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Old 07-15-2016, 04:29 PM
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The h in white is silent, LOL.

Thongs are still shoes. We just have two different types of thongs these days.

"First and foremost", is a sentence opener with little meaning. In fact, it's been so overused it has no meaning left at all.

"I seen" is so bad that I'm surprised to see anyone still saying it. I do think it's a regional sort of slang, tho.

One of my pet peeves is the word "journey". Everyone is on a journey. Their problems are part of their journey. The trials they go through is the journey. All learning experience is part of their journey. Journey where? To the grave?

Also the word "issue"... born out of a need for a less threatening word for "problem". What's wrong with problems?

When I moved to the South I had to learn lots of local sayings, like that when people said to "mash on" a button, they meant press it.

One of my personal irritants is hearing 'salmon' spoken with the 'l' pronounced. SALmon, instead of 'sammon'. That l is silent.
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