[QUOTE=Jamaika a jamaikaiaké]
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?
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Your criticisms are a little difficult to address, because they’re rooted in casual speech. Would you spell the word “perscription” because many people in your area say it that way? All the sources I’ve checked would have you pronounce it “pre-”. I’m offering an opinion, a personal perspective, on the word’s pronounciation. Not a rule.
Your second arguement befuddles me. The word “ain’t”, as far as I know, was only recently (what, forty years?) admitted http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/prescriptionry", although they said it tongue-in-cheek.
Please, don’t let the :mad: offend you. Would a :rolleyes: be better?
Tell The Boss I said “hi” if you see him.
Peace,
mangeorge
BTW; I know most of you mis-pronouncers have already checked here, but go ahead, bravely click the little red speaker thingy. 
Peace,
mangeorge, who loves you all anyway.
Since we’ve already nailed down the pre-scrip-tion thing, may I just add that the place with the books is the li-brary NOT the li-berry. See that “r” in there? It’s not silent.
[QUOTE=shamrock227]
Since we’ve already nailed down the pre-scrip-tion thing, may I just add that the place with the books is the li-brary NOT the li-berry. See that “r” in there? It’s not silent.
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What shamrock said!
[QUOTE=mangeorge]
Talk about an apropos username. 
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I’m sad to admit it, but I don’t get this at all. I was trying to ignore it, but it’s bugging me that I can’t figure it out.
Can someone enlighten me?
[QUOTE=StuffLikeThatThere]
I’m sad to admit it, but I don’t get this at all. I was trying to ignore it, but it’s bugging me that I can’t figure it out.
Can someone enlighten me?
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This thread is about, you know, improper grammer and stuff like that there.
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
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?
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So where do you stand on the “nucular” issue?
[QUOTE=mangeorge]
I’m offering an opinion, a personal perspective, on the word’s pronounciation. Not a rule.
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I’m offering helpful advice that the noun based on “pronounce” is spelled pronunciation. Also, “grammer” is an improper spelling of grammar.
StuffLikeThatThere: Here is a brief discussion of the difference between the appropriate uses of apropos and appropriate.
Everyone I know pronounces it “script”
Like you walk into the chemist (pharmacist) and say, “Can I get these scripts filled, I’ll be back in half an hour?” and he/she says, “Do you want the repeats filled now or later?”
[QUOTE=mangeorge]
Not “per-scrip-tion”! Dang!
:mad:
Peace,
mangeorge
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You, sir, are shoveling sand against the tide. Trying to hold back the wind. Pushing a car with a chain. The labor of Syssifus.
Good luck.
[QUOTE=Runs With Scissors]
Until a week ago, I went 30 years thinking it was “perogative.”
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Oh, no, no, no. Perogative means “pertaining to a Cajun canoe.” It also means “pertaining to a certain Polish pastry.”
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink]
So where do you stand on the “nucular” issue?
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If something has become cool only recently, it is nucular. Things that were cool before your mother was born, though she was born a long, long time ago, are not nucular. 
I dare not give an example of something that is newly cool. I’m obsolete, so anything I tell you is newly cool, no longer is. :rolleyes:
Hey, I’m 84 years old and until two or three years ago I thought enmity was spelled emnity.
Rookies.
[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
IStuffLikeThatThere: Here is a brief discussion of the difference between the appropriate uses of apropos and appropriate.
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Thank you. But I was trying to figure out why my username mattered. Which I have done while writing this response. I was trying way too hard and missing the obvious.
I’m fine now. Thank you for your patience. I’ll just slink back into my corner.
I like Va-nilla ice cream. I hate vi-nella.
I see movies in the theater, not a Thee-ater.
I’m on the war path against “I seen it.”
“woof” for wolf.
The grand prize winner: people putting questions marks after statements, e.g. “I wonder if he’ll be back soon?”
[QUOTE=Sternvogel]
I’m offering helpful advice that the noun based on “pronounce” is spelled pronunciation. Also, “grammer” is an improper spelling of grammar.
StuffLikeThatThere: Here is a brief discussion of the difference between the appropriate uses of apropos and appropriate.
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Not when I’m speaking of my grammer Eileen!
And I’ve probably been corrected fifty times on the spelling of “pronunciation”. Thank you for the reminder. Maybe it’ll stick this time.
[QUOTE=IntelSoldier]
I like Va-nilla ice cream. I hate vi-nella.
I see movies in the theater, not a Thee-ater.
I’m on the war path against “I seen it.”
“woof” for wolf.
The grand prize winner: people putting questions marks after statements, e.g. “I wonder if he’ll be back soon?”
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Isn’t your grand prize winner allowed in crerative writing? I think it expresses doubt.
IANAW, BTW, so YMMV.
Who still says purdy (or perdy) for pretty?
[QUOTE=8675309]
I call it a scrip.
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Well knock it off!
Thinking back, I believe the medical and pharmacy people all say “prescription”. I need to pick one up on Monday. I’ll pay attention. I’ll hold up my little bag and say “What’s this”. Someone will surely say “That’s your ? -scription, sir”.
Tricky, eh?
[QUOTE=David Simmons]
Hey, I’m 84 years old and until two or three years ago I thought enmity was spelled emnity.
Rookies.
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Wow, me too, until scant moments ago.
And I often said to myself “Why are the ‘n’ and ‘m’ in the opposite orders in ‘enemy’ and ‘emnity’?” Well, that’s one question (dis)solved.
[QUOTE=IntelSoldier]
The grand prize winner: people putting questions marks after statements, e.g. “I wonder if he’ll be back soon?”
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Know what’s worse. People leaving off the question mark, thus turning what should be a question into an imperative.
[QUOTE=mangeorge]
Isn’t your grand prize winner allowed in crerative writing? I think it expresses doubt.
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I don’t think he’s talking about writing, but rather describing, in his way, an intonation contour, the high rising terminal, in which pitch rises towards the end of a phrase, in a manner popularly associated with asking a question.
ETA: Well, actually, on second thought, I think he actually is talking about writing, considering the example he used, where the question mark can indeed express doubt in some styles. I just assumed it was a bash on HRTs, since I see that with some frequency, but apparently not this time. Carry on, then…