Friday Five - OK, so I'm a word snob
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sugarplumkitty1) What word irks you everytime you hear someone say it?
"Skiddish" - instead of skittish as in, "My cat is so skiddish." What? Are they skidding around corners or scooting their butts on the floor? Skiddish is not a word.
"Nucular" (sound it out, people! It's spelled nuclear "nu-cle-ar") Nucular is not a word. What really burns me is "nucular" is now an accepted pronunciation.
"Irregardless" - another non-word. It's "regardless."
Mispronounced French or multisyllabic words. It always makes me think the person is like Bush.. trying to sound more intelligent than they are. My hubby does this all the time. It comes from learning big words from reading when nobody around you uses them, and from hearing uneducated relatives mispronounce the few they did use. He doesn't seem to care that it makes him sound stupid even though he's using the words in the proper context. If I hear him say so-and-so is an en-TREP-an-ear one more time...
2) What is your favorite word?
alliteration
3) What does it mean?
A group of words in a phrase all beginning with the same sound. It's used in poems and advertising. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers...
4) What word do you say far too often?
Alrighty then.
5) Name three words you think other people overuse:
The last irritating one was "Can you hear me now?" but I can't think of any driving me crazy right now.
"Skiddish" - instead of skittish as in, "My cat is so skiddish." What? Are they skidding around corners or scooting their butts on the floor? Skiddish is not a word.
"Nucular" (sound it out, people! It's spelled nuclear "nu-cle-ar") Nucular is not a word. What really burns me is "nucular" is now an accepted pronunciation.
"Irregardless" - another non-word. It's "regardless."
Mispronounced French or multisyllabic words. It always makes me think the person is like Bush.. trying to sound more intelligent than they are. My hubby does this all the time. It comes from learning big words from reading when nobody around you uses them, and from hearing uneducated relatives mispronounce the few they did use. He doesn't seem to care that it makes him sound stupid even though he's using the words in the proper context. If I hear him say so-and-so is an en-TREP-an-ear one more time...
2) What is your favorite word?
alliteration
3) What does it mean?
A group of words in a phrase all beginning with the same sound. It's used in poems and advertising. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers...
4) What word do you say far too often?
Alrighty then.
5) Name three words you think other people overuse:
The last irritating one was "Can you hear me now?" but I can't think of any driving me crazy right now.
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Date: 2005-12-27 07:23 pm (UTC)And I think "snittish" should be a word.
STBX says "nuculear." But even he doesn't say "internets."
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Date: 2005-12-27 07:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-27 07:44 pm (UTC)"internets?" did Bush say that? He might have been trying to say "intranets" because that's a valid term. Any private network that doesn't let people outside the company into it is an intranet. He misses a lot of small sounds that change meanings.
I miss most of his speeches.
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Date: 2005-12-27 07:46 pm (UTC)You would love the article I just read in one of the December New Yorker magazines. The author noted that the "red" states (those that voted for Bush in the last election) had the highest feral pig populations in the US.