Phrases people don't say correctly- Page 3

[alterego]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 7:56am

A few that get my goat...

People who pronounce 'genuine' as 'genuwhine', those who might say ..."I like those one's". The word 'one's ' is redundant in that sentence, and finally 'Happy New Years'.(?!) Happy New Year would suffice. Thank you.

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 8:25am

Here's one that bothers me and I've had numerous arguments about whether or not it's correct. Is it correct to say "I want a dozen of doughnuts"? To me that has always sounded wrong. It sounds better to say "I want a dozen" not "a dozen of". Otheres don't seem to agree that it's wrong. Is it just me? Am I being too picky and attacking the flow of a sentence rather than it's correctness?

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 9:12am

One more, constantly misused in the coverage of the primary:

"Between" when "among" is appropriate. Between is used for two; among for 3 or more. Hearing Katie and Matt say "between all the candidates in Iowa" grates.

[zannafan]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 11:41am

The doughnuts question is a good question. Here's the way I would look at that. Let's replace "a dozen" with the word twelve. In that case you would say "I want twelve doughnuts." I think you drop the "of". I could be wrong (lord knows, it happens), but I think you are right. "I want a dozen doughnuts."
Nick

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 12:08pm

At last, someone who agrees with me on the dozen question. Although, a freind of mine made a good point in saying that if you are referring to "those", you would say "a dozen of those". It's just when you name something specific, it sounds annoying to me, doughnuts, roses, men, whatever I'm taking a dozen of.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 12:38pm

"I'll have a dozen of the original glazed and a dozen of the sour cream glazed" works. "I'll have a dozen of donuts," doesn't. It's redundant. And repetitive.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 12:47pm

Does anyone else know people that say "I am not fer sure?" Instead of "Am not certain?" or even "I don't know?" I hate that one. It sticks in my craws!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 12:52pm

Where do they say this? In the Valley? Too weird. I'm glad I've never heard that one.

My ex was always enraged when somebody would say, "I haven't heard back from so and so."

He hated "heard back."

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 12:56pm

Sueleen, What's a craw?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 12:57pm

I know what a daddy is; so I would assume it has something to do with a crawdaddy?

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 1:03pm

I have a friend (who has a Ph.d and is a former teacher) who pronounces the school level before first grade as "kiddie garden". She also warshes clothing in Warshington, DC. Argh!
However, that doesn't grate on me as bad as the way our fearless leader pronounces the name of our country, "A-muhr-ick-a."

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 1:20pm

The ones that grates on my nerves most are when people are being "orientated", a show is being "casted", when something is supplemented it is "supplementated" or when people "conversate"

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 1:35pm

"Orientated" makes me laugh, and I use it with friends as a goof. "Conversate" I thought was cute for a minute... much more endurable than when Phil Donahue used to seriously ask people if they "had dialogued" with somebody. But now people seem to think "conversate" is a real word. Which, I guess is the first step toward it becoming one. I've never head "supplementated" but I think it's cute. There's something inherently funny about "tated" added to words. Or additated as the case may be.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 1:59pm

Orion, the craw is your gut. It is slang for making one feel uncomfortable or uneasy. And by the way, you only have one craw, so it can't get stuck in your "crawS".

Namo, the people who used the term "I'm not fer sure" are from Arkansas. Go figure. And no it is not the Clintons. Or Lorelei Lee.

Updated On: 1/21/04 at 01:59 PM

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 1:59pm

I blame Rikki Lake for encouraging the use of the word conversate.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:04pm

I'm not a fan of "what up?" Which down?

[DonelBee]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:18pm

The same people who "warsh" their clothes often also put "icesening" on cakes and have "curtlings" on their windows.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:25pm

Those are more regionalisms than anything. I think they're kinda sweet. Regional pronunciations are different than when people use a dozen of wrongified words when conversating.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:29pm

I agrees FindingNamo! You are obliviously highly edumacated.

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:33pm

Yeah regionalisms are different. They can be maddening in their own way. I have a friend who moved here to Boston from the midwest and was dumbfounded as to what a "palahset" was until I explained it to her.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:38pm

Speaking of Boston. Long ago I worked at a jewelry counter and had a women with a thick New England accent ask me if we had anything for PSDS. I referred her to the pharmacy next door. She then explained that she was looking for pearls to put in her pierced ears.

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:48pm

That's funny. I've lived in Boston all my life and it still took me a minute to get PSDS

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 2:49pm

My second LOL of the day, Sonof! Thank you.

I grew up with a girl whose Mom had a thick New England accent. The mom took a continuing ed art class, and when the teacher instructed them all to do a pastel rendering of "the dock," she wondered why everybody seemed to be working much slower and with more attention to detail than she was as she covered the paper with black and gray.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 3:04pm

"One college educated person I know told me she is fully aware of the difference between the words ask and axe but her ask always comes out axe because of the fact that she has dental problems."

I had a lisp as a child (which is the reason I went for speech therapy at the age of 4), and growing up in New York City, I also speak very quickly, so I sometimes will say Axe rather than ask; but I try not to. It's just that sometimes I become afraid to try and pronounce a word that has an S in the middle of it.

Another word that bothers me is "Use." Not as in, "Please USE the restroom before we leave," but more like, "Use had better come with me." Why can't the say, "You all had better come with me."?

[orion59]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 3:10pm

Oh, you mean "yous". Isn't that the proper way to indicate that you are addressing more than one person? Liek when you say "hey, yous, cmere".