Of is not a contraction of have !
The use of such to reorganize a company to get rid of the deadwood, usually producing the exact opposite result.
Here’s one.
When speaking about a budget or money, someone says:
In this “physical” year, vs. the proper ‘fiscal’ year.
Bill
“These ones”
“24/7”
It sounded clever the first 2,500 times, but is beginning to turn stale.
Another most hated phrase: “For English, press 1. Para español, numero dos.”
I feel like pressing 2 and asking for German, or some other language. This catering to one immigrant group is too much.
My revenge: press 2 and speak very bad Spanish.
What's left? Core INcompetencies? Ancillary competencies?
Oh, and how about "the problem being is ..."
Apparently one "to be" verb isn't enough to hoist a problem that heavy ...
Please do not start your story with the phrase, "So there I was..."
The word "Asked" ends with the "D" sound and "Asks" ends with the "S" sound. Neither one ends with the "K" sound, but many people pronounce it that way out of linguistic laziness. The same phenomenon occurs with words like "wasps" and "tasks". I am NOT talking about people who pronounce "ask" as "axe". That is another topic entirely.
Spigot is not pronounced "Spikot".
"He goes (instead of says or said)..."
"Less people (instead of fewer) think...."
"That said"-- Yeah, you said it; I just heard you. What happened to however?
A good reply is, "the ceiling", or, "the sky".
This is slightly off topic but I hear a definite shift going on in how the soft j as in just or ginger is being pronounced. It seems to be moving forward in the mouth so that it comes our dzust and dzinger. Anyone else hearing that?
This is rife in the education bureaucracy. I recently interviewed an educrat about a new charter school starting up in our area.
She went on and on about "learners". Finally I told her, " Learner is not a word. Go look it up in the dictionary; its not there."
What is wrong with using the word student ?
‘disrespect’ and its derivatives.
Drives me nuts.
An offshoot of the ‘self-esteem’ BS.
Ending sentences with prepositions, and misusing “then” in place of “than” in a sentence.
This is so simple; it’s not ‘Rocketry Engineering!’ ;)
(And I HATE it when my kids call me “Ma.” Sounds like calves bawling for their mother.)
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