Words/phrases that are constantly butchered

Wall2Boogie

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I always enjoy people who can't spell so they abbreviate the words. I throughly enjoy the wanna be white gangstas that try and talk like their black. It goes both ways. Especially white girls who collect welfare and Medicaid, to support their 5 kids because the dead beat dads don't work lol. They talk with the extra white trash accent. They are easily spotted with a curisve tat on their neck or a bad tramp stamp .
 

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Here's one, referring to your dad or mom in 2nd person as though someone knows your parents. Example. Dad is going though a big change right now. He changed his name to catlyn lol.
 
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to, too, two. But when posting at work a lot of the time somebody will walk in my office while I am typing a message. I will not look for typo's, structure or spelling errors. Deal with it. I could care not one bit if someone is "off" with proper's while posting on a message board.
 
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apart ≠ a part

I mean, the two basically have opposite meanings, which I always assumed most people realized... until Twitter came along. I wish I had a dollar for every athlete who was happy to be "apart" of the team that drafted them.

A less common one that pops up on Twitter is using "resigned" where someone meant "re-signed." Again, the meanings are pretty much opposite.
 

Bill@ModernThirst

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Recently, it's been people who think words ending in "-ist" are plural.

Incorrect: There are too many terrorist to count.
Correct: There are too many terrorists to count.

Traditionally, people think "a lot" is one word and write it as "alot."
 

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I have a good "ideal" instead of idea...Just awful. I seen instead of I saw or some other combo.
Saying " like" about 11 times in a sentence when just trying to answer the simplest question or anything else. And as someone already mentioned, "axe" me a question.
 

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John Walls
People need to know the difference between lose and loose
Andrew Harrison(Calipari called him Andrew Wiggins :flushed:)
 

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Some people around my area will say "Toys Or Us" instead of "Toys R' Us". One lady used to get "erratic" and "erotic" mixed up. That made for some interesting thoughts.

Some people in my area also pronounce "humble" as "Umble." Also, I never cared for the word "axe" replacing "ask" or "asked".
 

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I have 2 new ones to add that are always butchered.
Alzheimer's= alltimers
Eavesdropping=ease dropping

Those two words people constantly butcher especially if they have are missing 6 teeth and have a natural tan from smoking 4 packs of camels a day
 

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I have 2 new ones to add that are always butchered.
Alzheimer's= alltimers
Eavesdropping=ease dropping

Those two words people constantly butcher especially if they have are missing 6 teeth and have a natural tan from smoking 4 packs of camels a day


I work in that field. Amazes me how stupid people are.

Wow, just wow. Showing bias I know. But Alltimers??? Come'on
 

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Some people try to make it sound better by calling it "old timers".

I hate it when the word "insane" is used in appropriately. For example: That steak dinner was "insane". Same with "ridiculous".

Grinds my gears when people can't get the use of me/ I right.

One more: Names of sports teams like "Storm", "Thunder", etc...sound stupid. What sounds even more stupid is when writers or speakers use such names as plural nouns when they are clearly singular. It doesn't matter that the "Storm" has a hundred guys on the team, the word storm is singular and should be used with the singular form of a verb. Wrong: The Storm win the championship. Right: The Storm WINS the championship.
 

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Some people try to make it sound better by calling it "old timers".

I hate it when the word "insane" is used in appropriately. For example: That steak dinner was "insane". Same with "ridiculous".

That burns me up too.

You never had an "insane steak" . One so crazy that you went whack on the schizzo?
 

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Another that irritates me is misuse of the word "cliché". I constantly read on this board and even in news stories these days that something is "cliché", as in "that is so cliché". That is incorrect usage.

Cliché is a noun. You can say "that is a cliché". But, if you are using it as an adjective, the correct word is "clichéd".
 

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My father-in-law says "flustrated" rather than frustrated or flustered. The biggest one most people screw-up is 360 degrees when they mean 180.
 

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Also, I've heard "SPECIFIC" butchered too many times into "pacific" and also "persific".
 

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"Hot water heater" doesn't bother me too much.

The distinction of "hot water" is important enough that throwing its name into the machine that creates is fine by me. (And I say "water heater.")
 
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Bill@ModernThirst

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I can't believe I forgot the misuse of apostrophes.

adding " 's " to the end of a word does NOT make it plural. It makes it possessive. STOP IT, PEOPLE.
 
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Krogers.

Old people who call every writing utensil a "pencil".

Calling a prescription a "subscription" or just "scription".

I could care less.
 
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