Mispronunciation/ Poor grammar that annoys you?

Ihatecuddles

LynnGrace wrote: »

I seen and I done...

I saw what you did there...

The Backwards Man

Candie wrote: »

Funny strange or funny haha?

Both, probly

chinacup

Helicocter - my dad
Ejite - my dad
=(

Frosty McSnowballs

I'm not fussed by all this lark. Once the point gets across, then I'm happy.

Stiletto72

Myriad of....

Sir Osis of Liver.

Heard 'stable diet' recently.

Isn't that what horses eat?

dxhound2005

Stiletto72 wrote: »

Myriad of....

Mispronunciation? Poor grammar?

The Backwards Man

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Heard 'stable diet' recently.

Isn't that what horses eat?

Supposably.

Acedia.

More and more, I see people leaving the "ed" out at the end of words. E.g. "I'm bias against him" and "She text me yesterday".
It doesn't annoy me. It just seems really strange.

pauldla

Beizhing, as beloved by newscasters. It's Beijing, as in Jingle Bells.

The Backwards Man

Actually, this thread reminds of a funny thing happened on Friday.

I was at the post office when this American gentleman enters and asks the postmaster if he knows of a Boyle family in the locality, as he was trying to locate his long lost cousins. Postmaster said he didn't as he was new to the area but the postman was just filling his bag outside and to ask him.

So out the man goes and asks the postie; 'Excuse me sir, I was wondering if you could tell me if you have any Boyles on your route?'

The postman, a bit taken aback, replies 'No, but I had one on the back of my neck once'

Potential-Monke

Before the recent Ireland Rugby game (where someone apparently was retiring and the whole of Ireland seemed to suddenly become Rugby historians), I was witness to someone on my Facebook feed asking his entire friend population to ejaculate on the Emerald Isle, ie: "cum on Ireland".

Actually, abbreviations that have a history from "txt spk" wreck my bulb. I understand the internet ones, but that's mostly because it's sentences or a combination of a few words put into letters, ie: LMAO, ROFL, FWIW, IMO. I can't stand people who remove, or change words completely, just to save themselves from pressing a few extra keys/taps, like U for you, lik for like, spk for speak, an so on.

The evolution of language seems to be heading in the direction of "spell it how it sounds".

Sam Kade

Quirk instead of Cork :rolleyes:

dxhound2005

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Actually, this thread reminds of a funny thing happened on Friday.

I was at the post office when this American gentleman enters and asks the postmaster if he knows of a Boyle family in the locality, as he was trying to locate his long lost cousins. Postmaster said he didn't as he was new to the area but the postman was just filling his bag outside and to ask him.

So out the man goes and asks the postie; 'Excuse me sir, I was wondering if you could tell me if you have any Boyles on your route?'

The postman, a bit taken aback, replies 'No, but I had one on the back of my neck once'

Happened on Friday, did it? You were lucky to be in the vicinity to pick up this gem.

The Backwards Man

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Happened on Friday, did it? You were lucky to be in the vicinity to pick up this gem.

The world is full of strange coincidences.

Yamanoto

Yamanoto wrote: »

Chicargo

What's all that about?

Likewise 'Thighland'

Hermy

Far too many instances of library being pronounced liberry.

chinacup

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

I'm not fussed by all this lark. Once the point gets across, then I'm happy.

Aren't you mature? =D

Sam Kade

Baltimore in Cork everyone is calling it balltimore (bawltimore) nowadays :rolleyes:

championc

mike_ie wrote: »

heh - don't get me started on their/there/they're and your/you're

Too right. I recently pointed out about 6 mistakes in one paragraph which was posted on a thread on Boards.

The post was deleted and I got a warning for basically picking on the poster

kingcobra

One that really bugs me is when some English people vocally add an imaginary 'r' following a word ending in a vowel. For example "bananer" instead of "banana" or "Australia-r" instead of "Australia."

Whatsisname

Theres a special place in hell for people who type "though" as "do". If you're gonna shorten "though", use "tho", how does "do" even come into contention??

sligojoek

Fergal Keane on Drivetime two weeks ago.

"Confidential reciprient" He must have said it about five times in one report.

BNMC

Whatsisname wrote: »

Theres a special place in hell for people who type "though" as "do". If you're gonna shorten "though", use "tho", how does "do" even come into contention??

Dodo is a type of bird. Perfectly understandable mistake. :pac:

LynnGrace

Whatsisname wrote: »

Theres a special place in hell for people who type "though" as "do". If you're gonna shorten "though", use "tho", how does "do" even come into contention??

Or 'thou'...

Frosty McSnowballs

arf91 wrote: »

Aren't you mature? =D

No, I washed it twice today.

Stiletto72

dxhound2005 wrote: »

Mispronunciation? Poor grammar?

Poor grammar.

roadsmart

shopaholic01 wrote: »

An apostrophe used in plural words, e.g. word's.

This has become so common recently, I've even seen it in large company advertising. My number one pet hate,

BNMC wrote: »

Loose/lose.

closely followed by this.

chinacup

Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »

No, I washed it twice today.

I wish I didn't get that joke =|

Wacker The Attacker

There are several instances of deliberate mispronunciation, particularly in the media.

Pronouncing t as an s or a double s. City as Sissy as an example