Current grammar pet peeve

[kellinator]

The word "ask" is under no circumstances pronounced "ax".

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[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Fo' shizzle muh sizzle.

[the-missy.livejournal.com]

Except on Futurama, where "ax" has become the common, accepted pronunciation.

May I also add that the words "comfortable" and "interesting" have four syllables, not three. Mmmm, grammar!

[tropiquena.livejournal.com]

kids used to make fun of me in the third grade for pronouncing "comfortable" with four syllables, so I just assumed I was wrong (English isn't my parents' first language, so I was wrong a lot).

how weird - I was actually right! :) I just 'corrected' my mom on this one - should've looked it up. ;)

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[the-missy.livejournal.com]

Yeah... most people seem to pronounce it "comft-or-bull," which always weirds me out because they're switching around the T and the R in "comfort" to pronounce it that way. Yet they never pronounce "comfort" as "comftor."

lemme ax you a question

[reannon.livejournal.com]

You're still in the south, right? Hell, we can do better than that...

How about "thee-aye-ter" instead of "theater"?
Or "PEE-anist" instead of "pianist"?
Or "HAIR-assed" instead of "harassed"?
Or "joolery" instead of "jewelry"?

My real pet peeve: "nucular." I'd feel better about President Shrub signing a nuclear weapon treaty if the son of a bitch could pronounce the fucking word.

C'mon, folks! Name a few more!

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[printemps.livejournal.com]

This pet peeve appears in writing rather than speaking, but I hate it when people write "could of" instead of "could've". If people would just stop to think, they MIGHT realize that "could of" makes no sense. I have on occasion been called the Grammar Nazi, but nothing irritates me more (well, besides men with bad toupees and cows mating) than bad grammar and poor spelling.

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[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

from m-w.com:

Main Entry: nu·cle·ar
Pronunciation: 'nü-klE-&r, 'nyü-, ÷-ky&-l&r
Function: adjective
Date: 1846
...
usage Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky&-l&r\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members, and at least one U.S. president and one vice president. While most common in the U.S., these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.

some of these "grammatical" pet peeves are just that, pet peeves. Having an accent doesn't make you wrong. My roomate pronounces "houses" with both "s"'s like "s"'s not the first one like a "z". It annoys the crap out of me, but doesn't make her uneducated, just makes her from Worchester, MA.

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[reannon.livejournal.com]

Oh, accents are definitely not the problem. Heck, a British accent is sooo sexy. :) But "nuclear" can be pronounced "nuke-lee-ar" or "nyuke-lee-ar," as you pointed out - I think, the posting's a little garbled. But not "nuke-you-lar." That's the Bush way. :)

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[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

actually the Bush pronounciation is exactly what the entry was talking about. The & signs indicate that swallowed gutteral vowel, such that the pronounciation does put a vowel between the k and the l. Another dictionary pointed out that this pronounciation is regional. And I know it was the primary pronounciation growing up outside St. Louis, Mo.

Tons of people have your same pet peeve, and for years I felt stupid that it takes real concentration for me to pronounce it "correctly," despite being a physicist. So, I was very surprised to find out that both pronunciations are actually considered proper. Since most people are also not aware of this, I thought I'd point it out.

[spiritchaser1.livejournal.com]

That one ALWAYS annoys me. I only wish I could get away with jumping back in mock fear and yelling "Please! Not the Axe! Not the Axe! Don't Axe me!"

My biggest pet peeve though? Nuclear. Next presidential election we have, I am going to vote for the guy that can say the worde. I figure we've had enough fuck ups in office lately, and none of them could pronounce it correctly. So whoever can say Nuclear and not NUKE-U-LER, gets my vote.

[bouncepogo.livejournal.com]

It bugs me when people say, "I seen that movie!"

ARGGGGHHHH!

*bangs head against wall*

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

I agree--and whenever I hear it, I say "Excuse me? Are you planning to dimember me?" or something along those lines. But then, I live with a Native New Yorker who isn't from Manhattan. Sigh.

[astrophysicat.livejournal.com]

hehehe.

Don't go see the new Meg Ryan as a boxer's agent movie then. The preview cracked me up with her having the "ax" accent.

[kellinator.livejournal.com]

You insinuate I would go see a Meg Ryan movie? You do insult me, good madam! :P

[azurelunatic]

How 'bout in this usage?

"I'm gonna ax you whether you want to keep this job or not."

[leezechka.livejournal.com]

But this is American English, you say something wrong enough and they just change it so that it is correct. Why do you think the rest of the world mocks us, we don't even know our own language.

The southside girl strikes again! Just to be annoying.

[pinkeffigy.livejournal.com]

There ain't nuthin wrong wit ax. I was axing my friend just the otha day about her baby daddy. It turn out dat she got her food stamps took away cause he was livin wit her and they found out. But this all come out because she was at her baby daddy momma house and the polices came and took him in. So he had to go to court for sellin reefer. You know he got 12 months?

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[leezechka.livejournal.com]

he gots 12 monfs? damn baby, dat shit crazy.

I forget who it was...

[kmn-rdr-caoimhe.livejournal.com]

...but one of my friends said he always envisioned someone actually writing a question on an axe blade and then cleaving someone in twain (or something to that extent) whenever they said "can I ax you a question?"

[renaissancekat.livejournal.com]

bwahahahahah!!!