Miss Prow-nun-see-ay-shun
Being the daughter of an editor, I’m sort of stringent on proper grammar, spelling, and pronunciation.
I know that I’m not perfect, in fact, looking back at some of my posts, I’ve noticed typos that I just haven’t been motivated to change. To be honest, I’m a terrible fiend when it comes to commas (I’ve been told by many a teacher that I WAY overuse my commas), but that doesn’t change the fact that when I’m reading other peoples’ articles/blogs/essays/books/whatever, that I’m not slightly offended by grammar and spelling mistakes. Especially when the writings have been published and looked over by a publisher and editor.
But what bothers me even more than reading errors is hearing people speak with errors. And no, I’m not talking about ebonics here.
The reason I’m bringing this up now is because my teacher was just referring to the font type Lucida Grande and she kept calling it Lucinda Grande. Lucinda, with an ‘n’.
And all around the school, including the people who handle the financial aid stuff refer to it as FASFA. For those of you who are unaware, it is actually FAFSA - the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. Not the Free Application for the Student Federal Aid.
I mean, if you’re going to file these things for a living, you should at least know what they’re called, right?
But the most prominent error these days is between Osama and Obama. And OH, BOY have there been a lot of those mixups.
Some would say it’s a Freudian slip, but I just think it’s that the two names sound too familiar and when you’re speaking about both of them at the same time (“Obama caught Osama”) you know who you’re talking about, but your brain mixes up the two names.
Now, I know that I’ve done this too (as I said, I’m not perfect), but it still bothers me. If that makes me a hypocrite, then so be it. ;)
