that might be irritating. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Audrey Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 When we were growing up my dad would become irate if we used the word "fart." :lol: Now that I'm grown I think that's pretty funny. What word sends you over the edge? Mine? Nag. I hate that word with a passion! It makes me :cursing: "Ain't" is my mot du mort. I am equally disgusted by ending sentences with prepositions, the incorrect use of who and whom, and any double negatives. I cannot abide hick-talk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 orientate, instead of orient My mother's dictionary from the 1950s offers 'orientate' as a real word, as does my modern Chambers dictionary. I was brought up to see 'orient' as the noun and 'orientate' as the associated verb. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Is the use of "wicked" an Eastern thing. We were just watching snowboarding and my dd asked if they would jump wicked high. I called my dh and asked him who she has been hanging out with and he said, "It must be someone from Boston." It was very popular when we lived in southern New Hampshire years ago, and people we knew from the Boston suburbs used it, too. I'd never heard it in the midwest, though. Well, except dh and I say it, because we pick up weird sayings wherever we live. Ways it was used on New Hampshire: "Watch out, those fries are wicked hot!" "Wow, that car's wicked pisser!" (That one still makes me laugh as one of the weirdest phrases ever.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nono Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Panties. I hate the word panties. Yeah, I don't use it. It sounds so babyish. We call them "unders" in our home. As for a phrase that will send me over the edge, it is "Calm down." Never the phrase to use when I'm sounding excited/agitated/whatever. Like gasoline on a fire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 When we were growing up my dad would become irate if we used the word "fart." :lol: Now that I'm grown I think that's pretty funny. What word sends you over the edge? Mine? Nag. I hate that word with a passion! It makes me :cursing: "I concur"....slap!..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mommyfaithe Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 "Crap" ~ I hate that word and I don't know why. My dh will use it if we're having an argument and he wants me to laugh. He knows I hate it.:tongue_smilie: :iagree: My oldest son uses that one....it makes me cringe! ~~Faithe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 When we were growing up my dad would become irate if we used the word "fart." :lol: Now that I'm grown I think that's pretty funny. All you anti-farters beware of visiting south St. Louis county. Around these parts the number 40 is pronounced "farty". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heidi @ Mt Hope Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Panties. I hate the word panties. :iagree: Although fart is really high on my hate list, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6packofun Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 YES to all corporate speak I see. Actually yes to almost all the posts! I also agree. The word "empower" and all of its forms is SO annoying to me, too. All of the victims out there needing empowering should dialogue about a paradigm shift...in their panties. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splungeman Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I have a few. I hate it when my mom says "warsh" instead of wash.: :iagree: Though my mom would never say that...more like a lot of the older people I deal with at work. :lol: I really don't like "shorty" when used to refer to women. Yeah...on average women are shorter than men. On average men are also physically stronger too, should we go around calling women "weakling" too? :banghead::cursing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pink Fairy Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I thought of another one--dupey. As in, "The baby has a dupey." :ack2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secular_mom Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 poot hiney tinkle titty perfec (they leave out the t) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizabeth Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 "Ain't got none." I absolutely become a crazed grammar ninja upon hearing this phrase. The recent language abomination in our area is the following phrase as an indicator of agreement with the speaker. "I know ,right??" I want to pith myself like a frog when I am forced to hear this phrase. It is astonishing to hear grown adults speak this way. Any word that is descriptive of any racial or ethnic group in a derogatory manner is cringe inducing for the speaker if I am nearby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melissel Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 All you anti-farters beware of visiting south St. Louis county. Around these parts the number 40 is pronounced "farty". :lol: My east-coaster mother loves to tell the story of how she was in St. Louis with my dad and his family, attending his grandmother's funeral. The priest began the service with, "Oh Lard..." She says her head snapped up in horror, until she realized that no one else around her even noticed. After spending another day or so with the extended family, she understood why :D They all tease my grandmother about her accent: "Pretty soon she'll be farty..." "You were about farty then, right mom?" My prim and proper grandmother gets so exasperated :lol: I thought of another one--dupey. As in, "The baby has a dupey." :ack2: Whoa, I haven't heard that one in a looooong time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elise1mds Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 My DH says he hates when people try to make verbs out of nouns or adjectives when there are already appropriate verbs. Recent ones he's heard: configurate - We need to configurate the new servers in the lab. orientate, instead of orient definitize instead of define He also dislikes when people are referred to as resources. He's heard people in his company talk about the number of employees in a particular office as the number of resources there. Ohhhhh some of the people I work for do that ALL the time, and it drives me crazy!