I'm still trying to find why the letter i is used in 'realtor', mispronounced as 'realitor'.

While we're at it, what the hell is jewlerey? It's as if Emily Litella has been teaching English.

I don't know if meteorologists are trying to dumb it down for the masses, but I really wish they would stop. People should be challenged to learn things they don't immediately know but that's not the way the US operates, now. People want everything handed to them.

Possum or opossum?

KOT

I've wondered if, as a challenge, I could get someone who says "noo-kyuh-ler" to mispronounce "unclear" as "un-kyuh-ler," then ask why they can say "clear" if "un" is in front of it, but not if "noo" is in front of it.


That's better spelled joolery. But there's another pronunciation gaffe, too:
A Southern California jeweler has been using the same announcer for their radio ads for at least ten years. About ten years ago I called their corporate offices on the weekend and was able to leave a voice message asking why they advertised Jewry when their product had nothing at all to do with Jewish people. I mentioned that the large group known collectively as "Soviet Jewry" would probably want the word "jewelry" to be pronounced correctly. The announcer was able to say it right for two or three years but just couldn't sustain the pronunciation.


Come on, now, let's write it the way it's said: meterologists.

Well, there's the challenge of upsetting everybody by using a very respectable word that is nearly forbidden these days. See [Link: washingtonpost.com] for a situation involving the word "niggardly." And if that word offends you, look it up and especially look at its origins. It is a near homonym* for another word, but it's not that word.

*Homonym -- now there's a word that can get people started.

For that matter, today's reading included an article explaining how an invented etymology claims that the word "picnic" had its origin in watching lynchings in the south, even though it derives from a French word from the 1600s. There were objections to a recent event since it was called a picnic. Even after seeing the explanation for why there should be no offense, it was objected to. Someone suggested changing it to "an outing." Good, right? NOPE. Some gay people objected that they didn't want any public outings.

And the beat goes on....

Here's Post 3 at [Link: remotecentral.com]:

Yup, ya just can't stop the old folks from using outdated terms!

yes some don't do anything, but I would guess it is more due to retrofit then anything else (why make a hole cover for the post after the road was upgraded to smart lights that are synched to keep traffic flowing).

But on some it activates sound for blind people and in other's there is pedestrian crossing time only if the button is pushed.

You didn't go after the low-hanging fruit of 'nuclear' vs 'nucular'? I'm surprised! I find it a bit odd/misinformed that so many people dumped on George W for his inability to say 'nuclear' when Jimmy Carter says it the same way. The irony WRT Carter is that he was the nuclear officer on a submarine.


So, I mentioned Emily Litella and you mentioned Soviet Jewry without connecting the two- I guess you weren't a Saturday Night Live viewer. Here she is, in one of her better bits-

[Link: vimeo.com]



First time I heard that word, I was about 15 (in the early-'70s) and didn't know the definition, but derived the meaning from the context. This was from a man who was born before 1900, so his vocabulary was different from what we were taught.



Who are you to forbid someone to be offended by a word, even when they don't know the definition?????????????? :D

I think every industry has one of those "put that in my truck" "jokes". At grocery stores i hear this ALL THE TIME...

Scenario...something doesn't have a price tag on it. Cashier calls for someone to give her a price...Customer giggles while saying "that means its free right".

How long has it been since you’ve been in a grocery store, George Bush? They haven’t used price tags in decades now. 😆

He didn't say grocery store, just store. Lots of stores have missing tags, which is to say that they still use tags. I mean, just because there aren't any price tags, that doesn't mean they don't use them. They're just missing. Because they use them. But some products don't have them.

You know what I mean.

Here's a few that I notice from you guys over there (USA), while over here (Australia)...

You guys tend to drop particular words out here and there.

"A couple of hundred dollars" vs. "Couple hundred dollars".

"Needs to be fixed" vs. "Needs fixed"

It's getting closer and closer to this...

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But while we're here, there's also been a bit of an outbreak of confusion between "then" and "than".

And don't even start me on the use of "Could care less" when it should be "Couldn't care less". This one seems so fundamental. Do people not pay attention to the words that are leaving their mouths?

Uh, wut?

Regional use, ethnic alterations, slang- some people are called ‘word butchers’ for good reason.

Every time I hear that I respond with "then why dont you?" If they STILL don't get it, I know they are voting for Beto.

He did say Grocery store.

Oh I remember using an actual clicker, with a total of 4 buttons and the one orange button.  When is the last time these dolts heard their remote click though?

The other is when people say their Wifi is down.  I am just like you mean your internet is down?  They just have this blank stare and have no idea what I am talking about.  With Total Control, its easy to test.  Does your remote work?  Yes?  Ok then, your wifi is fine.

Everytime, after my extreme eyeroll, I say Visa, Mastercard, or Amex?  Funny, they don't find that part amusing.