Folks can't speak worth a....

[Ideal08]

Originally posted by SFactor
Creak - Creek

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
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...)

[#1 Leading Lady]

counch instead of couch

orangich instead of orange

antenner instead of antenna

remoke controller instead of remote control

wadder instead of water

Originally posted by sweet angel

pronouncing the h in herb

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.

[vanda]

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????!!!!

[nikki25]

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.

[Finer Woman10-A-91]

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

Originally posted by PnguinTrax
I hate it when...

Ask comes out as 'ax'.
It's mashed potatoes, not 'mash'.
It's old fashioned, not old 'fashion'.
2 cent? Please, there is more than one, it's 2 cents.

My other pet peeve? When someone says they 'conversate' or 'were conversating' with someone. You can converse with someone or you can engage in conversation. There is no such word as 'conversate'.

[AKA2D '91]

ttt for misspriss....

[nachural]

MOD YOU ARE ON POINT!!!!

I was thinking physicist and Thucydidies

[Diva_01]

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

remoke-remote
lamalams-ambulance
oxykin-oxygen

[miss priss]

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

[Dionysus]

Commonly heard from people of my grandparent's genreration:

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

[tinydancer]

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

[FeeFee]

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.

[BabyBlue91]

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."

[SkeeWee14]

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

Alffie Kaffie Alffie= Alpha kappa Alpha

Pronounced by members of our own sorority!