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HollyinNNV Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Reconciliation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in CA Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I say warsh. :blushing: Sorry, can't help myself, I'm from TX. My ex-husband once asked me how many Rs were in warsh anyway. I, honest to God, answered, "One, why?" I'm so sorry to say this, because you might say this next phase also... "Needs warshed". As in, "This jacket needs warshed" instead of, "This jacket needs to be washed." Drives me to distraction! Worse than that, imo, is one somebody else already mentioned, "I could care less!". Don't people who say that realize that they are saying the opposite of what they intend to say? :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 All of the victims out there needing empowering should dialogue about a paradigm shift...in their panties. :lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2jjka Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 My Dh cannot pronounce the word ravioli. (He says Ra-ver-o-li.) The kids now pronounce it that way, too and it drives me bonkers! I am embarassed when we go to Fazolis or Olive Garden, and I keep thinking "Please let them just order spaghetti!" because otherwise we get 'the look' from the server. As far as other words I don't like - panties is high on my list, as well as just about all terms (slang or otherwise) for 'private anatomy.' :o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie in CA Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The type of car--Volvo, pronounced as "V u l v a." :blink::eek: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jyniffrec Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 "Issues", as in "she has issues from her childhood". Our politically correct chaplain in college way over used that word. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lauriep Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Yeah, I don't use it. It sounds so babyish. We call them "unders" in our home. As for a phrase that will send me over the edge, it is "Calm down." Never the phrase to use when I'm sounding excited/agitated/whatever. Like gasoline on a fire. Oh, never tell me to "just relax" when I'm clearly agitated. :angry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayne J Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 :cursing: Utilize. USEing more letters to say the same thing does not make you more intelligent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Chillax Sick as a way of saying "cool" W00t Haxor Any haxor speak, to be honest Any l33t speak. yuck Fart. (I once said "cut the cheese" in front of my aunt as a kid since I knew the f-word was outta the question. She gasped and said, ''WE DON'T SAY THAT IN THIS HOUSE!! WE SAY 'BREAK WIND'!!!'')oooookay. Strategery Nuc-OOOOOO-Lar (Nuclear) Hoodie (Please!! It's a sweatshirt with a hood, must it have a ridiculous name?! Are the downcast drawstrings not enough?! Give it some dignity!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncmomo3 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 If the word panties makes you nuts, how about this one- I call my dh's boxer's 'man panties' just to watch him cringe. btw- I hate the word panties also, but really enjoy bugging my easy-going dh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Oooh, I thought of more: I hate when computer people (my dh is IT) say "power it on/power it off". Why not just say "turn off/turn on"????? Another is "inputting"....as in "She was inputting information". No, how about "she was entering information"???? It seems more logical that INPUT is the product of entering information. My dh and his family of origin all say Hamburger Meat. Makes me cringe every single time. I mean, it's not as if we say Chicken Poultry or Ham Pork!! Oh, and they say ANchiladas for enchiladas. And my mom LOVES to put that L in Salmon. And she says stumulk for stomach. The 'ach' is pronounced ULK. Weird. She also says "eye-talian" for Italian. I have pointed out that we don't say Eye-taly for their country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pajama Mama Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 But the standard British pronunciation is with the 'h', so that's the reason for the Harry Potter pronunciation. Laura I know it's the British pronounciation. That's why I don't understand how my dh says it that way. But we do live outside of Pittsburgh where many words are mangled. I've told dh "Herb" with H is the guy from WKRP in the plaid leisure suits. But Tarragon is an "erb". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 This thread is hysterical! It's also making me realize the number of words I cannot stand; I never thought there were so many! :lol: fart the "F" word chillin' peeps ax instead of ask kewl, rad, sick - to describe something amazing fail - I just heard this recently, and I immediately cringed! the "c" word for part of the female anatomy or to describe a female wicked - I'm from Southern NH, and I hated it even when I lived there :) 'cept - just say except, please "my bad" - grrr... this one drive me nuts! Finally, the misuse of anxious and eager. Anxious means "awaiting in fear/worry". Whereas eager means "to look forward to". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pajama Mama Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The type of car--Volvo, pronounced as "V u l v a." :blink::eek: Just the thought of someone asking to borrow your vulva...oh my goodness Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The text speak thing is really getting out of hand. A coworker sent out a mass text message asking, "Can ne1 work Fri nt 4 me?" It was the ne1 that drove me to distraction. :001_huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TammyinTN Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 There is this little girl and when she ask for more she says mere....oh. my. goodness! :ohmy: There isn't a lot that drives me batty, but that does. