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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"

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

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

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

What is the difference???

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

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

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

Parity vs. Parody

That's incorrectly used a lot on this board.

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.

Our President's favorite:

nukeular vs. nuclear

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

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.

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......

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.

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

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

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.