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How many of these are you guilty of? From this article by R Scott Lloyd:
Incorrect: prophesy (as a noun)
Correct: prophecy
Incorrect: prophecy (as a verb)
Correct: prophesy
Incorrect: Book of Revelations (in the plural)
Correct: Book of Revelation (in the singular)
Incorrect: Kirkland, Ohio
Correct: Kirtland, Ohio
Incorrect: exhaltation
Correct: exaltation
Incorrect: high councilman, high counselor
Correct: high councilor
Incorrect: bishop's councilor
Correct: bishop's counselor
Incorrect: patriartical
Correct: patriarchal
Incorrect: apostacy
Correct: apostasy
Incorrect: apostacize
Correct: apostatize
Incorrect: opening, sacrament or closing "song"
Correct: opening, sacrament or closing hymn
Incorrect: "song on page ... "
Correct: "Hymn Number ... " (Except for ancillary material in the front and the back, the hymnbook does not have page numbers.)
Incorrect: conductor, chorister
Correct: music director or (Primary only) music leader (this according to guidelines received from the General Music Committee of the church some years ago)
Incorrect: "rest song," "break song," "stand-up hymn"
Correct: intermediate hymn, mid-session hymn
Incorrect: program
Correct: service
Incorrect: musical number
Correct: musical selection (again, according to the committee)
Incorrect: audience
Correct: congregation
Incorrect: to "bare" one's testimony
Correct: to bear one's testimony. This parallels similar expressions such as "to bear witness" or "to bear record." A dictionary definition of "bear" in this sense is "to give, offer or supply." A more concise way to put it is "to testify."
Incorrect: Book of Mormons or Books of Mormon (in the plural)
Correct: copies of the Book of Mormon. There is only one Book of Mormon with multiple copies thereof. To make this easier to see, try plugging in the name of another volume of scripture: One never says "Pearls of Great Price"; it is always "copies of the Pearl of Great Price."
Finally, pertaining to that long word in the 10th Article of Faith, "paradisiacal," I, and I suspect, most English speakers born into LDS homes, learned in Primary to pronounce it "per-uh-DI-suh-kel" (rhymes with "icicle"). Actually, the word has six syllables and should be pronounced "per-uh-duh-SI-uh-kel."
Incorrect: prophesy (as a noun)
Correct: prophecy
Incorrect: prophecy (as a verb)
Correct: prophesy
Incorrect: Book of Revelations (in the plural)
Correct: Book of Revelation (in the singular)
Incorrect: Kirkland, Ohio
Correct: Kirtland, Ohio
Incorrect: exhaltation
Correct: exaltation
Incorrect: high councilman, high counselor
Correct: high councilor
Incorrect: bishop's councilor
Correct: bishop's counselor
Incorrect: patriartical
Correct: patriarchal
Incorrect: apostacy
Correct: apostasy
Incorrect: apostacize
Correct: apostatize
Incorrect: opening, sacrament or closing "song"
Correct: opening, sacrament or closing hymn
Incorrect: "song on page ... "
Correct: "Hymn Number ... " (Except for ancillary material in the front and the back, the hymnbook does not have page numbers.)
Incorrect: conductor, chorister
Correct: music director or (Primary only) music leader (this according to guidelines received from the General Music Committee of the church some years ago)
Incorrect: "rest song," "break song," "stand-up hymn"
Correct: intermediate hymn, mid-session hymn
Incorrect: program
Correct: service
Incorrect: musical number
Correct: musical selection (again, according to the committee)
Incorrect: audience
Correct: congregation
Incorrect: to "bare" one's testimony
Correct: to bear one's testimony. This parallels similar expressions such as "to bear witness" or "to bear record." A dictionary definition of "bear" in this sense is "to give, offer or supply." A more concise way to put it is "to testify."
Incorrect: Book of Mormons or Books of Mormon (in the plural)
Correct: copies of the Book of Mormon. There is only one Book of Mormon with multiple copies thereof. To make this easier to see, try plugging in the name of another volume of scripture: One never says "Pearls of Great Price"; it is always "copies of the Pearl of Great Price."
Finally, pertaining to that long word in the 10th Article of Faith, "paradisiacal," I, and I suspect, most English speakers born into LDS homes, learned in Primary to pronounce it "per-uh-DI-suh-kel" (rhymes with "icicle"). Actually, the word has six syllables and should be pronounced "per-uh-duh-SI-uh-kel."
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