Damn this irritates me.
So I'm catching a few minutes of "Mythbusters" before I crash. Apparently Jamie's going to do a drunk thing, using a "Mythbusters"-labelled bottle that is rather obviously an over-labelled Maker's Mark. And the others are demonstrating that they golf like me.
Anyway, cut to a commercial. And a mispronunciation that irritates me no end, and I've heard it many times in illiterate commercials. "Real-tore".
It's NOT, dammit! It's "real't[schwa]r*.
*Sorry, don't feel like looking up how to render a schwa here. Suffice to say that onscreen it looks like an upside-down "e".
Iz out!
2 months ago
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Mine? The stupid furniture-places that don't get that "suite" is pronounced "sweet" and not "suit."
"Bedroom suits on sale!"
No. no no no no no no.
There's another one that makes me grind my teeth every time I hear it but I've managed to repress the memory of the particular word and advertisement.
"Bedroom suits on sale!"
In all fairness, they may have been selling actual bedroom suits to gullible people.
Oh there are so many of these little irritants out there!
The one that has bugged me lately is the phenomenon of the silent "h". For example pronouncing the word "human" as u-man. I HATE this!
So does anyone know a u-man real-tore who can hook me up with a new house for my bedroom suit?
WV: liescuod - a group of super heroes assigned to investigate the truth across America. The Liescuod.
I've also heard "real-ih-ter." How they get three syllables out of that is beyond me.
Yeah, I was going to say that back home it was "realator". I guess that's like "nucular".
I know it's petty, but I dislike "Sears is having their [blah blah sale]". Is "Sears" singular or plural? Make up your mind.
I hear you, ladies. For me it's not so much making three syllables out of "realtor" as where they put it. I could almost (almost, mind you) tolerate re-al-tor, but that syllable between the l and the t (where no vowel exists) is grounds for a beating.
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