Phrases people don't say correctly- Page 4

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 3:12pm

LOL ezactly <<--did that on purpose to point out another one that came to mind as I was responding.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 4:27pm

Oh, that reminds me of another one: when people say "eckcetera."

[Maggie]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 4:42pm

I've heard someone say "flash from the pass" instead of "blast from the past"

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 4:46pm

How about words that are comonly combined, incorrectly?

Alright. Alot. Ahold. It's all right, a lot, a hold.

The last is a favorite in the south, where I come from (or should I say "comes from?") Only it's voiced as, "he got a'holt a'me!" 'Course, you might be so tickled the right person got a'holt of ya, who cares if it's right or wrong.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 5:58pm

Speaking of the South, one of my favorites it "tumped".

"The bucket tumped over! You didn't have ahold of it!"

I also hate when the "s" is dropped from plural words.

"That cost sixty sint."

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 6:33pm

never mind combining all right into alright; but how about pronouncing it as "Ah right."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 8:17pm

Then there are the folks, I met one today, who use "physical" to mean "fiscal."

The physical year ending on June 30th. Huh?

Bulldog

[CaTheatreGirl]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 8:31pm

OK, I've got another one! Using "left" instead of "let". It was on a multiple choice quiz once and I thought, "Who would ever misuse those two words?!" Well, I have a very dear friend who will say something like, "He was doing a very poor job, and was left go." I couldn't believe it! This is an educated guy. Could it be a regional thing? He's from Pennsylvania.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 9:01pm

I had a friend in the catering business who when referring to his tenant-landlord problems kept referring to his rent which was put in "escarole."

Ouch!

Bulldog

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/20/04 at 10:18pm

And being from the South, the way, way South, the you-can't-get-any-more-Southern South, I sometimes still revert to "y'all."

I can generally control this but there are momentary lapses.

Bulldog

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/21/04 at 10:14am

Living in NYC I sometimes hear "Tree" instead of "Three." I have a friend who does that and I used to correct him; but I've given up on that.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/21/04 at 10:32am

Y'all is perfectly acceptable. I was teased so much for using it when I moved to Chicago, but sometimes I hear people using it here as well.

Another one I hate: the erroneous insertion of an "r"

"I can't find my seat. Where is the ursher?"

I worked with a girl who said "compruter" and "distribrution" every day. It drove me insane!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/22/04 at 1:29pm

Another intolerable plural as in:

I work at Ford's.

I shop at K-Mart's

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/22/04 at 6:53pm

My best childhood friend always pronounced "shrimp" as "skermpts." Living on an island it was hell as we ate them often.

He could never get it into his head that whether it was one skrempt or 200 skermpt one never uses an "s" on the end!

Bulldog

Updated On: 1/22/04 at 06:53 PM

[Crazy4MattMorrison52]

Posted: 1/22/04 at 7:57pm

Kathy Brier doesn't deliver two lines very well. For example, when Link says "I couldn't eat." Marissa says the same words, but differently. And, she doesn't say "This is so Afrotastic" very well either.

Updated On: 1/23/04 at 07:57 PM

[orion59]

Posted: 1/23/04 at 8:15am

How appropraite for this thread that I didn't undrestand one word of that last post. What does that mean in non Hairspray language?

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/23/04 at 11:12am

"kathy brier doesnt say 2 lines great. when link says i couldnt eat she says you couldnt eat but marissa said so differently. and she does do this is so afrotastic that great"

HUH?

Did anyone understand this?

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 1/23/04 at 11:23am

In twelve year old speak, I think it translates to:
Kathy Brier doesn't deliver two lines very well. For example, when Link says "I couldn't eat." Marissa says the same words, but differently. And, she doesn't say "This is so Afrotastic" very well either.

[orion59]

Posted: 1/23/04 at 11:27am

thanks for the translation I speak English, French and Spanish but am not very fluent in Twelveyearold and don't know a word of Hairspray.

Afrotastic?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/23/04 at 6:42pm

How about git when you mean get? As in:

I wish these kids would git the hell off this board!!

I am gittng a headache from these kids!!!

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/23/04 at 6:47pm

I hate when people say "StreiZand" instead of "StreiSand."

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/24/04 at 2:15pm

I just remembered one that irritates me to no end.

"Heighth" instead of "height"

It's just a "t" on the end. No "th".

Width and height

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/24/04 at 4:08pm

I almost put that one too, in my "acrossed" post. Wait, did I do the "accrossed" post? I can't remember anymore. I had a gorgeous homosexual lover (wait, is that pertinent) who said "heighth." I just rolleded my eyeballs.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 1/24/04 at 5:15pm

"I did that good."
NO! It's "I did that well." I can't stand when people do that!

"I like him better then you."
NO! It's "I like him better thAn you."
You use the word "than" when comparing, and "then" when you're talking about time.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/24/04 at 6:39pm

Or how about when people say something like, "Me and my boyfriend" when it's, "My boyfriend and I."

lol I think the many years of Catholic school Grammar classes are starting to take their toll on me. :[