I know a woman who, when hungry, will go for a sand wedge.
That reminds me.
My friend Corey will always use the words “definately,” “rediculous,” and “hillarious.” Now, I like him just fine… always have. But that just mildly irritates me. Ah well…
At least he wasn’t like this guy I used to know who claimed that the invention of spellcheck had made him too lazy to go look up words in the dictionary. He spelled “nice” as “nace,” to give but one example. (and “Dylan” as “Dylaan”… on a consistent basis, so it wasn’t just a typo)
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OMG, I caught that too. That was excrutiating. How long were she and her husband married? IIRC it was something like 5 years, I’m surprised he let her live.
I get annoyed when people mispronounce the “ul” sound. Like saying moltiple instead of multiple. Dammit, people! I’ve also heard maultiple and moldable. Next time I hear somebody say moldable I’m going to ask if it really can be molded.
Me three.
My HS math teacher (grades 11 and 12, both semesters each year) drove me absolutely nuts constantly talking about “heighth”. I think he even spelled it that way. Ugh. Over 7 years later and it still bugs me!
Yup, I’ve also heard “heighth”. I used to spell “lenth” after hearing it pronounced that way. Hmm, it looks funny to me now but it didn’t then.
I don’t know if this is an American vs English thing, but I’ve seen people here use the phrase ‘it wasn’t that big of a thing’. It upsets me, surely it should be ‘it wasn’t that big a thing’? Or is it me that’s been wrong all these years? I feel a bout of grammatical existential doubt coming on…
My wonderful (truly; no sarcasm) husband is, honest to God, one of the smartest people that I personally know. Still, he says “fustrated” and “libary”. I’ve been correcting him for 20 years, and to no avail. When I just lose it one of these days and have to shoot him, it’ll be a damned shame. I’ll miss him.
It drives me crazy when I hear people say they need to pick up their perscription for their arthur-itis.
I also saw that Dr. Phil show. I was amazed that she seemed quite proud of herself for talking that way. Not just the, “Pwetty-pwease” bit, but the “You horted my fweelings!” and the fake crying.
And talking about how she used it to get him to propose, to get a cat, and to get him to buy her stuff. What a manipulative bitch.
That poor husband - he needs to grow some balls.
I changed channels. What happened with those two? Did Dr. Phil tell the guy to ignore her, or tell her to cut it out?
I also hate when people say “pellow” and “melk.” Oh Lord, I hate that.
Am I the only one who pronounces the TH in clothes? Close and clothes are not the same word though I admit that the non TH pronounciation is okay (and it doesn’t bother me like Nuculur does.). I love the movie “The Core”, (as a bit of sci fi fun fluff) but Aaron Eckhart’s constant misprounciation of nuclear makes me not able to own it.
I also pronounce both Rs in February. It helps me remember how to spell it. Library has 2 Rs and Alzheimers is not All-Timers or Old-Timers Disease.
Just listen to Dubya. He’s great at saying things incorrectly. Nuke-u-lur isn’t the worst of his offenses.
Slightly off topic, there’s word choice. Coke and Pepsi are SODA, not POP. There are more, but I’ll hold my tongue for now.
Pet peeve of mine: the word “accessory” pronounced “assessory.”
Also, the otherwise enjoyable and informative CBS NFL color commetator Phil Simms mispronounces words ending with “ing.” He will mention a player’s quarterback “rateen” or “passeen” yardage. Maybe it’s part of that slight southern accent he has, but it makes me cringe. And I don’t like that. Because I like him.
You actually say that? Not that I disbelieve, but it’s extremely hard for me to pronounce the voiced eth-sound right before the z-sound (yeah, it’s spelled with an s, but it’s voiced anyway). That’s the likely reason most people drop the ‘th’, anyway.
Maybe in your region (and mine), but not in everyone’s. Same goes for most of these pet peeves, really; perfectly viable variations in speech that are just different, not worse. I mean, we don’t mock Brits for pronouncing the t in ‘water’, after all.
Aren’t we descriptivists just annoying as hell? 
anyways, Canvas…
Enough time has been given, apparently (audio on the third speaker icon).
Others tell me I have no accent, even though Spanish was my first language. However, there are certain English words or phrases that will make me cringe when I say them because they will come out, at least obvious to me, very thickly accented. One example is when I mention that something “does not appeal to me”. It comes out sounding “does not a pita me”. :o
But man, I can still roll those "r"s!
Question - who here says the “tt” in “button”? I’ve only just realized that I don’t - what comes out is actually more like “buh-ihn.” Is this a regionalism, or is it just me?
Actually, I know it isn’t just me, because that’s how Jack White says… er, sings it. Maybe it’s a Michigan thing.
It truly galls me when someone looks at my car and calls it an Alfa Romero.
I do it too, and I suspect a lot of people do the same. American dialects don’t really pronounce t’s in the middle of words as t’s. Try emphasizing the t–it sounds more British than American. Typically, American dialects replace the t with a flap (as in the word ladder) or a glottal stop (as in button).
I have a manager at work who tells us that we are reducing our numbers through “nutrition”, and told us of a worker who was crushed “to def”. I guess I’d better stop taking vitamins and start wearing earplugs.