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What word, when mispronounced, DRIVES YOU CRAZY?!

@sinbach Nevada....and I don't know why it drives me crazy...
But what really drives me nuts is when someone says,
" these ones" "I like these ones." I sooooo badly want to say," You don't need ones"

@sinbach SZCZEBRZESZYN , I don't know why people get it wrong... πŸ˜… it's an actual city in Poland and a great tonguetwister πŸ˜‰

@tymektt there are far too few vowels in that word brother! πŸ˜‚

@tymektt I feel like you're setting us up for failure there πŸ˜‚

@sinbach I've probably said this to you before... not a pronunciation, but when people say "I could care less" I genuinely feel my sanity slipping away. No. You could NOT care less. That's. The. Whole. Point. Drives me crazy πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

@bethany I have never said it any other way other than "I could care less." πŸ˜‚
but NO ONE should take language instructions from me. EVER. I think in America, we like to say things wrong on purpose.
Just like, "they want to have their cake and eat it too...." when it is supposed to be "eat their cake and have it too."
"For all intensive purposes" and not for all intents and purposes.
Case in point instead of case and point.
"That'll learn him" instead of "That'll teach him."
And we even adopt brand names for generic language.
"what kind of coke would you like" instead of "what kind of soda would you like" - even when talking about Pepsi.
"Can you pass me a Kleenex" instead of "can you pass me a tissue."
Sometimes I think that the early Americans hated the British so much that they kept the language just to butcher it.

@sinbach you say it wrong too?? You really have to fix that because if I ever hear you say it I'll snap πŸ˜‚
Almost all of those examples make zero sense, but there's something about "that'll learn him" that's infuriating me. Doesn't even make sense πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ

@bethany Noted.
.....none of them make sense. "He wants to have his cake and eat it too."
?
Isn't that the purpose? If you have cake, isn't the purpose to eat it?

@sinbach if I'm honest I don't get the cake one either way. What's the context? Is it trying to imply you can't have something both ways?

@bethany @sinbach The cake makes the context, not sure about the other words - but I'm focused on the cake. 🍰

@bethany yes. if you want to eat your cake AND have it too, you are wanting to have something both ways.

@sinbach @bethany " I have to borrow him money" instead of " I have to loan him money"
Drives me crazy! But... I do a bit of butchering our language too🀣

@bethany @sinbach Bethany, I don't see a πŸ¦‹ behind your name yet! Who's in charge here, anyway??? 😊

@MaryMamuzich I'm afraid this is still a very touchy subject Mary. Ask @sinbach.... I'm still waiting patiently

@sinbach
Oh man, these are great.
I can't stand when someone says, "eltz instead of else". That is one that drives me borderline..I'll try to think of some others..

@sinbach I think you've opened a can of worms. πŸ˜‰

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