Redundant usage of abbreviations (>_<)

[Luke]

I think we touched on this before, but the way people in the South make every store plural drives me nuts.

"I'm going to Krogers"
"I need to pick up a birthday card from Targets"
"Going to get a polo from Belks"

That and people from all walks of the South pronounce mischievous as Miss-Cheee-vee-us. I literally got into an argument with a college professor, who said I was incorrect. As he learned, nope, just one. Miss-chiv-ous. The wrong pronunciation grates on my nerves big time.

Websters online has two pronunciations, but I've never seen it in print.

edit*Checked online, and all pronunciations spoken online pronounce it as miss-chiv-ous. Not sure when and where people decided to add extra vowels to the word.

[AppleQueso]

I know that Texas isn't proper 'south' but I've never once heard someone say "I'm going to Targets".

I think "PIN Number" is the only redundant abbreviation I actually personally use. I don't know, it rolls off the tongue nicer than just "PIN" to me.

At the risk of derailing, I don't like it when people spell "yeah" as "yea".

[Erik_Twice]

I just noticed that saying "PI number" opens another can of worms!

[o.pwuaioc]

I know that Texas isn't proper 'south' but I've never once heard someone say "I'm going to Targets".

I think "PIN Number" is the only redundant abbreviation I actually personally use. I don't know, it rolls off the tongue nicer than just "PIN" to me.

At the risk of derailing, I don't like it when people spell "yeah" as "yea".

Yeah is a barbarism. Yea is the only correct word.

[Inazuma]

That and people from all walks of the South pronounce mischievous as Miss-Cheee-vee-us. I literally got into an argument with a college professor, who said I was incorrect. As he learned, nope, just one. Miss-chiv-ous. The wrong pronunciation grates on my nerves big time.

Websters online has two pronunciations, but I've never seen it in print.

edit*Checked online, and all pronunciations spoken online pronounce it as miss-chiv-ous. Not sure when and where people decided to add extra vowels to the word.

I had no idea about the correct pronunciation! Thank you very much for educating me. I'm gonna be like you now and get annoyed whenever I hear the wrong pronunciation.

[Croooow!]

That and people from all walks of the South pronounce mischievous as Miss-Cheee-vee-us. I literally got into an argument with a college professor, who said I was incorrect. As he learned, nope, just one. Miss-chiv-ous. The wrong pronunciation grates on my nerves big time.

I've never noticed the spelling of mischievous before, and I've been mispronouncing it all my life. I'll definitely pronounce it properly now. In the town I grew up in a lot of people would always say "I seen..." instead of "I have seen...". I managed to get my entire family to say it properly but that was about it.

I don't have a big problem with PIN number when used in spoken conversation as it can avoid confusion as some may hear and understan "pin" or "pen".

[o.pwuaioc]

I think we touched on this before, but the way people in the South make every store plural drives me nuts.

"I'm going to Krogers"
"I need to pick up a birthday card from Targets"
"Going to get a polo from Belks"

Never heard Targets, but I damn all the fucking time it's "Krogers" or "Blockbusters". I think it might be some genitive, like "Bob's [Restaurant]", but it's still wrong and annoying.

[Croooow!]

I think we touched on this before, but the way people in the South make every store plural drives me nuts.

"I'm going to Krogers"
"I need to pick up a birthday card from Targets"
"Going to get a polo from Belks"

Never heard Targets, but I damn all the fucking time it's "Krogers" or "Blockbusters". I think it might be some genitive, like "Bob's [Restaurant]", but it's still wrong and annoying.

With high school sports competitions there are conference, district, and state. For some reason everyone insists that it is districts. I'll bring it up with someone about it and if they are stubborn about it I'll ask if they say that the team is going to states (of course that never happened at my school ).

[Luke]

I know that Texas isn't proper 'south' but I've never once heard someone say "I'm going to Targets".

At the risk of derailing, I don't like it when people spell "yeah" as "yea".

Yeah is a barbarism. Yea is the only correct word.

Well yeah, Texas isn't the South.

Yeah = yes. Don't agree? Tell that to the yeah yeah's.

Part of my hang ups on grammar definitely stem from my parents. When we moved to the South, one big culture shock was that even educated people couldn't speak English for shit. Myself and my parents vowed to correct each other on our grammar if we ever slipped up. And sure, a lot of people would say "I seen", "Do what now?", "Ink pen" (for some reason people have to ask for an 'ink' pen. Perhaps they think I may have a pig pen in my pocket as well and would rather not confuse me) "done did" and a whole lot of "aint's" and double negatives.

As far as the vernacular goes, some of it is cute. "Put it up" means to place something where it belongs; something I learned at my first day at school in the South (I placed the book over my head after being told to 'put it up'). I also learned very quickly that "ho" meant "whore". Every car accident is called a "wreck", and I'm convinced "over yonder" is not a measurable distance. Still, I hate "Do what now?". That's three words said when you could easily just say "Huh?".

Oh! And "gots". "I gots the ball". Shit drove me crazy as a kid.

That said I don't judge people solely on their grammar, but how a person speaks instinctively makes me draw a few assumptions about the person.

[o.pwuaioc]

Myself and my parents vowed to correct each other on our grammar if we ever slipped up.

Don't you mean "My parents and I"?

"Do what now?"

What's wrong with this grammatically?