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty Social Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 The text speak thing is really getting out of hand. A coworker sent out a mass text message asking, "Can ne1 work Fri nt 4 me?" It was the ne1 that drove me to distraction. :001_huh: Wow. I would have had to reply that I would *if* the reason was so that he would not miss his remedial English class. Because he's obviously speaking Klingon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ereks mom Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Around here I think it would be more strange to run across someone who didn't say y'all it's so commonly used. :iagree: When learning grammar (English or Latin or other), it's really easy to differentiate between 2nd person singular and 2nd person plural because 2nd person singular is "you" and 2nd person plural is "y'all". Yes, I DO teach it that way! And all the while, my dc & I shake our heads & feel sorry for the poor non-Southerners who don't have "y'all" readily at their disposal. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barb_ Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 :iagree: When learning grammar (English or Latin or other), it's really easy to differentiate between 2nd person singular and 2nd person plural because 2nd person singular is "you" and 2nd person plural is "y'all". Yes, I DO teach it that way! And all the while, my dc & I shake our heads & feel sorry for the poor non-Southerners who don't have "y'all" readily at their disposal. ;) Yes, y'all is particularly useful when learning Latin Grammar. We chant: I, You, He-She-It...we, y'all, and they! It sounds so much better than we, you (pl.) and they. Forgot to mention I cannot stand seeing the word stinkin' used to mean something positive. Especially a baby who is so stinkin' cute. Maybe that was clever the first time someone used it, but that word has been all over the internet for 4-5 years now. No longer clever. I have to out myself...I love, love, love hillbilly speak. My great-grandparents were raised in the mountain backwoods and all those hillbilly pet peeve words make me so homesick for them :crying: Barb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 I am just happy that I am not alone in my hating of the word "panties". Man panties may put me over the edge. To the pp who mentioned ginormous. Oh, how I detest that word, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GailV Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 :iagree: When learning grammar (English or Latin or other), it's really easy to differentiate between 2nd person singular and 2nd person plural because 2nd person singular is "you" and 2nd person plural is "y'all". Yes, I DO teach it that way! And all the while, my dc & I shake our heads & feel sorry for the poor non-Southerners who don't have "y'all" readily at their disposal. ;) That's why I started using "y'all" when I was in college -- I decided it was silly that English didn't have a 2nd person plural, and started my own personal campaign to have "y'all" fulfill that function. This was, of course, back when I knew that I could run most people's lives better than they could themselves, and that people should just let me control the world. Since then my desire for world domination has waned. These days I continue to use "y'all" because it drives my kids nuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PollyOR Posted February 19, 2010 Author Share Posted February 19, 2010 :smilielol5:Thank you for the tears! I will confess I am guilty of using many of these "over the edge" words. I haven't lived in the south for almost 17 years and "y'all" automatically rolls off my tongue without thought. Yep, I say panties, fart, and ain't to name a few. :svengo::D BTW, DH's alternative for gas is "I think there's a barking spider in the house." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 My mother's dictionary from the 1950s offers 'orientate' as a real word, as does my modern Chambers dictionary. I was brought up to see 'orient' as the noun and 'orientate' as the associated verb. Back when my DH was a new 2nd Lt. fresh out of ROTC at Stanford, he went off on the soldiers in his platoon one time for using the word "orientate". Ranted and raved about how that wasn't a real word and how it made them sound ignorant, yadda, yadda, yadda. His master sergeant (who got a master's degree after retirement and became a college professor) quietly took him aside later that day to show DH the entry for orientate in the dictionary. :blushing: :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nd293 Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 (edited) Is the use of "wicked" an Eastern thing. We were just watching snowboarding and my dd asked if they would jump wicked high. I called my dh and asked him who she has been hanging out with and he said, "It must be someone from Boston." I thought it was British - Jamie Oliver / The Naked Chef always says it. Is she watching too many cooking shows? If she's cooking all your family meals, I strongly recommend overlooking "wicked" :) Lively Latin uses "you all" for the second person plural. It's been Forbidden here - dd has to write "you (pl)" as I was taught. Edited February 20, 2010 by nd293 Addition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 Back when my DH was a new 2nd Lt. fresh out of ROTC at Stanford, he went off on the soldiers in his platoon one time for using the word "orientate". Ranted and raved about how that wasn't a real word and how it made them sound ignorant, yadda, yadda, yadda. His master sergeant (who got a master's degree after retirement and became a college professor) quietly took him aside later that day to show DH the entry for orientate in the dictionary. :blushing: :lol: You can let your husband know that the OED says: "Orientate is commonly regarded as an incorrect usage in American English." So he's either correct, or he's common :lol: Bill (who goes along with the former) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy Posted February 19, 2010 Share Posted February 19, 2010 "got" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 You can let your husband know that the OED says: "Orientate is commonly regarded as an incorrect usage in American English." So, it's commonly regarded as incorrect usage. Does that mean that most people think it's incorrect and therefore it is (dictionaries being descriptive rather than prescriptive)? Or does it mean that it is regarded as incorrect despite being correct? Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Another Jen Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Preventative. It should be preventive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Preventative. It should be preventive. My dictionary has both. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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