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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 200081" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>They dealt with this in an episode of Simpsons. Homer is correcting Lisa. "It's pronounced NUKE-YOU-LAR," he explains.</p><p></p><p>We get people mispronouncing it like this here, too.</p><p></p><p>Other words that annoy me - FOLIAGE mispronounced as FOLE-AGE.</p><p>And mispronounciations that are ambiguous, such as "I want to be quite pacific when I say, I do not like the shirt you are wearing." (Which statement, frankly, is more a declaration of war and therefore not pacific at all).</p><p></p><p>These things annoy me especially when uttered by people who should know better or who are seen as examples (such as journalists and politicians).</p><p></p><p>Another example of what annoys - when someone is referring to themselves and others but always refers to themselves as "I" because it SOUNDS more genteel and hopefully is therefore correct. But they have forgotten the rule (if they ever knew it) for using these words correctly - you put yourself last (not first in the list) and depending on where it is in the sentence, "I" or "me" is correct. To test which it is, remove the other names in your head and try the sentence, to see if it should be "I" or "me".</p><p></p><p>For example, "Janet & I were sitting in the shade of the tree." And "In the shade of the tree sat Janet & myself." (Because it is what works, if it's on its own).</p><p></p><p>And that is another thing - the wrong use of apostrophes. When unsure whether an apostrophe should be used, think about what purpose is the word you've chosen. We use apostrophes to indicate a missing letter. So "they're" is short for "they are". But because we also use apostrophes to show ownership when the owner is named, it confuses people. For example, "Is that George's hat?"</p><p></p><p>But when we're talking about his or hers, we don't use apostrophes. So we shouldn't use an apostrophe when writing "its" as in "is that dog wagging its tail?"</p><p></p><p>But yes, we DO use an apostrophe when using the contraction for "it is" as in, "The dog has lost its bone so it's time to go to the shop to buy a new one."</p><p></p><p>And it REALLY burns me up when English teachers make mistakes like this - I get even angrier when they mark my child wrong, when they were correct!</p><p></p><p>At least when politicians speak we can't hear the wrongly placed apostrophes!</p><p></p><p>Marg</p><p></p><p>PS It doesn't matter who you vote for, you're going to get a politician!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 200081, member: 1991"] They dealt with this in an episode of Simpsons. Homer is correcting Lisa. "It's pronounced NUKE-YOU-LAR," he explains. We get people mispronouncing it like this here, too. Other words that annoy me - FOLIAGE mispronounced as FOLE-AGE. And mispronounciations that are ambiguous, such as "I want to be quite pacific when I say, I do not like the shirt you are wearing." (Which statement, frankly, is more a declaration of war and therefore not pacific at all). These things annoy me especially when uttered by people who should know better or who are seen as examples (such as journalists and politicians). Another example of what annoys - when someone is referring to themselves and others but always refers to themselves as "I" because it SOUNDS more genteel and hopefully is therefore correct. But they have forgotten the rule (if they ever knew it) for using these words correctly - you put yourself last (not first in the list) and depending on where it is in the sentence, "I" or "me" is correct. To test which it is, remove the other names in your head and try the sentence, to see if it should be "I" or "me". For example, "Janet & I were sitting in the shade of the tree." And "In the shade of the tree sat Janet & myself." (Because it is what works, if it's on its own). And that is another thing - the wrong use of apostrophes. When unsure whether an apostrophe should be used, think about what purpose is the word you've chosen. We use apostrophes to indicate a missing letter. So "they're" is short for "they are". But because we also use apostrophes to show ownership when the owner is named, it confuses people. For example, "Is that George's hat?" But when we're talking about his or hers, we don't use apostrophes. So we shouldn't use an apostrophe when writing "its" as in "is that dog wagging its tail?" But yes, we DO use an apostrophe when using the contraction for "it is" as in, "The dog has lost its bone so it's time to go to the shop to buy a new one." And it REALLY burns me up when English teachers make mistakes like this - I get even angrier when they mark my child wrong, when they were correct! At least when politicians speak we can't hear the wrongly placed apostrophes! Marg PS It doesn't matter who you vote for, you're going to get a politician! [/QUOTE]
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