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To: iowamark

My personal peeves:

Restaurateur - folks, there is no N in that word.

Conversated - just plain pretentious and wrong

Commentated - another in the same vein

Applicable - making it a four syllable tongue twister


4 posted on 03/15/2015 3:50:07 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

The one that makes me crazy is when people pronounce REALTOR as if it was REALATOR.


14 posted on 03/15/2015 5:00:39 AM PDT by jocon307 (Tell it like it is.)
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To: Gaffer

Comfortable pronounced “Comftorble”

Jewelry pronounced “Jewlery”

Comftorbleness used as a word.

And, in CT, any word that has a double t (button, for example) pronounce “bu’-hen”.


19 posted on 03/15/2015 5:07:02 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: Gaffer

Alls i know, english ain’t easy


33 posted on 03/15/2015 5:18:04 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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To: Gaffer
Hey, Gaff! I never noticed the missing n! Thanks!
58 posted on 03/15/2015 5:59:04 AM PDT by Savage Beast (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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To: Gaffer

Totally agree...
My most recent is “often” which lately is corrupted into “off-ten”....
Arggggh!
We do not “sof-ten” the butter, do we?


113 posted on 03/15/2015 7:51:20 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: Gaffer

You need to hear Bo Dietl—he’s truly his own lexicographer. He may have trained under Norm Crosby.


135 posted on 03/15/2015 10:34:53 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: Gaffer

physicality


136 posted on 03/15/2015 10:48:14 AM PDT by rabidralph
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