Brooklyn Life Open Thread by Emily Nonko 11/15/2010 585 Share Share Brooklyn Life Brooklyn Life Open Thread What's Your Take? Leave a Comment Leave a Reply Cancel reply Register to leave a comment, or log in if you already have an account “Why do some people say “aks” when they mean “ask?”” “Aks” or “Axe” is atop my list of mispronunciations that drive me crazy. Right up there with nucular. Log in to Reply Oooh, and my favorite…”irregardless”! Log in to Reply I used to tell my students that there was no such thing as being “up in the club.” You can be up in an airplane, a hot air balloon, etc. but unless that club was in some such thing, you were not ‘up in’ it! Log in to Reply i also laugh when people get all irate with me and scream I AXED YOU A QUESION! *rob* Log in to Reply Either of those works, Rob! Log in to Reply Why do some people say “aks” when they mean “ask?” Log in to Reply and why do some people say bloody bugger when they mean fucking asshole? *rob* Log in to Reply “-Why do people say “I could care less” when they mean “I could not care less”?” Thank you, etson! This is something I’ve wondered about as well. Log in to Reply etson – That’s one of my pet peeves too! And people don’t even understand what is wrong when you explain it!! Log in to Reply < 1 … 60 61 62 63 64 65 >
“Why do some people say “aks” when they mean “ask?”” “Aks” or “Axe” is atop my list of mispronunciations that drive me crazy. Right up there with nucular. Log in to Reply
I used to tell my students that there was no such thing as being “up in the club.” You can be up in an airplane, a hot air balloon, etc. but unless that club was in some such thing, you were not ‘up in’ it! Log in to Reply
i also laugh when people get all irate with me and scream I AXED YOU A QUESION! *rob* Log in to Reply
“-Why do people say “I could care less” when they mean “I could not care less”?” Thank you, etson! This is something I’ve wondered about as well. Log in to Reply
etson – That’s one of my pet peeves too! And people don’t even understand what is wrong when you explain it!! Log in to Reply
“Why do some people say “aks” when they mean “ask?””
“Aks” or “Axe” is atop my list of mispronunciations that drive me crazy.
Right up there with nucular.
Oooh, and my favorite…”irregardless”!
I used to tell my students that there was no such thing as being “up in the club.” You can be up in an airplane, a hot air balloon, etc. but unless that club was in some such thing, you were not ‘up in’ it!
i also laugh when people get all irate with me and scream I AXED YOU A QUESION!
*rob*
Either of those works, Rob!
Why do some people say “aks” when they mean “ask?”
and why do some people say bloody bugger when they mean fucking asshole?
*rob*
“-Why do people say “I could care less” when they mean “I could not care less”?”
Thank you, etson! This is something I’ve wondered about as well.
etson – That’s one of my pet peeves too! And people don’t even understand what is wrong when you explain it!!