pedantic?

[mr. piper]

is it just me? or does anyone hate seemingly intelligent people saying "LIKKLE" or"KEKKLE" It even looks wrong written down. another one i hate is "DRESSING GOWND" That really sticks in my craw(?) anymore for anymore. am i just being pedantic, but i wish they would stop doing it, really we have suffered enough!

[Litchick]

I agree!!!  I HATE when people put an apostrophe where it doesn't belong, like SLIP's or spell things inccorectly as in Linza Tart -- instead of Linzer Tart.  I especially hate when people use numbers and letters in email as in R U going B 4 me????  LOL!

[woofgang]

Oh boy, sounds like someone is getting overtired and excited before christmas....

[Steph84]

What are you going on about? What are likkle and kekkle? And did you mean to put a d on the end of dressing gown?

[flopsy000]

Yes please explain Likkle and Kekkle etc.

[The Tiggster]

I hate the way people say AKSED instead of ASKED. I 1st heard it on Rikki Lake years ago & now I've noticed that most of the youth presenters say it on TV. Has anyone else noticed this?

[sammy snake]

I think LIKKLE and KEKKLE are meant to be LITTLE and KETTLE.

 

I saw a medium the other week who kept referring to an old GENKLEMAN (gentleman).  it drove me nuts!!

[billywhizz]

I also can't understand why they put Ian Wright in charge of the lottery show when he can't say lottery.  Hedoes not seem to understand that there is a double 'T' in the middle, using instead the awful and fashionable gutteral stop.  Does anyone get annoyed at the use of the word "Normalcy" instead of normality, by Americans 

[ezapf]

It doesn't bother me. I feel smart when I notice such things.

I thought normalcy was a word.

 

[l_h_kings]

I think it is a northern thing to say likkle and bokkle (Ashley on Coronation St is an example of this)

And it is a midlands thing to say somethink

Oh, hang on i haven't offended any southeners yet!

[raindog]

I feel the same way as some of you sometimes.  Several gaps though: normalcy is an English word, rejected by us but, lately, enthusiastically re-credited by the U.S.-what makes a word real? It is agreed as the blobs on the page we agree means 'something'.  Loved the irony of litchick misspelling 'incorrectly' though-that was irony, wasn''''t it? Anyone can sit in judgement on anyone else-and if I mean legally that 'judgement' loses and 'e'.  Seriously are we talking the return of 19th Century pedantry, or are we decrying the fall into the abyss of 'Dat'll do me'- as in " I don't really care how to spell that correctly- dat'll do me"?-that messes with my head.

[mr. piper]

being a midlander, and being referred to by outlanders as "YAM YAMS", i am somewhat comfortable with the use of "am" in the wrong place a sin "WE AM, YOU AM, THEY AM Etc."

[mr. piper]

woops, i hadn't finished then.

yet i say it when i am in that type of company(i am not a snob, just being explainetary (can't think how to spell that)) another one that drives me mad is a "sustificate" AAARGH! "inhederatry", NUFF SAID!!!

[bernardo]

I am pedantic about lots of things...

[Kay]

" Can I lend" instead of "May I borrow" really annoys me.

[tigga]

Yes it really does my head in too, especially as you point out 'seemingly intelligent' people - Has anybody noticed Anne Robinson on the weakest link pronounces thousand as : thousant ?.

That really does my head in !!!!

[tigga]

and on corrie, they cant say for example we are eating our dinner, they have to say we are eating us dinner !.

Whats all that about ?

[Steph84]

I'm from the London area but go to uni in East Yorks. Some things they come out with up there really get my goat. As FINA says, 'Can I lend' instead of 'May I borrow' or (as i've heard more often) 'Borrow us a...' instead of 'Lend me a...'. Others include 'It's right good!', 'Owt/Nowt' (how do u spell them?) and 'Swear down!' (at least I thought this was a Northern thing until my sister started sayin it and reckons it's not)..?

[BetsyLou]

You people are way, way too easily irritated! People aren't all the same, they don't all speak the same, they don't all use the same vocabulary, and there's nothing you can do about it. And even if there was, you shouldn't do it. Why not just chill out and stop worrying about such totally unimportant things? Pronunciation and vocab choices have nothing to do with intelligence.

[mr. piper]

well BETSYLOU,you obviously haven't been irritated enough by these people, myself and many others, seemingly, have encountered this grammatical terrorism far too many times.

i see it as an insult if someone cannot be bothered to talk to you in the queens english, i do it, every time i speak.

 anyhow i feel as if i have struck a power chord in you now, could your frustration at my assertion be caused by the fact that you also say LIKKLE &KEKKLE? and am now pondering the fact that when you have spoken to people in the past, using LIKKLE etc. you are now worried that the people would have gone away thinking "what a pratt, she knows how to speak, she is doing it on purpose to identify herself as a member of her peer group", who do it for the reason that they wish to talk like their peers. if they were writing they would write correctly, it appears to be good being thick!! ( or at least sounding it )

let us not forget those that are really thick!!!!