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!

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!

[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.

[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?

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!!!