Things People Say Wrong
 

Supposedly = Supposably
Intents and Purposes = Intensive Purposes
Regardless = Irregardless
Play it by ear = Play it by year

Post things people say wrong that annoy you.


**Just wanted to say how great Batlord is for inspiring this thread with his intents and purposes comment in another thread.

I seen it...no you didnt seen shit,you saw it.

I gotta axe you a very important question.

"from the get-go" not "from the ghetto"/"from the gecko"

Man, I didn't see, I didn't seen it, I didn't saw it, I seent it!

"What are you talking about? ~ "What Jew bean tall keena bout?"

I am extremely vigilant about pronouncing the 'dnes' in Wednesday after numerous bad experiences with an oppressive kindergarten teacher. I still dunno which way is right but I've haven't called it wensday ever since and get irked when people say the word like that.

I like to say extra ordinary instead of extrordinary.

I've never heard anybody say either of these.

Sounds like Nea met a black guy once. It seems to have made an impression.

Things I hear at work every day:

Specifically - pacifically
Never mind - nethermind
Hella - hell of
"All of the sudden"

No black guys I know say anything Nea posted.

black people don't live in seattle

You don't deserve to live in California if you don't say hella.

Well you do live on the West Coast. I hear "atlantically" over here all the time.

Good thread, seen a few I would have posted.

That one seriously does my ****ing head in. What is this about? Seems like it's a Caribbean thing but now every bellend in the UK does it. There's no way they're incapable of saying 'ask' properly, definitely forced.

Donkey's ears - Donkey's years
Prima donna - Pre Madonna
Scapegoat - Escape goat :o:
Damp squib - Damp squid
Mask murderer
Dangerous president
Bangwagon

Got a mate who told me he was drinking 'Famous Goose' once (it's Famous Grouse)

Oh also

Expeshially and expresso

When I lived near Yosemite, we had a coffee shop in town called the Pony Expresso. A lot of people I knew said it like that.

me neither - me either
waiting in line - waiting on line

I didn't do nothing

Stroking your eagle

:D Good shout.

Being put on a pedal stool.
A wolf in cheap clothing.
Should of/would of/could of.
Skellington (used to hear this one all the time as a child).
Hampster (and again).
Pigeon hold.
'Haitch' instead of 'aitch'.
One of my mates trying to sell some 'Chester draws' one time.

Should update this thread with malapropisms posted on the forum. :cool:

What on earth is "aitch"?

I smell an album title.

The letter H is pronounced 'aitch' but 98.56% of people pronounce it as 'haitch'.

You can have it mate just give monkeytennis a shout out in the album credits.

yes but what is it?

That must be more of a West Coast saying. I've never heard anyone in the New England area say "hella." Here, people say "hell of" as in "that must be a hell of a place to live" or "that's a hell of a thing to do to someone."

@Roxy what do you mean what is it? It's the letter H.

Lots of Dublin stuff:
"Corporation" becomes "Copper-ation"
"Hospital" is "Hostipal"
"Atlantic" is "Acklantic"
"Chicago" is "Chicargo"
"Remuneration" ALWAYS come out ON THE NEWS as "Renumeration"

When someone says they "could care less" when they really mean they couldn't care less.

I've heard that one just about everywhere I've ever been where the English language is spoken.

^ Definitely. Absolutely hate that one.

That's ok. Pleople in Chicago pronounce it like Chicorgo.

I wish I could phonetically type in a Maine accent
We miss pronouce everything deah.

Shekaga

That's not as bad as people in Washington pronouncing it Warshington or Woishington. Yes. It happens all the time.

:clap: :laughing:....The worst impersonation Ive ever heard...Or maybe the whitest.
Stick to what you know snowflake.;)

Everyone in this thread has OCPD.

asshole.