Another Radio Arm Saw

[BFBOB]

You know what grinds my gears- when someone calls a winch a "wench" Not sure if they're trying to be funny or just ignorant.

Could be an oddity of pronunciation. Around here some people pronounce "milk" as if it were "melk".

Naaaah ... it's just ignorance.

 

[The Cobbler]

and then there's carboard, warshing machine , inpak gun

 

[71goldss]

Let us not forget duck tape. I know, there is now actually a Duck Tape brand on the market. Gee, wonder where they came up with that idea?

 

[BFBOB]

A former engineer boss used to say "six of one and a dozen of another".

Could be right in the proper context. Maybe he's trying to say one is twice as good as the other?

One of my many pet peeves is scientists who should know better mispronouncing the plural of "process" as "process-ease". The plural of Greek words ending in "is" is indeed "es", pronounced "ease". BUT the "es" replaces the "is', not added on to it! Like: one thesis, two theses. And "process" isn't Greek anyway.

 

[tdkkart]

Got a guy at work that pronounces "ridiculous" as ridi-clee-us, drive me nuts, and then every other word is "I says".
Makes up some of the wildest stories you can imagine, and every conversation with a women gets around to something ****** before it's over. If they didn't feel sorry for him, he'd have been gone for ****** harrassment years ago.

 

[Silver Heels]

Could be an oddity of pronunciation. Around here some people pronounce "milk" as if it were "melk".

Naaaah ... it's just ignorance.

I hear ya, every part of the country pronounces things different- it when it is spelled wrong...

 

[71goldss]

I heard a commercial on the radio today, where a used car dealer was stating that he had "like new" Ford EXSCAPES on the lot.

 

[VWingman]

Drownded. Wife drives me crazy with that one.

 

[EJM02]

If you want to find a miter saw, search the following:

Mitre saw
Chop saw
Chap saw

The thing about craigslist is that there is no 3rd party to edit the listings. It's whatever the poster places the post as. Sometimes, you gotta dig deep. Example, I got my Athol vise for 36 bucks because the guy had it posted as a "table clamp vice" in the home goods section.

 

[MN4x4]

I'm (DUH!) into 4x4's and I see a lot of them that come with 'Wenches'.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised - when there is frequently mention of pirates in the news. Who'da thunk it?

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I have a lot of black friends and they always have to "axe" me questions...

 

[55bigblockcid]

Actually sell these at walmart <{not capitalized intentionally}.

http://www.walmart.com/search/searc...l0=b&wl1=g&wl2=c&wl3=32890389596&wl4=&veh=sem

Some people warsh their stuff in the zink.

 

[Jeff95TA]

I think I was almost a teenager before I realized it was a "spigot" and not a "spicket". I was devastated.

 

[Pathfinders]

I don't post much... but I have to after this.

Twerk, selfie, FOMO, and derp were recently added to the Oxford English dictionary, but I will never deem them proper words for use. Just because it's in a dictionary doesn't mean people will think you are an educated person for using them "because they're in the dictionary."[/QUOT


FOMO, derp? Had to ask my 19 year old daughter.

 

[NHBandit]

You can thank the "no child left behind" laws. Little Jimmy can't spell for **** ? That's too bad. Send him on to the next grade anyway. The next teacher will fix it. Next thing you know little Jimmy is a high school graduate with a diplomer....

 

[Doug B]

I'm a builder.People talking about floor 'joistses' drives me crazy. I think they're the same people who get their dog 'spayeded'.......

 

[stevec5]

This thread seems to have taken a life of it's own.......

I'm always amused when I happen to catch Judge Judy and the folks that were "borrowed" some money!!!

 

[notso]

I thought I was the only one these things bothered, radio alarm saw, trolley motor, I could care less, I be, We be, You be, and the list goes on.

 

[notso]

And another when someone says an engine runs out real good???? What does that mean? What is it running out of?

 

[k p]

If you want to find a miter saw, search the following:

Mitre saw
Chop saw
Chap saw

The thing about craigslist is that there is no 3rd party to edit the listings. It's whatever the poster places the post as. Sometimes, you gotta dig deep. Example, I got my Athol vise for 36 bucks because the guy had it posted as a "table clamp vice" in the home goods section.

Mitre is the correct spelling. Could be called Miter as well depending on where you live.

 

[NewGuyInsane]

Just don't make it into a nuculer war and avoid those aluminium sheds.

 

[tdkkart]

Next thing you no little Jimmy is a high skool gradeate with a deeplomer....

Fixed it for ya......

 

[Mattlt]

I still get upset when people call this "/" a backslash.

/ = Slash (or Forward Slash)
\ = Backslash

Another one of my great dislikes is "draw" instead of "drawer."

 

[BirdRacer]

Guy I used to work with has a Masters degree in something...I don't know what. Obviously not spelling or grammar.

"I am so pisted!" <-- pissed
"Marry Chrismass"
"Eotch" < Eotech brand optics (not a simple typo, typed it 4 or 5 times the same way)

I don't have an example of his grammar, but it takes me 15 minutes or more to make sense of some of his e-mails. Some I just reply and say "Huh?"

