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Or writing "hugh" for "huge". Drives me nuts!

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> Or writing "hugh" for "huge". Drives me nuts!
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My pet peeve is people who pronounce "moot" and "mute". Maybe they'd be
better off if they remained mute LOL

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>> Or writing "hugh" for "huge". Drives me nuts!
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> My pet peeve is people who pronounce "moot" and "mute". Maybe they'd
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People pronounce those words every day. You gotta problem with that?

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On 11/15/2011 12:38 PM, Betsy D wrote:
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Or quite for quiet.

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On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:18:41 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown"
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>My pet peeve is people who pronounce "moot" and "mute".


Why shouldn't they pronounce them?


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On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:18:02 -0600, Sqwertz >
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>On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:02 -0500, Honey Badger wrote:
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>> People pronounce those words every day. You gotta problem with that?

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>It's "Do you have a problem with that?". Otherwise it's a statement
>not a question. And a poor example of proper English.


You should talk, you seem to only write in sentence fragments.... the
sqwertz couldn't construct a proper sentence if his life depended on
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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:18:41 -0500 in rec.food.cooking, "jmcquown"
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>>My pet peeve is people who pronounce "moot" and "mute".

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> Why shouldn't they pronounce them?



My fat fingered mistake. They pronounce "moot" *as* "mute". But of course
you knew that already.

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Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:02 -0500, Honey Badger wrote:
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>> People pronounce those words every day. You gotta problem with that?

> It's "Do you have a problem with that?". Otherwise it's a statement
> not a question. And a poor example of proper English.
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So sorry.

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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:59:02 -0500, Honey Badger wrote:
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>> People pronounce those words every day. You gotta problem with that?

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> It's "Do you have a problem with that?". Otherwise it's a statement
> not a question.


not ture.

And a poor example of proper English.

it was never intended as an example of proper English. so it being a poor
example is mute. Now: MUTE!


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