Sunday, September 9, 2007

Words that aren't really words...

I just heard a broadcaster say, "...if the Eagles loose, well that's a WHOLE 'NOTHER STORY." I don't think "nother" is a real word, but I could be wrong. Here are others that I've noticed: "Supposably" - a combination of "supposedly" and "probably"? How about "Prolly" - a lazy man's way of saying "probably". Do you have some examples?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

OK, my pet peeve is when people say "their"going somewhere rather than "they're" ...aghhhh! Ok, one more..."your" looking forward to the next golf outing instead of "you're".......
Ok, now I feel better!

wob

Anonymous said...

I have two of them...a trainer in work used to drive me crazy as he was presenting his work, by using the phrase..."cetra,cetra"...ugh!
One more...I heard an african american girl say, in a conversation to her friend..."yammsay, yammsay, yammsay"...which is ebonics for "do you know what I'm saying?"

Anonymous said...

I worked for a guy who would constantly litter his talk with "pacifics"

"We need to pacifically target the pacific solutions to each pacific problem"

He also would recognize folks' accomplishments with "Cujos to so and so on a good job" On conference calls someone would always start barking.

Anonymous said...

And of course, IRregardless, which is redundant. The word is simply Regardless!! Look it up.

Anonymous said...

yeah a certain race invented a whole new way of saying "ask". its now pronounced "axe". Let me axe you sumthin. I guess it is a word but.. well... i dont know