Words

[c9]

1. I dislike how "ASAP" no longer means what it means. Or at least, it seems that way. I regularly edit my emails to remove usage of "ASAP" because it seems to indicate "do this right the fuck now," not "as soon as you can, I understand that you may be busy."

2. My new CEO mispronounces the folllowing words:

• nuclear (Nuke-yalur)
• COBOL (cobalt)
• ManuLife (Manual-Life)
• Acura (a-CURE-ah)

3. That is all.

Comments

[thespos]

1. My Indian clients use English in bizarre ways. "Please to be kindly sending..." and other very floral manners of constructing their sentences. They read like love letters sometimes. I think I'm engaged to someone in Mumbai, but I can't be sure.

2. My stepfather drove me crazy with his words:

• dawn 'til dust (instead of dusk)
  
• a fat person is also called obeast (instead of obese)
  
• soder (instead of soda)
  
• idear (instead of idea)
  
• gordy (instead of doily)

My mother had a coworker who distorted words, too:

• one was bedstricken (instead of bedridden)
  
• she wanted ivory in her wedding bouquet (she meant ivy, thank goodness)
  
• if you have a headache, take Tide-and-all (instead of Tylenol)

3. Always nice to read your posts. :-)

[putaindemerde.livejournal.com]

soder and idear are also pretty common in Boston... I can't tell you how many times I've heard it.

[thespos]

You can tell me. I promise not to tell anyone you told me.

This would have been fine if he weren't already annoying and we were actually from Boston.

[putaindemerde.livejournal.com]

My logic is that folks drop the letter "r" from some words and they feel the need to add that dropped letter elsewhere.

I'm guessing this isn't the case? :-/

[rostin79.livejournal.com]

yeah, and Maine too. My dad only says them that way. Pizzer and Soder

[putaindemerde.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I'm must be a weird Bostonian then, because I don't say "idear" or "soder" or "pizzer"

Hmmm... pizzer. Interesting.

[rostin79.livejournal.com]

haha, yeah. my dad was born in Maine and grew up in Mass, so it's sort of ingrained in him. I grew up in CT, so we speak correctly :) and even after living in boston for 7 years, I don't say any of those.

[putaindemerde.livejournal.com]

You live in Boston? And we've never met? ;-)

[rostin79.livejournal.com]

live-d :). I'm what I call "outside Seattle" now. But yeah, I lived there for 7 years. :) interestingly enough we have no boston LJ friends in common. I think that is a first in the history of the gay universe.

[putaindemerde.livejournal.com]

LOL! You know, it does happen de temps en temps...

What sent you away from our "beautiful" city and off to the opposite corner of the universe? A job, a fella, or both?

[rostin79.livejournal.com]

none of the above. just wanted to try something new. and with that, i'm here :)

[putaindemerde.livejournal.com]

Shame you wouldn't be here for Pride next weekend... I'd have found a way to ask you out for a drink or something.

*sigh* oh, well... ;-)

[jpman.livejournal.com]

Having lived in Maine, I can totally vouch for the fact that Mainers pronounce "idear". I giggled the whole time I was there.

[jamincan.livejournal.com]

I believe that the pronounciation of a trailing 'a' sound isn't really a error in pronounciation so much as a characteristic of your stepfather's accent. It goes beyond the North-Eastern US too; as far as I can tell, it's a common feature of many local accents within the UK and Canada.