RichZ
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The acronym is derived from... COrona VIrus Disease 2019.I believe Covid 19 is the disease, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes to disease.
The acronym is derived from... COrona VIrus Disease 2019.I believe Covid 19 is the disease, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes to disease.
French really hate seeing Rue Street here in the states.
I was over in England an the name of a road was "The" street.
My health insurance # has a letter O in the middle of a sequence of numerals. It has caused numerous issues when various medical offices misread it and then don't get payed because the # doesn't match. With all the runaround to get it corrected and resubmitted, they end up getting paid way late. I think the insurance company put that in there on purpose to get a month or two of extra use of the money.And both should be banned from being in a WiFi password.
The dictionary folks cave in and add stuff like that that's in common usage even though it's wrong, all the time. The one that bothers me is factoid. It was a perfectly good word with a real meaning. (an incorrect statement that's repeated so often it gets mistaken for the truth). Then USA Today usurped the word, and used it as a title for trivial facts they featured. And now the original and real meaning of the word has been virtually lost, as the USA Today corruption of its meaning is listed first in the dictionary, ahead of the original meaning.Irregardless is a word. Not complicated. It's in the dictionary. You can say it's redundant in its meaning or means the exact same thing as regardless. You can say it's nonstandard or irregular. You can say it's awkward and doesn't read well. Those would all be opinions and are valid.
But it is a word.
I think it may be a mid-west thing, but I've heard a fair amount of people just eliminate "to be" for something that needs to be done. "Shoes need shined", "House needs painted"
with respect to that, I must agree.In regards to! I hear so many professionals use this as a go to expression to sound intelligent.
“with regard to the economy”
“Give my regards to John”
Right, like anyways. It’s not a word but because so many people use it they caved and put it in the dictionary as an alternate use.The dictionary folks cave in and add stuff like that that's in common usage even though it's wrong, all the time. The one that bothers me is factoid. It was a perfectly good word with a real meaning. (an incorrect statement that's repeated so often it gets mistaken for the truth). Then USA Today usurped the word, and used it as a title for trivial facts they featured. And now the original and real meaning of the word has been virtually lost, as the USA Today corruption of its meaning is listed first in the dictionary, ahead of the original meaning.
I know that lnguage evolves with usage, but to me, factoid's meaning (new) is kind of a factoid (old).
Similarly, so many people misused "literally" that Merriam Webster updated the definition to basically mean it's exact opposite - figuratively. That pisses me off. ("It literally blew my mind." Ugh)Right, like anyways. It’s not a word but because so many people use it they caved and put it in the dictionary as an alternate use.
I’ve always laughed at this too. I think people think it’s like a caffeine express to the brain.One of the most mispronounced words in the English language is espresso. There is no x. There are also several words the have two correct pronunciations. Such as creek.
It was friggin' at one timeFricken (or frickin)- It's not really a word. Be a man and buy the vowel u.
and in the commercials its realTORReal a tor. It's realtor
Don't be such a looser.Lose and loose are used incorrectly every single day on social media.
Every priest I've ever known does thisI worked with a guy years ago who mispronounced the days of the week. "Day" became "dee". Mondee, Tuesdee, etc. The worst was Saturday which became Seerdee. He was from Bristol, is that a Bristol thing?
The second is my biggest pet peeve. My daughter and I have a game called “Idiot Spelling Bee”. She found some website with stupid kid names with parents who bend the rules of phonics. She then has me try to spell them. I’m a pretty great speller. I have spelled 0% right. We used to play a lot but we have passed many, many hours during the pandemic with this game.I hate it when people pronounce the word "from" as if it were "than." Example: "A horse is different than a cow." Oh, really? Is that to say a horse differs than a cow?
I also hate it when people misspell their given names, as, for example, the pro golfer who spells his name "Jhonattan" instead of "Jonathan." People say, "Hey, it's your name. You can spell it the way you like." Oh, really? Does that mean you can spell your name B-O-B and pronounce it "Jack?"
Also the whole “data” debate.