Anonymous wrote:When people say "gentleman" when the man in question certainly isn't one. For example, on the news, a police officer or bystander/witness will say, "Then the gentleman started screaming profanities and starting shooting everyone in sight."

That is NOT a "gentleman." Just say "man" for Christ's sake.

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Anonymous wrote:"Happy St. Patty's Day" instead of "St. Paddy's Day"

and here is one my MIL says to my DD which drives me BONKERS: "We love you BIG!!"

What?? Just what?? Who says this???????

YES YES. (I was just about to post that myself!)

I don't understand the St Paddys Day thing, is it the way they pronounce it or the happy part?

It is St. Paddy, not St. Patty.

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Anonymous wrote:I pull this one out every time this topic comes up: "graduated high school" just grates on me. Is it really so hard to add the "from"?

Believe it or not, but I saw 'graduated high school' in a WaPo article the other day! You'd think their editors should know better..

I've been hearing "graduated high school" so often lately that I've been wondering if it is correct after all - but it really bothers me too!

The total pedant in me is coming out now: it's "I was graduated from high school" or "I was graduated from the Yale school of good grammar."

Anonymous wrote:"I'm fine" instead of "no thanks" or "no, thank you." It's as if "thank you" is too personal, or too effusive, or, or... something.

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Anonymous wrote:I pull this one out every time this topic comes up: "graduated high school" just grates on me. Is it really so hard to add the "from"?

Believe it or not, but I saw 'graduated high school' in a WaPo article the other day! You'd think their editors should know better..

I've been hearing "graduated high school" so often lately that I've been wondering if it is correct after all - but it really bothers me too!

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Anonymous wrote:I pull this one out every time this topic comes up: "graduated high school" just grates on me. Is it really so hard to add the "from"?

Believe it or not, but I saw 'graduated high school' in a WaPo article the other day! You'd think their editors should know better..

Anonymous wrote:I'm not reading 14 pages, but "do what" is just about the most unintelligent term I've heard in this century.

Dear God let the above be written correctly.

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Anonymous wrote:When adults try to use teenage slang. A 40 year old saying "whatev" is lame.

Or a 60 year old saying "cool". Wait... maybe their generation came up with that one??

Miles Davis recorded The Birth of the Cool album in 1957, and in the same year Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story included the song Keep Cool Boy (not like a yo-yo schoolboy!) I was a kid then, and I'm amazed that "groovy" sounded nerdy a couple of years after it was hip, but it's still hip to be cool. But is it hip to say "hip" nowadays, or is that a betrayal of my age?

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Anonymous wrote:So, this could be an entire s/o thread, and it probably already has been the topic of previous threads. My dd is in the process potty training and MIL just got her a bunch of what she calls "panties." Gag. Moreover, it's the way she says it and drags out the word and enunciates the "t", my post cannot possibly do it justice. She stresses both syllables so that it sounds like PAN....wait for it.....TEES. Vomit.

After a half hour of her going on and on and on about DD's pretty new PAN-TEES, DH finally jumped in and told her we call them "underwear," "underpants," or "undies" and to please refrain from using that word. She got all huffy and asked why and he said "because it's not 1970, and we're not in a porno." God love DH and his bluntness.

No offense, PP, but your DH sounds like an asshole.

I thought the same thing. He's probably just repeating what his wife nagged him to say.

+1 Both he and OP are ignorant. The terms "panty" and "panties" are proper English, have been in usage for a long time and have nothing to do with porn.

Anonymous wrote:Adding "the" to the beginning or an "s" to the end of something. Or both, like my FIL. He says, "I'm going out to get milk over at The Giants."