Until a week ago, I went 30 years thinking it was “perogative.”
That’s very prescriptive of you. :dubious:
Not perscriptive? Dang. 
You can all turn off the tv and games, go up to your rooms, and get that homework done.
I’m going to go talk with Sister Mary Matthew tomorrow.
I get a pain in my neck every time someone tells me about a “partial” of land. IT’S “PARCEL” YOU IDIOTS! PAR-SELL!
That’s fine, as long as you don’t start calling it a “script.” Hello? That word means something different. :mad:
Signed,
OneCentStamp, who works at a doctor’s office.
Oh, I know. That kind of crap drives me right up the damned wall. Hence, my need for a 'scrip for Xanax. 
That is (or was) street talk for illegally obtained prescription drugs. With the “t”.
Really? Shows how hopelessly out of the loop I am.
Me too. It used to be, but maybe no longer.
Remember “Drugstore Cowboy”? Guys like that.
Excellent movie, by the way.
And the singular of testes is testis, not testy.
It’s definitely spelled “prescription”; on that, there’s no real debate. But, clearly, for many communities of speakers, that word is pronounced in the manner of “perscription”. We even have some representatives of such communities here, apparently. If a particular pronunciation is the norm in some speech community, how can you claim it is wrong? Or do you not believe in the legitimacy of dialectal variation?
Is it really regional, though?
My first name begins with (first 3 letters) PRI.
It is often spelled wrong, but I used to be especially confused and annoyed when people would spell the first syllable PER. (At 52, I simply accept it now.)
East coast, midwest, west, it has happened everywhere, no special dialectal variation.
What if they sever off a chunk for you? Then it’s a partial parcel!
Parcels of land are like crumbs. If you break one in half you don’t have two half crumbs. You have two smaller crumbs. Same with the parcel.
Well, you needn’t be teste about it.
Exactly, exactly, exactly. I can’t believe how hard it is for people to wrap their minds around the fact that different people talk differently, and pronunciations change over time, and there are different standards for different parts of the country. I think if most people could grasp this, this world would be a happier place.
Me, I’m from Jersey, and I don’t have an ‘r’ in the first syllable. Puhscription. So there!
And, by the way, the reason that lies below the surface is characterized as underlying…not underlining.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hug and kiss, we are the world. 
That’s all nice, but the actor in a drug commercial, even in Jersey, should pronounce the word “pre-scrip-tion”.
I wrap my arms around these mis-speaking people. Even though they talk funny.
Peace,
mangeorge
I think you are missing the point, here. “These mis-speaking people” are not misspeaking. Nor are they speaking incorrecly. Why do you think that your personal preferred pronunciation is what the actor should use? They may sound funny to you, but you probably sound funny to them. Why do you assert that they are incorrect while you are correct?
What exactly do you mean when you say that those who say ain’t are wrong? That you personally don’t like it?
You are not dating yourself, no. This criticism of “ain’t” is over 100 years old. Are you over 100 years old?