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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Dixie*Darling on May 10, 2008, 09:18:55 PM
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100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases
http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
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I have paid attention to language since before I started to talk, so nothing on the list is a problem for me....and I am a Texas boy born and raised.
I remember when I was sixteen and went to visit my Yankee friends in Philadelphia. The whole block turned out to see the real live Texan. They were so disappointed I looked like a California hippie and sounded like Walter Cronkite.
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I missed three or four.
Some of them were just nitpickers.
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I missed three or four.
Some of them were just nitpickers.
That's "nutpickers", boy. Get'er right!
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"aks" for "ask" just drives me insane!!!
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some of those are punchlines to jokes. :-)
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they need to have a whole separate section for Texasisms.
"fixin to"
"Where you at?"
"Nobutuhhhhh" (No, but uh......"
"They out of they minds!" (they instead of their)
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A vain attempt to impose identical usages on Limeys, Yanks, and Ozzies in a couple of instances. "Herb" is not the sole instance of the initial 'h' going silent in American usage, so forget it, Limeys, we aren't changing.
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Mason-ary, orien-tate, and Seee-ment. :banghead:
That there "Dr. Language" hain't been in tha South much. :fuelfire: Ah bet he talks funny.
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Southern hostess in departing line: "We in georgia!"
Non-southern departing guest: "I beg your pardon? This is Georgia?"
Hostess: "Nao, Silly! We in georgia!"
Guest: "I am not understanding...."
Departing Texan guest interrupts, to non-southern departing guest: "She is telling you they enjoyed having you here."
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Southern hostess in departing line: "We in georgia!"
Non-southern departing guest: "I beg your pardon? This is Georgia?"
Hostess: "Nao, Silly! We in georgia!"
Guest: "I am not understanding...."
Departing Texan guest interrupts, to non-southern departing guest: "She is telling you they enjoyed having you here."
Tennessean to Yankee guest "Smatter-chew?"
:-)
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Southern hostess in departing line: "We in georgia!"
Non-southern departing guest: "I beg your pardon? This is Georgia?"
Hostess: "Nao, Silly! We in georgia!"
Guest: "I am not understanding...."
Departing Texan guest interrupts, to non-southern departing guest: "She is telling you they enjoyed having you here."
Tennessean to Yankee guest "Smatter-chew?"
:-)
"Oh, stewardess! Stewardess? I speak Tennessean."
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Southern hostess in departing line: "We in georgia!"
Non-southern departing guest: "I beg your pardon? This is Georgia?"
Hostess: "Nao, Silly! We in georgia!"
Guest: "I am not understanding...."
Departing Texan guest interrupts, to non-southern departing guest: "She is telling you they enjoyed having you here."
Tennessean to Yankee guest "Smatter-chew?"
:-)
"Oh, stewardess! Stewardess? I speak Tennessean."
Shoney's waitress: "Jav nuff deet? Yaunt smore?"
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I ain't got any ID. Bout you?
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I ain't got any ID. Bout you?
Ah tell yew whut.
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Ahhhhhhhhh! My number one pet peeve is thankfully listed:
Realtor. Pronounced JUST like it is spelled.
NOT "real-uh-tor".
There's actually a local agent who has a talk radio spot once a week, and can't pronounce her own profession.