32 Most Commonly Misused Words And Phrases (speech, quote, dictionary)

[bjh]

Originally Posted by Bette

This one has always bothered me:

One in the same - should be "one and the same"

Your instead you're

Your right. Irregardless, it shouldn't be one in the same.

[undfan]

I didn't go through 28 pages so maybe this has come up. The media does this all the time:

Saying "off of" when it should siimply be "off". "Get off of the chair." should be "Get off the chair."

One pointed out by George Carlin 20 years ago, but has stuck with me since:

When discussing the nutritional benefits of food, the correct term is "healthful", not "healthy". People are "healthy", food is dead.

[Fred314X]

'Excape' for 'escape.'

[S Williams]

These two misuses are quite silly:
1) People telling me that they are nauseous (as opposed to nauseated)! Really?? You believe you are revolting/ sickening?
2) I have actually heard a nurse tell me she thought the patient was death. Hmmm. As in the grim reaper? Or could she have meant the patient was unable to hear?

[skyegirl]

Originally Posted by S Williams

These two misuses are quite silly:
1) People telling me that they are nauseous (as opposed to nauseated)! Really?? You believe you are revolting/ sickening?
2) I have actually heard a nurse tell me she thought the patient was death. Hmmm. As in the grim reaper? Or could she have meant the patient was unable to hear?

From Merriam-Webster:

Those who insist that nauseous can properly be used only in sense 1 and that in sense 2 it is an error for nauseated are mistaken. Current evidence shows these facts: nauseous is most frequently used to mean physically affected with nausea, usually after a linking verb such as feel or become; figurative use is quite a bit less frequent. Use of nauseous in sense 1 is much more often figurative than literal, and this use appears to be losing ground to nauseating. Nauseated is used more widely than nauseous in sense 2.

I wondered because I hear people say it all the time in the hospital, and I am guilty as well.

[btownboss4]

i hate route purnounced as rout its root
i hate when people prunounce roof like rouph not wref
i hate when people say y'all, its annoying.

[Mightyqueen801]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

i hate route purnounced as rout its root
i hate when people prunounce roof like rouph not wref
i hate when people say y'all, its annoying.

You pronounce "roof" as "wref"?

It is roooooooooof.

[Drover]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

i hate route purnounced as rout its root
i hate when people prunounce roof like rouph not wref
i hate when people say y'all, its annoying.

The other day I was driving down Rout 59 when I said to my friends, "check it out, y'all! The wref of that building is on fire!"

[btownboss4]

Originally Posted by Drover

The other day I was driving down Rout 59 when I said to my friends, "check it out, y'all! The wref of that building is on fire!"

no but Route 59 is pronounce like root, as in a tree root
and roof is not rough, like its pronounced in the south, its wref

[Drover]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

no but Route 59 is pronounce like root, as in a tree root
and roof is not rough, like its pronounced in the south, its wref

OK.