Favorite pedantic words

[VentdependenT]

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Ever since that damn GRE (yes I took it, thought about PA school thaz why) I've been nerden out on vocab words.

Most difficult to use in everyday language but I wanna drop it all the time: AVUNCULAR.

Biggest pet peeve of misuse: disinterested.

This may be the lamest thread ever but lately there have been some whoppers.

Happy holidays....MMD I'll be looken for a job in 2.5 years. Hook it up!

 

[Sugar72]

Ever since that damn GRE (yes I took it, thought about PA school thaz why) I've been nerden out on vocab words.

Most difficult to use in everyday language but I wanna drop it all the time: AVUNCULAR.

Biggest pet peeve of misuse: disinterested.

This may be the lamest thread ever but lately there have been some whoppers.

Happy holidays....MMD I'll be looken for a job in 2.5 years. Hook it up!

Could you please use that in a sentence for me professor Vent.

 

[jetproppilot]

Biggest pet peeve of misuse: disinterested.

Or "irregardless"

 

[jetproppilot]

Ever since that damn GRE (yes I took it, thought about PA school thaz why) I've been nerden out on vocab words.

Most difficult to use in everyday language but I wanna drop it all the time: AVUNCULAR.

Biggest pet peeve of misuse: disinterested.

This may be the lamest thread ever but lately there have been some whoppers.

Happy holidays....MMD I'll be looken for a job in 2.5 years. Hook it up!

Lady on the news the other night...

"He got all angry at me so I informed him I was not conversatin' with him no more."

 

[jetproppilot]

Ever since that damn GRE (yes I took it, thought about PA school thaz why) I've been nerden out on vocab words.

Most difficult to use in everyday language but I wanna drop it all the time: AVUNCULAR.

Biggest pet peeve of misuse: disinterested.

This may be the lamest thread ever but lately there have been some whoppers.

Happy holidays....MMD I'll be looken for a job in 2.5 years. Hook it up!

OK, a little off the subject, but kinda related...the SECOND best news clip I've seen in a while (behind the startin'-U.P.S. clip)....

A newscaster was interviewing a lady about the condition of New Orleans, and homed her questions toward religious gatherings and their buildings:

Reporter: "So how are the churches?"

Lady: "I don't know 'bout the churches...we got the Popeye's down here."

 

[aredoubleyou]

Biggest pet peeve of misuse: disinterested.
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I hate when people say 'metric' instead of measurement - such as " we have to find the right metrics for the sudy"

I also hate when people say Paradigm, and paradigm shift too. Just annoys the crap out of me.

Ive got issues.

 

[Sugar72]

OK, a little off the subject, but kinda related...the SECOND best news clip I've seen in a while (behind the startin'-U.P.S. clip)....

A newscaster was interviewing a lady about the condition of New Orleans, and homed her questions toward religious gatherings and their buildings:

Reporter: "So how are the churches?"

Lady: "I don't know 'bout the churches...we got the Popeye's down here."

I love that. However, we have Krispy Krunchy chicken near my house mmmmm

 

[blocks]

Centimeter (pronounced SONT-imeter)

 

[VentdependenT]

OK, a little off the subject, but kinda related...the SECOND best news clip I've seen in a while (behind the startin'-U.P.S. clip)....

A newscaster was interviewing a lady about the condition of New Orleans, and homed her questions toward religious gatherings and their buildings:

Reporter: "So how are the churches?"

Lady: "I don't know 'bout the churches...we got the Popeye's down here."

lmao

Somethin about fried chicken ya know.

 

[MedicinePowder]

Centimeter (pronounced SONT-imeter)

glad u brought that one up. so how do u really pronounce it? i didn't start hearing the "Sont-imeter" pronounciation until in medical school by various physicians. i had always heard 'centi-meter'. sont-imeter just sounds weird.

 

[ear-ache]

Centimeter (pronounced SONT-imeter)

Yea... I cringe every time I hear that one too. I just want to reply, "Anyone got 25 'sonts' I can borrow?"

 

[DrMom]

Yea... I cringe every time I hear that one too. I just want to reply, "Anyone got 25 'sonts' I can borrow?"

So glad to know that I'm not alone in this.

 

[aredoubleyou]

Centimeter (pronounced SONT-imeter)

I cant get this one either...do they know how pretentious they sound when they say it like that. I've heard from at least one person that they say it like that in Britain - which is not correct...anyone origionally from britain or has family there, or have frequented, knows the majority of reople in england pronounce the e in cent no differently then the e in bed or head. There are probably a few pretntious brits pronouncing it like that too -

Ok, that was my random tangent of the day - but that one struck a nerve. As does the alternative pronunciations of absence seizure and neurons, as if they were French. Take pride in being an American by proudly mispronouncing your words and then accuse everyone else in the world as misprouncing them! 🙂

 

[toofache32]

I told my wife "You're very sensuous. And sensuous up, get me another beer."

 

[ReefTiger]

Hey what about syndromes with characteristic "facies"? Everyone I know wonders about why they came up with that crap.

On a funny note about the OP and using words in sentences. When we were students in path lab we'd have to give presentations about a case with slides and our group of 4 would each come up with words that another person had to use in their part of the presentation. It was hilarious, because no one else knew but our group.

I'll never forget when someone worked in peanut butter and jelly. Another one was stupendous.