Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

Trechechus

Aks instead of ask
Fustrated instead of fRustrated

RobinvdM

exscape (my fish exscaped.)
Axe (Let me axe you something.)
Seerup (my kid puts seerup on everything breakfasty.)

Coming from ppl with strong accents is 1 thing, having "perfectly normal accented" people using these is just baffling.

asamuels85

Conversate
Its not a word. Its converse.

thank you.. this is probably the only one i care about.. i transcribe for a living so i hear every which way you can say.. well pretty much every word in the dictionary..

Trechechus

Axe instead of ask and melk instead of milk. My husband says melk and I am starting to do say it that way too lol

Melk is a word in Afrikaans

Effpcos

Lots of American pronounciations- nuclear, aluminium etc. Especially when they seem to think that their way is the only "right" way. How many countries speak english? America is only one of them!

But my biggest peeve, in any accent, is "twenty", it's twen-TY, not twenny, ugh! Oh same for fifty- fif-TY, not fiffy or fiddy.

barkin43

Sublime - I think the Americans (at least the voice over on a bronzing advert) say "sub-leem"

Lots of Americanisms of English words annoy me - but then I am from the UK and have had to start adapting now I live in Canada, although it's very mixed up here as to what people use - American or English!

I'm from Canada and American pronunciations also annoy me.

I've never heard it pronounced subleem - and I love to hear British people speak and don't really care how they pronounce their words. I also love to hear Aussies speak! Wish I could speak like that but guess I'm stuck with this country hick Texas drawl! Sorry ya'll don't like the way we talk.

laurenleighlugo

When people say ruff instead of roof. Ugh! :explode:

NU2U

Skreet...Street
Skrimp...Shrimp
Scuze me...excuse Me
Fuet...Fruit
Surp...Syrup
Ammalamps...Ambulance

PiggySweet

He also calls people named Jeremy, Germ-e.

My boyfriend gets called germy colin all the time. Because Collins is so hard to pronounce...

SelfHelpJunky

Don't know if this has been covered, but when people say "DEE" instead of "day" at the end of days of the week.

Like "See you on MonDEE." :explode:

b14a3w3

Exclamation.....I stumble over it every time. It doesn't all go together right!

tpittsley77

I have an employee that says she bathed her dog. Reading that you just said bAthed. She says it batht, like bath then adds the ed on the end. No matter howmuch she is corrected, she still says it.

Most of my pet peeves have been stated, but that one kills me!

scuddy58

Okay, here is mine. Purdy for Pretty and Ruff for Roof. Drives me insane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

goodeater24

shoont for shouldn't

mfpcopine

I hate it when people pronounce "schism" with a hard "K" -- "skizm." It is acceptable, but pronouncing it "sizm" sounds better and is more elegant.

amyowens08

WARSH! instead of wash.

THIS!

impyimpyaj

shoont for shouldn't

I've heard people pronounce it "shu-nit." I HATE that.

cardsfanlv

Since I live in Las Vegas, I hear this a lot from friends and family out of state that think I live in Nev-AH-da.

Nev-AD-a, not Nev-AH-da.

Cole114a

I'm from Texas, born and raised here. I, however, have a grasp on the English language and how to enunciate. One of my pet peeves from people around here is for them to say "cadillac converter" when they mean catalytic converter.

Jonesingmucho

In sure ants - insurance
Pin - pen
Malk - milk


It is amusing. I don't go crazy over it or anything. LOL

tpittsley77

Oh I have another employee that says flusterated, instead of frustrated. Drives me bonkers.

barkin43

Uk southeners that put an 'R' in words where there aren't any like Class and Glass and Bath

Huh? So then it's clarse, glarse and barth? Never heard those before. How about diddint for didn't.

Carlyannabelle

Coyot-E instead of Coyote (yote, like note)...Could be a regional thing though.

kelseyruiz

A little off topic but I hate when people type "yeah" and mean "yay." These are two different words with different sounds people.

barkin43

Omg, I cannot stand when people use "Yall". Its a southern thing and with me being from the north, it doesnt exist. Its like nails on a chalkboard every single time I hear it. Just say you or you all!


Another one that "grinds my gears" is when people call it expresso. It is ESPRESSO. There is no X!

Well, youse guys from the north just don't unnerstan! It takes two long too say YOU ALL. It's much kwiker too say ya'll. One of my pet peeves is not using youre apostophees! "Ya'll, not yall; it's (for it is), not its. Ahm jest sayin'!

AquaFitQueen

A little off topic but I hate when people type "yeah" and mean "yay." These are two different words with different sounds people.

that awkward moment when you recognise someone you used to know on mfp lol

barkin43

I love hearing how people say things and how their pronunciations differ from region to region. It is interesting to hear different accents, but for some reason folks get really annoyed at accents and pronunciations from others who would be considered native to their region.

The English language is so screwy anyway, who's really to say if it is pronounced WILL-a-mette or wil-LAM-ette? There are also crazy words like through (threw) that sound nothing like rough (ruff), but only two letters have been added to the beginning and the vowel sound is totally different. You just have to know how to say it.

Phonetics in English are really terrible. No wonder why we all have such a hard time understanding each other!

This is a very thoughtful post. Thank you!

Pebble321

Actually, it's the misspelling of pronunciation that drives me nuts:)

Pronouncing it as proNOUNciation is even worse.

lbmore33

instead of saying, "you know what I mean"

I've heard "ya mean"

usmcjarhead3

I know it's a regional accent thing but AUNT= AUNT, not ANT!!!!