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Brought or Bought - what do you say?
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oh nooes, you meant I didn't just brought my Xpresso from the coffee place? =p
Yes people are getting too dependent on spell checkers and some are too lazy to use spell checkers. More examples: www.engrish.com
And a joke...
Yes people are getting too dependent on spell checkers and some are too lazy to use spell checkers. More examples: www.engrish.com
And a joke...
I might be your cousin
I say pellow, melk, vanella, nenja (just replace the E's with I's to get the real word).
It's how i learn to speak, and it's a hard habit
And, what is the proper pronunciation of "salmon?" I don't pronounce the "l" but my husband does and swears he's right. (Don't they always?
found this...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?salmon01.wav=salmon
huh, bought and brought are completely different words with different meanings
i have NEVER heard of anyone saying brought when he bought something
i have NEVER heard of anyone saying brought when he bought something
Mispronunciation drives me up the wall. Especially since I live here in Texas and people mispronounce things all the time. Aks and libary particularly also annoy me. It has already been mentioned in this thread, but I never understood why people call all the different types of soda "Coke". I'm not a native Texan having moved from up north and it often confuses me. Then again my mother says "Soda Pop" and I think that's weird too.
Oh man... when I was young I was saying it the proper way... Upon hearing people say it the other way I became extremely confused and began saying it that way as well, and to this day, although I knew "couldn't" was the only one that made sense, I didn't know which one was proper! THANK YOU!
Myriad people use it wrong.
About library & February: I live in Connecticut (not con-nekta-cut?), and my accent makes it very uncomfortable (not un-cumf-tor-bul?) to pronounce library & February correctly, just because the shape my mouth (mowf?) needs to be in is used in very few words.
WORST ONE EVER. "So, I was conversating with my English teacher, and he said that he's failing me!"
Should I say "tired of LAYING around" or "tired of LYING around."
I also say "va NELL a" for vanilla, but say pillow, not "pell o"
How about "Jag-u-air" instead of "jag-waar" for jaguar.
How about "I-ron" instead of "I-urn" for iron.
"I-er-land" or "I-ruh-land" for Ireland
What? Pronunciation is one of my fortays. Forte is from the Italian, not the French, so it would always have the e pronounced.
Depends where you are, I suppose, but over here it's Wooster, Lester, Bister and Toaster. It's also Maulbrugh and Edinbrugh, for good measure. And the names Featherstonehaugh and Marjoribanks are pronounced Fanshaw and Marchbanks.
While we're on the topic, what about people who use i.e. and e.g. interchangeably? ...They're not the same thing!
i.e. - id est, meaning "that is to say."
e.g. - exempli gratia, meaning "for the sake of an example."
i.e. - id est, meaning "that is to say."
e.g. - exempli gratia, meaning "for the sake of an example."
Thanks for clearing that up, I swear my stylebook had them both used the same - I'd check, but I don't have it handy.
Well, not according to this http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html?1
Also, the whole "Ra-out-er" or "Ra-out" versus "Rooter" and "Root" is a little weird. I use both ways from pronouncing "route".
Jaguar: Actually, the English pronouncation is suppossed to be "Jag-waar", not "Jag-you-are" or "Jag-wire".
Don't get me started with Valentine's Day... so many people I know think it is a fake holiday, not actually based on St. Valentine.
Let us not forget about all the Latin English uses, like ad infinitum, which I often hear as "at infinitum" or "at infinium".
TEG
I didn't realize the difference, but to make it easier, just say e.g. = Example Given.
TEG
Don't forget the classic trailer trash versions of:
"And he goes" instead of "he said"
and this one "and too" instead of saying "also".
No, there's something even worse.
When people write 'naw' instead of 'now'.
It doesn't even shorten it for 'text-speak'! It just replaces the correct letter with an incorrect one.
IT'S SO STUPID!
Another one, but I think this is more of a British saying anyway.
People who write/say "I can't be asked" when it should be "I can't be arsed".
People who write/say "I can't be asked" when it should be "I can't be arsed".
Slightly off topic but what confuses me is in a lot of American tv shows you hear the word 'wind' (sounded as in, 'wind up a toy' not 'that's a feirce wind').
I hear something like, "You're going to wind up dead". Why is the word wind used instead of the word, 'end'?
Also, in past tense, "He wound up dead because of you". I used the word 'wound' in English once and it got scored out!
I hear something like, "You're going to wind up dead". Why is the word wind used instead of the word, 'end'?
Also, in past tense, "He wound up dead because of you". I used the word 'wound' in English once and it got scored out!
One definition of "wind" is to bring or come to an end, to settle or arrange in order to conclude, or to become ultimately. In other words, "wind" is a synonym for "end up."
...Which brings me to my pet peeve: the period ALWAYS goes INSIDE the quotation mark. Always.
