Word lessons or what misuse of a word drives you crazy?

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

People's overuse of everything being "surreal" too. Not quite as bad as "irony" but it's trending. Fuck that "trending" crap too. Hashtag nonsense also.

 

[simonyfan]

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[Ravenholm]

Nuclear = Nookular. WRONG!.

New..Clear is the correct answer.

Aluminium = Aloominum. WRONG!.

Al-u-Mini-um is the correct answer.

Cement = Sea..ment. WRONG!.

Sim..ent is the correct answer.

Don't believe me? just ask Chuck Norris. But remember Chuck doesn't like to be questioned. So... good luck with that!.

 

[Jagger69]

Aluminium = Aloominum. WRONG!.

That's actually a cultural difference between British and American english. In the US, it's "aluminum" and "aluminium" in the UK. Similar to a number of words that are spelled or pronounced a bit differently but have the same meaning. Please pardon me if I don't bother to ask Chuck Norris about it.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I can only say aluminum the American way. Tried the other way and almost got a seizure.

 

[Mr. Hyde]

This thread is giving me seizures. It's not that hard to get this stuff right. Typically, the sorts of mistakes you see are from people who just don't read much.

Have fun with this site....

https://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

 

[PlumpRump]

Tell me if I'm off-base here, but your point about was and were being used incorrectly is definitely on the list, e.g., "If I was 10 years younger..."

Yes, exactly. The improper use of the subjunctive mood as it relates to a wish ("I wish I were younger..."), describing an "untrue" situation ("If Susan were more obnoxious, she'd have zero friends..."), or a speculation ("She speaks as if she were Harvard educated...").

Just sticks in my craw.

Also, I have a friend who says "why" in place of "while." It drives me nuts.

 

[L3ggy]

Nuclear = Nookular. WRONG!.

New..Clear is the correct answer.

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

When every other word is 'like'. And I said 'like' you know.... 'like' whats the problem..... 'like' she's 'like' stoopid and 'like' my mom doesn't understand.......

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Nuclear = Nookular. WRONG!.

New..Clear is the correct answer.

Aluminium = Aloominum. WRONG!.

Al-u-Mini-um is the correct answer.

Cement = Sea..ment. WRONG!.

Sim..ent is the correct answer.

Don't believe me? just ask Chuck Norris. But remember Chuck doesn't like to be questioned. So... good luck with that!.

Aluminum.
Aluminum. Drives me crazy to hear our cousins say Aloomineeum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum. Aluminum.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

When every other word is 'like'. And I said 'like' you know.... 'like' whats the problem..... 'like' she's 'like' stoopid and 'like' my mom doesn't understand.......

 

[Bloodshot Scott]

The there their an they're one is very bothersome to me.

One I've been seeing a lot lately is should of (or would of) instead of should have or would have. Fuck.

 

[Jagger69]

Reel-a-tor (for the word "realtor")
Jool-er-y (for the word "jewelry")

 

[Sicario]

The misuse of pronouncing America with 'Murica... everytime I hear some dumb fuck say 'Murica, I really want to stick my baseball bat up his ass!!!

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Every time a particular politician says "Let me be clear," when, in fact, he means, "Let me obfuscate everything I say and do by telling huge whopping lies." I fucking hate that.

I just finished watching a few episodes of "Top Gear," and it still irks me when Jeremy Clarkson mispronounces aluminum.

 

[lurkingdirk]

He's correct, actually. Either pronunciation of aluminum is correct. But whatever.

I hate it so much when people use "unthaw" to mean "thaw." Here's an actual conversation I once had.

"Let's get some fish out of the freezer, unthaw, and cook it."

"Do you mean thaw it?"

"No, unthaw."

"But it is already frozen. To thaw it would mean to make it no longer frozen. To unthaw it would mean to do the opposite of thawing it, so you would, in fact be freezing it."

"Nah. Let's unthaw some and eat."

"You're too stupid to live."

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

No. Fuck you and your logic!!!

 

[fkknuckle]

I fuck "than' and "then" up all the time! I still eat glue though.....

 

[DP_LOVER]

your - you're
there - their - they're
advise - advice
than - then
hear - here
waste - waist

the misuse of apostrophes also really gets me.

