oh, and I thought we were going to discuss our ex's!!!

lots of fun stories there!

like the gal who told me that she was into heavily into witchcraft. I was like, "oh, ok..." and then I found out she was into, hmmmm, let us say, "funky trip X" and I said, "oh, ok..." and then I found out that she was heavily into guns. And then I said to myself..."hmmm, funky trip X, witchcraft and guns.....uh...time to get out of Dodge!!!!!"

sorry, don't have a hated "ex" word...

exigent has always been a little funky for me. Every time I hear that word in a sentence, I figure something dire is going to come after it...

I have a peeve about ax instead of ask. Kind of interesting actually, the s and k sounds are just switched, a k s instead of a s k.

anyways, like fingernails on the proverbial chalkboard.

Sure does depend on where you live.

'Round here aren't too many, but I can drive about 30 miles and there's "ex" for ec, "hit" for it, and "axe" for ask.

Lady described an errant vehicle impacting her parked vehicle thus: "Hit come up up fast thisaway, and hit hit hit right in the rear." Three "hits" in a row; noun, verb, noun. Liked that so much I wrote hit down.

Then there's "warsh" for wash, which get's really weird because you hear "I warshed the car down at the carwash". In a compound word it's "wash", alone it's "warsh". Go figure.

expecially

Apropos Amy's earlier post: there is a tech trainer at the law firm where I work who mispronounces it "excetera" and is unable to get through a class without using the word at least two dozen times. It's an effort for me not to jump up and yell "Et! ET!!"