In today’s episode of People Who Should Be Muzzled: Any adult who pronounces the word library “lie-berry.”
In particular, this applies to people who work in a library, and thus repeat the word dozens of times per day.
Honorable mention goes to people who pronounce our nation’s capital as “Warshington.”
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1. I couldn’t agree with you more on the lie-berry thing. Another one of my personal favorites is ‘axed’ for ‘asked.’
2. Not that I necessarily *agree* with the use of the word ‘Warshington’ because it is annoying as all hell, but people that grow up in the northwest actually *learn* to say it that way. Sort of like the way the Canadians learn to say ‘ay’ all the time.
Whatever. :>
i work at a technical college and our lie-berrian pronounces it that way and it drives me up the wall, as for axed..i chalk that up to ebonics and wayyy to many people do it so i guess it has morphed into something greater..or lazier..who knows???
same goes for those people who have an “idear” instead of an “idea”
the one that gets to me every year is fiscal. a certain mayor i know talks about the “physical year budget” and “conservative physical policy.”
Chicago pronounced Cheh-ca-go…unfortunately I love in Chicago and hear it that way enough to make my ears bleed.
And a note to commisserate with my fellow Liz…Canadians and the word out…”oot”?…what the heck is that all aboot?
but hey — isn’t WARshington absolutely apropos?
I had a dear journalism instructor who would teach us about where to insert the “pacific” information in our news writing exercises — meaning, of course, the “specific information” — like, all the time. She was pretty country, but also a college professor for crying out loud!
I’ve got friends from the Midwest and others with long-established Texas roots who offend in the “warsh” department, so I’ve never been able to pinpoint a regional reason for that. “Warter” for “water” is another doozy they assault me with. Oh well. Maybe when I stop saying “ya’ll,” I’ll have a right to gripe.
I would like to submit “new-cu-lar”, as well as “metafer.”
I now find regional accents more charming than I used to, so I don’t find stuff like “warsh” nearly as annoying anymore.
regional accents are one thing…like warsh, warshington and oooout..i am a huge proponent of the use of ya’ll, but disregard for the word and its origin are another..
Y’all ain’t heerd nuttin’ til ya heerd dem sayin’ “Yuns”. Which I suppose is a lazier contraction of the already lazy You’uns. Our waitress in Mayville (near Chautauqua) N.Y. used it to start every sentence. “Yuns need any thing else?”…
I work in a library, and I say it correctly! 🙂 I am from the South too, where most of those people who say lie-berry and Warshington probably reside. I am glad I have an education. 😉
Okay, I know that I’m a “a few days late and a few dollars short” but, how about the word, “BOLTH” It is like nails on a chalkboard, when I hear it. Now that I have mentioned this to you, you will be surprised how many people say it. Careful, you may be one. Everytime someone says the word, I have to bite my lip! I want to ask, “Excuse me, can you spell that word for me?” I’m telling you, for me, if I heard it on my first date, there wouldn’t be a second.
I was talking to my real-a-tor about the fall foil-age. Arrrgh. As for the lazy R, I lived in New England for a long time where people would tell you to “Close the DRAW” or to “DRAWER a picture.” Now if they could only swap it around, they’d have some english on their hands.
I’m with Carrie on “new-cu-lar”. That one drives me batty. Personally, I stick to moderately less annoying habits. Like saying “further” when the correct word would be “farther”. Or the fact that I consistantly misspell the word “weird” as “wierd”.