Mine is "on my way" drives me nuts when the lady I babysit for says she's on her way and shows up an hour or so later. When one says their "on my way" it is taken to mean that they are actually on their way! Don't leave me hanging watching for you for an hour when I could have gone to the bathroom!!!!
Can I side-track this thread and add my pet peeve words that are spelled instead of spoken wrong???? Definitely and Tomorrow!!!! Oh, my word, people...learn to spell definitely and tomorrow!!!!!! :shock::x:lol:
I agree- especially with tomorrow. Why do people seem to think there's a darn A in it?? How the heck are they pronouncing, anyway??
I actually saw a commercial on TV that used the word "funner", instead of "more fun". On TELEVISION, where everyone could hear it! Of course, since my kids know it makes me crazy, they say it constantly!
This is funny to me since for the life of me, I can never remember how to spell definitely. Well, it is the word that I can think of how it should be, but doubt it every time. I have to put it in a document that I can spell check just to double check. Or, I avoid using it.:lol:
This made me think of awhile back when ds wanted to go onto the ninjago website. It mentioned how ninjas come from all over the world. Then it said, "Where you from?" I was just shocked that this was on a Lego website:shock:. At first my mind filled in the sentence and I read it as "where are you from?", but when I looked back, I couldn't believe it. I thought maybe it was me, so I read it to dh who questioned it being on a Lego website, but that is what it said. I emailed them and they said they would look into it, but nothing further. I haven't checked it for awhile, so not sure what it has now.
I can't stand to see the words definitely and tomorrow misspelled either!!! Or when someone doesn't know the rules of "i before e except after c"!
My pet peeves are the wrong use of: your/you're their/there too/to (I'm sure there are others like that I'm not thinking of right now) Pronouncing "asked" like "axed". Text speak in any forum other than texting (which I don't do anyway). The "s" word in our house is "stupid" too. I work in the childcare center at a gym so I get to hear all the lovely words little ones are saying today. I heard a 3 year old call his brother an imbecile. Really?
I just heard a woman on the radio (not a DJ, thankfully) say, "I went to McDonald's to get me a latte." I think a kitten just died.
It hurts me to see "pur say" instead of "per se". I cringe when I see "loose" when "lose" was meant. I feel pain when I see "Wah-lah" (or Wa-lah, or Waa-la, or better and rarer but still painful, "viola") instead of "voila". I hate text-speak, and even when I'm texting I usually spell things out, even "tomorrow", though I may abbreviate (with periods!) days of the week. I hate "on a accident" instead of "by accident" or "accidentally". I can't think of one in particular right this second, but when people use terms in postings that they have only heard and (apparently) never read, and try to spell it based on a mispronunciation or auditory misperception, it sets my teeth on edge. Okay, I had a friend who always confused/combined "flustered" and "frustrated" and so always both said and wrote "flusterated", and truly thought that was the correct word. The man had a college degree and was a professional counselor. Typos mortify me. It takes all I can do to keep from correcting a typo that I find in one of my own posts from couple years ago, when I run across one... I usually catch them as I go. One of my "favorites" is when I mistype *pubic* school when I mean *public* school --Freudian slip??
In Cornwall, we say we'll "do it dreckly" (directly), which means the same thing: It may or may not get done later. As for my pet peeves, - "I would of done it" (would've) - "seperate" (there's a 'rat' in 'separate') - "between us", when more than two people are involved (among us) - "criteria" as a singular word (it's criterion) and, even worse, "criterias." Then there's the third line of the hymn "Holy, holy, holy." The final two notes of that line are the same; the final note does not drop like it does in the first line. To me, that error is the musical equivalent of 'seperate.'
Oh, one more. Somebody somewhere convinced the music team at our church, in "Hark the Herald Angels Sing," to change "Gloria in excelsis Deo" to be "Glorious in excelsis Deo." My wife and I refer to it as the "red neck" version.
Now, I am not 100% sure, but I think this one may be grammatically correct. Aren't the "you" and the "I" predicate nominatives? For example: "It is I." That is grammatically correct. Even though it sounds weird. As far as the word tomorrow goes, I was one who was guilty of thinking it had an "a" in it. The second syllable sounds like "are" and I was always wanting to put that "a". Thank goodness for spell check, because I don't like to make spelling or grammatical errors (even though I know I have and sometimes don't catch them).
Oh, cabsmom, even if you were the one, you are SO not the ONLY one misspelling "tomorrow"! My friend gave me a book as a gift once, called Woe is I which I thoroughly enjoyed, which points out tons of things that "sound weird" because we ALL say them wrong all the time!
One of the reasons I refuse to switch to Google Chrome is that Firefox has a built-in spell check (works just like Word's does).
Lindina, we have a gentleman at church who says "flustrated"! I'm probably guilty of the "separate" one- in the Midwest where I grew up it was pronounced sep-per-ate and I have to think of the "a" to put it there. Typos can make me cringe, but I realize that is life, and sometimes I am all thumbs and back-space key, so try to give the poster grace. Oh Steve, don't even get us started on hymns!! That could be a whole separate post! I don't like text abbreviations, although I will use lol's and the like sometimes in posts on boards like this. I don't like it, but I do understand sometimes when I get a text from ds that says "we r done"- he's a teen and in a hurry 9 times out of 10. I prefer English in emails though! MT3
Lindina, that reminds me. I have Woe is I, Jr that I need to get out for my DS in sixth grade to read through. Thanks! MT3
I can deal with other people's typos, because after all they're just typos, right? It's MY OWN that slay me! :lol:
