Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire I just discovered....

that I have a pet peeve lurking.

Got a phone call from a guy that was inquiring about the Cerakoting but he pronounced it Creocoating and it took several tries to get him to understand that he was mispronouncing it.

When he finally grasped that fact he would ask a question and upon hearing the answer to each question he would respond with "Gotcha!" After a hearing "Gotcha!" for a few minutes I realized how irritating it was. Couldn't wait to get off the phone.

He was an automotive paint salesman and I suspect he was trying to find out if he wanted to start doing Cerakoting.

"Gotcha!"

I bead blasted the creocoating in my Mark V action and gave it a nitride salt bath treatment.

Mickey, don't EVER move to Utah. The habitual mispronunciation of things seems to be the state sport here. I can't even bring myself to type examples, it makes me cringe so much.

One of my pet peeves is going into a store and having some young sales man call me "Dude".

If it piss' you off, imagine how we Australians feel when some little toe-rag uses that expression here...occasionally it is very difficult to not stomp on someone's pointy head with 250 lbs of irritation.

There's a town in Maryland � Juanita � pronounced Joo-ah-nite-ah.

Then there's BBC's Jaguar � Jag-you-ar.

And nary comes from dumb yankees who didn't recognize "ne'er a" in the Old South as long-honorable English English.

Anyhow -> Anyhoo
Hornady -> Hornaday
Holliger -> Hollinger
Scharch -> Shrack
Anschutz -> Anschultz

In Alaska, the town Nenana is Nee-nan-ah, but Chitinah is Chit-na.

I have no idea why.

Ending every sentence in a conversation with;

"You Know?"

Town names, Ken? In Utah, Hurricane is pronounced HER-kin. There is also what I call Utah's universal vowel. I can't find the correct dictionary character code for it, but it's pronounced a bit like �. So the word milk comes out as m�lk. And they never pronounce a medial "t" so words like carton comes out with a kind of glottal stop inserted: car-on.

Maddening.

And Tok is Tohk.

In the little town that I was born in, the Taliaferro family finally gave-up and adopted the local rendering of their name � Tolliver.

And my friend Bill's surname was Jurrd'n, not Jorrd'n.

Mark Twain said "They spell it da Vinci but pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."

Major peeve:

Like... you know, like...

Near here we have the little town of Mackay, ID, pronounced MAC' ee. Or how about Picabo, ID...peek a boo.

Maybe the founder had once snuck a glance at a caribou, eh? Or pissed one off -- pique a 'bou?

When Carol Anne (fluent in French) was taking a graduate course in French at Johns Hopkins, Dr Kamber just about tore his hair out trying to get a Baltimoron to pronounce eau without the eerie Baltimore mangling of the oh phoneme. They manage to get a long-"a" sound into their long-"o" sound. Weird. Stone sounds almost like stain.

I've long wished that I could insert the metallic clicks that at least one African tribe uses so casually. Never could come even close to it.

My father-in-law would drive you nuts. He was talking about getting his Reminton Creocoated to match his LeeOpold scope.

hey! that's where I live! ...well 15 miles NE

Another speech habit that is a pet peeve of mine is when some waiter or waitress addresses my wife and me as "You guys." Once in a while I'll ask, "Does she look like a guy?" (My wife is very, very, definitely not a guy and doesn't dress like one. In her words, "I'm not a boy, and I don't wear boy's clothing."

Need a bage eh?



Travis