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what are your pet peeves in English language usage
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 4:00 pm
by bailey66
Irregardless?
All intensive purposes?
Some local mispronounciation?
The way some accents employ such convoluted ways to be able to NOT pronounce an "r"?
M. Needs-to-know Bailey
Re: what are your pet peeves in English language usage
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:07 pm
by Slava
Since you aksed, while I have heard that it is actually the original pronuncification, and should be accepted, aks bugs me.
Re: what are your pet peeves in English language usage
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:19 pm
by bailey66
Then it should be spelled axed, right?
This word is usually an ebonic term, and as such I don't want to go there.
My SO has some mispronountions (sic) , agsorbed for absorbed, val for valve, concreek for concrete, etc. and those drive me crazy.
M.but-discretion-is-the-smartest-thing Bailey
Re: what are your pet peeves in English language usage
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 8:25 pm
by Slava
On a fun note, a Canadian friend does not say "asphalt." She puts an "h" between the s and p. I don't think it's a Canadian thing, but I could be wrong.
Re: what are your pet peeves in English language usage
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:02 pm
by bailey66
On a fun note, a Canadian friend does not say "asphalt." She puts an "h" between the s and p. I don't think it's a Canadian thing, but I could be wrong.
I spent last winter in Alberta, and there are a few funny, to my ears pronounciations, skel LEE tal, for skeletal, this makes me laugh, ME thane.
M. Will-never-go-travelin'-again Bailey
It's downright cold there.