We have a city, Yakima, that used to be called Yak-i-maw. Now the new(s) people have taken to calling it Yak-im-u.
One of my pet peeves is words not being spelled how people want them pronounced. If they wanted a "maw" on the end they should have spelled it that way. I gotta
side with the news folks on this one, assuming they are pronouncing the "u" as a short sound not a long one that is "Yak-im-ahhh" not "Yak-im-ewww".
You'd hate how I say it. I just said it out loud here a few times and it came out "
Yuk-i-ma"..mentally I know it's wrong but if I just blurt it out instead of thinking
about it that's the way it comes out.
And I am sick to death of hearing people use the word "impact" when they really mean "effect".
Some use of it verbally is probably just a carryover habit from writing. Many forgetting which "affect" or "effect" to use have substituted "impact" instead.
Impact is spelled the same either used as a verb or a noun, so it's use is easier.
Our native bivalve is the geoduck, real name pronounced Gwee-duk", but Anglicized as "Gooey-duck".
Well two wrongs don't make a right...er..correct..er..well anyway if it's going to be spelled geoduck then it's pronounced as gee-o-duk. Saying one mispronunciation
is better than another is silly when the word is clearly misspelled.
And everyone under the age of thirty composes their sentences of endless streams of "Umm...like....ya know....." with little use of words that actually convey information.
Agreed, "I mean" [sic] people feel obligated to speak so quickly that their brain can't keep up when searching for the correct word, so all this like "ya know" gobbledy gook air filling noise comes out instead,
ya know? No that wasn't really a question, I just felt obligated to punctuate it that way because of the "ya know " which wasn't a question but an air filler,
right? OOPs I did it again. "I mean" used to be something you said when your brain catches up an realizes what you just said may not be very clear, it acted as a pause between what you just said unclearly and what you are about to say more clearly after mental editing. It also was an indicator to the listener that they should quit trying to process what was just said, and instead concentrate on what is about to be said. However, now it has become a sentence starter for no apparent reason just like "ya know" has been added to the end for no apparent reason, right? (<---oops)
Another pet peeve
( I mentioned it in the things that annoy me thread but I'm rolling and can't stop now) is starting a greeting with a question at the beginning of a one way discussion, such as a YouTube video. "
Hey guys how's it goin'? Here's how you can get your dog to stop licking it's paws....blah blah.." "
Hi what's up? I'm often asked how to lance a boil on your own butt without asking for..." irks me more than being stuck in traffic on
the I-35W, ya know? Right? Eh?