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Just heard the sports guy on 680 New report that a certain hockey player has been sidelined by a GROW IN injury.
I'm growing tired of this sort of thing.
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We have a street in London called Westminster Drive. I often hear it on the radio pronounced as West Minister Drive.
After all is said and done, more is usually said than done.
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Point-setta vs. Point-set-tia is the toe-may-toe toe-mah-toe of the ho-ho-holiday season
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newsguy1 wrote:
Just heard the sports guy on 680 New report that a certain hockey player has been sidelined by a GROW IN injury.
I'm growing tired of this sort of thing.
see also: upper buddy injury
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This is really the kind of mispronunciation that could suggest illiteracy or semi-literacy. It's probably of no use for me to ask here, but under what context did he think that that was the correct pronunciation? An injury that "grows in" somehow?
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...but under what context did he think that that was the correct pronunciation?
There wasn't much thinking involved.
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As that lady might say in the radio Lotto commercials you've all hit the "Jack Pat."
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One that causes my Tourette's to make me curse is the constant use of "ay" and "thee" for a and the.
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A major dislike of mine is that no one, and I do mean no one, these days uses the words "fewer" or "many".It's always now "much" and "less" that are used regardless of the noun being described.
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A major dislike of mine is that no one, and I do mean no one, these days uses the words "fewer" or "many".It's always now "much" and "less" that are used regardless of the noun being described.
Don't you mean irregardless? 
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Don't you mean irregardless?
Waiting on the mudslide. 😉
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I have a work colleague who makes deli sandwiches for customers. He always asks if a slice of to-MAH-to should be added. He also calls that black and white striped animal a ZE-bra instead of ZEE-bra. Another case of putting the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syll-A-ble.
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I forgot to mention he is British. That might explain some of it.
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What about , like, axed, like instead of asked ? Like . 
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I think your remark deserves an axterick.*
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"Thank you very much."
"No problem."
"Who said anything about a problem?"
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I am getting tired of a number of Toronto reporters still saying "Toron -Toe!
These guys have got it right.
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I am getting tired of a number of Toronto reporters still saying "Toron -Toe!
These guys have got it right.
News and sportscasters often pronounce the city out west as Cal-GAIRY.
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I once saw a similar piece asking Louisiana residents the proper way to pronounce the city where the NFL Saints play. The correct pronunciation was Nawlins. If they hear New Or-LEANS, that is like nails on the blackboard to them.
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I once saw a similar piece asking Louisiana residents the proper way to pronounce the city where the NFL Saints play. The correct pronunciation was Nawlins. If they hear New Or-LEANS, that is like nails on the blackboard to them.
That reminds me of the story of someone asking people how they pronounce the capital of Kentucky.
They heard answers like LOO-ee-vill, LOO-ah-vill and LOO-vill.
Of course, the answer is FRANK-fort. 😀
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I once saw a similar piece asking Louisiana residents the proper way to pronounce the city where the NFL Saints play. The correct pronunciation was Nawlins. If they hear New Or-LEANS, that is like nails on the blackboard to them.
That reminds me of the story of someone asking people how they pronounce the capital of Kentucky.
They heard answers like LOO-ee-vill, LOO-ah-vill and LOO-vill.
I would have pronounced it as #1. I am guessing local residents would use #3.
Of course, the answer is FRANK-fort. 😀
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I once saw a similar piece asking Louisiana residents the proper way to pronounce the city where the NFL Saints play. The correct pronunciation was Nawlins. If they hear New Or-LEANS, that is like nails on the blackboard to them.
That reminds me of the story of someone asking people how they pronounce the capital of Kentucky.
They heard answers like LOO-ee-vill, LOO-ah-vill and LOO-vill.
I would have pronounced it as #1. I am guessing local residents would use #3.
Of course, the answer is FRANK-fort. 😀
or maybe Frank-fert?
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Just heard the sports guy on 680 New report that a certain hockey player has been sidelined by a GROW IN injury.
I'm growing tired of this sort of thing.
680 News is the absolute worst for speaking English properly. I turn it off everytime I hear "gold is $xxx THE ounce" or "oil is $xxx THE barrel". Learn about indefinite vs definite articles. Little kids speak better than that. Or "rain will continue THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT"?? Who talks like that? My kid doesn't come to me and say, "I'm going to be staying over at Billy's place through the overnight". It's just "overnight". Why add extra words that aren't even grammatically correct? Or for traffic, "the right lane is SHUT". How about "closed"? So many mispronunciations and outright grammatical mistakes on 680 News. They really need an editor!!