Words that piss me off.

[MMIX]

orientate - i feel this should not be a word.  one does not get orientated or disorientated, one gets oriented or disoriented.  it pisses me off cuz i looked it up and it was in the dictionary.  

thats 'cos you are foreign, you know? I'm English I speak English and its in my dictionary . . .







eta That was humour btw  - not humor because humor is medical and gunky

[MMIX]

Also aloominum for the same fucking reason  

you mean aluminum?  how do you pronounce it?

us foreign folks pronounce it exactly the way we spell it:- Aluminium / Al You Min Ee Um but as you can see we spell it differently too

apparently it because the discoverer spelled it in 2 different ways and Websters regularised one as the American spelling and The Oxford made the other one British version

[Chief Uwachiquen]

nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans uneducated folk and/or your 43rd president spell/pronounce Nuclear

Also aloominum for the same fucking reason 

Fix'd.

I've only ever met a handful of people who actually pronounce those things like that. Everyone I know pronounces it A-Lume-In-Um.

[MMIX]

nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans uneducated folk and/or your 43rd president spell/pronounce Nuclear

Also aloominum for the same fucking reason 

Fix'd.

I've only ever met a handful of people who actually pronounce those things like that. Everyone I know pronounces it A-Lume-In-Um.

But A-Lume-In-Um  would sound the same as aloominum, wouldn't it?

[rong]

i pronounce it aloo-minum.  and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.

speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two.  but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word.  what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.

[Triple Zero]

nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans spell/pronounce Nuclear

Also aloominum for the same fucking reason 

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[Triple Zero]

A LU MI NI UM

i don't care what your dictionary says, it's just WRONG, you don't say titanum either, do you? or sodum?

[Nast]

i pronounce it aloo-minum.  and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.

speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two.  but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word.  what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.

Don't worry, phonetically it's two syllables.

[P3nT4gR4m]

nookyoular or however the fuck it is that americans spell/pronounce Nuclear

Also aloominum for the same fucking reason 

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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i pronounce it aloo-minum.  and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.

speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two.  but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word.  what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.

Don't worry, phonetically it's two syllables.

For who?

Is "far" two syllables for you, as well?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

orientate - i feel this should not be a word.  one does not get orientated or disorientated, one gets oriented or disoriented.  it pisses me off cuz i looked it up and it was in the dictionary. 

But then "Orientation" would be "Oriention", and that just sounds stupid.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, knowing the etymology of the word helps its forms make sense. "To orientate oneself" means, roughly, "to face the East". Over time the suffix "-ate" has become commonly considered superfluous, but it is grammatically correct.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

DICKS LOL

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, FYI TripZip, in the US it is spelled "ALUMINUM", and adding an extra I would be retarded. I didn't make that rule, I just follow it. Americans who pronounce it "Aluminium" are GIANT DOUCHEBAGS.

[Nast]

i pronounce it aloo-minum.  and, yeah, i only ever say nucular in jest.

speaking of pronunciation: i get a kick out of the word "fire" because if you go by the grade school "hand clapping" method of counting syllables, it seems to have two.  but i'm pretty sure it is technically a one-syllable word.  what cracks me up is that i can't ever seem to pronounce "fire" monosyllabically without sounding like i have a southern drawl.

Don't worry, phonetically it's two syllables.

For who?

Is "far" two syllables for you, as well?

I'm not sure how to explain it clearly without linguistic mumbo jumbo, but in the case of "fire" the r is it's own syllable. Far is different because the r at the end is not it's own syllable, but rather the coda to the syllable "fa".

(Don't take my words as gospel, though, because accents can vary wildly. It's just that for me, pronouncing "fire" as a true single syllable sounds extremely ridiculous.)