Nitpicking granny here; why do people say

I think Hollowness sounds scary that Halloween. I think that moviemakers would rather have Hollowness spoken by the actors for creepy dramatic effects. Then Halloween uses in scenes where there wants a more positive environment when children are parting and having a good time. I have found it interesting how in movies, and songs we hear that proper pronunciation is not used at times. It is interesting to see the actual words that are spoken during songs and how they differ from than meaning intended.
 
NorthernLight said:
I belonged to an online editors' group. If it had been a face-to-face gathering, we would have come to blows over whether it's "You've got another thing coming" or "You've got another think coming."

I really don't care how people write or talk, unless I'm being paid to correct them.
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Ain't that sumthin' šŸ˜‚
 
I think this thread is really 'pushing the envelope'.

Another expression people use that I can't stand and have no idea what it means.
 
Murrmurr said:
If you're talking to me, I knew that. I was going for clarity of pronunciation, like, say O'ween like you would O'Brien.
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Sooooooo, it's not hollow weenie
Like the one with cheese in it?

It's an Irish holy day?

Boy, am I ever learning stuff

Funny thing
What I did learn in college, was the English language is the bastard child of other languages
It's a mixed bag
and evolves
Kinda blows staunch grammarians outa the water

Whatever
As long as we understand each other

A little joke I've always liked;

A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.

So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying. He asks what's wrong.

"The word is celebrate, not celibate!," says the old monk with tears in his eyes.
 
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squatting dog said:
could be "no can Dew". :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO:
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Here's a can Dew for ya.

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A co-worker once said to me, "You've got nerve."
I said, "Well.....yeah, 7 trillion of 'em."

Coincidentally, I just happened to look it up a few months earlier while browsing:
"Believe it or not, there are over 7 trillion nerves in the human body. All these nerves are part of what's known as your body's nervous system. You can think of nerves as your body's electrical wiring ā€” they transmit signals between your brain, spinal cord, and the rest of your body."
 
Georgiagranny said:
Hollo een?

It's All Hallow's Eve. Hallowe'en. The day/night before All Saints' Day.

Repeat after me: Hallowe'en. Practice it. It's easy. Hallowe'en.

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Another one: for all intensive purposes. Um, nope! That's all intents and purposes.

Or how about this written one? in do time. What???? In due time!
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It has a long and interesting history, going back to the Celtic Samhain. Then after the Romans took over they replaced it with Feralia and Pomona. In 609 Pope Gregory declared it All Martyrs Day, late expanded to All Saints, in England called All-hallows or All-hallowmas (from Middle English Alholowmesse meaning All Saintsā€™ Day). That eventually became our Halloween. So there are a lot of historically correct ways to say it.

https://www.history.com/topics/hall...ginated with the,of the traditions of Samhain.
 
Nitpick all you want, Georgiagranny.....the abuse of the English language is something which really annoys me too. In Britain there are regional dialects which distort words too, it is often difficult for outsiders to understand the meanings.
All Hallows Eve is the day before All Saints Day. Hallowe'en is the shortened form. It could be the Irish who pronounce it hollow rather than hallow.
 
English, being derived from other tongues, is a bit of a rare breed.
A rather rich language
Several different words with the same meaning
Go up.....the guttural Teutonic version
of
Arise.....the smooth French version

Lots and lots of synonyms
A Thesaurus comes into play
(don't try to utter that word when drinking too much)

Shut....close

and then close/shut could become close/near

Our friends, the homonyms

and on and on

But, we can't seem to just let it be
No, we've got to go down the slang superhighway

Nice has become Cool has become Hot
Good has become Rad has become Bad

Throw in bad grammar
Is that now good?

I'll be in the shop.....or shoppe
maybe saw something
or having seen something....
 
Can't recall who it was but a couple years back there was a member here that seemed to enjoy correcting the grammar and spelling of others and would go out of their way to do so......they were pretty much what is referred to as a "Grammar / Spelling Nazi".

I could care less about a persons grammar or spelling either in person or on this thing.......there are just too many other things in day to day life that actually warrant getting your bloomers all in a bunch about.

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Considering the English language since its infancy, is made up of 350 other languages, I do believe nit-picking is a tad out of place. The word ā€œtadā€ by the way, is derived from tadpole which is even funnier :ROFLMAO:
There are almost 40 different dialects in the UK that sound totally different from each other, and in many cases use different spellings and word structure. In fact, there's pretty much one accent per county! Southern English dialects, West Country dialects, East and West Midlands English dialects and Northern English dialects.
The beauty of language is in its diversity.
 
horseless carriage said:
What a minefield that is. It's is a contraction and should be used where a sentence would normally read "it is." The apostrophe indicates that part of a word has been removed. Its with no apostrophe, on the other hand, is the possessive word, like "his" and "her," for nouns without gender.
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I forget that one quite often, I don't always catch it in the proof read, probably because when I proof, I focus on the sound in my head, and while its and it's are entirely different words, they still sound the same.
 
JustDave said:
I forget that one quite often, I don't always catch it in the proof read, probably because when I proof, I focus on the sound in my head, and while its and it's are entirely different words, they still sound the same.
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Well at least you proof read, I always proof read, yet when doing a final check after posting, I will see something like "buy" when it should have been "but." That's qwerty keyboards for you, thankfully there's time to correct it.
 
hollydolly said:
I don't understand... we call it Hallow 'een ... are you saying you all call it Hollow 'een ?:unsure:

we also say Due (D'yew ) Time.. not Do..time ( the last one is when you serve a prison sentence :ROFLMAO:
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Is that what individuals around the U.S. are doing- trying to sound British???
I first started hearing it a few years ago locally, and then on t.v.- individuals dragging out the vowels, and sometimes seeming like they're adding more. Example: 'too' comes out like 'teeee- yeeew.'

Re: the OP- I've been all around the U.S., and the only person I've ever known who pronounced it "HALLO" (instead of "HOLLO") was my mother. But she did have a way of mispronouncing words, so I never paid much attention.
 
JaniceM said:
Is that what individuals around the U.S. are doing- trying to sound British???
I first started hearing it a few years ago locally, and then on t.v.- individuals dragging out the vowels, and sometimes seeming like they're adding more. Example: 'too' comes out like 'teeee- yeeew.'

Re: the OP- I've been all around the U.S., and the only person I've ever known who pronounced it "HALLO" (instead of "HOLLO") was my mother. But she did have a way of mispronouncing words, so I never paid much attention.
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who says Americans are trying to sound British ?... Halloween.. is pronounced HA..Low.. een... simple as that..anyone pronouncing it as Hollow.. is wrong...
 
Jamala said:
Don't stress people - read this ;)

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosnā€™t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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Amazing! I had no trouble at all posting that read!
 
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