Word prounounciations that drive you nuts
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nucular
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A few here
1) OfTen with a loud T. Do they say HasTen or LisTen?
2) Flustrated instead of Frustrated.
3) Men's prostate NOT PROSTRATE.
4) Folks who cannot spell "Definitely"
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"yous"
... not a word people!0 -
Sherbet. It's not SherbeRt.0
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Not so much a mispronunciation, as a made up word: irregardless.
If regardless means without regard to, then irregardless must really mean WITH regard to
YESSSS. i heard a police officer say this on a tv show the other day. shame! :laugh:0 -
Haha, I teach KINDERGARTEN and when they say, "I axed (asked) my mom...." I look at them in horror and say, while gesturing with an axe, "You axed your mom!? Oh my goodness!"
I was just recalling a trip to Bakers Drive-Thru with my mom as a teen.
As she drove up to order she kept repeating, "quesadilla, quesadilla... I'm going to have a quesadilla...."
She pulls up and the woman says, "Hello. May I take your order."
She turns to order and sees it... the word QUESADILLA... in print on the menu.
She goes, "Oh shoot! Girls, how do you say it again!?"
We of course were laughing our butts off and didn't answer.
My mom goes, "Well, I know this isn't right, but I'll take a Kwah-sa-dill-ee-uh." LOL!!!!
Another one that really irks me is when my mom says salsa, she says it like this "sal (rhymes with pal) suh."
She also says "pacifically" instead of specifically. And "neck-uh-liss" instead of necklace. Geez, she's pretty weird. Hahaha. :laugh:0 -
Gyro- Jirow
Oregon- Orygun
Washington-warshingon
"Orygun" is still WAY better than Ore-a-gone! Of course, "or-a-gun" is proper.
Nucular is pretty bad.
But my all-time most annoying pronounciation has got to be "EYE - talian". We're not from "EYE-taly" you fool!!!0 -
"yous"
... not a word people!
How about "your guyses"?! Maybe just say "your"?!0 -
Oooh, I have another few.
MINES - as in - That book is mines.
Da or Duh - it's THE people! I have had students' parents write notes to me or to the school attendance clerk to excuse their child's absence and use da instead of the. REALLY? I mean it's a KINDERGARTEN SIGHT WORD so I know you're child knows it... tsk, tsk.0 -
"yous"
... not a word people!
never move to brooklyn. it drives me nuts.0 -
You all think those are bad. I used to do medical transcription from home and you would not believe what supposedly college-educated people would say. Oh and speaking of which, supposably is a real nail grater!! And coo pons instead of kew pons. Meant to say most doctors I would transcribe for would say son tuh meter rather than sin tuh meter. Took a while to figure that one out.0
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And coo pons instead of kew pons. Meant to say most doctors I would transcribe for would say son tuh meter rather than sin tuh meter. Took a while to figure that one out.
Coo pons is the British pronunciation - kew pons always sounds funny to me! :-)
I say 'sen ti meter' (if the word you mean is 'centimetre') - I've never heard it with 'sin' or 'son', but 'son' is from the French, like how some people say 'on-vuh-lope' for 'envelope'.
I tend to be amused rather than annoyed by pronunciation variants! There's a lot of variation in the UK as to how words are pronounced.0 -
wooter instead of water. Its an "a" people! :huh:
YES! i knew we had to live close by! My 3 year old 2nd cousin said "wooter" the other day and i just stared at her in horror and disbelief that she learned to say it that way... :noway:0 -
ackshully vs Actually ( I type the former online a lot because it does irk me) go figure
which is another.......
figger vs figure
Hehe - I don't know anyone who actually pronounces 'actually' as 'ack-tyoo-ully', which would, strictly speaking, be the way to pronounce it - although I pronounce it that way for fun sometimes, when I'm being jokily pedantic about something! People generally assimilate a consonant or two where there is a consonant cluster.
Everyone in the UK says 'figger' though - that's how 'figure' is pronounced here. Just like we pronounce 'picture' as 'pick-cher' (or 'pitcher' in fast speech).0 -
Pitcher for Picture. Drives me insane.
Need to master that one too :laugh:0 -
wooter instead of water. Its an "a" people! :huh:
YES! i knew we had to live close by! My 3 year old 2nd cousin said "wooter" the other day and i just stared at her in horror and disbelief that she learned to say it that way... :noway:
I had to learn to say 'wodder' when I was in Canada - no one understood my English accent when I said 'water'!0 -
"Chedule" instead for schedule. I found it hilarious. LOL I know I have a couple, my first language is Spanish, so sometimes I mistakenly pronounce words when I'm speaking English. LOL
This is one word i'm never sure of, nobody pronounces it the same way and I can get away with chedule because i'm a canadian french speaker
After reading all the pages, I realize i'm not that bad, most words I pronounce well, some I just can't without having my english speaking bf laughing at my quirks :laugh:0 -
"Chedule" instead for schedule. I found it hilarious. LOL I know I have a couple, my first language is Spanish, so sometimes I mistakenly pronounce words when I'm speaking English. LOL
This is one word i'm never sure of, nobody pronounces it the same way and I can get away with chedule because i'm a canadian french speaker
It's 'sked-jule' in North America, and 'shed-yool' in the UK. :-) I hardly ever used the word in the UK, but I lived in Canada for a while and everyone used it, so when I returned to the UK, I was saying it as 'sked-yool' (a kind of mix between the two!).0 -
I remember that episode of Friends with the, "supposably" I had no idea that supposedly referred to supposedly!
I'd never heard that one mixed up before... so I watched that episode bemused!
My brother in law says renember.
My mother in law says ratatatouille instead of ratatouille.0 -
word.
I have never heard any American say sub-leem. All the people on this side of the pond say sub-LIME when they do say it.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've never heard subleem.0 -
sammich-sandwich
east coasters say wudder-water0 -
Agreed. I've only heard Aussies say Sub LEEM.
I have never heard any American say sub-leem. All the people on this side of the pond say sub-LIME when they do say it.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!0 -
Aks, nothing drives me more bonkers.
an axe is what I'm swinging in the picture...
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when people say "pooberty" like grrrr, it's pronounced (py 'bər-tē)0
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Liberry for library.
Impordant for important
alblum for album
sing or bring or any similar ING word with a hard G.
Folks that can't get their THEIR/THERE/THEY'RE s right. Also To, Too and Two.
Let us not forget the proper use of Your and You're and Its and It's.0 -
"Expresso"
.. It's Espresso.. It bothers the barista in me but it's not a big deal.
I try not to be too judgmental. My mom says "warsh" and it used to drive me crazy but I don't like making her
feel self conscience about it-- it's not worth it. People are people and we all come from different parts. I don't need to make someone feel stupid because they grew up in a certain area or have a certain background and they just happen to speak a certain way.0 -
An ex-boyfried of mine would always say "I'll give it a world" instead of "I'll give it a WHIRL". It drove me nuts! I would dread asking him if he wanted to try something new the longer we were together because I knew the response would involve the world!
It also drives me crazy when people use "whenever" instead of "when". Example-Whenever I was in 5th grade we would go to the library every week in school. It's "When", not whenever. I hear this all the time and it is so annoying!0 -
asked/axed0
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it is Jersey dialect0
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Did you spell pronunciation wrong??? Ironic lol0
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