Library. Not Lie-berry. And I don’t say Wed-Nez-Day but if you listen you can hear all those letters not said. I remember saying February to someone and they stopped me mid-sentence: “You said February!”
“Yes?”
“Not Feb-You-Airy! I never hear anyone say it properly!”
The Arctic/Artic thing reminds me of something from my childhood.
We had a test, and one of the questions was to name the ocean at the South Pole, and the next question was to name the circle at the North Pole. (Not quite the wording of the questions, but you get the idea.
I was out sick the day before, so I wasn’t really sure. When we passed our papers up, I looked at the answers on the paper of the girl that sat behind me.
Her answer to the first question was “Antarctic.” Her answer to the next question was “Ant.”
My peeve is about people who have not just made farther/further interchangeable, but who consistently reverse which one is correct! This seems to occur equally in typing and in speech! Look, people – it’s really simple:
“farther” relates to physical distance. From “far”, a measurement of actual distance.
“further” relates to any type of distance not used in the literal sense. From “fur”, a measurement of distance between towns in the southern United States.
I swear. to. God. I honestly used to think that people who were doing this were just trying to make me go crazy, but then I actually spoke with someone who thought that was what the phrase really said! My jaw dropped faster than the reputation of a subprime mortgage.