FYI

[Jhym]

Can I get a heel?

 

[Heimi]

There's also the "could care less" instead of "couldn't care less". How can you be in such a mental distress that in order to say your care-o-meter is at the minimum and can't be below, you say "I could care less"?

This, a thousand times this!

 

[Nexus]

To be quite honest I think all the Grammar Police need taken out back and beaten...

People make mistakes, and some of us here do not use English as a primary language. I know I've made grammatical and spell errors on a lot of posts, some simply because it was 3 am and I was half asleep while typing. If a person has such an ego as to feel the need to bash someone on an internet posting over something as simple as the difference between to and too, then please go out and get a life, find some man, woman, or goat and find something to do in your life besides be annoying.

 

[guum]

Pet peeve: Congradulations

Where did the "d" come from? How? I even HEAR people say it with a "d"!

Interesting (or not) linguistic fact: the "t" sound that some people make in "congratulations" and the "d" sound that some people make in "congratulations" are in fact the same phonetic sound -- the only difference is that the "d" is voiced (makes your larynx vibrate) and the "t" is unvoiced (doesn't). In most languages, unvoiced consonant sounds between two voiced sounds become voiced -- vowels are always voiced, so the "t" between the "a" and the "u" will, under "normal" voicing rules, become the voiced "d" that annoys you. People who say it with a "t" are really kinda just going out of their way to pronounce it the way it's spelled.

 

[MorganaLeFey]

Oooh yea, had my previously mentioned English teacher mark a correct "lose" wrong and corrected it with "loose," which I had to counter-correct with "lose."

"Loose" and "Lose?" that's easy, who'd confuse "luo" for "leipo"? rolleyes:

(^^ No, you're not supposed to get it)

I suppose that's like mistakenly referring to a lua as a luaau. Erm, um uh... no thank you I'll pass.

(And no I don't expect anyone to get this either, unless you've been to the islands that is. LOL)

 

[MorganaLeFey]

Hubby and I have always assumed 'lich' = "litch". However, someone told me it was "leeshe"... but surely to be pronounced that way it would be spelled 'liche' not 'lich'...?

This is how my hubby and I pronounce it, like you do.

I've heard it pronounced as lickt which drives me absolutely batty.

My #1 pet peeve? Referring to They're or Their as There. Gawd!

It's THEY'RE (a contraction of They are) or THEIR (referring to a person's ownership or possession) but not THERE (referring to location).

Ok, I'm done. LOL

 

[ArchStanton]

Casted

 

[Hildebrand]

Jhelom - I say jel-um
Nujel'm - new-jel-um

Reagent - since Ultima 3 i would say ray-ghent. I never bothered to look it up and I still can't shake the bad habit.

 

[Ailish]

Okay - my mother likes to "dethaw" food in the microwave. Now I know some online dictionaries say it is now acceptable, but I don't buy it. She really means thaw or defrost.

This one makes me crazy! I work with plumbers ... who insist that in the winter they dethaw pipes. Frequently I say "So you re-froze their pipes for them?" Because, if you undoing (de-) the thaw then you must be freezing it!

 

[Ailish]

Interesting (or not) linguistic fact: the "t" sound that some people make in "congratulations" and the "d" sound that some people make in "congratulations" are in fact the same phonetic sound -- the only difference is that the "d" is voiced (makes your larynx vibrate) and the "t" is unvoiced (doesn't). In most languages, unvoiced consonant sounds between two voiced sounds become voiced -- vowels are always voiced, so the "t" between the "a" and the "u" will, under "normal" voicing rules, become the voiced "d" that annoys you. People who say it with a "t" are really kinda just going out of their way to pronounce it the way it's spelled.

If you say it right, you do vocalize the T (as well as the U that follows it). I am an enunciation demon ... ask my kids. They didnt just randomly put those letters there! Unless it is a "silent" rule, you are supposed to say the dang thing!

 

[guum]

If you say it right, you do vocalize the T (as well as the U that follows it). I am an enunciation demon ... ask my kids. They didnt just randomly put those letters there! Unless it is a "silent" rule, you are supposed to say the dang thing!

Not sure what the case is specifically with the "t" in congratulations, but oftentimes letters that look out of place indicate archaic pronounciations or phonetic values that no longer exist. Case in point: "knight". Ye olde pronounciation: "kuh-ni-k-t".

You are free to pronounce it however you wish, of course, and teach your kids likewise, but written language is just a descriptive tool, and the phonetic rule I'm talking about is of the sort "animals drink water" -- there's just no way around it in the grand scheme of things. In a thousand years, I guarantee you that the only people who pronounce it with a "t" will be people at the 30th century equivalent of Renaissance Faires.