Okay....my boss constantly uses a non-word that grates on my last nerve.

[Liberal Veteran]

I have to bite my tongue every single time she uses the word "supposebly".

[KitchenWitch]

1. Oh how "flustrating"

:P

[matcom]

2. ACK! Mine says that TOO!

i want to punch him in the friggen face every time he says it!

:eyes:

[Richardo]

3. I'd have to bite my tongue too, to keep from laughing out loud

I always thought that it's one of the funniest mispronunciations out there. :rofl:

[graywarrior]

4. That is so "aggavating."

[AlCzervik]

5. is that some new slang or something?

does mean to say "supposedly"?

[LeftyFingerPop]

6. My old boss said "pacifically" for "specifically" n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

14. My roommate is your old boss?

[LeftyFingerPop]

15. not pacifically. :-)

[KatyaR]

28. AAKKKKK!! I worked with a woman years ago who always said

"pacifically" instead of "specifically"--and she was the assistant to the department chairman! I wanted to throttle her every time she said it, because she never, never, NEVER attempted to correct herself.

Every now and then that "word" pops up in my head and I want to smack her again, and it's been 20 years.

Thanks for the memories . . . not. :crazy:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

7. i hate hate hate that non-word too!

hate hate hate!

[Zuiderelle]

8. That's flustrating.

another unnerving "word"

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Yes. I can handle "irregardless"

....even though it's stupid, but supposebly sounds like baby talk to me.

[Rambis]

16. NO! don't accept the "irregardless"

it only leads to harder stuff like the "guestiment":crazy:

It also leads to the "dint" (did not or didn't) and the "picher" (picture)

[PeaceNikki]

9. Does she say "pacific" when she means "specific", too?

My former boss did that.

Current boss always says that the "point is mute".

[Liberal Veteran]

11. Ugh. It's a moot point to wish your boss was mute. Another one...

...was a woman I worked with who used to mangle a certain saying by speaking it as "prove it to the pudding".

[Richardo]

12. I had a boss (the managing partner) who said 'theory-etically'

Made a HUGE impression in front of clients we were billing thousands of dollars :eyes:

[Liberal Veteran]

13. It's a sign of the coming idiocracy...

...that people in high positions mangle the language in such a vulgar manner.

[kmla]

17. Wait - I'm confused...

Let me "orientate' myself to the correct pronumciation...

:D

[Aristus]

18. When I hear mangling like that, for all intensive purposes, I just want

to scream, I get so flustrated.

[Bunny]

19. Well, for all intensive purposes, her meaning is clear (if not her grammar).

;)

[MistressOverdone]

20. I once had a boss who kept referring

to our "eval-ee-ation." I thought he had a speech impediment. Turns out it is a local dialect. This was shortly after I was told (as a teacher) to "carry your children to the bus." I assumed there would be some wheelchair children who needed assistance. Turns out it means "walk them to the bus."

Because if they really were in wheelchairs I would just need to "mash" the handicap button on the door and it would open automatically.

[hellbound-liberal]

21. Sorry to hear you are having so many problems with your boss. I used to work for a "realator"

and I had the same problems. Your boss “probly” doesn’t know he’s bothering you. I mean “for all intensive purposes” it’s his “perogative” to pronounce words as he wishes. All you can do is hope to”excape” from that situation as soon as you can, possibly to the “Artic” or “Antartic”. If you can’t do that maybe you should just string him up with some “bob wire”

[racaulk]

22. That would "lirally" piss me off if I could get the "jest" of what you were saying.

Two of my favorite verbal communication gaffes that I can't stand that my boss uses all...the...time!

Oh, and "irregardless." I hate that one too!

:grr:

[SoCalDem]

23. i hate Mis-chee-vee-ous

and febYOOary and LiBARRY..:)

[Tom_Foolery]

24. Well, how about a change of paste? n/t

[Iris]

25. oh, my. You have my complete sympathy.

That's worse than misuse of "myself".

[Wetzelbill]

26. irregardless of your feelings that's a perfectly cromulant word nt

[InternalDialogue]

27. She's just being laxadaisical.

I wonder if you could get her to take a different tact?

[Esra Star]

29. How about the use of "momentarily" when they actually mean

"soon".
As in:- "Don't go away now, we'll be back momentarily."
This literally means that when they come back it will only
be for a moment.
It's "soon" I tells ya.
I'm done

[MsKandice01]

30. Well, my boss still can't spell counsel or attorneys and he is one...

I swear, everytime I have to correct the words "council" and "attornies" on his time sheet, I want to run into his office and yell, "HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU GET A LAW DEGREE?!?!" What's strange is that he's an excellent attorney and has been practicing law for about 30 years.