Words people say that drive you nuts

mckayleesmom wrote: Because it isn't how you say it.......some might be mispronounced and some might just not be how you were raised to say it.....

The ones that drive me up the wall are....how I prounounce it is on the right.

Warsh.........I say WASH

irregardless........I just say Regardless

supposably......SupposeDLY

Valentimes.......Its ValentiNes

Libarian......its LIBRARIAN

Inneresting.....InTeresting.

Excape.....Escape

axe.....that is something you chop with.....not how you would ASK a question

Pitcher.....PICTURE

BAR-ette......I pronounce it bu rett......like the hair burett....My friend says this and its like nails on a chalk board

Same friend always use to ask "can you borrow me some money"? and I would say "no, but I will lend you some".....

Nancy Grace.....I can't watch her anymore because of the way she says Juror.....she says Juroar........drives me mad.

lisar replied: Yea alot of people I know say Warsh for WASH.... Its WASH here in the south.

TheOaf66 replied: supposably......SupposeDLY





pet peeve

msoulz replied: LOL, this is a good one! You already got most of mine.

My DH pronounes milk as "melk" and pillow like "pellow".

OH, and edited to add that "MY BAD" is like nails on a chalkboard to me!

mckayleesmom replied: When people call their underwear....skivies.....sounds like scabies or some kind of disease.

When people have an upset stomach and say they have "bubble guts"........My ex use to say that and it made me sick......Dh said it the other day and I told him to never say it again.

sparkys2boys replied: bubble guts..lol?? That is the first time I have heard that one

I think you have got all of mine to, let me think about it more.

amynicole21 replied: when the word Nuclear is pronounced NEW-CU-LER. Thanks, Mr. President - You've made the last 8 years a nightmare for me with that!~

luvmykids replied: I hate when people call a sandwich a sangwich, or confuse "leery" and "weary"....as in "I like him but I'm weary about him"

mckayleesmom replied:
oooh.......the nails on the chalkboard are getting louder.

luvbug00 replied: i actually say most of those things

my biggest peve is when lars says IKEA ( I-kay-a)

no hon it's (I-KEY-YA)

ZandersMama replied: eeeeeek everything mentioned. lol.

5littleladies replied:
I looked this one up-It isn't even a real word.

Valentimes-my hubby says that one. I hate it!
Another he says is KinDEEgarden. I am a English nut so living with him is a trial to my soul.

amynicole21 replied:
Actually, it's "kind of" ok to use it. It is interchangeable with regardless.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/irregardless

msoulz replied:
OMG I can't believe I forgot that one . . . thank goodness he can pronounce "weapons of mass destruction" or it would have been so much worse!!

5littleladies replied:
Yeah that's where I saw it too. "kind of" = not real in my book. Lol!

Kaitlin'smom replied: one of mine is when DH says birthday he says birfday drives me crazy

oh and the statment 'your kidding me' is wearing on my nerves.

amynicole21 replied: Ooooh, I thought of another one.

EX-pecially and EX-cape. AAAAAARGH!!!!!!

My2Beauties replied: When people say axe for ask....that is such a pet peeve of mine! DH says bar-ree for borrow...so does his mom drives me batty. His mom gets prescribed phenergren because she has stomach ulcers and bad stomach problems and she always says yeah gotta go refill my "finnagin"! Drives me nuts.

More so than the way things are pronounced, I'm horrible about people misspelling stuff. There are very....very few words I do not know how to spell or use the correct spelling for...for example

Their, there, and they're all have different meanings, I hate when they are used in the wrong context.

Drives me insane, I'm weird. On message boards I ignore it when people interchange letters or skip a letter, I know it's a typo but when they just totally misspell something, I just want to take a red pen and make error marks all over my computer screen....I'm so anal

Crystalina replied: Y'uns Apparently to say "you all".

Danalana replied: You got most of mine, but I thought of another one. I hate when people pronounce "creek" like "crick". I wonder if they pronounce "cheek" like "chick"...

mckayleesmom replied:
Like I said......its not that its always wrong....Just not how I say it...so it drives me batty.

Danalana replied: Pronouncing "bag" bay-g. How the heck does that happen? Or lay-g for "leg".
Or what about "Wanna come with?" With whom? Why can't you just say "wanna come with us?" or "wanna come with me?" Why just end it with "with"? Or when someone is telling time and says "it's ten to" instead of "ten til"...all of these are ones that I have encountered mostly with my northern friends...I don't hear any of that down here. OH! But one thing you get down here that I hate is "WalMarks" for Wal-Mart. I will never understand a lot of this stuff.

HuskerMom replied:
I hate that! It's like they just don't finish the sentence! I also hate the axe/ask one. It just sounds stupid.

AlexsPajamaMama replied:
Same here!

Celestrina replied: This avatar sums it up for me (its long but you should read it all):

Our Lil' Family replied: I could care less instead of I COULDN'T care less

My BF's sister, and lots of other people around here say "save the dishes/clothes" instead of putting them away. I ALWAYS ask, save them from what? Drowning?

PrairieMom replied:
I have a friend that does that too.

mckayleesmom replied: Buggy....when talking about a grocery cart........Sorry....I know alot of people here probably say it.......But a buggy is something you push a baby in...

luvmykids replied:
I love it!

jcc64 replied: Well, Amy's nuclear thing drives me insane, too. I also hate the pseudo-word "conversate"- it's converse, people. There is no such word as conversate.
Being a true NY'er, I'm sure there are plenty of things that I say that would drive people nuts, too.

moped replied:


Me too!

TANNER'S MOM replied: Ok, being a true southerner I am trying not to be offended! LOLOL

I say so many of these! I do say warsh, for wash sometimes. I do say YOUNS. As in .. youns get in here it's time to eat.

I say pellar..instead of pillow. Winder instead of window. I say Ya'll when I am talking about one person. When I say talking.. it is tawkin...not talking.

I was warsh rag, for wash cloth. Warshing powders, instead of laundry detergent.

I can't help it. I can sound professional and bussiness like. I do have to watch what I say at work. B/c I don't speak the proper way. But who has time for that. I am just me. I am sorry if I sound stupid..lol It's a Southern thing.

Perfect example: Last night I was talking to Abbie and Tanner had English home work. He had to find the best way to say the sentence.

The sentence was. Jane went to church. (Make that a present sentence)

Tanner said..Mom this makes no sense. I said say it the way it would sound right. He said Mom, Jane is fixin to go to church is not an answer!

I can't help it, I am raisin a Southern boy! Darn it.. Jane is fixin to go to church and I agree, it sounds better when he says it!

After all that.. we do not say Wal-Marks.. and Wal-marts. We do have some pride after all!

My3LilMonkeys replied:
I am the same way!!! I don't mind variety in pronunciation for the most part - I love accents of all kinds. But spelling and grammar I am insane about. To, too and two are one of my big ones.

mckayleesmom replied:
Don't be offended....Like I said....its just the way I was brought up to say it....Yes, it drives me nuts when people say it a different way, but Im sure I say things that irk people for the same reason.

When I first moved to Illinois, people there picked my vocab apart... They said I sound snobby when I talk and everything...

~Roo'sMama~ replied: The only one I can think of that hasn't already been said, is when my mom says says celery, she says "salary".

Sam & Abby's Mom replied:
Girl, you crack me up !!!!!! that is too cute

Celestrina replied: One for me is when people confuse "accept" with "except".