I know this is a bit of a tangent, but since we're talking about words we hate to hear, I need to rant about what I've been hearing (enduring) on the NKU campus recently. For some reason, every third word out of the mouths of college-aged students has to be the word "like." We had some students give brief speeches on their paers in Geology Friday, and I thought I was going to puke listening to all the "like" and "you guys" and other garbage. I wish I could play the recording on here, it's actually funny.

 

If they gave out a nickel for every time the students used the word "like," I'd have like enough money to like pay for my...you know...like tuition and stuff. I mean, like, I'm sure you guys like totally know what I'm talkin' about and stuff. O.M.G., it's like seriously not cool, dude. You know what I'm sayin'?

 

 

I'm really beginning to wonder if cellphones and Social Media aren't damaging the verbal communication skills of our younger generation. Our ability to communicate has become vastly more broad, but I wonder if the exponential growth in the quantity and range of communication hasn't come at the expense of its depth, richness and clarity.

 

Wow, I'd be uptight about that too, in 1991. Horse done left the barn on that one, cowboy.

Wow, I'd be uptight about that too, in 1991. Horse done left the barn on that one, cowboy.

You don't have to live with it three days a week. :ohbrother:

 

And this is not 1991 stuff. It's WAAAY more recent of a thing than that!

^"I know. Right?"

What is with the double affirmation of that phrase?

 

I have to admit, I hear this quite often and it has actually grown on me, not that I'd ever say it. But, in informal conversation it has become a bit endearing. When I had it texted to me as a reply the other day, it made me cringe though.

I have to admit, I hear this quite often and it has actually grown on me, not that I'd ever say it. But, in informal conversation it has become a bit endearing. When I had it texted to me as a reply the other day, it made me cringe though.

Nothing wrong with it it. 7th grader says it a lot. High schoolers have moved on. When 7th grader says it to me, I call that a bonding moment. Because he agrees, right?

^"I know. Right?"

What is with the double affirmation of that phrase?

 

Guilty.

 

A girl that I used to work with always said it, so I started saying it to make fun of her. Big mistake. Can't shake it.

Louisville

 

Lou-uhh-vulle

The mispronunciations from dialect don't really bother me. In fact I like a lot of them. Like Bostonians who have a lot of silent r's, fah instead of far, or yahd instead of yard. To me that's pretty much the same as the folks here who say fer instead of far or mannaise instead of moyonaise.

 

I usually only get agrivated when people use the wrong words.

 

Like used to and supposed to. There is no D on those words - use to and suppose to.

 

Affect vs effect.

 

Illusion vs allusion.

 

There is one pronuciation I always hated though. It's Eric Clapton not Eric Clampton.

Louisville

 

Loo-a-vl

Another one that drives me nuts, Bangles instead of Bengals.

I say Loo-wee-vill

 

how about cincinnat-uh

Mispronunciation bothers me, but not as much as grammatical/spelling errors....

 

Here are a few

 

Using "loose" instead of "lose", mixing up "to" and "too", "here" and "hear", and "their" and "they're", "where" and "wear". I could go on and on.

 

The one mispronunciation that does bug me (and my wife says it all the time) is "terlot" instead of "toilet"

 

My ex MIL used to say she had to go to the john. I'll take terlot any day over that!

Does anyone know the proper way to pronounce Moock Road? (a road in Campbell Co.)

I have always said Moock as in clock. I have heard others say Moock as in muck.

I can't stand "like" being used every third word. Drives me nuts. My niece, in medical school, absolutely wears me out with it. So, everytime we would be talking and she started in with "like", I would stop her and make her repeat the sentence without all the likes...drove her as crazy as she was driving me crazy...finally broke my kids of the habit

 

How about a Safe Deposit Box at a bank, not a safety deposit box?

Does anyone know the proper way to pronounce Moock Road? (a road in Campbell Co.)

I have always said Moock as in clock. I have heard others say Moock as in muck.

 

I've always pronounced it as you do but I work with a girl who grew up on that road she pronounces it the later.:idunno:

I've always pronounced it as you do but I work with a girl who grew up on that road she pronounces it the later.:idunno:

 

Moock like clock here.