Rant

It has been a while since I have had a rant. I will do it now.

Because my mother insisted that I use proper grammar I am annoyed by the many grammatical mistakes I hear. I sit and correct people on television. It drives my children insane when I do..

Let me say before I begin that my grammar is not perfect. Sorry Mom. She especially hated when I would say, "a whole nother thing."  I know better but for some reason I continue to do it.

Nuclear is pronounced as it is spelled. It is new klee ar not new cue lar.

When a person buys a house they usually hire a realtor. That is a re all ter. Not a re lah ter. 

Cavalry is a military term for soldiers who are on horses. Calvary is an area outside the gates of Jerusalem where crucifixions were done.

It is off en not off ten. The t is silent. Look it up.

Calm has a silent l. It is not pronounced call mmm. It is com. 

Jewelry. Not jew lery. It is jewel ry. Please.

Supposably is wrong wrong wrong. The correct word is supposedly.

People keep saying mano y mano. They mean man to man. However mano a mano means hand to hand. It still refers to a conflict between two people and the difference is slight. Just say and use it correctly.

Pronouns are a particular peeve. I, me, and myself are the examples I will use. I is a subject pronoun as in 'I am a girl.' Me is an object pronoun as in 'Silly songs make me smile.' Myself is a reflexive object pronoun as in 'I will get myself a drink.' 

Now comes the preachy part. Never say something like 'Me and my brother went to the game.'  Me is not a subject. 

Never say ' Jenny serenaded him and I at the party.' Try saying the sentence without  'him'. Then you would use me. That stays the same with 'him'. And changing 'him' to 'he' only makes it worse,

Myself takes a bit of explanation. It is used in place 'me' when the whole sentence is referring to self. An example is 'I bought myself a box of chocolates'. Myself can be used as added emphasis. 'I had to clean the yard all by myself.

Inserting any subject pronoun to the place of an object pronoun makes me want to scream. Martin took he and I to the movies. It is him and me.

The new way of referring to small children as kiddoes is actually old. I used to hate it when Grandma said it. I suppose it is no worse than kids which I use. I still do not like it.

Larynx. It is our voice box. The way we make the sound for our words. Pronounced lare  inks  not lare nix.

Have you seen the Life Alert commercial that tells us that it saves a life every 11 minutes? I keep picturing the person who dies, uses Life Alert, survives, then dies 11 minutes later, on and on. Life Alert is a good product. I wish they would think about their wording.

I apologize for my rant. Thanks for listening.