The one thing that really works my nerve is when people mispronounce carry . It is not pronounced curry:rolleyes:

Oh yeah and it's louis vuitton not lewis batton!

The letter R pronounced R-ra

I also dislike when people interchange singular and plural words

Ex:

I need to brush my teefes.

My feets hurt.

And don't Forget about . . .
 

My two favorites that I hear on a regular basis are

seen or saw- seent
looked - look-did

Ex. I seent a girl that look-did a mess!!

Whenever people mispronounce stuff like this, the only thing I want to say is please look-did in the dictionary and you'll seent that these words don't exist!

An absolute Ebonical (yes, I invented that word!) mess!!

Re: And don't Forget about . . .
 

you MUST reside in the South. (don't answer)

every-ere
prescription-'scripton
again-ah-GAIN (you know when folks try to speak "proper")

Re: Re: And don't Forget about . . .
 

LOL. Maybe this is another Southern one:

Out here - out cha

Re: Re: Re: And don't Forget about . . .
 

wait!

out here- out CHere!

out of you- out CHA!

holD up- holE up!

Pomegranate = pomagram. I still do that. :)

what?

:confused:

pronunciate please. LMAO :D (remember that from Martin?)

much-merch

Soror, when I was a little girl, I pronounced pomegranate "pomagram." That's all that meant.:D

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to the person who came up with this HILARIOUS thread. I thoroughly enjoyed every last response. I can't remember when I laughed so hard.

You never can actually imagine how COUNTRY you sound until someone else brings it out. I'm from South Carolina and I KNOW that I have many moments of being absolutely country (and I'm a college-educated woman also). It's almost like speaking another language at times. When I'm around certain people (like my family who actually understand what I'm saying), I just completely relax with correct pronunciation and what not. But when I'm around my supervisor, director, SOME co-workers, and other agencies, then my language changes.

It's good that we can laugh at this. If the truth be told, EBONICS (which is what we now call it) is basically part of the African-American culture. And, if you think about it, it's not so bad. It's DIFFERENT (and that's a good thing). :) :) :) :) :)

I CANT STAND IT when people say "urnion" instead of onion. I can be quite "country", but that one irritates me to no end.

I have a co worker who no matter how many times I try to correct her on the sly, insists on saying prudentials instead of credentials!

Here are more.

1. Fo sho---for sure.

2. bowy--boy

3. nuttin'--nothing

4. dat good--that's good

4. I've noticed that here in Richmond, many people say "won't"---like "He won't at home when he was supposed to be"---instead of wasn't.

5. dat dey---that there (go figure)

6. gimme---give me

7. wannna---want to

8. lemme---let me

I'm talking to my daughter now so that something else will slip out. :D :D :D

lmao!!!!
 

ohmigosh! Ya'll are clownin' :)

I got one for ya'll...my dad and I were driving through chicago (pronounced chi car go... :( ) and he was going on and on about how the "amtrak" was killing people and how it sho' was a pity (he's so country :) )... I thought he was talking about the train. This man ment anthrax!

others:
chirch=church
skirmp=someone thought that was the plural of shrimp...
pronouncing the h in herb
moonster=monster (my lil' neice:p )
teef=teeth or toof=tooth
eyeron=iron
expurrence=experience
lawd hammercy!
chile=child
I could probably go on and on...

Re: Now Just for the Record............
 

What's the difference?

Ok, I see I mispronounce some stuff. I say WARSH instead of wash. I really don't see anything wrong with it, lol. Warsh my hair, warsh my clothes, etc., lol. :)

I also say:

Buhtato - potato
Buhjamas - pajamas
babydial - babydoll (everyone in cleveland says it like this)
beel - bill (and all the rhyming words: hill, pill, etc.)
grandpaw - grandpa (I KNOW I'm not alone on this one)
bafroom - bathroom :o
fughgerator - refrigerator (fugh as in ugh, lol)

Other stuff I've heard...

Cincinnatuh - Cincinnati (RM, how you forget that one??)
peeza - pizza (courtesy of my Grandpaw)
bursh - brush (also courtesy of Grandpaw)
Sairday - Saturday (compliments of my Daddy)
nan - ??? (my father used to say this, too.. not nan before...)

counch instead of couch

orangich instead of orange

antenner instead of antenna

remoke controller instead of remote control

wadder instead of water

Re: lmao!!!!
 

