9 Words That Don't Mean What You Think

tetchy wordage cult.

...at a loss for words.

"For all intensive purposes."

hey AC it's actually "for all intents and purposes"

no wonder that one didn't make sense to you

I wish every "I need you at my desk presently" ended with me getting a sweet Best Buy gift card.

I thought presently was a adverb for gift related actions.... "Santa is presently coming down the chimney!"

No?

Terrific! I especially liked their ratings system.

I was a little bemused, though (see what I did there? Huh? Huh?), at the absence of "presently." I thought for sure they'd toss it onto their list!

To my chagrin, people use "presently" interchangeably with "at present" or "currently." But "presently" can most closely be defined as "Not right this instant, but soonish." So if I'm thinking of presently going to the bathroom, it's really, really important to me that we're all on the same page, 'cause I'm thinking, like, five, ten minutes from now.

"For all intensive purposes."

There are quite a few things people mis-say which irritate me, one of them being "I could care less" - when the actual expression is "I couldn't care less". When saying "I could care less", the words imply that one does actually care, even if just a bit, and that one could, of course, care less than one does.

"That's a whole nother story". Say that within earshot of me. I dare you.

Most entertaining. Loves it.

http://www.allwords.com/word-deceptively.html

deceptive
adj

1. Deceiving; misleading.
Thesaurus: dishonest, fraudulent, misleading, false, fake, tricky, specious, spurious, delusory, illusive, illusory; Antonym: artless, genuine, open.

Derivative: deceptively
adverb

Derivative: deceptiveness
noun

Etymology: 17c.

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/irregardless

ir·re·gard·less (r-gärdls)

ADVERB:
Nonstandard

Regardless.

ETYMOLOGY:
Probably blend of irrespective , and regardless

Usage Note:

Irregardless is a word that many mistakenly believe to be correct usage in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing. Coined in the United States in the early 20th century, it has met with a blizzard of condemnation for being an improper yoking of irrespective and regardless and for the logical absurdity of combining the negative ir- prefix and -less suffix in a single term. Although one might reasonably argue that it is no different from words with redundant affixes like debone and unravel, it has been considered a blunder for decades and will probably continue to be so.

I HATE it when people say irregardless, and that was very entertaining.

Irregarless of having perused this article from the pristine confines of my officle, I found it ironic that I was left feeling mostly nonplussed, but slightly bemused. The enormity of information and the plethora of advice was deceptively educational.

Oh, wait, irregardless isn't a word.

LOL, except, who thinks Michael Moore is a dick?

And #9, right before Bill O'Riley?

Oh well, to each their own.

loved it.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

/obligatory Princess Bride quote

Funny and educational, all in one.

What more can you ask for?!