Wordie: Fingernails on my chalkboard: Comments

Comment by ofravens, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:50:19 +0000

Gah, "nucular." HATE. I think I experienced my first "The English language as I know it is actually disintegrating" moment when I found out that dictionaries were actually starting to include "nucular" as an acceptible pronunciation substitute for "nuclear." NO, Merriam-Webster. The fact that the president of the United States happens to pronounce it that way it does not make it okay.

Comment by technomom, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:36:49 +0000

I find it crazy-making when someone "axes" me to "esplain" something, like why people protest "nucular" power plants.

Comment by ofravens, 6 months ago

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:20:31 +0000

The one that always drives me up the wall is the use of "step foot" instead of "set foot," as in "I'll never step foot in that building again!" I have to stop and wave my arms with frustration every time I hear it.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:15:45 +0000

Well then, our job here is done.

Comment by arby, 10 months ago

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:03:12 +0000

earworm alert, indeed. Although I actually thought first not of "Funkytown" but Steely Dan's "Barrytown". Of course NOW I can't get "Funkytown" out of my head.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:08:43 +0000

You're not imagining it, arby--you really are in an alternate universe. Then you come here. Wordietown is real. :-)

Comment by chained_bear, 10 months ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:04:06 +0000

I just had someone get confused between secession and succession. I guess that's fairly common, but it still drives me batshit.

Comment by arby, 10 months ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:54:16 +0000

I know, isn't it sad? Sometimes I feel like I'm in an alternate universe where I'm the only one who can spell! And then I come here and remember there are others like me.

Comment by reesetee, 10 months ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:33:04 +0000

*gasp* Noooo!

Comment by arby, 10 months ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:15:40 +0000

Also, I just saw this one - editor-and-chief for "editor-in-chief".

Comment by arby, 10 months ago

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:15:14 +0000

I always typed it as "ax" (and used to tell these temps that were making calls that when they said, "I want to ax you something" it wasn't like they would be chasing after the people to be surveyed with an axe!) but I never thought of it as "aks" and maybe somehow it originated as a typo??

But yeah, that drives me crazy!!!

Comment by bilby, 10 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:26:07 +0000

How about aks?

Comment by Asativum, 10 months ago

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:13:37 +0000

Or a nice cup of expresso?

Comment by skipvia, 11 months ago

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:24:38 +0000

How about the highly cringeworthy substitute for "all of a sudden"--all the sudden?

Comment by arby, 11 months ago

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:56:05 +0000

I've never even seen that one, but *cringes*

Comment by skipvia, 11 months ago

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:26:20 +0000

Ekcetra?