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Paisley
Member
07-17-2005
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 3:08 am
A couple of mine.... You tweeze your eyebrows, you don't pluck them. You pluck a chicken. Also, you are not mad, you are angry. Unless of course you are insane.
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Mummy35332
Member
09-09-2005
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 3:51 am
No, Sanfran, I have not watched "Futurama". I limit myself to the anime my kids are into at this time. I'm not really into animation. If you can tell me that "Futurama" is a good show, I might watch it. I love SciFi, or is it SyFy these days, let's check the dictionary. lol. Lots of luv and plenty of EVOO to you.
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Pippin04
Member
10-26-2007
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 3:52 am
irregardless bothers me. I always hear it on the news and yell at the TV that it is not a word. However the one term I absolutely hate is "babymomma" or "babydaddy" I am not even sure it they should be a one or two word phrase.
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Mummy35332
Member
09-09-2005
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 4:28 am
Dang Gemma I was totally on your irregardless train, but I checked my old dictionary and it's there. Bummer. Irregadless adv Nonstandard. Regardless. American Heritage Dictionary, Second College Edition, 1982 (dating myself). A book, not online. (Love my books.) Maybe 'Nonstandard' is our way out? Another is, its been said so many times we may as well make it a word? I don't like this choice. I don't like it at all. It means regardless, why have another form of the same word? We maybe in the Crayola box of words, they all look orange, but there are shades.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 4:33 am
I have no idea why "get-go" bothers me. Where I live, there are many people of French-Canadian descent. In fact, when I moved here, some of my friends spoke French as the first language in their homes. They used "me" at the end of their sentences, which sounded so unusual and cute to me. "I have to go home now, me."
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Lafatme
Member
06-23-2005
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 4:59 am
conversate will undoubtedly become a word. commentate certainly has. every sports show has a commentator instead of a commenter. i think the word was invented for mon nite football by howard cosell.
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Mummy35332
Member
09-09-2005
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 5:38 am
We may be, not, We maybe. Sry.
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Mummy35332
Member
09-09-2005
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 6:03 am
Old dictionary again. Tweezers. A small , usually metal, pincerlike tool used for plucking or handling small objects.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 8:23 am
Tweeze: to pluck, remove, or handle with tweezers. Pluck: 1 : to pull or pick off or out 2 a : to remove something (as hairs) from by or as if by plucking <pluck one's eyebrows> According to Websters.... So all of you out there plucking your eyebrows, keep on plucking! 
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Just_gail
Member
08-25-2007
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 8:55 am
It always bothers me when I hear that a person was hung (instead of hanged). I looked it up and found this explanation of the difference. I find it interesting. From Dictionary.com: Usage note: Hang has two forms for the past tense and past participle, hanged and hung. The historically older form hanged is now used exclusively in the sense of causing or putting to death: He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. In the sense of legal execution, hung is also quite common and is standard in all types of speech and writing except in legal documents. When legal execution is not meant, hung has become the more frequent form: The prisoner hung himself in his cell.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 9:04 am
It is very interesting. Hang/ Hung Sang/ Sung -- I don't say "she sanged a song", so I use the word hung. 'Hanged by the neck until dead' is very old fashioned -- like out of an old western movie. Who knew word origins would be so interesting.
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Shel
Member
07-27-2005
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 9:04 pm
Hung/Hanged bothers me also. If you say a man was hung... Yeah, I know you get my meaning. He was hanged, unless he really WAS 'hung'. One that my 12 year old son says is 'all the sudden'. Now, I would chalk that up to his deafness and being unable to hear the nuances of the proper 'all of a sudden' or 'all of the sudden', but his friends say it also.
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Brenda1966
Member
07-03-2002
| Monday, August 31, 2009 - 10:10 pm
Well, of course there is a difference between "he was hung" and "he hung himself". LOL. I guess it's the tense. If you do it to yourself, then I use the word hung. If someone else does it to you, then you're hanged.
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Pamy
Member
01-02-2002
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 10:18 am
Do you all have a word that you hate. I have one and when I hear it the hair on my arm stands up.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 12:15 pm
Not a word, but my dh has started saying "is is" a lot. As in, "the thing is, is that..." Drives me a little crazy!
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 12:49 pm
"Do you all have a word that you hate." I can't think of one I hate, but there's one I like! "Iditarod" - It just rolls off your tongue when you say it....sort of like this line from an "I Love Lucy" episode when Lucy, referring to an old refrigerator, said, "Just jiggle it a little, it'll open." Anyhow, a bit off topic but since words came up, here's a joke that I love because the words used in it work together perfectly for it. Q - How do you titillate an ocelot? A - You oscillate his tit a lot!

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Gumby
Member
08-14-2004
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 1:07 pm
Pamy, what's the word??? The word unthaw sends me into fits.
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Puzzled
Member
08-27-2001
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 1:21 pm
I hate "defecate." (I'm a poet, and I din't know it..."
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Chippy
Member
08-16-2007
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 3:12 pm
Can we do phrases? I hate "with that said..." Drives. Me. NUTS.
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Dogdoc
Member
09-29-2001
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 3:45 pm
If you tell me the word you hate I promise not to use it in front of you. Bwahahahahahaha
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Jenjackso
Member
02-10-2009
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:05 pm
Or, "from the 30,000 foot view," overuse of "literally," and "at the end of the day." Of course, they all have real meanings and are legitimate in some context, but I don't enjoy hearing them coming out of a manager's mouth. Which is one small reason that I'm the boss now - no more managers trying to sound impotent (yes, I know I'm misusing that word).
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Weinermr
Member
08-18-2001
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:18 pm
"Basically,..." "He basically told me not to go." Oh, maybe he should have told you not to go in a complex manner. "I have too much on my plate" What plate??? The word actually is actually used way too much. We won't even talk about the work "like". "I'm like", and "He's all" I could go on forever ... but won't.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:49 pm
Okay, something that drives me crazy is when people say "I'll give to give it 110%" of my effort. (or 150% or 200%, etc...) People, you cannot give 110% of your effort to accomplish something because 100% of your effort is ALL there is.
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Usleopard
Member
08-30-2008
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 5:54 pm
Jewlery (should be Jewelry) Nucular (should be Nuclear) Calvary (should be Cavalry)
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Tuesday, September 01, 2009 - 6:07 pm
"a whole 'nother thing" drives my friend crazy! "serendipity" is one of my favorite words. I love the Lucy quote SFJF posted!
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