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These are those words you hear and wonder if speaking American is different than speaking English... send us any good ones you hear!
About this blog ...
Have you ever walked home from the bus stop, wondered why your car isn't in the driveway, and remembered you drove to work today? Have you ever tried to stop an elevator door from closing and gotten your hand stuck ... for fifteen minutes? Have you ever thought to yourself, "This is bizarre -- does this happen to anyone else?!"
You have? Well, then, welcome to our world! Share your story (see info below) and visit often for comic relief ... or just to know you're not alone.
You have? Well, then, welcome to our world! Share your story (see info below) and visit often for comic relief ... or just to know you're not alone.
Welcome to my WORD...
These are those words you hear and wonder if speaking American is different than speaking English... send us any good ones you hear!
- Arterial motive: "Supposably the libarian has arterial motives."
- Ax: "I axed you a question!"
- Bolivious: "He was so bolivious that he sneezed on my seizure salad."
- Clostaphobic: "If my face is under a pillow, I get clostaphobic."
- Conflictual: "We had such a conflictual relationship"
- Dignitude: "Irregardless of the strategery employed to manipulize you, respond with dignitude."
- Dramastically: "His white blood cell count dropped dramastically..."
- Equivolate: (So like, Equal and Correlate???) "I always equivolate seizure salad with libarians."
- Excedra Excedra (Did you mean, Et Cetera?) "You can put all kinds of toppings on seizure salad, like croutons, cheese, excedra excedra..."
- Expecially: "I expecially love seizure salad."
- Fustrated: (Isn't there another R in that word...?) "I'm so fustrated with my roommate's maneurisms!"
- Irregardless: "I'll be there, irregardless of the weather."
- Libarian: (Isn't there another R in that word...?) "You can ax the libarian if you can't find a book."
- Maneurisms: "The libarian's maneurisms are so peculiar."
- Manipulizing: "My mother-in-law is so manipulizing with her maneruisims"
- Paternal twins: "Those two guys are so alike, they're practically paternal twins."
- Patriarticle: "The Old Testament shows records of Patriarticle Blessings."
- Photogenic memory: "Supposably Elder Rasband has a photogenic memory."
- Seizure salad: "I'll have a chicken seizure salad, hold the croutons."
- Strategery: "Don't take the strategery of your enemy for granite."
- Supposably: "Supposably the windshield factor was 30 below...we really take heaters for granite, don't we?"
- Take for granite: "You're always taking me for granite."
- Understandment: "Our relationship was so conflictual, we could never come to an understandment."
- Whole Nother: "It's a whole nother world."
- Windshield factor: "The windshield factor makes it feel expecially cold today."
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1 comment:
LOL!
Clearly, the solution is padded poles. Not people paying more attention.
But it does feel good to know that I'm in, er, good company :)
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