Comments on: Fustrating, Frustrating; Supposably, Supposedly

By: tread

tread — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:59:04 +0000

I would just let it go. After all you probably say “comfterble” don’t you? Most of us do.

By: Craig Allen

Craig Allen — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:37 +0000

Actually, Mike, you appear incorrect. Multiple online dictionaries list “weird” as the correct spelling and show no entry for “wierd”. So, this is an apparent exception to the rule.

Now, what we need to invent or rediscover are an appropriate adjective and adverb for the nound “integrity”. Back in the 1400s-1600s words such as integrous and integriously were used. Anyone else struggle with describing someone filled with integrity (i.e. “he did a truly integrous job”) and found the need to (re-)invent a word?

By the way, I preciate all the examples given; specially the ones supposably about the twunny year old warshing clothes while aksing a question about the most impactful job he ever got; but that’s a whole nuther story.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:42:56 +0000

The words I hate to see misspelled/mispronounced are “weird” (really spelled “wierd”), and “exspecially” (really “especially”) And it’s funny… the author of this post actually misspells the word “wierd” in the 2nd paragraph, second to last line. ALWAYS REMEMBER!!! ” ‘i’ before ‘e’, except after ‘c’ ”

Just my 2 cents.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:01:08 +0000

The doctor says I got ammonia.
The food was contaminated with human species.
I don’t understand. Can you be more pacific?
Please pay your late fees at the libary.
She awokened up with a headache again.
Grampa has old timers disease.
His very close veins look like a road map.
North Korea now has a new killer bomb.
It’s a kewpon for 20 cents off.
Just aks and I’ll post more.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:54:22 +0000

I cannot believe how overused and misused the word “got” is. What has happened to the words “has” or ” have”?
“He got to run fast” No !!! He “has’ to run fast.
“He’s got talent” What about he HAS talent?
“He’s got a really nice car.” Why not say he has a really nice car.
“On this table we got oranges, apples and bananas.”
GOT….GOT…..GOT……GOT……GOT………
aaaaaaaaah
One day just count how many times you hear someone use the word got in place of the words has or have. You will be astounded.

By: Gerry

Gerry — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:24:15 +0000

It is totally FUSTRATING…(lol!) to hear people pronounce words wrong. In the office, I can be involved in a project and when it happens, my attention just shifts to the “misdeed.” And then I think to myself, “how important is it?” The answer is: “not very.” Even though I am a writer, I can still forgive for as He said, “Forgive them, they know not what they do.” And He was talking about something FAR more important than this. So my suggestion: Let it go. It’s not worth it! But, thanks for this site and an opportunity to sound off.

By: Jackie Wernli

Jackie Wernli — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:40:54 +0000

I have a supervisor that will tell me to stroll down on my computer when she wants to point out a pacific item to me. She will also tell me to leave my reports on her dest. I love her, but her speech habits drive me bonkers. Another of my pet peeves is reinterate.

By: Virginia

Virginia — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:48:01 +0000

I was horrified when I called NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s office yesterday (Department of Crime) and got aks, aksed and supposably all in one conversation. Good Grief!

By: mj

mj — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:57:27 +0000

Lol!! my hangups are “irregardless” (which I know shows up in many dictionaries, but only because so many people were incorrectly using it), “supposably”, “The proof is in the pudding” or ” It is the proof of the pudding”, and “a whole nother” (as in, “but that is a whole nother story…”).
I’d never heard “intensive purposes” before, Chris, but I love it!

By: PT

PT — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:48:51 +0000

Supposably is a valid word, though not typically used correctly. Too many people use it to mean “supposedly,” as you’ve pointed out.

However, the words “supposable” and “supposably” are legitimate words.