Movies I love and Am Slightly Ashamed Of Admitting:
Stomp The Yard
Can't Hardly Wait
Step Up, Step Up 2
Dude, Where's My Car?
The Ringer
Okay. Is it bad that I don't miss working? That, although I SHOULD be out posting ads for the space in the dayhome, that I'm avoiding that like the plague!? I love this lazy-bit.
Remind me of this day when we're homeless and we're wrapping toilet paper rolls for gifts at Christmas!
Off to shower. Then off to my favourite thing ever-- the pap. ew. I hate that word. I hate a lot of words, but that is definitely one of them!!
- panties
- moist
- when people say shhhhedule instead of sKedule. (phonetically, obviously. I DO know how to spell schedule)
- mature when pronounced "mah- TOUR" instead of "mah- CHUR".
- irregardless
- can mostly be found here: bulbous bouffant
- hemidemisemiquaver
- pontificate
- soliloquy
13 comments:
Dude wheres my car is hilarious, especially when they go throught the drive through!
I hate when you are on the TSAW. ferry and they say "We are now approaching the Swassen ferry terminal" That is the correct pronunciation, but anyone who has lived in Tsawwassen hates to hear it said that way!
My BIGGEST annoying word "thing" is the incorrect use of the word "nauseous" -
If I am describing that I feel sick, then I am NAUSEATED!! Nauseous is the same verb tense as "noxious"- something that makes the people AROUND it sick!! SO annoying!! It`s used wrong ALL the time - when I`m having babies in the hospital I cringe every time someone asks me if I feel nauseous - I feel like saying "No - why? AM I making you sick?!"
My Mom uses irregardless as well! Hate that!
nauseous |ˈnô sh əs; - zh əs; -ēəs|
adjective
1 affected with nausea; inclined to vomit : a rancid, cloying odor that made him nauseous.
2 causing nausea; offensive to the taste or smell : the smell was nauseous.
• disgusting, repellent, or offensive : this nauseous account of a court case.
So - just to correct Erin's most hated word - if you check out #1 definition, the nurses are correct and people are not using it incorrectly.
nau·seous (nô'shəs, -zē-əs)
adj.
1. Causing nausea; sickening: "the most nauseous offal fit for the gods" (John Fowles).
2. Usage Problem Affected with nausea.
nau'seous·ly adv., nau'seous·ness n.
Usage Note: Traditional critics have insisted that nauseous is properly used only to mean "causing nausea" and that it is incorrect to use it to mean "affected with nausea," as in Roller coasters make me nauseous. In this example, nauseated is preferred by 72 percent of the Usage Panel. Curiously, though, 88 percent of the Panelists prefer using nauseating in the sentence The children looked a little green from too many candy apples and nauseating (not nauseous) rides. Since there is a lot of evidence to show that nauseous is widely used to mean "feeling sick," it appears that people use nauseous mainly in the sense in which it is considered incorrect. In its "correct" sense it is being supplanted by nauseating.
So, ANON - so many people use it incorrectly that even dictionaries are changing their definitions. It is still not the original use of the word.
Debbi, it's so funny but I still remembered all of your most hated words. Moist always makes me laugh.. because I can still see you cringing! I also had Shhhhhedule and panties. Although now that I have a little girl I find myself using that word every once in a while. AHHHH.
I hate Ample.. and when people say stuff like "you did good"
Pube. Pubic. Pubis.
All horrible words.
Here are a few more:
Plop
Flange
Swab
Taken from Miriam-Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (the big red one) published in 1963:
Nauseous 1. Causing nausea: sickening
2. affected with nausea or disgust
Nausea: 1. a stomach distress with distaste for food and an urge to vomit
2. exteme disgust
Nauseate: 1. the become affected with nausea 2. to feel disgust
So since this was published in 1963 I hardly think that the use of nauseous (affected with nausea) has become so with recent use, so much as to cause dictionary changes recently.
Not that this really matters in the scheme of life....
What are favorite words?
I hate it when people say "samich" instead of sandwich. Or pung-kin instead of pumpkin, or libary instead of library. GGRRRRR! And I know someone that says althabet instead of alphabet. that one makes me crazy. NO! YOU DON"T know the ALPHABET! still love you, though.
I also hate the word crotch. ewwww!
First of all, there's nothing wrong with Can't Hardly Wait ;) (wicked soundtrack too)
I agree with all of your most-hated words. I also don't like it when people say "labtop" - it's laptop, people!
(And i too giggle when i see you cringing when someone says "moist")
I loved the Ringer! Is that wrong? NO WAY!
As for words....I hate all the ones you listed...but here are more that I can't stand...
I can't STAND it when my husband pronounces the word "measure" as MAY-ZHURE. DRIVES ME CRAZY! But I love him despite...
Other words:
PENIS
VAGINA
MASTURBATION
I don't know why they're all "those" types of words, but it's all I could think of right now.
Oh and speaking of PAP....did I ever tell you that I used to have a client named (no joke)
PAT SMEAR
You'd think she'd go by Patricia, eh?
Oh I just thought of another word:
Exsaserbated
Sounds too much like masterbated. (*shudder....I hate that word!)
ex·ac·er·bate (g-zsr-bt)
tr.v. ex·ac·er·bat·ed, ex·ac·er·bat·ing, ex·ac·er·bates
To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate:
OK, dictionary-anon... We get it, the word was not spelled correctly. Did you have a comment, as in, "I'm sorry to say that the misspelling of exacerbate is exacerbating this situation!", or were you just practising your cut-and-paste skills at the expense of someone else's self esteem?
I have a neighbour who says "flustrated". I think it's a combo of 'frustrated' and 'flustered' but she has no clue...she thinks it's correct English. Ugggg.
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