- "we would like to express our up most gratitude" (should be "utmost" - incidentally, this was printed on the stationery of a major university)
- "in one swell swoop" (should be "in one fell swoop")
- "above bar" (should be "above par")
- "I could care less" (should be "I couldn't care less" - this one has been a pet peeve of mine for years)
- "that's a mood point" (should be "a moot point")
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"Take it for granite." That's one I hear all the time!
Jenn,
Do you think people are referring to granite, meaning the type of rock, or are they guilty of a far more egregious error: pronouncing an "-it" with words that end in "-ed" or "-id"? For example, I've heard someone say "stupit" instead of "stupid."
All of those misstatements are just stupit.
I really can't go into pacifics of all the misstatements I've heard!
See you in a few weeks!
Love, Mom
Josh, if we are going into pacifics on mispronouncing words. . . a whole new can of worms. . FOR RILL.
Anna
I have heard people refer to their "cousints" instead of "cousins."
I've heard people say "mute point" for "moot point," too.
My friend, Mark, is the king of misquotes.
He once told the bus kids not to "defile him" rather than "defy him."
He says "flip the bill" instead of "foot the bill."
My old pastor had a lot, too.
He would say "phantom" instead of "fatham."
He would say the "raft of God" instead of "wrath"
Ooooh, I could go on and on!! This is a great topic.
oh my word, defile instead of defy! Here's another. . .Patients will ask "did you call in my subscription for my pills?", instead of prescription. hee,hee.
Anna
Anna,
That's a funny question for a patient to ax.
I have to admit, I'm guilty of a misstatement that I just can't seem to correct! I say "ridonkulous" instead of "ridiculous"....I'm working on it :)
See you soon!!
Kari
JOSH!!!! I just heard another one! Someone 3 feet away from me standing at the fax machine waiting said loudly "Patience is a VIRTUTE" !!!
HAHA Anna
I remember when Gretchen taught at Georgetown that an Army recruiter gave a motivational talk to her class on "the essentuals of success."
If patient is a virtute not a virtue, a law is a statue not a statute.
Josh, someone here at work says "spal" instead of "spa" :) Someone asked if they made robes with hoods, and she said, "they have them at all spals".
Anna
Anna,
I almost forget this common and funny mistake, in which people tend to confuse two words with very different meanings:
1. (singing) "...let angels prostate fall..."
2. "He goes to the bathroom a lot because he has an enlarged prostrate."
Josh, I am not kidding on this one. . . I had to write it because it had TWO in one sentence! (Mispronunciations). . . ."the patographer was so smart to think to take that pitcher"
OH MY.
Anna
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