Since this thread seems to be including grammar mistakes as well as incorrect idioms I have to throw my biggest verbal pet peeve out there. People using the past participle "seen" in place of the correct past tense "saw". As in "I just seen him last week" or "I seen it at the grocery store". It makes me cringe every time I hear it. Since moving away from the NKY/Cincinnati area I've heard it less frequently, but I still hear it occasionally in the more rural parts of Illinois so I know it's not just a regional thing.

 

If you get really rural, it becomes "I seent it," or "I seed it."

disiregargdless

 

Had a director use this 'word'. His direct report call him out on it.

Proceeded to pull up the UD definition and read it out loud.

Awkward silence fell in the room

Urban Dictionary: disirregardless

Heard someone on a sports talk show today talking bout someone retiring, riding off into the sunset, and becoming inoculous.

Are you pointing out the fact that the correct way to write that would be, "I have an Aunt who always said that?" Because people can't be "thats." Animals can, though.

 

Step away from the bourbon...

Two new ones from today:

 

"That one should be close to his alley" instead of "That one should be right up his alley".

 

The other I'm kind of confused by still. He was talking about an estimator for a flooring subcontractor of ours who tends to be kind of all over the place, and who gets easily confused and regularly makes mistakes as a result. My coworker said that the flooring estimator is "like a kid in a glass house". I thiiiink the expression he might have been looking for was "like a bull in a China shop", and instead he ended up using a really strange combination of "like a kid in a candy store" and "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

 

Heard him say the same one twice in a phonecall this morning. "The snap of a hat".

Has anyone ever actually grinned while eating :poop: ?

When's the last time you had a "prostrate exam?

 

If you are lying prostrate when getting a prostate exam, please remember that the doctor's hands are not supposed to holding your shoulders down.

Is it butt naked or buck naked, I've heard both.

 

Pretty sure both are common. Just depends on where your from.

 

Where I'm from most people say neck-ed not naked.

 

So you would be butt necked.

If you get really rural, it becomes "I seent it," or "I seed it."

 

Node - was aware of.