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Well Ezma, your muses amused me at least! =) Why are you in pain?

Major toothache here and I refuse to waste anymore money on root canals so I just need to get it pulled. Teeth are the next thing I'm fixing. Need to get some time to get in there though. :lol:

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Funny thread... I have a whole list, all of which come from my mother. I call them "momisms." My friends can't wait til I get home from visiting my mom so I can tell them any new momisms I learned. A few are "Mammy-o-gram" (mamogram) Supposably (supposedly) Mush-tash (mustache) Aggavated (aggrivated). Hey folks, she's from Oklahoma. She can't help it. Thank God she moved to Texas before I was born!

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Hilarious thread, I can't stop laughing. Most of mine have been mentioned even my favorite - irregardless. Something else that really annoys me is when people confuse the "sh" and "ch" sound. For instance my ex always wanted a shocolate chake at Sonic, and on Sunday's when I went to church, he went to shursh.

Another pet peave is the Texas drawl some people have. Not everyone from Texas speaks with a "twang".:biggrin:

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I hate when people say Missour-uh instead of Missour-ee. There is an I on the end, not an a. It drives me nuts. I could almost understand from people who don't live here, but so many people who do live here still say Missour-uh. ]

That is a regional thing. I was raised in central MO where people all say MissourAH. Nobody says MissourEE I think it has something to do with if you were born north or south of the river but that might just be an urban legend. Here in St. Louis I am kind of in the minority but I still call it MissourAH. :biggrin2:

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We have heaps her in Oz. But the one that bothers me the most is "pacific" for specific. That is where people can't get their tongue around the "sp".

My coworker used to say the word 'edumacate' (educate) just so to make it sound more childlike. I hated it, but it caught on and now I say it to the kids....

Can't win.

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My DH is from the low-country of SC where they say everything differently. Sometimes it drives me nuts. Instead of telling me to roll up the window, or let it down, or however you want to say it, he uses the words "up" and "down" as verbs. "Up the window" or "Down the window". He also says "You know what I'm saying?" twenty-thousand times a day. Irritates the hell out of me.

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I also just remembered an ex-friend who used the word "illiterate" to mean "stupid." I guess she thought that using a bigger word made her sound smarter. One day I asked her what not being able to read had to do with anything. I think maybe she finally went home and looked up the word because she finally stopped using it. The same woman once heard me use the word "oblivious" and thought she liked the sound of that, only she said "bolivious." I never corrected her so that all of those illiterate people wouldn't remain bolivious to how stupid she is!

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The same woman once heard me use the word "oblivious" and thought she liked the sound of that, only she said "bolivious." I never corrected her so that all of those illiterate people wouldn't remain bolivious to how stupid she is!

LMAO - that's hysterical! You're so bad it's good.

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Youse guys, I jus cant git dis tread ou o my mine.:rolleyes2:

I believe it is a speech crisis; we are losing the ability to speak! Some more of my peeves:

Statistics NOT sta-stis-tics

In my own house, in my own opinion etc. The 'my' expresses possession, therefore own is redundant.

Paradigm shift - oh dear heavens, please, please, please STOP IT.

DH wants to live long enough to see then end of the word 'like' as in "like I was saying, Like you know'. We are too lazy to pronounce final consonants on words but we can add meaningless words into a sentence? Another word that can be retired: awesome!

But, oh fellow word afficianados, please, what is the correct pronunciation of Caribbean? DH and I argue this one.

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But, oh fellow word afficianados, please, what is the correct pronunciation of Caribbean? DH and I argue this one.

Okay, I found this for you! :rolleyes2:

Although many tourists and foreigners favor say "ka-rib-e-an," this is a corruption of "ker-e-be-an," the accurate pronunciation truest to how the Caribs ("ker-ibs") pronounce their own name. The regional beer (Carib) is pronounced "kar-ib," not "ka-rib-eh." By the way, the Caribs say "po-ta-tow," not "po-tot-tow," and they should know. Potato is a Carib word adopted into English.

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I hate it when people say, "Where you at?" A PREPOSITION NEVER GOES AT THE END OF A SENTENCE. As if it weren't bad enough, there was a whole verizon commercial that used it as their catch phrase.

I think that is the teacher coming out. Also, if you break your toaster, it is broken, not broke. I am broke most of the time, my toaster has no need for money.

Whew, that felt good. Thank you.

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I hate it when people say, "Where you at?" A PREPOSITION NEVER GOES AT THE END OF A SENTENCE. As if it weren't bad enough, there was a whole verizon commercial that used it as their catch phrase.

I think that is the teacher coming out. Also, if you break your toaster, it is broken, not broke. I am broke most of the time, my toaster has no need for money.

Whew, that felt good. Thank you.

Your toaster is toast.:)

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