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I like to call them, "Ooooooooh-unda-way-uhz" for extra-special emphasis.
"Your problem is that you what the uninformed voter so your party can win.....But when you go up against the informed voter you loose." - a facebook poster who fancies herself "informed."
Well, as I said, this is totally new terminology as far as I am concerned.
I never before heard, or saw, this--apparently--new term for underwear.
It must be new because Merriam-Webster doesn't have it listed, nor does Wordweb. I think the new internet dictionaries are the first ones to list these words people begin using which no one has ever heard before. Hey! Coin a word and get listed. Add an es and do it again. It's easy in the 21st Century.
I see "since" used for "sense" a lot on these forums, but I wonder if it's because in some parts of the country, people say a short e just like a short i, and they think the words are spelled the same way because they think they are pronounced the same way.
The easiest example is people who say "pin" and "pen" the same way. I can hear it on anchorpeople on TV all the time, even though I'm in the NY metro area--they must have come from the south or midwest originally, and they say "More to come on the Tin O'clock news". Even my automatic voice on my work phone says, "Inter your passcode".
The easiest example is people who say "pin" and "pen" the same way.
Something that has always irked me is when people refer to a pen as an "ink pin".
Beyond the issue of not being able to pronounce "pen", the question that arises is...Don't all pens utilize ink?
Is there any other kind of pen?
"I turn my hazerds on when I'm in a downpour in Florida I don't want no one to hit my rearend. Sometimes I will pullover it's that intense at times. It's a safty issue with me. And if others get mad I could give a rats butt."
I can understand being concerned about "safty", but...where does he get those rat's butts that he gives to people?
What does he do with the other parts of those rats?
Decimated being misused in places where annihilated, destroyed, demolished or obliterated should have been used.
If I understand correctly, "decimate" specifically refers to a reduction by one-tenth.
This one got a quick mention from ABQConvict and suzy_q1020 over on post #1215 in the first thread but I feel like I have been seeing a significant increase in popularity and misuse of this word during the last year. Examples are easily found on forums [City-Data Forums included!] but I have seen news reporters on TV make the same mistake on multiple occasions, even on the non-sports segments.
Similarly, there is a distinct difference bewteen epidemic and pandemic. An epidemic is a disease that affects a larger number of people than usual for an area or spreads to areas not known for the disease. A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic.
I think it's out radious for posters not to use spell check.
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Now I can just hear Bart Simpson say, "Eat my innerwear".
