When people - especially politicians and journalists - mispronounce proper nouns. ie, Iran (eye-ran), Iraq (eye-rack), Pakistan (pack-a-stan), Afghanistan (Aaf-gah-ney-stan)

Anonymous wrote:At Panera when they ask me if I want an apple or chips. Really does anyone take the apple?

LOL!!!

I hate when women say "we're pregnant" ; I guess to make their husbands feel included. Also I hate when couples have joint email or FB accounts, but that's deviating from the original question...

Anonymous wrote:"it is what it is" I HATE that! I want to slap anyone that says that

Agree. This is stupid.

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.

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IN-surance instead of insur-ance. Hillbilly much?

Duggar cult, eight days a week.

Anonymous wrote:"it is what it is" I HATE that! I want to slap anyone that says that

Well, if you don't get it, you don't get it.

"it is what it is" I HATE that! I want to slap anyone that says that

I-talian

IN-surance instead of insur-ance. Hillbilly much?

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MIL says "what all". I have no idea what she is saying. Frankly, it doesn't even matter at that point.

Don't you mean what all she is saying?

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Anonymous wrote:I often hear the grammatically INCORRECT statement:

"Jenny gave the gift to Henry and I."

"Katie talked to Joe and I."

It should be Henry and ME.

Joe and ME.

Sabrina Soto makes this mistake frequently. HGTV needs to hire some English majors.

This is creeping into everything, it's on scripted dramas all the time now. Nothing makes me crazier than someone who's supposed to be a judge/lawyer/doctor/detective/scientist making this mistake. I can suspend my disbelief around surgeons being anorexic ditzes, but this just kills it!

Easy way to remember is to always keep the pronoun next to the verb (assuming you are capable of subject-verb agreement, of course): Jane and I went to the store. The cashier gave the bag to me and Jane.

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Anonymous wrote:Should of instead of should have. "I should of picked up milk on the way home." So wrong!
A whole 'nother (as in "that's a whole 'nother story."). It's "another" or "a whole other", not both!

They're saying "should 'ave," which is a perfectly legit non-formal prinunciation. If they write "should of" you have a problem.

Yes. People who don't know how to spell the things they say is the topic for another gripe thread, but "should've" is a perfectly fine contraction.

The substitution of was/n't for were/n't.

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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 know a number of people from Western PA who say "warshing machine"
and "run up a room" for "clean a room".

Regional expressions are the only explanations I have received.

It's "red up your room." I've been out of the 'burgh for 25 years and never ran into anyone who talks like my relatives.

At Panera when they ask me if I want an apple or chips. Really does anyone take the apple?