I've seen a lot of good ones in the list that I agree with.
I've heard "Pacific" used in place of Specific.
My biggest Mistaken Expression:
"No he did-ent with the pronunciation on the "E" nt. That's a punnchable offense (I probably just used a mistaken expression..)

 

So many. This generation provides so many to call out.

Tryna instead of trying to. You tryna tell me that's a word?

Of course most of you know this already but this lazy *** world that refuses to spell and uses just letters. Leaving most trying to figure out what someone is trying to say. Complete laziness.

 

I don't know which is correct
In the south blessed is pronounced bles sed 2 syllables
In the North blessd 1syllable
Either way it's the sediment that counts 🙃

 

Honorable mention to "finna." I know it's not a mistaken expression, but it's a hoodlum contraction of a redneck contraction of a country term of "fixing to," as in 'preparing to' do something. I have no issue with slang, or a contraction of it, like "gettin' it on" is understood to mean either moving really fast or conducting fornication, but "finna" isn't even remotely English.

 

Finna is Tryna's cousin.

 

I hate the B.S. when I hear women say to each other "That's right girlfriend", "Hey, girlfriend", this that "girlfriend" B.S.

 

offense

 

(offense)

 

"Here, Here!" Instead of "Hear, Hear!"

 

Alot... A lot is a lot of words...

 

This one irritates me " my bad" I hate it !

 

The word “wash” does not have a R in it!!!

 

Dizzy=distributor...wince, hate that! Spark make it happener is much better.
Cutty=Cutlass...wince.
Ax me=ask me...an ax hasta hurt
Word=OK. Word up, word down, word out, et al???
Four Forty Two...Grrrrr

 

Four forty two
cutty


I absolutely HATE those terms

 

My Parents always hated when I said “groovy or far out”

 

thank you for the correction...

 

Incorrect contractions involving the word "have." Such as "should of," "would of," It is should've or would've. These stick in my craw.

 

Post #10

 

cutless

 

And here it is just to irritate me. So how does a person verify they are original miles and not aftermarket miles?

 

Irregardless vs. regardless.

My Dad used to say “imprecision of language implies imprecision of thought”. Yeah, he was an engineer.

But as the kid of an engineer and an immigrant, good English matters. At least to me.

Cheers
cf

 

Original miles, to me, has meant that the original odometer is there in the car and accurately reports the mileage; also being under 100,000 and not rolled over. I could say my Monte Carlo has 85k original miles as the odometer has been unbothered.

 

Wouldn’t it be enough to simply say it had 85,000 miles?

 

You could say that, and it would be 100% accurate. However, you are missing the opportunity to make your car sound more desirable if you don’t say “original” miles.

 

So Bangscreech. Your first post you say Mopars are six pack... That is actually a Dodge thing. Plymouth Roadrunners were six bubbles. Six BBL...

 

My Roadrunner only had four bubbles ...

Actually, I said "Six Pack," and aren't Dodges Mopars?

 

Sale vs sell in classified ads.

 

Might could

 

Ain’t never

 

I do love the phrase "ain't no such animal," but it is very incorrect.

 

4 Sale

 

Since this thread has morphed back and forth between mistaken expressions and ones we just hate, I'm-a rattle off some words and phrases that make me furrow my brow with contempt and disdain:

• whatnot
• whatsoever
• I'm just sayin'...
• snowflake (Not to be political here, but it's particularly dumb when both sides sling it back and forth at each other. "No I'm not! You are!" It's like watching 8 year olds argue.)
• butthurt
• woke
• LOL (this one specifically, when used by adult men. Other social media shorthand does not bother me much at all unless it's newer and I can't decipher it.)
• sweetie (when it's used online to be condescending)

I'm sure there are a few that are not coming to mind right now. Now go get your shinebox!!

 

4 sell
I want to sale

 

Wayal... you ARE dealing with that level of maturity.

😏

 

"how bout dat" "return back to" "bro" "bruh"

 

Since this thread has morphed from "mistakes" that irritate you to just "stuff" that irritates you, how about this:

Who else is annoyed when people refer to their cars as "she"?

 

The old sailor saw was that, like a woman, a ship is unpredictable.

 

The practice is considered to be a carryover from the sailing days of old where ships were named after women or goddesses. In the case of naming them after women, it was to honor or pay homage to some influential female of the ship’s owner. In the case of a goddess, the owner was trying to appease that goddess of ancient times so she would protect his ship as it sailed through the storms and the monster- and demon-laden oceans and seas they traveled.
Other theories include , because some cars have beautiful lines like a woman, another theory is men love their cars as much as woman so the name their cars after woman and refer to them as she, my favorite is because cars are high maintenance like a woman so they are referred to as she !
My father named all his cars Bessie except for one, he had a old 53 Dodge He named Zeek ( don't know why)
I have never named my cars, in the case of my Olds I just refer to it as The Olds for my 64 BelAir I just referred to it as the 64
I have found my self (when referring to my Olds) "saying ain't SHE a beauty " so I guess the answer for me is no it doesn't bother me
but we all have our fingernails across the chalkboard moments,
Although this is not entirely related to this thread this one drives me crazy, when my wife says "who did this" THERE ARE ONLY TWO PEOPLE LIVING HERE !! (well if it wasn't you who do you think it was) SHE is a peach !!!

 

I know, or at least can theorize the history of the practice of referring to vessels and vehicles as "she". Doesn't stop it from pissing me off.

 

Original miles , show me a non orig mile, I’ve never seen one.