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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
Same for the L in salmon.

Because we don't pronounce that L. The pronunciation comes from the French for that fish, which is saumon. But we spell it to be closer to the original Latin, which was salmo or salmon.

It is just the way it is. Saying the "L" isn't pure, it is just bloody mindedness.

It's freakin' water, not worter. *s*

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:


You've no idea the shit I receive from English majors and self-appointed grammar nazi's for the correct use of "mute" when chosen on context to illustrate a point.

My grip is with those who won't stand for anything but "moot."

You mean "gripe," not "grip."

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:

My grip is with those who won't stand for anything but "moot."

You mean "gripe," not "grip."

He needs to come to grips with his gripe.

Leupold.

It ain’t “Lee-ah pold.”

Crick/creek...

It's album...not alblum.
It's Walmart...not Wall-mark

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Originally posted by Jimg1960:
Crick/creek...

In NOVA, it's a "run".
 

Yallow instead of yellow.
Pistol instead of pedestal
Whoreness instead of harness
Disting instead of discing as in breaking up turned soil.

All of these are words I had to grow up hearing. Most of my family talks with pretty heavy accents. I actually have to translate things for my wife sometimes as she can’t pick out what was really being said. There are a bunch more but I haven’t had enough coffee to get the brain going.

This is an excellent list so far.

I'd like to add the people that take the contraction would've, and say would of, instead.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
yurn

Southerners have their own language.
 

These pronunciations should be clear to the educated, but they're too murky.

Cool Whip:

everything I can find says TOO-meric is a proper pronunciation of the word...i wasn't aware this was such an issue, but googling the issue there have whole articles written on the subject

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:


You mean "gripe," not "grip."

Don't tell me what I fucking mean.

But yes. Gripe.

Sticking keys on a very old keyboard.

The Connecticut pronunciation (or lack thereof) of the "T" in words drives me insane.

Mountain = Mouw-in

Fighting = Fih-in

Hitting = Hih-in.

Honorable mention is Berlin. Burrrrlynn.

I also hate when morons try to correct my grammar by acting like they know the correct usage of "I", and "me".

"I" = subject - nominative pronoun, or predicate nominative.

"Me" = object.

Trying to sound like you know WTF you are talking about and saying something like "The dump truck ran over my brother and I" is annoying as hell.

The correct use of I vs. me is found by using it singly in a sentence. One wouldn't say "the dump truck ran over I," unless one is from Jamaica.

It still sounds better to me, having been raised with british english, to say that the dump truck ran over my brother and I, though it's not correct.

To say that the dump truck ran over my brother and I is better than to say that the dump truck ran over my brother and me. If me is used, it's better parsed as "the dump truck ran over me and my brother."

Given the choice, I'd settle for the dump truck simply running over my brother, as I'm not his keeper, and I'm happy to remove myself from both the sentence and any possibility of being run over by a dump truck, or any other truck.

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Originally posted by sns3guppy:
The correct use of I vs. me is found by using it singly in a sentence. One wouldn't say "the dump truck ran over I," unless one is from Jamaica.

Exactly what I was taught.

There seems to be an even more ridiculous variation in common usage now.

"The dump truck ran over my brother and myself."

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This is why the plural of “foot” is “feet.” In Old English, a foot plural was footaye. (You add a long “a” sound to make a plural, much like we use a “s” today. However, saying a long “a” is difficult for the palate after foot, so the “oo” vowels were stretched, so to speak, into the long “ee” of feet. Then later, because final, unaccented vowels are weak, the final “a” gets dropped, and we’re left with “feet” as the plural.

Well that makes sense. Because "bootaye" is kind of plural...

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Originally posted by Rev. A. J. Forsyth:

"I" = subject - nominative pronoun, or predicate nominative.

"Me" = object.

Trying to sound like you know WTF you are talking about and saying something like "The dump truck ran over my brother and I" is annoying as hell.

Oh, yes! Preach it, Reverend.

I have not done an accurate count, but I'm pretty sure that the wrong use outnumbers the correct use, even -- gasp -- here on SIGforum. Every time I see it, I think to myself, "Did I really just read that?" and I have to go back and look at it again.

To date, I have not kvetched about it. Self-control, don'tcha know.