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a_muppet Global Moderator Posts: 35,020 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 3, 2015 3:07:49 GMT -5 usmichelle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by a_muppet on Apr 3, 2015 3:07:49 GMT -5 How about on the phone, and they say "Bare with me!" NO! I won't! I am keeping my clothes on!
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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 3, 2015 7:52:52 GMT -5 usmichelle likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 3, 2015 7:52:52 GMT -5 Hmmmm . . . is that bare or bear? Many people pronounce often off-ten. It should be pronounced off-en.

a_muppet Global Moderator Posts: 35,020 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 3, 2015 8:40:03 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by a_muppet on Apr 3, 2015 8:40:03 GMT -5 It is certainly bear, but that is not what you are necessarily thinking when you hear it.
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a_muppet Global Moderator Posts: 35,020 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 3, 2015 8:40:51 GMT -5 britishbea likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by a_muppet on Apr 3, 2015 8:40:51 GMT -5 I am of course being pacific.
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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 3, 2015 8:43:24 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 3, 2015 8:43:24 GMT -5 You can be all over the ocean!

a_muppet Global Moderator Posts: 35,020 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 3, 2015 8:52:08 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by a_muppet on Apr 3, 2015 8:52:08 GMT -5 One I used to find amusing, but it got overdone is "The world is your lobster."
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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 3, 2015 9:02:36 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 3, 2015 9:02:36 GMT -5 LOL! We have "The world is your oyster".

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Lobster, is a play on oyster.

My head clerk was a bit of a snob, and she learned the first phrase at a posh party she went to [her husband was a Free-mason].

Anyway, she didn't know that it was a joke, she thought it was a genuine phrase.

She also had sympathy for a friend [the friend was equally dimwitted] as her friend had finally been diagnosed, following many various illnesses, as a hypochondriac.

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How about LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL okay, so I made meal of it, but that is my point.

Now I can accept the first and last initial as lots of Laughs, or even lots of Loud, but you cannot have lots of Outs!

So pack it in!!!!

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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 4, 2015 8:23:36 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 4, 2015 8:23:36 GMT -5 A couple of times I've written "Double LOL". How about LMAO?

a_muppet Global Moderator Posts: 35,020 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 4, 2015 9:07:22 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by a_muppet on Apr 4, 2015 9:07:22 GMT -5 those are ok, it is the extra additional letters that bug me out. For example: LMAOOOOOOOO spread out says: Laughing My Ass Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Off Now I think we can agree that has lost the plot a little?
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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 4, 2015 9:19:43 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 4, 2015 9:19:43 GMT -5 A little.

jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 4, 2015 12:39:34 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 4, 2015 12:39:34 GMT -5 It's wait FOR someone, not wait ON someone. Unless you happen to be in the bar/restaurant business.

priscillams Premier Member Posts: 3,547 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 8, 2015 4:36:55 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by priscillams on Apr 8, 2015 4:36:55 GMT -5 Not exactly a pet peeve but.....(hey it is related to education) I think we would improve Education (pehaps most at the university level) if we dropped...... every course with the word "studies" in it! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat!

a_muppet Global Moderator Posts: 35,020 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 8, 2015 10:00:05 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by a_muppet on Apr 8, 2015 10:00:05 GMT -5 Are you dissing Frisbee studies?
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heatherly Administrator Maintain low tones! Posts: 16,394	Pet Peeves Apr 8, 2015 19:06:27 GMT -5 a_muppet likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by heatherly on Apr 8, 2015 19:06:27 GMT -5 lol what's wrong with women's studies!? =p

britishbea Honored Member Kisses give her goosebumps, well that's cool I used to tutor braille Posts: 996	Pet Peeves Apr 14, 2015 7:50:28 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by britishbea on Apr 14, 2015 7:50:28 GMT -5 Apr 1, 2015 19:46:11 GMT -5 heatherly said: Anyways instead of anyway. i say this sometimes, depends on how i use the word, i usually say 'anyways, what you doing' but i wouldnt say anywayS in the middle of a sentence
	When life hands you lemons, make grape juice then sit back and watch as the world wonders how you did it. Cleaning and scrubbing can wait ‘til tomorrow For babies grow up we've learnt to our sorrow, So quiet down cobwebs Dust go to sleep I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep

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Apr 2, 2015 16:38:34 GMT -5 heatherly said:

Haha, now I just was reminded about how so many people used to spell giggle and jiggle incorrectly.

