Words you don't like

ggmae

My dad says "Atall" instead of "At all" and pronounces the letter H beginning with the sound an H makes. It used to bother me, but I've gotten used to it. And when saying "aluminum," he also says al-you-min-ee-um instead of uh-loo-mi-num.

RachNRich

One of my friends says "gaz" --- as in "I need to go to the gaz station" hmm..

jasmineh7777

My Dad says "warshed" instead of "washed."My best friend can't say "whale." She says "well."

ggmae

Sassy - I have never heard DH utter those words either, or anything like them.

sucrets4

shelly - people down here say the days of the week the same way.They also put the accent on the first syllable of 'insurance'.  I put it on the 2nd.

alixzafiris

And when saying "aluminum," he also says al-you-min-ee-um instead of uh-loo-mi-num.I pronounce it like al-you-min-ee-um. I think it's a Brit/South African thing, all my friends/family say it like that.

SassyBrass

That's good, since they're very unflattering words. I'll have to assure FI that he's not alone on that one.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

When I asked him about it, he told me his parents taught him to always refer to body parts by code names so nobody would be offended.My mom used to work in early childhood education. Usually, the parents themselves are just embarassed to teach their kids the right words. Which can be dangerous. If the child was molested, he wouldn't know how to report it.A girl in my office has the WORST grammar. Which is sort of weird, because her mother speaks 3 languages and is a French teacher. She can't match nouns and adjectives or verbs and adverbs. Like... make everything plural in the sentence or nothing.She also says, "Pacific Standard Time" a lot. Um, right now we are in Pacific DAYLIGHT time. It's back to PST in 2 weeks, but she never changes over.

AmoroAgain

Aluminium is actually the British spelling, I think?

ggmae

Alix - Yeah, my dad is Welsh. My family in Australia says it the same way.

eastunder1

Fischey, I believe we have just found our ticket to fame and fortune and hot men like John Stamos. 

Nebb

Yeah I dont get it either CS. Almost everywhere she goes has the word vegas on the end of it. I have never bothered to ask why.

shellydiane820

If Nick says "Wolf" it sounds like "Woof"  We were also talking about dogs and he mentioned an Alaskan "Malamoot".

nda_roxybabe

I also hate hubby, especially when the man fails to have a name anymore and is only refered to as "my hubby". I have a friend who is now "Chesters wife" or "Mrs. lastname" I never want to be that.

sisybermudiana

*butting in* I am from Philly but went to Rutgers.  At one of my jobs, my boss used to actually write "draw" for drawer.  FI got sick of me going "where?" when he'd say "it's in the draw" he actually started pronouncing it correctly.  He still says "chowk-late" for chocolate.  He HATES that I say hoagie.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown

I hate when people say Wifey. WTF is that? A coworker has a license place that incorporates wifey. Klassy.M dad says things weird because of his accent, sometimes. Like Crick for Creek and Rowt for Route.

crfische

I wonder if he would write us a jingle with Uncle Joey.

eastunder1

I know this is going to offend some people here and I apologize in advance, but I HATE when people use handles or like "Chloe'sMommy."  "MikesLady4ever"  This always seemed to be rampant on Myspace where you could easily change what your "name" was.  You are not your child or your Boyfriend.  You are not defined by your child or your boyfriend.    Hello, autonomy. 

vgmartinez

When people pronounce pastor as pasture and the other way around. When I lived in Texas, every kind of soft drink was Coke. Even if you asked for Dr Pepper, you would ask for a Coke and then specify that you wanted Dr. Pepper. When I moved to Iowa, everything was pop. I now say pop.

shellydiane820

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thesuninherhead

Owing to his dad's german accent, FI says 'amboolance' (actually, he pronounces it more like an umlaut- which is the German ü). There's a few other words with 'u' in them that he says the same way, and it's funny because I had realised that his siblings all said it the same way, but it wasn't until I was listening to a German academic talk about health data who also kept using the word, 'amboolance' that I realised that it's a throwback from the German accent.

shellydiane820

Icecream sunduh...sundae.

eastunder1

I love when someone is being a baby someone else makes a comment about calling the "whaaaambulance."  It makes me laugh every. single. time I hear it.

Gwenosaurus

I hate the word "ouster".  I am a political science major and I see this one a lot in my readings for class.  It just seems like it should mean the person doing the ousting.I felt like I had to answer this because of my strong opinion on this word.

thesuninherhead

*german u. the one with the little dots on top that TK filters appear to block.

Sabina1313

I used to hate the word "moist".  I got over that one, but now I absolutely can't stand the word "creamy".  It totally grosses me out

shellydiane820

waaahmbulance just made me laugh out loud.

nda_roxybabe

I felt like I had to answer this because of my strong opinion on this word??? Am I missing something? Do we need to have a explanation as to why we're posting?

SarahSmile23

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Gwenosaurus

Hm...I guess I didn't.  I almost never post though, so I guess maybe I did feel I had to justify it a little.Maybe I should just blame that sentence on my brain being fried from studying all night.