Bone to pick...

"flatisflat" (flatisflat) 09/29/2020 at 22:16 • Filed to: None

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C orrect: “ An accordion is often considered an acquired taste.”

Incorrect: “ An thicket is an prickly predicament.”

I swear to EFF I lose my damn mind w hen “ an” is used preceding a word that begins with a consonant-sound...

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sony1492 > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 22:25

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Does anyone talk like the incorrect example unironically?

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > sony1492 09/29/2020 at 22:30

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Jeremy Clarkson does on Top Gear/Grand Tour

This is what we'll show whenever you publish anything on Kinja: > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 22:30

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Engrish as hard.

MUSASHI66 > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 22:30

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That’s a interesting bone to pick. An person like me finds it interesting.

/this hurt me to write 

smobgirl > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 22:31

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“Sh ould of, w ould of, could of” will be the death of me.

AestheticsInMotion > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 22:34

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This one bugs me two

flatisflat > sony1492 09/29/2020 at 22:35

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I sometimes do.  But without the ‘an’.  And usually with a lot of alcohol, but perhaps that begins to rub shoulders with ‘ironically’.

phenotyp > AestheticsInMotion 09/29/2020 at 22:45

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yeah  me to

RiceRocketeer Extraordinaire > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 22:55

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I can generally pass off that kind of stuff as ignorance/stupidity, but pronouncing caramel as “car-mel” is nails-on-chalkboard, stabbed-between-the-toes levels of rage inducing to me.

ttyymmnn > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 22:56

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I absolutely agree with you, but I’m wondering what pushed you over the edge to post about it. 

Chariotoflove > flatisflat 09/29/2020 at 23:04

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Oh, are we talking grammar peeves? Because I’ll hang out. You’re right. Another I hate is when people say height with a “th” sound.

But my current worst is pronouncing the t in often. 

Chariotoflove > AestheticsInMotion 09/29/2020 at 23:05

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You had to go their?

DipodomysDeserti > phenotyp 09/29/2020 at 23:08

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Same hear

AestheticsInMotion > Chariotoflove 09/29/2020 at 23:14

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Go wear? 

MUSASHI66 > Chariotoflove 09/29/2020 at 23:16

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Your a bad person.

MUSASHI66 > Chariotoflove 09/29/2020 at 23:16

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How about T in across? 

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 09/29/2020 at 23:25

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Seeing that you’re  a bit of an historian this amuses me.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 09/29/2020 at 23:32

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And you had to pick that example.....

Dead_Elvis, Inc. > smobgirl 09/30/2020 at 01:52

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YES! So much hate for that construction.

eta: and it isn’t just ‘mericans who do this.

DasWauto > smobgirl 09/30/2020 at 05:02

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That bugs the heck of me but I just about have a stroke every time someone uses ‘s when denoting a multiple. I notice it proliferating  and autocorrect systems own a lot of the blame; I have to correct the autocorrect on my phone doing it to me far too often.

Chariotoflove > MUSASHI66 09/30/2020 at 09:03

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That’s worse. It’s adding a letter!

smobgirl > DasWauto 09/30/2020 at 09:44

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I really struggled with that one when I was reviewing reports. I was generally just supposed to be reading for content to make sure information was technically correct and matched legal verbiage but ended up giving grammar lessons to adults.