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Odd. I was born and raised in MO as well. First thing we learned in second grade was how to spell Missouri, because everyone called it Missoura. It was a trick question, all the kids in the class spelled it M-I-S-S-O-U-R-A instead of M-I-S-S-O-U-R-I. I still remember the satisfied, snarky look on that teacher's face.
Where did you grow up? I would of gone in a shooting rampage had I lived somewhere where everyone said that.
Some of the more recent words/terms that grate on my nerves: stay-cation, synergy, carbon footprint, and intervention. The word couch has been a long standing peeve of mine.
Some of the more recent words/terms that grate on my nerves: stay-cation, synergy, carbon footprint, and intervention. The word couch has been a long standing peeve of mine.
I prefer couch to davenport and purse to pocketbook. Those are two things my grandparents say that drive me nuts.
It's not a word, but what annoys me the most is the blatant overuse of "LOL". Every time I see this, I picture someone falling out of their chair laughing at their own joke. Why do so many people feel the need to constantly throw that out? Are they really "laughing out loud?" Do they sit there on their computer and literally laugh out loud? If so, am I the only one who thinks that this is very strange. I might laugh or chuckle to myslef here and there when presented with something funny; however, I rarely start belching out high, gawdy, aggrivating noises while sitting at my computer.
With that same premise, why do so many people feel the need to tell you when something is funny? Do we actually read something someone else has posted and because they have backed up whatever it is that they're saying with a "lol'? And does that automatically mean that we are supposed to think of it as funny and or begin to laugh as well? Just seems very silly to me.
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Lately, I've been developing an allergy to abbreviations. "Dino" for dinosaur, as an example. It's hard for me to believe that anyone could actually be so lazy, spelling a whole word is too difficult!
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