Words you've used incorrectiably

[Hygro]

Lots of people have a word or few they've been using incorrectly. I know a girl who misused pedantic in a most ironic manner. I recently had a suspicion I needed to look up "attenuate" which I thought was a sort of gentle matching of one signal to another signal. Turns out that's not the definition at all. Now I have to find a totally different word because I have no word to fill that connotation.

What words have you misused regularly? What stories of others do you have?

p.s. if someone has a replacement word for me, let me know.

 

[ParkCungHee]

Does pronouncing words wrong count?

Because I had to learn from experience that it is not pronounced "Hyperbowl."

 

[Phrossack]

I thought "hegemony" was pronounced "HEH-guh-mone-y".

 

[Rashiminos]

Penultimate. It's so easy to confuse this word for something that's not "next to last."

 

[Dreadnought]

Irregardless.

Enough said!

 

[timtofly]

conscience and conscious

 

[Arakhor]

I thought "hegemony" was pronounced "HEH-guh-mone-y".

Well, "heg-emmeny" is fairly close.

I for one thought that hubris (as it looks) was pronounced "hyu-bree" and coup de grace ("coo de gras") was "coo day grar". Foreign pronunciation has never been my thing.

 

[NickyJ]

You misunderstimate my grammar skills. If it weren't for the sight rules, I would be petroling the forums for bad grammar rite this vary moment.

 

[Perfection]

friend

 

[Synobun]

Irregardless.

Enough said!

^

xcl?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Penultimate. It's so easy to confuse this word for something that's not "next to last."

I remember when I got taught the meaning of that word.

 

[jtb1127]

bad grammar rite this vary moment.

Thats bad spelling, not bad grammer.

 

[LucyDuke]

If my use of a word appears to be incorrect, you've misunderstood my intent.

 

[Save_Ferris]

Your are just have been an snob. Their is a lotta words who where commoner then whomever are the correctest one.

 

[downtown]

Does pronouncing words wrong count?

Because I had to learn from experience that it is not pronounced "Hyperbowl."

I thought banal was pronounced like 'anal' until like, 3 weeks ago. whoops.

 

[mangxema]

I thought banal was pronounced like 'anal' until like, 3 weeks ago. whoops.

Seriously? *finds dictionary*

 

[classical_hero]

If my use of a word appears to be incorrect, you've misunderstood my intent.

So it is everyone else's fault and not yours.

 

[Earthling]

To the OP, it sounds like you are looking for or just confusing the similar word "tune," as in tuning a musical instrument, and possibly "attune" as a verb for more generic contexts.

I'm pretty sure that's what you're looking for, but if it was still something else for a different connotation you're looking for a word like "correlate" or "synchronize"

 

[Hygro]

To the OP, it sounds like you are looking for or just confusing the similar word "tune," as in tuning a musical instrument, and possibly "attune" as a verb for more generic contexts.

I'm pretty sure that's what you're looking for, but if it was still something else for a different connotation you're looking for a word like "correlate" or "synchronize"

Synchronize is pretty good. A bit too strong but I like it. Attune might be the one I'm looking for *off to see it in contexts.

 

[Josu]

I know enough people who uses the word Ironic for everything that is funny.