Things people say that annoys you...

[Anonymous]

When the weather reporter says "the" overnight.

[Anonymous]

walkable

It's an automatic I don't want anything to do with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:12:57 I think that usage is fine, it implies that you feel petrified of something. It can be fear or surprise but contemporary usage is implicit fear. See below.

Why, I felt petrified with astonishment--although, in view of the fact that you had failed me for four days, I had been expecting some such extraordinary occurrence.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

I can see being pertrified with astonishment, but for some reasons being petrified "of" something seems off to me. I don't know why it bugs me so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:12:57 I think that usage is fine, it implies that you feel petrified of something. It can be fear or surprise but contemporary usage is implicit fear. See below.

Why, I felt petrified with astonishment--although, in view of the fact that you had failed me for four days, I had been expecting some such extraordinary occurrence.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

I can see being pertrified with astonishment, but for some reasons being petrified "of" something seems off to me. I don't know why it bugs me so.

Are you not petrified of spider? Couldn't petrified be used the same way terrified is used?

I say 'petrified of' is perfectly fine.


Petrifyy you can visit remains of a petrified forest.
Petrifyall seemed to have sn enthralling time even tho nearly every one of them were petrified at some point.
Petrifyare unable to move anywhere and are petrified as loud noises prevent them from moving.
Petrify was absolutely petrified, you know!
Petrifyabsolutely petrified of the dentist but i'm in desperate need to go.
Petrifyld lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter.
Petrifying well.
Petrify petrified wood is visible in some areas with reduced water levels.
Petrify so petrified by what he had said.
Petrifyaughing cavalier was, in theory, petrified of everything.
Petrifyay between the front lines stands a petrified tree with shell shock from the war.
Petrifyan said he was robbed and threatened in halifax on july 26 but was too petrified to speak out further about his ordeal.
Petrify my scheme in the shape of the discovery of a remarkably petrified man.
Petrifypieces of wood in the lower portion of the debris were slightly calcited, while occasionally a piece was completely petrified.
Petrifyding to legend they are reputed to be the petrified remains of men who were hurling on the sabbath.
Petrify astounded, rooted to the spot, almost petrified.
Petrify they asked if the resident archeologist had seen the petrified penis of the poofter peruvian prince.

[Anonymous]

I hate when people use a period. after. every. word. for emphasis. I've even started seeing it in advertisements lately. It was striking the first time I saw it. Now it is way overdone and makes the speaker sound like a 17 year old moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Zinc, as in "can you please put that in the zinc"
my MIL says this and I still cat figure out where in the world she learned this.
She is from here and so is my family. No one else I know uses this word this way...

What does zinc refer to in this context? Have you asked her to explain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zinc, as in "can you please put that in the zinc"
my MIL says this and I still cat figure out where in the world she learned this.
She is from here and so is my family. No one else I know uses this word this way...

What does zinc refer to in this context? Have you asked her to explain?

Why do 17 year olds have to be morons?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:INsurance

How should it be pronounced?

Not the PP but I agree. It's in-SUR-ance.

Is this a regional thing? I say in-SUR-ance, but a lot of Southerners seem to say IN-sur-ance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Zinc, as in "can you please put that in the zinc"
my MIL says this and I still cat figure out where in the world she learned this.
She is from here and so is my family. No one else I know uses this word this way...

What does zinc refer to in this context? Have you asked her to explain?

Why do 17 year olds have to be morons?

They don't, but the ones who aren't don't speak in cliches.

[Anonymous]

"Ugh"
"Graduated college" It's graduated FROM college!

[Anonymous]

I have my Masters.

[Anonymous]

Anyone that starts a sentence with "Honey." It happens quite often here. Maybe it's the same person but it just makes you sound so dumb.

[Anonymous]

Amazeballs - or anything that ends in balls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Warshington instead of washington

Uh oh. That's me. In my defense, I am local and did grow up here. Saying WASH-ington sounds off and very unnatural for me.

If you say this, you grew up in Maryland, not Washington.

You are correct. I did grow up in Maryland, but my mom also says it and she was born in DC (although she lived in Maryland most her life as well).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Warshington instead of washington

Uh oh. That's me. In my defense, I am local and did grow up here. Saying WASH-ington sounds off and very unnatural for me.

I grew up in Pittsburgh, near Washington, PA, and about 25% of the western PA natives call it Warshington, PA. Never understood why then and still don't now.

So, PP, any idea where the invisible "r" came from? I'm curious how this ever got started.

I actually have no idea. My dad grew up outside of Pittsburgh, but my mom grew up in the MD/DC area. I also say CROWN instead of Crayon. And sometimes say Y'all (although that was mostly when I was younger). When I talk here, most people do not notice it, but I lived in Southern California for ten years and many people there commented on it. If I really slow down and form my words deliberately, I can speak 'correctly', but I am Italian....I talk fast and use my hands. A lot.