And as a football (soccer) fan, I HATE it when people refer to Manchester United simply as 'united' like they are the only united around when there's Newcastle, West Ham, Leeds, Sheffield, Dundee, Scunthorpe, Carlise and loads more!

 

[Sam Fisher]

BARD - verb. Past tense of the infinitive "to borrow."
Usage: "My brother bard my pickup truck."

JAWJUH - noun. A highly flammable state just north of Florida.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjah bard my pickup truck."

MUNTS - noun. A calendar division.
Usage: "My brother from Jawjuh bard my pickup truck, and I aint
herd from him in munts."

IGNERT - adjective. Not smart. See "Auburn Alumni."
Usage: "Them N-C-TWO-A boys sure are ignert!"

RANCH - noun. A tool.
Usage: "I think I left my ranch in the back of that pickup truck
my brother from Jawjuh bard a few munts ago."

ALL - noun. A petroleum-based lubricant.
Usage: "I sure hope my brother from Jawjuh puts all in my pickup truck."

FAR - noun. A conflagration.
Usage: "If my brother from Jawjuh doesn't change the all in my
pickup truck, that thing's gonna catch far."

Y'ALL-noun. A degree of rotation.
Usage: "There are three degrees of Southern rotation: Pitch,
Roll, and Y'all."

BAHS - noun. A supervisor.
Usage: "If you don't stop reading these Southern words and git
back to work, your bahs is gonna far you!"

TAR - noun. A rubber wheel.
Usage: "Gee, I hope that brother of mine from Jawjuh doesn't git
a flat tar in my pickup truck."

TIRE - noun. A tall monument.
Usage: "Lord willing and the creeks don't rise, I sure do hope to see
that Eiffel Tire in Paris sometime."

HOT - noun. A blood-pumping organ.

HOD - adverb. Not easy.
Usage: "A broken hot is hod to fix."

RETARD - Verb. To stop working.
Usage: "My granpaw retard at age 65.."

TARRED - adverb. Exhausted.
Usage: "I just flew in from Hot-lanta, and boy my arms are tarred."

RATS - noun. Entitled power or privilege.
Usage: "We Southerners are willing to fight for out rats."
(Today's Southern Word comes from a school teacher in America's
southern most state: Hawaii. As part of her class' study of the
"War of Northern Aggression" (known to Yankees at the "Civil War"),
she showed her class the movie Gettysburg. The students wondered why
the Confederacy was fighting for their "rats." The answer, of course,
is obvious: Southerners have very friendly rats ... in fact, you
could almost say that we have some downright civil rats.)

LOT - adjective. Luminescent.
Usage: "I dream of Jeanie in the lot-brown hair."

FARN - adjective. Not local.
Usage: "I cudnt unnerstand a wurd he sed ... must be from some
farn country."

DID - adjective. Not alive.
Usage: "He's did, Jim."

EAR - noun. A colorless, odorless gas (unless you are in LA).
Usage: "He can't breathe ... give 'em some ear!"

BOB WAR - noun. A sharp, twisted cable.
Usage: "Boy, stay away from that bob war fence."

JU-HERE - a question.
Usage: "Juhere that former Dallas Cowboys' coach Jimmy Johnson
recently toured the University of Alabama?"

HAZE - a contraction.
Usage: "Is Bubba smart?" "Nah ... haze ignert."

SEED - verb, past tense.
VIEW - contraction: verb and pronoun.
Usage: "I ain't never seed New York City ... view?"

HEAVY DEW - phrase. A request for action.
Usage: "Kin I heavy dew me a favor?"

WARSH - verb. To clean.

SQUARSH - noun. A vegetable (also verb - to flatten).
Usage: "Warsh that squarsh, Bubba ... you don't know where its been!"

GUMMIT - Noun. An often-closed bureaucratic institution.
Usage: "Great ... ANOTHER gummit shutdown!"

JUICY - Contraction. A question.

GUFF - Noun. A deep chasm.
Usage: "Juicy the Guff of Mexico?"

MARKINS - Noun. Citizens of the United States.
Usage: "My fellow Markins..."

PROSS - Noun. The value or cost of an item.
Usage: "That there prom dress sho is purty, but it is not worth
the pross."

PARAMOUR - Noun. An automated device for cutting grass.
Usage: "What kinda deal you gonna make me on that paramour?"

RICE - Noun. A contest of speed.
Usage: "Y'all going out to Talledega to see the rice?"