What I'm Reading This Week #27
Happy Friday everyone! I hope you've got the day off to enjoy. I would really appreciate the weather dialing it back from Satan's taint to dryish heat please. I'm not even asking for much. Like 83 degrees would make me happy at this point but there's no end in sight to the 90's. The Mr and I have both been plagued with migraines this week. He had a two day event and I had an ocular migraine which is just so crappy to deal with since you can't read or do anything until your vision isn't screwed up. I got to wait on hold for an hour Tuesday with the state tax department so I decided to sand and prime the newel post while listening to hold music designed to make you hang up. To quote Bugs Bunny "he don't know me vewy well, do he?" I got that squared away and later went out between pop up storms to deadhead some zinnias which you may have seen in Wednesday's post. Speaking of Wednesday, it was a busy day in the ga...
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.