Examples: "my fat is giggling" or "that made me jiggle", "I'm jiggling right now, hehehehe!" LOL that was when I was younger, oh boy did it bother me.

AND ugh... people misspelling the word tongue as tounge. That one bothers me a lot.

I remember the last time I saw that misspelling, it was when I was going through my boyfriend's old emails (he let me, don't worry; he wanted all of his ex's stuff gone), and I found this embarrassing letter he had saved from his ex, and it was a sexual one... and she was talking about their "tounges" LMAO it actually helped me be less disgusted by what I read because I was just too bothered by the spelling error. Yep, I'm weird ;-)

or mis spelling Bored as Board!
and meaning to say College but saying Collage.
winds me up alot!!

When life hands you lemons, make grape juice then sit back and watch as the world wonders how you did it.

Cleaning and scrubbing can wait ‘til tomorrow For babies grow up we've learnt to our sorrow, So quiet down cobwebs Dust go to sleep I’m rocking my baby and babies don’t keep

jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 14, 2015 13:12:05 GMT -5 heatherly and britishbea like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 14, 2015 13:12:05 GMT -5 Your when it should be you're. And Callie, your new avatar looks a bit like Princess Di; that's not a bad look!

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Further and farther.
A common error.
Farther denotes distance, period
Further is more complicated.
It is never proper for distance, but more of a time abstract.
Examples:
Jen lives farther down the road than Heather.
And furthermore said Cher, I want my money back.

Lay and lie encounter similar grammar difficulty.
Lie is meant for people only.
Lay is for inanimate, or not people.
Example:
Lie down here and relax she told her mom.
Lay the paper over there.
Why does our dog always lay on my couch?

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Apr 3, 2015 3:07:49 GMT -5 a_muppet said:

How about on the phone, and they say "Bare with me!"

NO! I won't! I am keeping my clothes on!

I'll bare with you Cher!

Trust me I will.

hahaha

And with Jen

And with Heather

And

I better stop

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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 13:53:30 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 15, 2015 13:53:30 GMT -5 Can I do this? When used in that way it means ability. May I do this? is a request.

usmichelle Prominent Member Read, Learn, Read it Again, Learn More Posts: 4,412	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 14:57:15 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by usmichelle on Apr 15, 2015 14:57:15 GMT -5 What's the diff between northern, and southern girls Jen? Northern girls say, "you can". Southern girls say, "Y'll can". hahahahahahahaha
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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 15:10:32 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 15, 2015 15:10:32 GMT -5 "You can" usually is meant for one person. "Y'all can" is directed to more than one. When I would come home after going to school in the South my friends said that I had developed a Southern accent because I said Y'all alot.

usmichelle Prominent Member Read, Learn, Read it Again, Learn More Posts: 4,412	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 15:13:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by usmichelle on Apr 15, 2015 15:13:20 GMT -5 Y'll can says Jen. Pass it around so we can toke.
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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 15:21:31 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 15, 2015 15:21:31 GMT -5 I'll toke that under advisement . . .

usmichelle Prominent Member Read, Learn, Read it Again, Learn More Posts: 4,412	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 15:22:21 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by usmichelle on Apr 15, 2015 15:22:21 GMT -5 Cyber kiss Jen
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a_muppet Global Moderator Posts: 35,020 Member is Online	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 15:40:16 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by a_muppet on Apr 15, 2015 15:40:16 GMT -5 "You can" is also the plural.
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jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 15:41:27 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 15, 2015 15:41:27 GMT -5 And returned to you. Sappiness is OK once in awhile.

jengurl1987 Elite Member I Posts: 5,544	Pet Peeves Apr 15, 2015 15:50:14 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by jengurl1987 on Apr 15, 2015 15:50:14 GMT -5 "You can" works singular and plural. I believe that "Y'all" is always plural though. Heather may know for sure.

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