What expressions (or words) drive you nuts?? - Part 2

Louise I had mice come in this past winter for the first time... I am guessing the extreme cold had to do with that though... haven't seen one since though

Those were Epic Mice, moving onward to conquer new territory!

they conquered the electric mouse trap!

LOL!

Now, Mickey is one epic mouse.

Ours ran into a snap trap. Big momma got caught first so the others were easy. They try it every winter; have not bee able to find the entrance.

I guess my problem, David, is they say "epic fail". Not "that was an epic failure" but "epic fail' to describe getting lost on the way to the grocery store, which is more like a "minor deviation" than an "epic" anything. And then they post it on FaceBook!

Allison - maybe the bear scared off the mice??

I need a bear.

I live in town, so mice don't show up here. I'm glad of that!

I live in town too - I get the city mice. All of them.

Mom gets all kinds of mice in her half of the house...I've only seen one in the 16 years I've lived here...I believe the secret is cats.

With four cats, the mice just don't stand a chance on our property!

Another one is with products - 'Use only with Sony (or Panasonic, Hitachi, or whatever) batteries.' Does anyone believe this??

Umm---probably me, I'm so not a techy. As for mice, one planted a bean seed in the pot with my EE---the bean is blossoming, the EE is unfurling!

A few comments on Page 1 posts:

Someone mentioned "mulsh" for "mulch". I don't know if it's a local pronunciation or not, but people say "loom" for "loam". That one drives me nuts! (Or as Mrs. Tittlemouse says in the Peter Rabbit story, "I shall go distracted!")

A few people mentioned about the letter R being in or out of words. Twenty three years ago, while working at a missionary organization in Belgium, a missionary from Texas said, "You're from Boston, aren't you?". When I asked him how he knew, he said, "Because you put R's where they don't belong, and take them out of where they do belong!".

my co-worker drives me crazy when he says diesel ... Dee-sel

and I never under stand why some towns pronounce the names funny... Bernardsville they all say Berr-nerds-ville.... not Bernards ville (same guys fights me with that one)

How else would you say diesel?

Vin?

diesel do, but dese over here won't.

Doze?

dez-el ... maybe it's me saying it wrong

He's an actor.

dee-zel

I say dee-sel.

ok Iris corrected me.. dee-zel

I'm not hearing the difference. Speak up please.

LOL

I get what you're trying to say, lol! It's like when some people say "gazoline" instead of gasoline, lol. Grrr!

Some people say deeSel, and others say deeZel.

yes I hear that one too

To briefly deviate from diesel (or "Diesel", as some pronounce it :))... * PG-13 warning *

My youngest BIL, who grew up in Harrisburg PA, works in a hardware store there. One day a gentleman from New England came in and asked him where he kept his caulk. Now in New England we don't pronounce the "L", but in PA they do. My BIL gave the customer this incredulous look and answered, In my pants, where it's supposed to be!

and the response was..?

Oh my goodness! Too funny!

Hee hee. I pronounce that as 'cork'.

way too funny

LOL

OK Carrie. I get it now. Problem is partly using fail as a noun. Also, the extreme devaluation ofthe word epic.


My friend has a great story about when she (from Boston) was trying to purchase yarn (aka: yahn) In GA where the clerk thought she was asking for an iron (aka: i-uhn) Confusion ensued.

Dave, that reminds me when back in my former life I worked in television production. Our studio was slow that summer so we rented it out for a still photography shoot, on which I was the studio manager. They were building a (gorgeous!) kitchen in the studio. The cabinets I believe were Merrilat (sp?) and they are made in PA but with German carpenters, and they sent these couple of German guys out to build them.

The appliances were from GE down in Fayetteville, NC. The guy who drove them up had the heaviest southern accent I had ever heard.

Even though the southerner and the Germans were all speaking English, I actually had to translate, lol! They could not understand each other! The German guy would say something in English, I would repeat it to the southern guy, then he would answer me, again obviously in English, and I would have to repeat it to the German guys. They just could not understand each other, even though speaking the same language. It was funny, and somewhat surreal, for me at least!

I have a hard time understand southerners especially one the phone. When I first came to this country never had a problem understanding with any section people came from.
Strange, don't you think?

digger that happened to me on a sales call with a VP from sweden who was schooled in the states and spoke perfect english - we were in lexington, ky and stopped at a gas station for directions - i literally could not understand a word said to me so i asked again, pointed where he pointed, nodded my head and thanked the man - got in the car and started driving, my vp looked at me and asked where we were headed - i told him to another gas station - he just started laughing because he hadn't understood either and thought with my body language and gracious thank you i somehow had deciphered this strange dialect. The guy was trying hard to help us i couldn't ask him again because it would have done not good.

we had several good laughs about that.