I spent the last week at school saying "axing" instead of asking, waiting

[Bucky]

for one of my students to correct me. None of them did. Maybe by late March they're already ennured to my ironic abuse of the English language. Maybe they get the joke. Or maybe really aren't aware of the difference between the two words. But every now and again I'd like to be reassured by one of my brats interrupting me by saying "Asking!" when I do that.

I have a colleague who gets all huffy and sanctimonious when the office clerk gets on the PA and calls for someone to report to the "lieberry" instead of library. I think next time she does that, I'm going to call her a hypocrite since she mispronounces the word "Wednesday." She says it Winz-day like a barbarian. The nerve!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. Well, if you're bored, the DU hall monitors are always axing for new recruits.

[MiddleFingerMom]

2. A friend of mine's dad was a college professor -- a tyrannical grammar Nazi.

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My friend knew him to be guilty of pronouncing (for years) the word "misled" as "MY-zulled" and
my friend was pretty certain that EVERYONE was so intimidated that he was never corrected.
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(NOTE: SpellChek caught "MY-zulled".)

[CBGLuthier]

15. I used to say it that way. Stopped when I was 11 or so.

I used to mispronounce a lot of words because I had read them but not ever heard anyone say them.
I pronounced "writhe" with a short i until I got my copy of Tommy by The Who.

English can be annoyingly goofy at times. I suck at the tinier details but feel that I am able to put one word after another and bang it around until it at least seems to make sense.

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. I still don't know whether "shortlived" is pronounced "lye" or "liv".

[femmocrat]

3. The secretary who reads the announcements at our building sounds like an illiterate.

She mispronounces the students' names atrociously. Can't she just ask someone nearby how to pronounce a name?

She also says "pitchers" instead of "pictures". Drives me crazy.

[dimbear]

4. It pains me to do this, really, but I have to take points off for the bizarre neologism 'ennure.'

Ax spellcheck.

[Bucky]

9. It's not my neologism.

Check out "Gawain and the Green Knight"

http://books.google.com/books?id=guPg1ZoPV1wC&pg=PA411&lpg=PA411&dq=ennured&source=bl&ots=9wzL923OcZ&sig=METY9aQsf-Yi-2TeEtVls3PWGiM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=sNB7T6OlC8jw2gW0rb28DA&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=ennured&f=false


He spelled it wrong too. But it is a common English word and not of my personal coinage.

Sorry for the one word spelled wrong. Wrongly. Whatever.

[dimbear]

10. It's strange that google has practically never heard from

ennure, because that's a natural slip, and you would expect a raft of entries on it. Nope.

There's the phenomenon of pulling, where words nearby in orthography draw a similar word toward peril. In this case, immure.

Being in the same boat with the author of Gawain ain't bad at all.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

5. Also, a lot of people forget their "be" verbs...

...and it freaking drives me crazy.
And instead of saying Their, they say they. Seriously? Goddammit, do you not know how to speak English? It's grammar, idiots! Go back to 3rd grade and relearn it!

[Nikia]

6. Where I grew up in Ohio

Many people did not say to be. Such as "Those clothes need (to be) washed." As a result, I often make this mistakes when I am not thinking about it. My husband will correct me and it annoys me.
On the otherhand, I did not know anyone who used borrow instead of lend. That seems to be common in this part of Wisconsin.

[Bucky]

8. To be fair, language is subject to constant evolution.

Last century's barbaric display of ignorance is this year's neologism.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Are you one of those people who believes that this is 2012...

...and no one cares about grammar or spelling anymore? Someone told my husband that one on a chat channel on World of Warcraft, and he had to take away my keyboard so I didn't get banned from World of Warcraft.

[Nikia]

7. I consider it impolite to correct other people's pronunciation

Especially adults who may or may not know better. Especially in front of other people.
Do you correct other adults pronunciation in front of others?

[Duppers]

11. my hubby and son

often correct me but it doesn't offend me in the least, even if done in front of others.

[Bucky]

12. I think it's the way they do it.

When you work with a classload full of 16 year olds and you're not exactly the intimidating type, you get at least 3 or 4 correctors in each class. They'll get me for the occasional "ain't" (which is in the dictionary), but now that folks mention it, I guess that means there's probably 20+ kids each period who would not think to correct an adult.

For that, see the unedited version of this post.

[WolverineDG]

14. I used to hate it when the Marines would send a recruiter to the school where I worked

because inevitably, students would be informed they could meet with the "Marine corpse" recruiter during their lunch hour.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Anemones.

When I was a kid we had a neighbor who referred to certain flowers as "anna-moans." My mom was polite enough not to bust out laughing until after the neighbor left.

[Blue_Tires]

17. Oh? and how do the guardians of language pronounce Wednesday??

[Doc_Technical]

21. You pronounce Wednesday just like it is spelled.

The same goes for February.

[Blue_Tires]

22. three syllables? wed-nes-day?

[MorningGlow]

19. A very nice lady, Cub Scout den leader and teacher

doesn't pronounce her Ts in the middle of a word. Drives me NUTS. One of the Scouts is named Clayton; she says "Clay-IN". Guuuughhhhh...

[jakeXT]

20. Ah well

Yo ah spent da last week at skoo sayin` "axing" instead o' asking, waiting Jus' like Orenthawl James.

http://joel.net/EBONICS/Translator

[Blue_Tires]

23. ??

[benld74]

24. Depends on what part of the country you are located,,,

I have heard,
lie-bary,
the pole-eece,
axeing somebody sumthin,
putting the worsh in the zink,
all from one city

[Old Troop]

25. Did you know that "axing" was the pronunciation

used in early 19th century New England?

[trof]

26. Sez hoo?

[Lionel Mandrake]

27. I'm axing you not to go all nukular when your colleague mispronunciates one of them big words.