As a matter of fact herb can be pronounced with or without the h. I can't stand it with the h though. Martha Stewart says herbs and it works my nerves.


Another country word:
Pronouncing the "w" in sword. :eek:

I don't know if its been posted before, if it has sorry! We all know someone that says Liberry instead of library! And when I was in college and we studied Hamlet, why was grown folks up in there calling it Hamilton????!!!!

Linguistic Sins
 

Here are a few that I hear in W. PA regularly:

Wash~Warsh
Do you know what I mean?- no wut I men?

And at home:

cellular phone: cellu phone (that's my dear momma)


I'll add more later.

"conversate" and "conversating"
 

OOOOH...I want to pull my hair out every time I hear someone say these non-words!!!!!

1 search
 

ttt for misspriss....

MOD YOU ARE ON POINT!!!!

I was thinking physicist and Thucydidies

My granmother says wursh,chillren, etc...so I hear you country folks out there.

remoke-remote
lamalams-ambulance
oxykin-oxygen

Thanks AKA2D91, I searched and I couldn't find it with the words I put in.......;)

Commonly heard from people of my grandparent's genreration:

Suuuuuuurp---syrup
amtrak---anthrax
choych---church
ambulaynce---ambulance
zink---sink
amocillin---amoxicillin
tallnol---tylenol

Take the "r" out of warsh and put it back in liberry where it belongs!!

Please learn how to properly conjugate verbs
 

It annoys me to no end when people fail to properly conjugate the verb "be" (as in "to be"), no matter if it's past, present, or future tense.

Example:
It's not was you, but were you.
It's not was we, but were we.

I used those two examples above b/c I have several co-workers, including one who is currently working towards her MPA (bless their hearts b/c they are such sweethearts), but when they open their mouths and speak, I dayum near cringe.

PSA - "Conversate" and "irregardless" are not words. Please repeat this sentence as often as needed until the concept is firmly placed into your brain.
Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. :p

Pe-teek /Petique (?)
 

It drives me batty to hear someone says pe-teek instead of petite! The last time I heard it was on that HBO special about hookers and johns. The guilty party, having just come home from jail, was talking about his dream "girl."

This is the worst!!!
 

This burns me up every single time that I hear it:

Alffie Kaffie Alffie= Alpha kappa Alpha

Pronounced by members of our own sorority!

Why does my husband insist on saying "wan" (rhymes with can) instead of won? I try to tell him that he sounds ign't but he doesn't want to hear it. :mad:

Spaghetti = pa-sketti
Bathroom = baffoom
Onion = on-yon (thanks Justin Wilson :rolleyes: )
Roof = ruff

Heeeeyyyy! Don't dog Joo-stahn Wilson! He has me CTFU.
:p

Re: Please learn how to properly conjugate verbs
 

Thank you, FeeFee. The worst part about conversate and irregardless is that the people who say these words actually think using them makes them sound more intelligent.

I bet it was already brought up, but I cannot stand when people say brung! That is not a word. BROUGHT...I brought it...

Guilty
 

I've been guilty of saying BRUNG a time or ten. :o :o :o

Re: Re: Please learn how to properly conjugate verbs
 

Add SKEWL for SCHOOL to this list! :mad: :mad: :mad: I CANNOT stand to hear it pronounced that way.

Yall I can't stand to hear people say..

"For the simple fact" ----when they are trying to prove a point. Ironically, I've caught myself saying this a time or two.:rolleyes:

But I reallllly can't stand this-----

"I got my hair DID"
It's I got my hair done, done ya hear me, done! :mad: :rolleyes: :confused: :eek: :)

One thing that I hate is when people misuse and mispronounce the word alumni. First, the word is pronounced a-LUM-NEYE, not a-loom-in-neye. I hate that.

Additionally, alumni is the plural form of the word alumnus. Example: In one year, I will be a FAMU alumnus. In on year, all of my friends and I will be FAMU alumni.

One last point, alumus and alumna are not interchangeable. Alumna and its plural form, alumnae, are the feminine forms of the words alumnus and alumni. Example: In one year, I will be a FAMU alumna, but my friend Herman will be a FAMU alumnus.

Sorry for the English lesson but that gets on my nerves just as much as people who misuse who and whom. I just hate it.