Things That Are Said Incorrectly So Much That They Are Accepted As Correct

[tomomothy]

Irregardless should just be regardless

Fist annual instead of inaugural

This! I completely agree

 

[cich78]

How about people that say labtop instead of laptop...

 

[tomomothy]

How about people that say labtop instead of laptop...

maybe they work in a portable lab...

 

[darth pike]

Tuna fish.

I never hear people say poodle dog, so why tuna fish? (goes along with the atm machine and pin number mentioned earlier) ...

and for the love of all the new gods and the old, ironic does not mean a coincidence despite how popular that horrid Canadian singer's song was. I've yet to hear someone use irony correctly in common conversation.

 

[tomomothy]

One that bugs me is "crescent" wrench. Crescent is a vendor of wrenches, one of which happens to be the iconic adjustable wrench. Its doesn't make every adjustable wrench a "crescent" wrench. Just like the Band-aid and kleenex and Q-tip confusion

 

[tomomothy]

and for the love of all the new gods and the old, ironic does not mean a coincidence despite how popular that horrid Canadian singer's song was. I've yet to hear someone use irony correctly in common conversation.

thank you for covering this for me

 

[petspoiler]

I was just conversating with people a couple days ago about this subject.

 

[krichardson]

One of my biggest peeves is when people refer to shrimp as shrimps...another is when they call Dungeness crabs Dungenese.

 

[dxdx]

Mines,as in,that is mines.

I know somebody who pronounces it 'mayan'....

 

[frnchjeep]

What about people who mix up then and than?


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