Comments on: I'm so tired of hearing that!

By: The Sunday Salon « The Book Lady’s Blog

The Sunday Salon « The Book Lady’s Blog — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:59:54 +0000

[...] week, I also discussed words that should be banished from our vocabularies and refined my best of 2008 list for BTT. And I decided to participate in the [...]

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:46:13 +0000

Oh yes, celebrity children gossip needs to be banned from any newspapers – even the entertainment sections!

Although if I were the ruler of the world (someday, someday) tabloids and gossip magazines would be the first things to go

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:29:28 +0000

Oh, I am with you on the Nuc-U-Lar thing. It is one of my biggest pet peeves. I’ve actually refused to vote for politicians who have said it publicly – seriously, you want me to vote for you, but don’t know how to pronounce our deadliest weapon? My husband’s vote would be the phrase “Main Street”, since apparently the journalists who love it don’t actually know what a small town main street is.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:44:18 +0000

The word “outliers” should have been killed in the cradle. It’s too late now.

By: Alyce

Alyce — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:35:19 +0000

Amy – you listed the one that bothers me the most. My husband can’t say “realtor.” He can only say it “re la tor.” It drives me nuts, but I can’t be correcting him constantly because that just wouldn’t be nice.

By: Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog

Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:12:20 +0000

Serena, my in-laws are from St. Louis, where words with the “or” sound (i.e. “forty”) are pronounced with the “ar” sound instead….so when you take Highway 44, you’re driving on the Farty-Far. Or you eat carn with a fark. The Warshington thing also happens there, too.

By: retroblique

retroblique — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:52:58 +0000

I hate that the word “iPod” is now synonymous with every portable music/video player on the market, regardless of whether or not it actually is an iPod or even made by Apple in the first place.

I don’t have an iPod, but I do have an mp3 player that does everything an iPod Nano does, only it’s half the price of Apple’s overpriced nonsense.

It’s Walkman and Hoover all over again!

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:32:51 +0000

Realtor, when it’s pronounced publicly (as it was by some national figure on TV recently) as “re-la-tor.”

By: Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit)

Serena (Savvy Verse & Wit) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:30:19 +0000

I would love to banish Warshington…yes, its a d.c. thing…these people on insist on calling it WARshington…its WASHington PEOPLE!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:42:45 +0000

Nuc-u-lar, lol, Canada’s Rick Mercer got hate mail for saying that on his show. Called him stupid. And claimed an immigrant cab driver jeered at his accent. He apologized for the mispronunciation. It was really funny!