There are just so many fun words in this world. Billiam used a word the other day that I had not heard in a long time, "akimbo"--isn't that a good word? I have always loved words, and consider myself somewhat of a word person. Even though all I have to do to be humbled is go to Burtonia. Now there's a word mastah!
Everyone has words that they don'tlike, like phlegm, and vomit, words that conjure up nasty pictures in the brain. I'm talking about normal, everyday words that just make you feel woogy--for example, I have a friend that doesn't like the word "spoon"--I don't know if it is the way they sound, that they were used in something I read once that I didn't like, or what it is about them. I'm sure other people have words they don't like as well. I know my sisters Kelli and Kandi have some, and they're pretty normal...
Here we go...
Crisp--yucky, can't stand the sound of it. (Although I was called "The Crisper" in high school, let me assure you, those people were not talking about potato chips or vegetables--vegetation maybe).
This is a phrase, but I can break the rules, it's my blog:
Any way, shape, or form--redundancy, eew.
Moist--sounds like something you wouldn't want to touch, something slithery. Blecch.
I know there are more, but they escape me now that I want to remember them, of course.
Tell me about the words that make you go "buuuhhhhh"
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We already discussed this...glean, sheath, probe!! EEEEWWWWWW
wad
I think, for me, it's more of the MISUSE of words than actual words themselves. For example:
heighth
acrosst
and my personal favorite,
irregardless.
I cringe every time I hear someone say any of these perversions of the English language.
Ditto, Kandi. "anyways", "ofTen". Great words: perchance, misanthrope, methinks, foible. Nasty sounding words: cuppa coffee...ugh. I hate that!
The two that drive me the craziest are "waRsh" -- where the heck did the R come from and "HHHerbs" instead of "erbs" -- Herb was married to my Great Aunt Anne
and -- "erbs" are what I put in my spaghetti.
The misuse of supposably for supposedly.
"I'm just so FUSTRATED I can hardly stand it." People actually say that. Just drop the r. That's fine with me.
I'm going to start dropping e's. Is that ok with *v*ryon*?
I l*rn*d in school that any form of languag* that is us*d by a group or cultur* counts as a valid languag*. H*nc*, *bonics. So, you guys r*ally can't complain--th*s* words that you h*ar p*opl* using on a r*gular basis count as r*al words, I'm v*ry sorry to say. *v*n th* dr*ad*d DOUBL* N*GATIV* counts as a valid us* of th* languag*.
"I don't want no smoking in this offic*."
"I'm not *atin' no ch**s*."
Ugh. S*riously, shoot m* now. In th* h*ad.
I could go on...but I won't.
As far as misuse of words goes, I am married to the master. I don't know how many conver..arguments we have had about the word foot. Yes, it's ten foot pole, but it is NOT ten foot of fence.
my friends's husband has lived all his life in AZ so when us "northern folks" come and visit we sound extremely "o yeah you betchya" to him. His wife a fellow minnesotan "ya know" always gives him grief like well if it's not a "roof" on the top of a house what's in our veins "blood" (like dude)he says we say roof like "ruf" and other funny "o" sounding words.
"a" what's goin on I didn't post anonymous???
I thought that sounded like you Sara
Yeah, well, northern people do say very weird things Sara. The way they say their "o"s is what is really distinctive. I really picked up on this when I heard myself in a family video when I was in high school. My dad being from the south and my mom from the Twin Cities (with little accent), and me being home schooled, I wasn't that corrupted with the linguistics of Northern Wisconsin. However, I heard myself and I didn't like what I heard!
Then I worked in CA last summer, and that really showed me how easy it is to pick up on dialects. I could tell right away that my boss was from MN. I was talking to a ranger at the park entrance once and asked him if he was from the Uper Midwest? Sure enough, Minnesota.
Oh well, I guess it's better than sounding like a southern hick!
Oh, and my word. Nuclear. It's not the word "nuclear" that I dislike. It's the pronunciation of it as "nucular" that I can't take! (Didn't Bush do that?) It doesn't look anything like "nucular," but people say that all the time!
I was thinking of another today.
Realtor. No, not realater, and it's realty, not realaty
I used to work with an executive vice president (of library systems). He used to say libary instead of library.
How come he was paid the big bucks?
That's why I love the British, they speak in proper English. (Don't even think it Reegz...)
I won't think it silver spoon......oops, did I write that out loud
Okay, dere, dat's enough of da makin' fun of the Midwesterners now, don'tchaknow. I've heard all of dese t'ings a couple two tree times, ya know. I'm gonna go get some hotdish and a pop. Maybe some bars, too.
...and maybe somma dem dere shew-gar kewkies dat Mamma makes so gewd.
That's too funny Kandi, my uncle does a great impression of Olie and Leena and he can carry it on forever, after a while it does get sickening though:)
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