Belgium Waffles, and Other Language Pet Peeves

[Coito ergo sum]

Every now and again I notice a restaurant will use the term "Belgium Waffle" instead of "Belgian Waffle." That pisses me off.

I saw a sign recently near a florist advertising "bokays" of flowers....I nearly went mad in a rage...

I have seen several times a coffee product being sold under the word "expresso."

I nearly killed someone early today for saying "should of."

And, if another person spells the world "lose" with two Os, then I'm going to set their house on fire.

[Svartalf]

so you're a lozze cannon?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

so you're a lozze canon?

[Bella Fortuna]

[Coito ergo sum]

[Bella Fortuna]

[tattuchu]

Where do I even begin? Here are a few:

1) It took me a long while to get used to "hoody' in reference to a hooded sweatshirt. Still sounds retarded to me, but I don't bristle at the sound of it like I used to. But now I keep hearing people referring to sweatshirts as "sweaters" and it's driving me mad.

2) One of my nephews used to say "I'm versing" so-and-so if he was competing against someone. It made me want to slit my wrists. Now my friend from work insists on saying "verse" instead of "versus", no matter how many times I correct him and explain the difference. "Alien verse Predator" for instance, he'll say.

3) Cliched is now cliche. As in, "That's so cliche."

4) Similarly, someone or something is not biased anymore. It's simply bias

5) Exspesially as opposed to especially.

6) Nucular as opposed to nuclear.

7) There's an pizza place in town called Palermo's. You know, after the town. Palermo. Girl at work calls it Palmero's

8) One of the supervisors at work refuses to pronounce "g"s at the the end of words. The diecutting department becomes diecuttin, wicking material we use to make a product is now wiccan.

9) One of our customers used to be Reebok, the shoe company. You don't know how many people called them Reebox

[Gallstones]

Effing peed ants.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Tat, Palermo is a legit surname here.

[anna09]

irregardless

[tattuchu]

Tat, Palermo is a legit surname here.

What about Palmero?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Tat, Palermo is a legit surname here.

What about Palmero?

Pretty sure. In regards to that....

[Bella Fortuna]

Tat, Palermo is a legit surname here.

What about Palmero?

There are two Mexican restaurants near us, Vientos and Flores. My dad always says 'Vietnos' and 'Florries.' Drives me up the effing wall!

[Svartalf]

Cliché, it's cliché, not cliched or anything else, though I won't insist on acute accents knowing I had to do without them when I was typing my Master's thesis on a Qwerty keyboard... wondered how they did when they wanted to type Irish though.

[Bella Fortuna]

We don't have accented letters on our keyboards.