"For all intensive purposes..."

[Passinwind]

Near miss. - I'm sure this can be debated grammatically or contextually, but the way this term hits my brain I hear, "...almost missed...".
- This would indicate that a collision, contact or connection did in fact happen. Right?

Yep, it means a hit on the target that narrowly missed the bullseye.

 

[hondo4life]

hay how many oxatives can you're base play.

 

[fendermademygibson]

hay how many oxatives can you're base play.

Olive um.

 

[blastoff99]

Ha. Great thread.

My mother taught in an elementary school for a long time, and one of her principals was an over-educated chap who thought a lot of big thoughts and maybe wasn't fantastic at his job in all the nitty-gritty ways. She said they never let him drive them anywhere when a few of them went to faculty events in other towns, and sometimes wouldn't even let him drive himself - he was prone to mental wandering and they feared he'd be thinking big thoughts and meet a tree. Anyway, he was prone to mixed metaphors and the occasional Spoonerism. She said faculty meetings were worth the pain just because he might say something fantastic, like:

'Let's all roll up our hands and get to work!'
'That's just gravy on the cake!'

Crap, I can't find the file she kept of her notes from these meetings. I'll ask her when she reappears.

 

[HaphAsSard]

I could care less.

Yup. Would drive ol' Mr. Spock crazy, this one. Just like "could of", I wonder how it's parsed by the user.

All of a sudden

Wait, what's wrong with this one?

My wife has her own language that I sometimes prefer to English. I use some of her terms here. Like "Pain in the patchoukie." When she was young she drove a Morris Minor. She called that car a Measley Minor. A small bump on your skin is a lumpey dookey. When she want so compliment something I have done she says "You've done yourself in." She knows what she is saying and we still laugh at that one.

Speaking of "compliment"...people who use it (in writing) when they really mean "complement". A set of strings that "compliments" a bass..."Kudos, bass, you look and sound swell", said the strings, all-as-one yet in gradually less bassy voices.

A blessing in the skies

Love it!

"Yeah, I'm just gonna try and go fight apples with apples."

Awesome anthology, but this one in particular made me chuckle!

and the lack of an apostrophe in "Its"

The opposite phenomenon used to irk me, until I found myself doing it, then it double-irked me...

I heard one person say, "I'm going to eat myself into Bolivia." I think she meant "oblivion".

O_O I'm in awe...

the British pronunciation of 'aluminum' as "aluminium".

To be fair, they also spell it with the "i"...and taught the rest of the world to do likewise (for consistency with other element names, of course). To be fairer, the i-less form is the original one, or so I'm written.

I don't think it's only a year. It can be any specified length of time. Six month anniversary and such.

After some googling it turns out it its Latin derivation includes the word year but I'm fairly sure it's commonly acceptable to use it for other non annual events.

To my Romance eye, "six month anniversary" is a contradiction in terms; this said, yous () native speakers definitely make the usage and, over time, the rules, so I'll quietly show myself out on this one.

 

[zontar]

Guesstimate--it's either a guess or an estimate. No middle ground there, some overlap--but no middle ground--one or the other.

 

[PMagers]

This thread runs the gambit.

 

[charlie monroe]

"How come?" should be "Why is it that?"

 

[Richland123]

I "prolly" told them at least a "hunert" times not to do that.

 

[Richland123]

I see people type "ect" often for "etc".

Also, why do many people say the days of the week as Sundee, Mondee, Tuesdee, Wednesdee, Thursdee, Fridee, & Saturdee?

 

[El Güero]

It's a 4-lane road with a medallion strip.

 

[Rune Bivrin]

Allot of this really gets my gills.

 

[Richland123]

It's a 4-lane road with a medallion strip.

On a similar topic, I hear people say there is a "medium" strip between the lanes of a highway.

 

[TOOL460002]

I don't give a care.

 

[hondo4life]

I don't give a care.

Me either.

 

[twocargar]

Here in New England I hear "draw" allot (#swidt), when referring to drawers. They spell it that way when selling furniture on Craigslist. "Hutch with four draws..."

Labtop is another one. When they misspell it multiple times in an add (#swidt), you know that's how they really pronounce it.

 

[FilterFunk]

"Hutch with four draws..."

In certain circles, "draws" means underwear.

And saying "Ahmo gitz me summa dem draws" means more than just the panties...

 

[ianuaditis]

I didn't read the whole thing so someone may have gotten this one:


"Wal-mart's sells this for 10.99"

Also 'coupon' pronounced like 'cyoo-pon.'

 

[fendermademygibson]

"Wal-mart's sells this for 10.99"

I was living in small town middle America in the mid 1980s when a Walmart opened and I had a friend that would constantly call it Wals-mark.

 

[Richland123]

I didn't read the whole thing so someone may have gotten this one:


"Wal-mart's sells this for 10.99"

Also 'coupon' pronounced like 'cyoo-pon.'

We have a small town in Pennsylvania called Coupon and everybody pronounces it correctly as "Coo-pon". However, most people around here say they redeem "cyoo-pons". Go figure.