I used to work with someone who pronounced "albeit" as "al-bite" rather than "orl-bee-it". It took me ages before I realised what he meant Take-away instead of minus is something most people grow out of in infant school. He deserves a good slapping just for being that stupid. I always thought the woodworking tool was a row-ter (that's "row" as in "cow" not "bo")
Poor pronunciation and grammar always feel like nails on a blackboard to me. The one thing that annoys me the most, however, is when people try to correct you when they themselves are completely incorrect. I mentioned at work the other day I was feeling "sick". My colleague took great pleasure in informing me that I was in fact feeling "Nauseous". This set me off. Why try to correct someone when you have no real grounding or knowledge in what you're trying to talk about? (Oh, and yes - it's "Nauseated", not "Nauseous")
Quite a lot of neurotics here One that gets me is 'same difference', I'm not even sure if 'no difference' is right, but for some reason i get annoyed at people when they say 'same difference' . . . . Maybe I'm neurotic aswell . . .
Absolutely, this really winds me up. Another one is double negatives. "I ain't done nothing!" - well, surely that means you've done something at least, doesn't it?
Double negatives are fine... Unless your real meaning is supposed to be negative. I tend to say "same difference", but only to wind up my GF...
which is an oxymoron anyway, but also accepted widely as a figure of speech. so you done be ok to speak that.
Nope. Nope. And nope again. The 'correct' plural for Wii, as stated by Nintendo, is "Wii Consoles". There actually isn't a plural version of the word "Wii" on it's own. The idea is the word is more a concept than a singular noun. Pretentious yes, but also little known, and thus often used incorrectly.
A wood working tool is a "rau-ter", a networking appliance is a "rou-ter" primarily because it routes packets to the correct address. I plan a route unless I want to start a riot in which case its a rout
Or worse still, same diff. You mean Kak as in kack, like to kack (or is it cack) your pants, well yes Fords are kack , Holden rules!
Hmm... I think all mine have been covered. Pity, that - I could have done with releasing some vitriol over grammatical and syntactical ****wittery, instead of just nodding to myself as I read them. Does anyone else feel an urge to correct every gro'cers apostrophe they come across?
Some of my respect for Nintendo just died because they actually bothered to decide on that and tell people.
[insert gameshow buzzer sound here] Sorry fool, but you're totally wrong. At least in Europe anyway, Ford make some awesome cars...
Totally agree with the previous poster on people who cant pronounce the letter 'H' Correctly. ashume assume somethingk something
I say Ka as in cah (not an arrr noise) for the Ka I really hate aluminum and loo tenant and also people who write "I should of learnt English"
OK you get the best Ford that you can and I will get Holden to loan their mid range Commodore, Monaro or even an old Torana and we will race around Mount Panorama to see which is best, I will even drive with a manual transmission (I have never driven a manual) and you will still get pwned. *Smegwarrior loves shat stirring Ford lovers.
Penis waving aside, I've just thought of another really annoying one: The Americanism "I could care less," If you could care less, why are you telling me? It's "I couldn't care less!" as in "my level of caring is so low that I my care-level couldn't get any lower"
