What I'm Reading This Week #37
Good mid(ish)- September Friday to you. I hope your week felt short and your flop sweat was minimal. We never seem to be rewarded with two cool weeks in a row so it was back to poopie temps and we'll be tipping 90 this weekend which I am none too pleased about. Once you throw me two 70's days in a row, it's time to retire the summer temps. Dems da rules. I got a few things done this week like steaming the curtains which made them drop about 1/2" but thankfully not drag the floor. I finally got the dead flat I ordered from some chick on Etsy after she sent me the wrong thing initially and it took two weeks to get the right thing. I don't know about you but if I sent someone the wrong thing initially and made them have to drive to the post office to return my mistake, I'd be refunding some money or expediting their shipping on the right box. So I've got my two coats on the newel post after doing a little touch up on a spot I didn't see originally....
I always thought the phrase was "Don't take it personally" but somehow it has become "Don't take it personal". Then another one is it seemed like people suddenly started pronouncing the word Guru differently. My entire life it was GooRoo and suddenly people started calling it geroo. I honestly wondered if I was somehow in a parallel universe - and I still think that sometimes LOL.
ReplyDeleteImport-ent in lieu of important
ReplyDeletePronouncing the G at the end of words
No problem in response to thank you
When people over pronounce the G on the end it always feels like they are super emphasizing it - mad or sarcastic. "What's wrong" "EverythinG".
ReplyDeleteMy biggest one is that that kids writing formal papers for my classes seem to think that text speak is ok. I know their elementary teachers taught them better, and their English teach is fighting the same battle. It makes me crazy when they use U or 2 or 2morrow, fail to capitalize proper nouns, etc. in written assignments. The other thing that bugs me is when kids writing about historical figures call them by their first name. They just can't seem to grasp that they are not personally acquainted with George Washington, they don't get to call him George. Or george.
Two big ones are "irregardless" (not a word, it's a double negative) and when people say "eCKspecially" instead of especially. There is no k or x in the word, but it's pronounced with one. And as far as a trendy word that drives me nuts because I hear it all the blasted time is narrative. It doesn't matter if it's in print, on sports radio, or some other talk show, the word narrative is used way too much.
ReplyDeleteI have to say having been born and raised in England we always said learnt. So when I came to the U.S. it sounded strange to me when people said learned. I just googled it and learnt that both are ok to use but usually English will say learnt and Americans say learned.
ReplyDeleteMy peeve is when people say acrossed. Or son in laws instead of sons in law.