You are correct in the pronunciation of the metal, aluminium.
But the pronunciation aluminum is a product.
It's on the box "Aluminum".
Aluminum Foil Products | Reynolds Kitchens

Soooo, lighten up, Francis. ;)
^^See what I did there, Heel n Toe?

My pet peeve....when the bartender pours a draft and it's overflowing and all over the sides into a puddle.
Bro, IPAs get sticky. Besides, presentation is important, right?

Right on!!!
I'm a news junkie and I began to notice this in the past year or so.
In fact, I now even watch (hear) for it. It comes across as manipulative.
Frankly, I hear it from young Liberal guests, mostly. I have no explanation why, however. Well, unless their intent is to manipulate via nuance.

I don't know if this peeve was posted already but irregardless it's so peevish it needs repeating. People who post gigantic pics that turn the rest of the thread microscopic.

"So" is one of my pet peeves too. In fact I started a thread some years ago entitled "So." Seemed like most people at that time didn't notice the over use of it. Seems like every so called intellectual and/or expert on something begins their answer/comments with "so", mostly on the boob tube. I wonder what it must be like to try to carry on a conversation at university campuses now & for the past several years. Maybe it's confined to the boob tube though.

Same thing with "Well......" :rolleyes:

This is my sister in-law. 100% of the time.

I answer the business phone with good morning and the name of the business. 99% of the time the first word the caller says is Yes, and then ask a question. Instead of hello or something else they start with yes and I had not asked a question.

People who answer a phone at a business and do not include their first name when they answer.

When I worked in corporate I always answered the phone with "NAME OF BUSINESS, Bazza speaking".

When I answer my phone at home I always say "Bazza (last name)"

When I call the cable company to find out why my internet hasn't worked for 4 hours and after pressing 2 for 'technical assistance' they tell me that to avoid 'longer than expected wait times' that I should go online and get my questions answered via their website. Yeah, okay. I'll be sure to get right on that!

Haha, reminds me of me. I've spent so many years working at banks that I'll never get out of the habit of answering the phone with "Hello, it's Bill Douglas speaking."

I have a colleague from uk calling me regulary, and i know it's him by voice, but I'll go "Who's caling please" just on principle.
I find it just rude to call me to come ask me for help and not even have the manners to say who you are.

The vast majority of people answering the phone at businesses blurt out some business name and 95% of the time you will have no idea at all what they just said. I was taught to say Good Morning (or afternoon if is was afternoon) then the name of the business then my name. Back in the olden days with rotary phones it was easy to misdial and with push button is is easy to fat finger the number.

It is nice to know when you got the right place. Of course if you are calling a legal firm with 8 or 9 partners and they all insist their name is said it must be hell on a receptionist. Some legal firms just answer the phone with "Legal office" and let you ask questions.

90% of the time people don't pay much attention to what the greeting on a phone call is.

"Murphy's Mule Barn Plumbing and Heating. Can I warm your ass?"
or
"Jello brand instant pudding. Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle."
or
"Yellow. Red, blue, or green."

People that leave a message and think it's okay to say their name as fast as they can and their phone number even faster. I just delete it.

Words that are mispronounced or misused so often, and by so many, that the mispronunciation and misuse become accepted.

Feb-u-ary: no longer considered a mispronunciation of February

Using floundered when the proper word is - or at least used to be - foundered.

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Here's one I saw today..............

I work at the largest hospital in Jax. We have a children's hospital also. It's a big, busy confusing place.

Why to some people allow their 2 year old child to walk on their own through the lobby and corridors? They are not in a stroller or holding them or even holding their hand. The 2 year hold is just allowed to walk/stop/sit down where ever they like. Yet the parent or grandparent yells at the kid to "hurry up and come on". I see this being done by the same group of people almost everyday. :mad:

And the leave the number in the wrong cadence. Instead of a proper 123-456-7890 they say 1234-45-67-80 and say if fast and then hang up. I always say my number twice, and I say it slow enough for someone to write it down.

People who leave chalk with the chalk side down on the rail.

People that leave their wipers sticking in the air while parked because it might snow.
I want to run around and snap them off.

