Stupid words and/or mispronounced/misused words

A younger sister of an old former friend of mine, once asked their mother if they were having Swedish meatballs for dinner that night, but it came out Smedish weatballs.

I enjoy doing that too, but some people don't find it amusing when you mispronounce their name.... even in harmless fun.

I also say arrove instead of arrived.  It sounds better, and seems like a perfectly good word to me.

musicman wrote:   One more thing that makes the English language weird...

And WHOM might you suggest should be empowered to rid our language of these words?

WHOMEVER it would be, would have to be someone WHO would wield enormous power I presume.

Another English idiosyncrasy is the word who.  Where who is pluralized by adding and m instead of the usual s.  Though in the case of who adding an as makes it sound possesive.

In fact who sounds just like you and you don't say youm when you are talking to a crowd in second person.  Though some in rural areas choose to say yous.

ThreadKiller wrote: Thor wrote: Who needs this crap?  If grammarians disagree on this, who's to say who's right?  I say, get rid of those rules altogether.  Too much hassle.     See? This is how trouble gets started.   First people start agitating to get rid of perfectly sensible rules of grammar.   Then, before you know it, decent people like me have to buy guns and ammo, and barricade ourselves in our homes to fight off the roving mobs of anarchists trying to break in and pillage us.   Eventually, we're all back in the stone age, huddling around a fire in some dank cave and, if we get a toothache, we'll have to knock the tooth out with a rock and no novocaine.   Studying the proper usage of "who" and "whom" doesn't seem so bad now, does it?

Hootman wrote: I end sentences with periods.

That must get messy after a while.

 “Who” is a subjective — or nominative — pronoun, along with "he," "she," "it," "we," and "they." It’s used when the pronoun acts as the subject of a clause. “Whom” is an objective pronoun, along with "him," "her," "it", "us," and "them." It’s used when the pronoun acts as the object of a clause. Using “who” or “whom” depends on whether you’re referring to the subject or object of a sentence. When in doubt, substitute “who” with the subjective pronouns “he” or “she,” e.g., Who loves you? cf., He loves me. Similarly, you can also substitute “whom” with the objective pronouns “him” or “her.” e.g., I consulted an attorney whom I met in New York. cf., I consulted him."

(borrowed from an article a mutual friend of ours posted on Facebook.)

MrsHill wrote:  “Who” is a subjective — or nominative — pronoun, along with "he," "she," "it," "we," and "they." It’s used when the pronoun acts as the subject of a clause. “Whom” is an objective pronoun, along with "him," "her," "it", "us," and "them." It’s used when the pronoun acts as the object of a clause. Using “who” or “whom” depends on whether you’re referring to the subject or object of a sentence. When in doubt, substitute “who” with the subjective pronouns “he” or “she,” e.g., Who loves you? cf., He loves me. Similarly, you can also substitute “whom” with the objective pronouns “him” or “her.” e.g., I consulted an attorney whom I met in New York. cf., I consulted him." (borrowed from an article a mutual friend of ours posted on Facebook.)

Intentionally misprouncing words reminds me of an old librarian I used to work for.  He was arrogant, picky and loved to look down at people which was funny considering he only had a GED (contrary to some people's belief, professional librarians have a Masters degree; always correct that when I can because so many people don't know it).  Most patrons thought he was God. 

Anyway, he loved to toss out foreign phrases to prove just how elevated his intelligence was and impress the local chattel so I decided to irritate him and mispronounce many of them intentionally.  My favorite was c'est la vie, which I pronounced set lavie.  At first, he would correct me but finally he caught on.  He would still clench his jaw and veins would bulge though.  Now I still say it that way.  He loved to say tour de force and I would call it a turd divorce.