Sunday, May 1, 2016

My pet language peeves/non-peeves


It really bugs me when other people say (my inner prescriptivist):
  • for 'often, pronounced 'off ten' instead of the correct 'off en'
  • 'Between you and I' instead of the correct 'between you and me'
  • pronouncing 'forward' as 'foh ward' (no first 'r')
  • 'comparable' pronounced 'com `pair able' not ' `com pruh ble'
  • Dwarfs roofs baθs instead of dwarves, rooves, baðz
  • pronouncing 'processes' as 'prah cess eez' instead of the correct 'prah cess ehz'
  • 'my bad' and 'back in the day'
  • whilst/amongst
  • Nutella as New-tella. I prefer  Nuh-tella

Conflicted
  • 'irregardless' - obviously a sign of not caring about words, but it still takes me a second to register it as 'wrong'

It really doesn't bother me at all to say:
  • 'Hopefully' to modify a sentence
  • Feb you ary

I only recently learned how t pronounce correctly:

  • awry. I used to say 'aw ree instead of uh 'wry


Wow, is that it? I was sure these lists would be a lot longer.

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