Hey, I just did this the night before last. Because I came home in pouring rain and knew the temp was supposed to drop 40 degrees. Glad I did because the car was a solid sheet of ice the next morning. Trying to rip up frozen wipers off an ice covered windshield is a nightmare that usually causes torn wiper blades. But I digress.

And to add to the thread, parents that let their offspring yell at maximum volume in small confined spaces and doing nothing about it hoping that they'll be quiet if they just ignore it.

People who use "irregardless" when they could just use "regardless".

;) :D

Don't think for a moment that Bob didn't know exactly what he was doing there.

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What's about 10x worse is when someone calls you, if you answer "hello" they follow up with "who is this?"

Almost universally growing up, folks answered the phone with "hello" unless it's a business where there's more to it, name of the business, name of the person answering, etc.... I was always taught, when you call someone, and they say "hello" you follow up with something very close to "Hi, this is Steve Masraum calling. May I speak to Bob?". I was also taught when they say "hello" you never follow up with "who is this?"

Next sound would be "click"...

Yes....a big pet peeve of mine. What do they think is going on....a contest to talk as fast as possible? :confused:

Yup.

Back in my corporate days our regional manager put out a voice mail about an upcoming hurricane......said "The blunt of the storm..." - instead of "brunt".

Oh man......we were rolling on the floor laughing about that one. :D

Lazy and/or ignorant parents.

Just like stupid driving....you never see anything in the news as a public service announcement about how to properly raise a child. (not as sexy as a police chase down the Interstate or an accident that tied up I-4 or some kind of robbery....) :rolleyes:

^^^ The "Ron-o-matic'?

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What really pisses me off is when someone starts talking over the top of me. A long time friend of mine is married to an alpha b1tch who just cuts me off mid sentence to say something completely irrelevant to what the discussion is.

I had a tenant (who was a school teacher) that used to ask me a question, then cut me off mid sentence firing multi choice answers at me.

When my GF starts doing this, usually in a heated discussion, I say to her "No speak, not a word..., not a word for 60 seconds... You OK with that?" That usually gets the point across.

words and phrases - yes.

Libary
Febuary
Nucular
"Besides the question"
"Begs the question"

Why are you so violently upset over someone else's wipers? Step away from the steroids there pal. :rolleyes:

It's kind of fun to toss that one in front of some of my colleagues that absolutely go nuts when they hear it. No matter what's happening around us - they fully lock in to that one word. Nothing can happen until they explain to everyone how wrong it is.

It's how we separate the "less well spoken" from the "meeting derailer"...

Now, how about that whole affect and effect thing?

I refuse to answer the question. I will usually say "you called me, who are you looking for?"

Pet Peeve:
People who use a speaker phone that sounds like crap but expect me to understand everything they mumble. Double bonus points if they have the TV blaring in the room or kids screaming.

I thought of this thread today as I pulled up to a 4 way stop sign. The guy to my left and I arrived a bit before me, but he didn't stop, he came almost to a stop and then slowly rolled forward. I didn't know if he was going to stop or not. "Make a decision man! Stop or don't stop, I don't care, just do something definite so I'll know how to respond!"

I'm in Los Alamos and am deeply embedded in that world. Based on that bunch of stuff we did in the 1940's, I claim the free use of "nucular". It's always useful and, I think, it brings a bit of whimsy to the whole "weapons of mass destruction" thing.

This rankles me enough that even if the caller is coming through 5x5 I tell them I can't understand them and keep telling them until they give up and pick up.

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Yep -ignorant with children or dogs.
My DIL follows the "Parenting by Screaming All the Time " school of child rearing. Her kids are loud and disobedient, when she screams at them for being loud, she sounds a lot like them. They only respond to increasingly elevated levels of yelling and threats. Discipline is a matter of who can scream and yell the loudest.

She is the same with her dogs. When they bark she starts yelling at them to stop. The dogs just think she's joining in on the general noise making and bark even more.

Whether it's dogs or kids, she never gets it that doing more of what you want them to stop doing just encourages them to keep at it.

That's a subject that needs more whimsy. People are so serious about the prospect of nuclear annihilation.