In my day-to-day life, I'm surrounded with pretty smartpeople, supposedly*.
That said, twice yesterday one person I know said the following word:
Ambliance. As in, "The man had a heart attack, so somebody called the ambliance."
I wish I was kidding, but I'm not. I mean, one cursory glance at the word, and it's clearly obvious that there's a god damn U in there, not to mention the lack of an i.
Ambulance.
Ambulance. Ambulance. Ambulance.
Not that tough to pronounce. Say it phonetically and it's even easier**. But instead, this person chooses to pronounce the world as though he or she is four years old.
This is the kind of person who probably still says they're having p-sghetti*** for dinner.
*For the record, and while we're on the topic, people who pronounce this word as "suppose-ubly" are among my greatest annoyances. They rank just slightly higher on the list than people who pronounce the i in Detroit (De-troy-it). Drives me nuts.
**I just had a flashback 25 years to when I learned how to read, write and speak. "Now, just sound it out...."
***I have no idea how one would actually spell this word, if it were to actually exist. Psketti? Pasghetti? I have no idea.
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