How many letters are there in the word “height”
Ok, folks, time to vent you pet peeves. A couple come to mind right now. I’m not sure if this is a colloquialism or what, but just how many letters are there in the word “height”? I consistently hear it pronounced “heighth.” Yep, three h’s!
Here’s another one: there’s no such word as irregardless.
I’m feelin’ you on this one, Rob! We have a little Mexican joint here in Minnesota called Chipotle, phonetically pronounced ch&-’pOt-lA; however, some of my fellow Minnesotans tend to pronounce it ch&-’pOl-tA or even worse ch&-’pOl-tAs. The “L” does not come before the “T” and it most certainly does not have an “S” at the end! Nails on a chalk board!
How oddly serendipitous, I’m sitting in my office right now awaiting a delivery from Chipotle here in Missouri!!!
Not to be racially insensitive, but “axe” is one of my big pet peeves, as in “Go axe for a piece of candy”, etc.
Incidentally, according to dictionary.com “irregardless” is a word coined in 20th century U.S. as a rather dubious combination of irrespective and regardless They highly frown on this word while admitting it probably won’t go away and they consider its coining “a blunder”.
Weird, speaking of La Jolla:
On April 28, it apparently rained shrimp onto the tennis courts at the Summit residential development in La Jolla, California. According to Scripps Institution of Oceanography curator Bob Burhans, the shrimp were likely sucked up by the wind and dropped over land.
This afternoon, I went to Chipotle with some co-workers. I laughed out loud as I read the following rant on one of their cups, especially considering it was my chipoLte-saying supervisor’s cup.
“Ok, call us sensitive. We love to hear our name come up in conversation, but we wince a little every time we hear it mispronounced. And that happens a lot. Among the many “creative” ways people refer to us are:
Chipoltay (the classic)
Shapoltee (the French variation)
Chipoletti (the Italian variation)
Shipotlay (Bob Blessing version)
Chipoddle (way North American)
Chipotulay (the extra syllable)
Our founder, Steve Ells, is to blame. He picked an unusual word for an uncommon chile to be our symbol and our name. After all, he thought he’d open only one restaurant. Steve never thought it would become our happy mission to teach the whole country how to prounounce it.
But really, it’s pretty easy:
Chi-POAT-lay
Three little syllables. One big taste. But bottom line? We’re happy to see you however you say it.”
Funny, huh?!
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