The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #25235   Message #294732
Posted By: GUEST,Kit
10-Sep-00 - 06:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Mangling the English Language
Subject: RE: BS: Mangling the English Language
One that makes my blood run cold is when people put an apostrophe in its when it shouldn't have one - like "I gave the cat IT'S milk". AAAHHH!!! My English teacher actually pronounced "hyperbole" phonetically, like hyper-bowl. Guess that's like the Superbowl only bigger. Also gets me when people say "I won you" when they mean "I beat you" - that's a really annoying one...