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I am a former elementary school math teacher and my biggest pet peeve is when someone says the letter O instead of zero. As in a phone number 209-0987, it should be said as two, zero, nine, zero, nine, eight, seven NOT two, O, nine, O, nine, eight, seven.
Honestly, the last time I checked, O is not a number but zero is! How hard is that?
Hey, don't go to the UK....they say zed instead of zero. I always thought that sounded weird, but I guess that's the King's English for you.
Oh katalin, "I had been there" is improper. It's the ebonic form....
This is funny. One day I was over at a friends of mine.We lived in the same apartment building.Our kids were real young.Well, she has a petite little red headed girl. Our kids had went behind the apartment building accross from ours. We didn't think anything about it. I had just my son new tennis shoes for school. Oh my gosh, we hollered for em. Her little red head was the first one there. She was mud from head to toe.LOL She looks up at her mom,and says "my no do it". I lost it. I laughed so hard that when mine came over with his brand new tennis shoes all muddy,clear up his ankles, I couldn't get mad at that moment. Lucky little him~
I don't remember what child said this but it goes: "Don't say me that." It means don't say that to me. I just thought it was cute.
I'm laughing to myself here. This happened to me this morning! I myself say "zero" instead of "O". This morning I was on the phone with a higher authority and I was repeating a phone number. As I was repeating it (saying zero) he would repeat back to me again and say "O". I was just thinking to myself how "unprofessional" that was. Then here I am finding this post.
A neurotic, nitpicky old boyfriend drilled that one in my head long ago. Now, I, too, can be annoyed every time I hear it! ...Thanks Peter, wherever you are!
Uhh. I read one about "italy". And, how it's not "eye-taly".
I speak fluent italian, and, well. The I's are stronger.
However, it's certainly does not go to "eye".
it's more like "ee".
Like so - "ee-tal-ee-ano" for "Italiano".
My sister always says "dethaw". It drives me nuts.
She is probably getting tongue tied between defrost and thaw. This post should be titled "What Not To Say". I am enjoying it immensely and am pretending that I never make any of these language mistakes, haha.
Ok, here one of my language buggaboo's is your and you're. Drives me up the wall to see "your going to the game" instead of "you're going to the game". You're going to take your ball to the game. Thanks for letting me vent!
Faulty punctuation annoys me. I see it everywhere and it makes baby Jesus cry. What kills me is this ..... those ... stupid dots ... people ........ mistake for ellipses ...... and place randomly in their sentences. Hopefully, I spelled ellipses correctly. I'd hate to make baby Jesus cry, too.
How about "went missing?" I frequently hear newscasters say that someone "went missing." It doesn't sound correct to me but seems to be commonly used on the newscasts.
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She looks up at her mom,and says "my no do it". I lost it. I laughed so hard that when mine came over with his brand new tennis shoes all muddy,clear up his ankles, I couldn't get mad at that moment. Lucky little him~
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