The Cauldron: A Pagan Forum

That actually makes a lot of sense to me. Piggybacking off of this one, I cringe at the word "Preggo" Preggo is a spaghetti sauce.

 
Well, on that note, there's always "We're pregnant". No, *we* are not pregnant. The pregnancy is limited to my body. We're expecting a baby, we're going to be parents, you name it, but *I* am pregnant. If you want to dispute that, I suggest that you likewise stop drinking alcohol, start throwing up your breakfast for no reason, and grow a belly the size of a large water melon, nevermind the whole giving birth thing. You are no more pregnant than I am black for being married to a black person.

--Chabas

"Muggle" for non-pagans gets me. Not all pagans practice a path that involves magic, so we're muggles by the definition of the term yet we're still pagans. Really, try harder. This ain't Harry freakin' Potter.

I also despise the use of this term in pagan spaces, but even when it's used by magic practitioners to describe people who don't do magic, I hate it. Mostly because in the context of the books, it is used in a rather negative sense by the villains and creates a false divide since I believe everyone is capable of magic in some form.

leverage
"We should leverage Beyonce's endorsement for maximum sales."
In the business realm, nothing sets my teeth on edge quite like this one.

mansplain
"It is a story of space flight, whose protagonist is not only a girl but a black girl — and not a girl who is being mansplained about the way of the world, but a girl who does the explaining herself."
I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, but the snark of it made my eyes glaze over. From the context, what it said most clearly to me is that the writer has a chip on their shoulder large enough that, when smothered in salsa, it could feed millions.

So what words make you want to go postal?

 
"The one true God"
"Libary"
"Scubar" (instead of scuba)

This reminds me of a joke I heard years ago.  

Person A: Where's the libary* at?
Person B: It's improper to end a sentence with a preposition.
Person C: Where's the libary at.... asshole?






*note: the joke requires the pronunciation 'lie'-berry' for maximum effect.

Ah. Thought of one of my own.

"Fer" instead of "for". I never really noticed it until I met my husband and he pointed it out to me. He grew up in Germany so it really stuck out for him.  It doesn't bother me too much, but it is something that I notice now, and it happens a *lot*,  and I can't help cringing at it a bit.

Reminds me of Eliza Doolittle. "The rain in spain..."

That's a perfectly acceptable pronounciaton where I'm from

And here. This may be a dialect thing.

Some Southerners say it that way too, but it's not common, and I've always seen it as a real Southernism. The same people say simiular instead of similar, and ruff instead of roof. Not many people talk like that these days!

Wisconsin has a lot of that. There's 2 ways to say "roof" and "creek". It's either said "ruff" or "rewf" and "creek" or "crick"

We have more than just those 2 but that's the common one

leverage
"We should leverage Beyonce's endorsement for maximum sales."
In the business realm, nothing sets my teeth on edge quite like this one.

mansplain
"It is a story of space flight, whose protagonist is not only a girl but a black girl — and not a girl who is being mansplained about the way of the world, but a girl who does the explaining herself."
I don't even know what that's supposed to mean, but the snark of it made my eyes glaze over. From the context, what it said most clearly to me is that the writer has a chip on their shoulder large enough that, when smothered in salsa, it could feed millions.

So what words make you want to go postal?

 
I actually find "mansplain" really useful, when it's used correctly.  It's about this specific thing: http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175584/rebecca_solnit_the_archipelago_of_ignorance

(This is a link to an essay by Rebecca Solnit, called "Men Explain Things to Me," preceded by some commentary about that essay following its having gone viral and spawned the verb "to mansplain."  It's the origin point of the term, specifically describing the phenomenon of men assuming expertise on subjects on which they are not experts, and condescending to women who know more than they do, based on the assumption of women's ignorance/incompetence/lack of intellectual acumen as compared to men.  The essay centers around an anecdote of a man at a party patronizingly explaining Solnit's own recently-published book to her without even being willing to listen enough to realize that it is the author of the book to whom he is speaking, because she is a lady at a party and clearly knows nothing about the subject.)

 
That's a perfectly acceptable pronounciaton where I'm from

Same here,  and the same can be said of 'fer' and pronouncing I as "Ah".  I'm guilty of it myself, though being a man of higher education, (((Ph.D and DVM))) I've worked hard retraining myself to remember to speak 'proper' grammar as much as possible.