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.