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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