Words where the pronunciation has changed over the years...

[Stasch]

Realator rather than realtor


'so yeah' as a filler (much the same as 'like')

[maxtog]

'so yeah' as a filler (much the same as 'like')

"ya know what I mean"

[Boomer]

People are weird.
One friend calls the short hairy axe-wielding Middle-Earth characters "Dorfs" when everyone else calls them Dwarfs or Dwarves (we used to play a lot of D&D).
Another just cannot say Nuclear (Nu-Clear) and instead always says NewKular.
Me, I struggle to say "Yes, you're right and I am wrong,...." 

[Nosmo]

I have three new gripes:

People who pronounce "and" with a "t" as "ant".  One of the women at my workplace does this and it drives me NUTS.

The second item is that people are now beginning to add an "s" to pluralize things that don't need it, as in "aircrafts", and (just yesterday in a news article) "spacecrafts".  It never saw this until a few months ago, now it is becoming more common.  Once a bad habit starts it is hard to get it stopped, which brings up gripe number three:

90 % of the time when someone says "impact" they really mean "affect". A few days ago I listened to a new broadcaster say "impact" about a dozen times in two minutes. Ten years ago, this wasn't an issue, but it has become a bad habit promoted by illiterate TV and radio people.  I realize they are usually just reading the teleprompter, so maybe they need a new teleprompter writer.

Whine....whine....**** moan.....................

[maxtog]

Ten years ago, this wasn't an issue, but it has become a bad habit promoted by illiterate TV and radio people.  I realize they are usually just reading the teleprompter, so maybe they need a new teleprompter writer.

Whine....whine....**** moan.....................

Well, don't worry, Webster's will just "revise" the dictionary and textbooks will revise too, to accommodate any and all new atrocities to the language.  And teachers won't want to "offend" any students, so they won't ever be corrected, either.  Then all that stuff will be proper and acceptable.

[Stasch]

Here's a couple more that you'll hear from talking heads and politicians ad nauseam:

• "Look . . . " <insert a comment here>"
• "At the end of the day . . . . . "

Sports 'sayings':

• "take it to the next level"
• "Lets give 110%"

High School GPA's:

Anything over 4.0 diminishes the 'impact' (see what i did there  ) of what this should mean.

This score is supposed to be an average with 4.0 as a perfect average score, not some cumulative score that can increase above that.

[VirginiaJim]

I hear this one on the Oak Island reality show...from the narrator.


"Could it be...?"   I'm starting to cringe every time I hear that now....  The show's getting old and the only ones getting the treasure are the contractors doing the actual work.