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by **KnoxVegas** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:29 pm

Anyone else have any commonly missused figures of speech? I will get the ball rolling with:

"All intensive purposes," rather than "All intents and purposes"

"Smokey mirrors" rather than "Smoke and mirrors"

"All-American" rather than "All-America"

"Pled guilty" rather than "pleaded guilty"

"Supposably" rather than "Supposedly"

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by **Tim Whitehead** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:53 pm

I know a lot of people, especially in the lacrosse community, that pronounce "lackadaisical" "laxadaisical".

"Here, here!" instead of "Hear, hear!"

by **umdulax1** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:03 pm

"All-American" rather than "All-American"

What is the difference???

by **byualum** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:04 pm

"I could care less" vs the correct "I could not care less"

by **umdulax1** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 5:05 pm

the pronunciation of comfortable.... so many people say comfterble...instead of comfortable. (does that make sense...????)

by **Gregg Pathiakis** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 6:34 pm

I used to think it was a "Doggie Dog World" instead of a "dog eat dog" world.

by **Jay Wisnieski** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 7:36 pm

Parity vs. Parody

That's incorrectly used a lot on this board.

by **Zeuslax** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:45 pm

I here a lot of....... torn-na-mint. I guess instead of turn-na-ment. As in, that's was a great NCAA torn-na-mint.

by **laxative** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:43 pm

Our President's favorite:

nukeular vs. nuclear

by **laxative** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 9:49 pm

oh yeah, and:

heighth vs. height - i hate hearing this, it is a hard T

The "s" in Illinois is SILENT!

irregardless- not a word, neither is agreeance

by **bste_lax** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:16 pm

laxative wrote:irregardless- not a word, neither is agreeance

Didn't Fred Durst use agreeance at some award show shortly after 9-11 or something along those lines?

And yes, I am fully aware that it is sad that I remember this.

by **Brent Burns** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:17 pm

I really, really, really cringe every time I see the word, "it's" used incorrectly.

It's is a contraction form for it is or it has. This does require an apostrophe.

Its is a possessive pronoun which does not require an apostrophe. It is the same thing for his, hers, its.

You can see the difference:

The boat has a hole in it's hull.

The boat has a hole in its hull.

I have seen a lot of incorrect "it's" in many posts on USLIA.com. I even see that used incorrectly by local or national transcriptionists when news are captioned. Grrrr...... :evil:

If it were not for a professor from Baylor University almost 22 years ago, I would still have used "it's" incorrectly. He kindly put me aside and showed my error.

by **bste_lax** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:31 pm

Brent, it's going to be ok....... :wink:

by **Gregg Pathiakis** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 10:56 pm

Coach Hawkins will probably get ticked at this one, but Missouri is not pronounced with an "ah" at the end (i.e. Missourah)

by **KnoxVegas** on Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:11 pm

laxative wrote:irregardless- not a word...

There is already a word for irregardless: regard.

Stay with me on this:
Irregular means not regular.

Irretrievable means not retrievable.

Regardless mean without regard.

Irregardless then, by definition would mean to show regard.

So, no it is not a word.

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