English pet peeves

[Disco]

My English pet peeves are; worsh (wash), mayzhure (measure), Hellycoptuhr (helicopter) veeh-uh (via), die-uh-beet-is ( ITS DIABETES PEOPLE!!!), lee-vuhr (lever), uh-loo-mih-num ( aluminium). I wonder if anyone says ALL OF THESE. I might have to punch them.

[Sairana]

My English pet peeves are; worsh (wash), mayzhure (measure), Hellycoptuhr (helicopter) veeh-uh (via), die-uh-beet-is ( ITS DIABETES PEOPLE!!!), lee-vuhr (lever), uh-loo-mih-num ( aluminium). I wonder if anyone says ALL OF THESE. I might have to punch them.

I bet you don't like it when people say 'crick' instead of creek, too. Basically your pet peeves are all accents that are different from yours? Because none of those are mispronunciations, they're just regional.

[Disco]

My English pet peeves are; worsh (wash), mayzhure (measure), Hellycoptuhr (helicopter) veeh-uh (via), die-uh-beet-is ( ITS DIABETES PEOPLE!!!), lee-vuhr (lever), uh-loo-mih-num ( aluminium). I wonder if anyone says ALL OF THESE. I might have to punch them.

I bet you don't like it when people say 'crick' instead of creek, too. Basically your pet peeves are all accents that are different from yours? Because none of those are mispronunciations, they're just regional.

I took the brittish way of saying most words, but without talking like I'm from there ( if that makes sense)

[AJBryant]

My pet peeve is English idioms that are English ports of foreign language idiom -- that don't work grammatically in English.

One I've seen a lot is "It needs (verb-past tense)" -- as in, "the car needs washed" or "the house needs painted."

No.

The car needs TO BE washed, and the house needs TO BE painted.

<ahem>

Sorry.


Tony

[two_heads_talking]

My English pet peeves are; worsh (wash), mayzhure (measure), Hellycoptuhr (helicopter) veeh-uh (via), die-uh-beet-is ( ITS DIABETES PEOPLE!!!), lee-vuhr (lever), uh-loo-mih-num ( aluminium). I wonder if anyone says ALL OF THESE. I might have to punch them.

I bet you don't like it when people say 'crick' instead of creek, too. Basically your pet peeves are all accents that are different from yours? Because none of those are mispronunciations, they're just regional.

I took the brittish way of saying most words, but without talking like I'm from there ( if that makes sense)

I hope you don't run into one of the people who speaks with the dialect/accent you hate that also hates the fake English one you choose.. that could be interesting.


@Tony, I've always found it odd that people use need for inanimate objects. The house must be washed sounds so much better to me than needs to be.. As if the house has needs.. lol

[ニッキー]

My English pet peeves are; worsh (wash), mayzhure (measure), Hellycoptuhr (helicopter) veeh-uh (via), die-uh-beet-is ( ITS DIABETES PEOPLE!!!), lee-vuhr (lever), uh-loo-mih-num ( aluminium). I wonder if anyone says ALL OF THESE. I might have to punch them.

How would you pronounce them? Particularly helicopter, diabetes and lever... I've never heard them any other way than how you just said (although I can only guess at what pronunciations you're trying to represent so maybe I just misunderstood)

[Disco]

My English pet peeves are; worsh (wash), mayzhure (measure), Hellycoptuhr (helicopter) veeh-uh (via), die-uh-beet-is ( ITS DIABETES PEOPLE!!!), lee-vuhr (lever), uh-loo-mih-num ( aluminium). I wonder if anyone says ALL OF THESE. I might have to punch them.

How would you pronounce them? Particularly helicopter, diabetes and lever... I've never heard them any other way than how you just said (although I can only guess at what pronunciations you're trying to represent so maybe I just misunderstood)

helicopter (hell-ih-cop-tuhr), diabetes (dai-uh-bii-tease), and lever (leh-vurr). I know people who say "worsh" or "mayzhure" all the time. They're not doing it to piss me off ( I don't become infuriated, I just notice it and it makes me cringe), it's just how they say it. Heaven knows why I'm programmed like that, but it's not a real big issue to me.

[Disco]

My pet peeve is English idioms that are English ports of foreign language idiom -- that don't work grammatically in English.

One I've seen a lot is "It needs (verb-past tense)" -- as in, "the car needs washed" or "the house needs painted."

No.

The car needs TO BE washed, and the house needs TO BE painted.

<ahem>

Sorry.


Tony

That's my grandmother!; " Oh, quit lazing around and mind your grandmother. the dishes need washed, the pans scrubbed, and the catbox done. I need to go Mayzhure something"

[Yudan Taiteki]

I don't know if that's a foreign language import. "needs washed" is a pretty common element of American dialect.

(As for "aluminum", that's the standard American pronunciation; "aluminium" is not.)

[AJBryant]

I don't know if that's a foreign language import. "needs washed" is a pretty common element of American dialect.

Only *regionally*. It's primarily western Pennsylvania and other areas where there was heavy German immigration.


Tony

[chikara]

... "needs washed" is a pretty common element of American dialect. ...

It is

... As for "aluminum", that's the standard American pronunciation ....

Pronunciation and spelling. I would have thought to say "aluminium" in the USA would be considered incorrect, although I see Disco is Californian. The rest of the world (mostly) uses the extra "i".

[Yudan Taiteki]

I don't know if that's a foreign language import. "needs washed" is a pretty common element of American dialect.

Only *regionally*. It's primarily western Pennsylvania and other areas where there was heavy German immigration.

It also shows up in Scottish English, though.

(what I meant above is that it's a fairly common element of regional dialects in the US; it's not a part of standard American English.)

[AJBryant]

You're right, I just checked -- it's a Scottish dialectical thingie. I'd thought German. Huh.

At any rate, it's still substandard English -- as much dialect is -- grammatically speaking.

[chikara]

..... it's still substandard English ....

Don't ever say that to a Scot or you may be adding "Glasgow Kiss" to your vocabulary.

[AJBryant]