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Today We're FEELIN' GROOVY about:
~Listening to Karen's kids tell us which words irritate them when pronounced differently than they are used to, while we have a Cinnabon break. Eleven year old Emily doesn't like to hear peeee-caaan instead of pe-cahn and nine year old Brent doesn't like aaaaa-dult instead of uh-dult.
~Not staying in a bad mood too long
~Busy friends taking time to help us even when we're not totally sure what we're doing. At least we know we aren't sure and we know from yesterday that knowing what is going on is very important.
~Collecting exclamation points
Our Bêtes Noires:
~The new Star 98.7 slogan: Today's Music Alternative. We don't even get what that means. Isn't the alternative to music silence?
~Realizing too late that you aren't wearing your pedometer when you specifically park a mile away from an entrance just so you can see how many steps it takes to get there
~Rude salespeople. What is up with that? How come people today don't know when to put on a fake happy face? Has the slogan changed from The Customer Is Always Right to The Customer is a Nuisance?
What mispronounced words bug YOU? Tell us- we like to know these things.
Nuclear! The word is "NOO klee er". Not "NOOK yuh ler". ;-)
Posted by: kate | April 14, 2006 at 06:33 PM
"wash".....there's no R in there people. someone please tell my mother that "warsh" is NOT a word!
Posted by: Ronda | April 14, 2006 at 07:35 PM
Kate beat me to it. NOOKyuler drives me batsh*t. Utterly -crazed-.
Needless to say, I don't watch many presidential speeches too often these days. :)
Posted by: eliza | April 14, 2006 at 09:03 PM
Here is the one that makes my head explode - "sall man" I want to scream that the "L" is silent.
Posted by: Jane Schofield | April 15, 2006 at 06:35 AM
I'm with Ronda; I hate people putting an R in Washington or just wash. I also hate people adding a T to the end of across, and I'm really not big on deh-po instead of dee-po.
Posted by: Tonia | April 15, 2006 at 01:33 PM
I go crazy when someone says supposably, instead of supposedly. I felt so validated when there was once an episode of Friends in which Chandler was as equally nuts over it as I get!
Posted by: Allison | April 17, 2006 at 07:01 AM
oh yeah- I'm with Kate. I used to have a social studies teacher, way back when , who just coulndn't pronounce " nuclear" and it drove me nuts!!!
Posted by: Debbie | April 17, 2006 at 09:09 AM
Celophane. My boyfriend says "celo-thane" and it bugs the crap out of me. I am also in complete agreement with Emily on the appropriate pronounciation of Pecan.
Posted by: Anea | April 17, 2006 at 08:21 PM
When somebody pronounces a writer's name wrong, and insists that the incorrect pronounciation is the correct one, and you don't want to correct them because that will make you seem like a stereotypical guy who always needs to be right (i.e., a lawyer.) Also, folks who pronounce the soggy superhero
"Ack-wa Man" -- like Aqua Velva -- instead of the obviously proper "Ah-kwa Man."
Posted by: Danny Barer | April 17, 2006 at 10:55 PM
Danny, I know your predicament. There really is no worse insult than being called a "lawyer." At least we don't LOOK like lawyers!
Posted by: karen | April 18, 2006 at 08:23 AM