What did you say?

you forgot EXPRESSO!

My database professor frequently says "dater" instead of "data". It drives me nuts.

Oh, and my husband says "acrossed" instead of "across".  ARGH! 

Edited by Artemis 2006-03-10 12:01 PM

What they say: What they should have said:
your you're
their they're


I could add more.

here's one i was guilty of until i lived there:

oreGONE (wrong) instead of oreg'in' (right)

My bf likes to say "coinage".. should it be simply "coins"? I think he spent too much time playing medieval RPG games.

Paul Senior on American Chopper always says "IDEARS" instead of ideas. Craks me up every time. I love that show. "MIKEY for PRESIDENT"

Edited by rollinbones 2006-03-10 12:14 PM

Professor probably comes from the UK, or has significant exposure.

The British EE professor I had would talk about "1 upon betar" (1/beta).

You forgot two of my most hated... Nook-you-ler instead of nuclear and methodology instead of method.

Afterall, shouldn't methodology mean the study of methods? Yet I know plenty of people that talk about the methodology that they use for something.

Oh, I almost forgot, utilize for use also drives me crazy. I know that it has nothing to do with pronunciation, but I do a lot of writing for my major, and I cannot stand when utilize is "utilized." I have read in multiple english pitfall books that utilize should be avoided at all costs. Ok, I'm done, just breathe deeply Drew!

Also, when people refer to data as a singular thing. Sorry, wrong! "The data are accurate", not "the data is accurate," is the correct way to refer to data.

My fiance says "Counsel" for "Console" (the thing in the middle of the front seats of a car).  It drives me crazy!

people that call crawl stroke "freestyle". doesn't really annoy me to the point of pain, but if i don't correct them, i just don't feel right.
also, there are people that call instruments "machines", but that is another can of worms.

Max, I know you're old, but I didn't know you were this old!

[Q] From Lee Becker: “What’s the meaning and origin of on tenterhooks?”
[A] It’s been so long since anyone has seen either a tenter, or the hooks on one, that the word and the idea behind it are now quite mysterious, so much so that it sometimes appears as on tenderhooks, which sounds as though it ought to make more sense. But at one time, the phrase on tenterhooks would have evoked an image that was immediately understandable.
It comes from one of the processes of making woollen cloth. After it had been woven, the cloth still contained oil from the fleece, mixed with dirt. It was cleaned in a fulling mill, but then it had to be dried carefully or it would shrink and crease. So the lengths of wet cloth were stretched on wooden frames, and left out in the open for some time. This allowed them to dry and straightened their weave. These frames were the tenters, and the tenter hooks were the metal hooks used to fix the cloth to the frame. At one time, it would have been common in manufacturing areas to see fields full of these frames (older English maps sometimes marked an area as a tenter-field). So it was not a huge leap of the imagination to think of somebody on tenterhooks as being in an state of anxious suspense, stretched like the cloth on the tenter. The tenters have gone, but the meaning has survived.
Tenter comes from the Latin tendere, to stretch, via a French intermediate. The word has been in the language since the fourteenth century, and on tenters soon after became a phrase meaning painful anxiety. The exact phrase on tenterhooks seems first to have been used by Tobias Smollett in Roderick Random in 1748.

Actually it's "Or-y-gun".

Just about everything that comes out of dubya's mouth makes me cringe, but "nucular" really bugs me.

And you don't loose something. However, you might lose it because it was loose.

scott

right. see, i'm obviously not a native orygunian.

Main Entry: herb
Pronunciation: '&rb, US also and British usually 'h&rb

That cut and paste didn't work very well.

Edited by DerekL 2006-03-10 1:41 PM

I'm not a big fan of 'mischevious', 'for all intensive purposes'... a bunch of others, but I can't think of them right now.

I once heard somebody say affadavis!

Utilize instead of use.

Supposably instead of supposedly...grates me every time.