Words that make me cringe

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Oh, and Mobius?

You do realize that I must now shoot you for posting that horrific paragraph, right?

82

Sorry, Elenfair. I prolly should of left well enough alone.

83

I once received a phone message from a young woman checking on a rumor that she had won a prize in a writing contest. She said, “I just wanted to verify that it was an actuality.”

Why, why, why couldn’t she have just asked if she’d won a prize?

I ain’t impressed by none o’ them big words.

84

GAAAAH!

::: pulling out lovely red hair :::::

:::: rocking self ::::

Make it stop, make it stop…

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He (or she) may not like it, but it is proper usage.

http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=entitled

The one that makes me cringe as if fingernails were being slowly scratched down a chalk board is all the sudden. Oh G-d! It hurts just typing that.

::shudder::

People, it’s all of a sudden.

Reading posts here where people confuse ‘then’ and ‘than’ makes me want to gouge my eyes out.

Jeg elsker dig, Thomas

86

I had a boss back when I did collection work who always wrote Paided in Full. I knew it was wrong, but I also knew I’d been working for him too long when I caught myself writing it.

87

I try to make a point of always using proper English, as I am a southerner and I really don’t like having some yankee correct me. :slight_smile:

But, I do tend to refer to the band Smashing Pumpkins as “Smashin Punkins”, basically to piss off my mother. She knew I loved the band, and ventured into a local music store to buy the cd for me. When she asked the body-jewelry bedecked clerk for the Smashin Punkins cd, the clerk busted out laughing and showed it to her.
She has not bought me a single cd since then.

I cannot stand it when my father says “warsh your dungarees” instead of “wash your jeans”. It just gets on my last nerve. But I guess that’s more of an accent problem than incorrect English.

88

Solution: “This car is your ideal transportation solution!”

APR: “And we offer special APR financing!”

89

Tump (ed) as in… the boat is gunna tump over…eeek

Funny things I heard while waiting tables…

  1. If it’s any constellation to you…

  2. I didn’t see the ticket in the kitchen and I consumed that he already had his food.

  3. “Did he bust those tables yet” “He busted them earlier”