 

[Aberdale]

A year or so back, I started keeping track of CL mis-spellings just to amuse myself. Every time I ran across one I would add it to the list for a month or two. Here's some of the common ones:

Mason trial
Latter
Radio arm saw
Sawsaw
Ban saw
Mider saw
Settling torch
Ottomatic transmition
Tork wrench
Draws
Vice
Rowder
Alice Chamblers
Newmatic
Badderies
Wheel barrel
Scaffle or Schaffling
Extention Chord
Hydrolic
Missleanus Tools
Bolt Bens
Greese Gun
Asolating Sander
Meg Welder
Sherman Williams
8000 lb. Wench
Air Compraser
Impack Wrench
Pedistool Grinder
Dwell Meater
Carter Keys
5 Peace Dewalt Tool Set
Role Around Tool Box
Radial Alarm Saw
Accuturn Break Lave
Router Bites
Sauder Gun
Bucket seats and counsel
Battery Greece Gun

 

[Zeke]

Wheel barrel. There's 100's of them for sale on Craigslist.

Come on, you know what they are selling:

 

[Zeke]

Just don't make it into a nuculer war and avoid those aluminium sheds.

"Aluminium" is the British way of spelling and saying aluminum. It was discovered by an English scientist.

 

[AMCguy]

I have heard many a radio announcer (someone who is paid to know better) Say, "Wensday" or "tempachur".

It makes me want to smash my radial.

 

[NHBandit]

A year or so back, I started keeping track of CL mis-spellings just to amuse myself. Every time I ran across one I would add it to the list for a month or two. Here's some of the common ones:

Mason trial
Latter
Radio arm saw
Sawsaw
Ban saw
Mider saw
Settling torch
Ottomatic transmition
Tork wrench
Draws
Vice
Rowder
Alice Chamblers
Newmatic
Badderies
Wheel barrel
Scaffle or Schaffling
Extention Chord
Hydrolic
Missleanus Tools
Bolt Bens
Greese Gun
Asolating Sander
Meg Welder
Sherman Williams
8000 lb. Wench
Air Compraser
Impack Wrench
Pedistool Grinder
Dwell Meater
Carter Keys
5 Peace Dewalt Tool Set
Role Around Tool Box
Radial Alarm Saw
Accuturn Break Lave
Router Bites
Sauder Gun
Bucket seats and counsel
Battery Greece Gun

You forgot "Chester draws" I've actually seen that one more than once on c-list here in Tennessee. I emailed them and asked if it was an anteek chester draws or a modurn one.

 

[Kevin54]

My biggest one that grinds my gears is CHIMLEY. I do not understand how people can read, have saw the word thousands of times, and still call it a CHIMLEY instead of CHIMNEY.

I have a nephew who is a mechanic and he will call a voltage regulator, a voltage regular.

 

[Jim B]

This is really prevalent in sailing. Sailing has a language of it's own and it amazes me to see people learning to sail without bothering to learn the lingo. How do they expect to communicate with other sailors?

Examples:

Pennant when the mean pendant.

Wench for winch.

"My ground tackle consists of 30' of chain and 200' of rode". The anchor rode is the rope and the chain combined, not another word for rope.

People go into a chandlery and ask to buy some line. It's rope that they want to buy not line. The rope becomes a line when it is attached to a boat for a specific purpose. If they ask for a pre-spliced halyard that would be a line.

Main salon when they mean saloon. A salon is where your wife gets her hair done. The saloon is traditionally the main cabin on a boat.

Boom bang. It's not a bang it's a vang.

Prop wash when they mean prop walk.

Down haul when they mean Cunningham...the list is endless. Drives me nuts.

 

[Dan in Pasadena]

My biggest one that grinds my gears is CHIMLEY. I do not understand how people can read, have saw the word thousands of times, and still call it a CHIMLEY instead of CHIMNEY.

I have a nephew who is a mechanic and he will call a voltage regulator, a voltage regular.

Ironically, you just "stepped in it" yourself in this post. It's "have seen". One that drives me nuts is, "I seen this car" NO! It's, "I saw this car" or "I have seen these cars".

As for reading? My opinion is that many, many simply do NOT read books. Ask ten random friends and if they're truthful I'd be surprised if even half have read an entire book ANY time since high school and many didn't even read one then!

 

[58Yeoman]

A cafe in Utica, IL had a professionally painted sign outside that said the cafe sold Expresso. I think it's finally gone now...

 

[71goldss]

Kindygarden, Libary and Febuary. These are often used by educated people who should know better!

 

[harley jim]

I saw an add on CL where a man had dotsun puppies for sale.
people around here take the d off of the end of a word and replace it with a t? (hey I fount a penny on the ground)

 

[Aberdale]

A friend of mine was cleaning the fuel system on an old tractor. He calls the sediment bowl a "cinnamon bulb"

He also says prolly for "probably". Not only does he pronounce it that way, he spells it that way.

'dale

 

[NHBandit]

A friend of mine was cleaning the fuel system on an old tractor. He calls the sediment bowl a "cinnamon bulb"

He also says prolly for "probably". Not only does he pronounce it that way, he spells it that way.

'dale

"prolly" is part of the new lingo man. Y. U. B. so mean...

 

[TAMPAGT07]

TRue story: A hot blond friend of mine told me that her uncle died from rigormortis....I said "What happened, did a dead guy fall on him." SHe looked at me like I had two heads..(Well I guess I do, but you know what I mean...)

 

[Zrexxer]

As long as we're throwing in other pet peeves about ignorance, I can't count the number of hand-scrawled signs I've seen outside various rural truck stops and service stations that say "FLATS FIX"

Fixed. FIXED! Aaarggh.

 

[Woody610nb]

I hate when otherwise intelligent people say they are goin huntin or fishin.

I also love when people say "for all intensive purposes". If you don't know, it's "for all intent and purposes".