Words you hate

[a thing]

"Ain't." I hate this word so much. It's so stupid, it has definitions that are the exact opposite of another!

"Y'all." I don't know why, but I just can't stand this word.

[Nikosapi]

- Guesstimate
- People who pronounce solder: sole-der (long o)

-->Nikosapi

[genesus]

impacted

very few people use this word correctly, hint, it doesn't mean that it made an impact! I need to go through some old student papers, I see things like this all the time...

[smolloy]

When people use the word "literally" the wrong way -- sports commentators are the worst at this....

"He literally ripped his head off"

No he didn't!! He metaphorically ripped his head off!!

[George Harrison]

Guesstimate

Edutainment

Irregardless

Italian (When said with the "I" as in myself)

[genesus]

axe/aks for ask gets on my nerves alot as well...but Chaucer used it so I guess I have to let that one slide

[geese]

Irregardless

i thought this was a trinidadian word

how about Investiquire

[genesus]

unravel...it is redundant, it means the same thing as ravel

[fingal]

Totally irrational, but:

sultanas (yuk!)
urpmi (I can't get it right)
'Blue skying' - for thinking/imagining
'Texing' instead of 'texting' ... I hear kids saying: "I tex her last night but I got no reply'.

'Guid' instead of 'good' ... It sounds like 'gird' instead.

'Natural wastage' when people are laid off from their jobs. I wonder which cold hearted little b*****d thought of that?!

End of rant.

[geese]

Totally irrational, but:
'Texing' instead of 'texting' ... I hear kids saying: "I tex her last night but I got no reply'.

omg, i'm guilty of this too.

actually its just the dialect down here but it is not used for formal writing. instead of secretary, we say seceetree or instead of battery we say battree, i know it can be anoying but i cant help it. lol