I'm with ya! Of course, I'm also irritated no meteorologists can prounounce 'tem-per-a-ture' in 4 syllables, and tv hucksters cannot say jewel-ry, they say jewler-y, like they're selling jewelers...
You know what gets to me? People who don't know the difference between your and you're or their, there and they're, or our and hour, or its and it's. Screw it going to learn Chinese.
Actually forecasted is an acceptable alternate form according to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forecast.
ReplyDeleteI'm just sayin'. :P
Tole: nook-u-lar is considered correct pronunciation, too. Forecasted sounds wrong to me. Smarty-britches!
ReplyDeleteI'm with ya! Of course, I'm also irritated no meteorologists can prounounce 'tem-per-a-ture' in 4 syllables, and tv hucksters cannot say jewel-ry, they say jewler-y, like they're selling jewelers...
ReplyDeleteYou know what gets to me? People who don't know the difference between your and you're or their, there and they're, or our and hour, or its and it's. Screw it going to learn Chinese.
ReplyDeleteTheir saying its eaier then English. ;)
Tole
Ditto, George!
ReplyDeleteTole - I'm continually amazed by same. Every day when people call in, I have to read the notes of other reps who heve thot same problum." Lawks!
Agree with Tolewyn's examples.
ReplyDeleteSome other common interchanges that particularly irritate me:
Sight/site
Straight/strait
Hear/here
Herd/heard
These are properly termed homophones - - words pronounced the same, but with differing spellings AND definitions.
These pairs are not homonyms, which are words both SPELLED and pronounced the same, but with different meanings.
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From an actual meteorologist, I say thank you.
ReplyDeleteI even have to correct colleagues about that one.
Realtor: real-a-tor
ReplyDelete'Slicer' tomatoes, 'baker' potatoes, etc.
Peach's, plum's, orange's-all plural?