LOOSE is not LOSE.

[BethFromVA 5]

What about 'stern wheel' for stirring wheel?!

By stirring wheel, do you mean steering wheel? :laugh:

[pattygreen 5]

I had someone on LBT correcting my spelling and grammar every time I posted. Now that's annoying! When you're typing fast, you always seem to push the wrong key. Just overlook it, hey?

[Carrie_C 9]

By stirring wheel, do you mean steering wheel? :thumbup:

HA HA HA!!!!!!!!! I live in the South, what can I say?!! :laugh:

[BethFromVA 5]

HA HA HA!!!!!!!!! I live in the South, what can I say?!! :thumbup:

I could tell. HEHEHE!! Lived there for 27 years myself, though people HERE seem to think they are in the south. lol

[tapshoes 2]

Moot - meaning of little or no significance. This is pronounced the same as boot. It is not mute (meaning the absence of sound or ability to speak).

[tibbie 0]

Especially, not exspecially, or eckspecially! I love this rant.

[PATCHELTON 0]

I have thoroughly enjoyed this thread and I agree completely. I went to college as an adult so I had to take ACT instead of SAT entrance exams. I was 32 when I entered college, so I scored modestly on everything except English, which was the 98th percentile (never forgot--I was so proud of that). It drives me crazy to find typos in text books and other print material.

Hopefully this isn't too far off the theme of this thread, but my pet peeve is the number 8 on gas station price signs. Most, if not all, print styles make the number 8 with the bottom slightly larger than the top. For some reason, almost universally, the 8 is reversed at gas stations, the fat part at the top and the smaller part on the bottom. Sometimes I even see 3's that way, but not all of them have differences between the top and bottom. Did someone change the rules and forget to tell me? Flip those freakin 8's, people!

Thanks. I have been itching to bitch about this.:drool: I do have a life, plenty of hobbies and just wanted to vent. Thanks.

Edited April 28, 2009 by PATCHELTON

[BethFromVA 5]

Thanks. I have been itching to bitch about this.:drool: I do have a life, plenty of hobbies and just wanted to vent. Thanks.

Hehehe, I never thought of it, but it's a righteous bitch.

[luluc 6]

patchelton - i have never noticed that, need to remind myself to look at the gas stations..

these are two words dh pronounces that i rib him about:

roof - he calls it a ruff

cement - he calls it seament

[BethFromVA 5]

patchelton - i have never noticed that, need to remind myself to look at the gas stations..

these are two words dh pronounces that i rib him about:

roof - he calls it a ruff

cement - he calls it seament

Now "SEAment" is a Texan thang. As is AMbuLANCE. And PEcan. :drool:

[plain 12]

roof - he calls it a ruff

cement - he calls it seament

I say "roof".....but it almost has 2 syllables with my accent. I have to 'fess up that I do say seament (like swimming in the seament pond).

[Malaika 50]

I lived in New England for a while and it was always "WARSHER" ... tell me where there is an "R" in Washer? After leaving NE we moved to Indiana. I lived there for 28 years and after marrying, my mother-in-law constantly said "Southmore" instead of "Sophomore" and "liberry" instead of library. My DBF uses the mute not moot - and working in the legal field, I can't help but correct him!

I love this thread ... LOL

[elcee 3,341]

Having lived in 3 different countries -UK, South Africa, Australia you discover there are many ways of pronouncing things.There are also words that have different meanings in different places, one of the best examples of which is the word fanny! Whilst sometimes these might drive you mad you have to accept that things like this help make the world a more interesting place. But its when people get things blatantly wrong that it is really annoying.

e.g how many people are there out there that do not know the correct way to use the words borrow and lend?

Can you borrow me a book! Grrr. No I can't but I might be able to lend you one.

[luluc 6]

I lived in New England for a while and it was always "WARSHER" ... tell me where there is an "R" in Washer?

i do get told i put an R in wash / washer, that and the way i pronouce coffee are dead give aways i'm from NY.

plain - isn't a seament pond a pool???

[SuzanneG 1]

Another favorite of mine is when some says, Can you itch my back? WTH? It's SCRATCH your back because it ITCHES. LOL

I love this thread!