Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

KateRepine

I noticed this when I moved to VA: "ve-hick-le" for vehicle and alot of the other ones already mentioned.

marcia724

Aks, nothing drives me more bonkers.

an axe is what I'm swinging in the picture...

AMEN!!!!

gaylynn35

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

This^^

A pet peeve of mine.

HurricaneElaine

"Strategery" for strategy. This came out of a college student's mouth. :noway:

clarkeje1

Looking at all of these posts is driving me nuts lol Learn how to speak English people!!!!!!!!!!

marcia724

It's annoying when people say "HO-tel" instead of hotel. you know what i mean? accent on the HO.

ARDuBaie

Bury - pronounced as berry
Cherry - pronounced to rhyme with the way bury should be pronounced
Berry - pronounced the way bury should be pronounced
Iron - pronounced like urn
You ain't - pronounced like yaint, rhyming with paint
You'uns - do I need to explain why I hate that one
Tourists - pronounced like terrorist without the 'o', thus coming out like terrist (This scared me the first time I heard it. I thought that the fellow was telling me there was a terrorist threat in town.)

Reinventing_Me

Shtrimp or shcrimp instead of shrimp
scrawberry instead of strawberry
wallamelon instead of watermelon
A guy on the train (you know...one of those folks who knows EVERYTHING) said 'confectionary oven" one day instead of "convection oven".

I also hate when plurals and posessives aren't used.

kymarai

I have a habit of saying "Acrosst" instead of Across. It drives someone I know bonkers! :laugh:

THIS!!!!!

chubbygirl253

Aks
Libary
Ambalamps
Hair-us-mint (even though i've heard it's technically correct? Everyone I know says ha-rass-ment)

LinaBo

My mom pronounces "California" as "Cali-PHONE-ya", without the R. She claims that's how the people there pronounce it. Please, CalifoRnians: tell me now if this is right, and I will try to get used to it, if so. If not, I'd love to be able to say, once and for all, that Californians pronounce it with the R.

chubbygirl253

I hate it when people say HEIGTH. height is not like width with a th at the end. It's like weight with a hard t. It's a pet peeve. Also when people say they could care less. The saying goes I COULDN'T care less. But thats not a mispronunciation, just incorrect usage.

ARDuBaie

A couple more:

Proximate - for approximate
Wid - for with


When I was in college, I took a linguistic course. One of the things that was on every test was to put words in phonetics. My father was Scottish, my mother French, which left me with a very weird accent, so I did poorly on that section. I asked the teacher what I did wrong and he went over the words with me. It was because of my accent that I got them wrong. (A - boot for about, okay.) He said that I was American so I should know the proper way of pronouncing the words. I argued that there are regional variations, but he denied this. (To make matters worse, I was going to the Univ. of Minnesota, but I was raised in Pennsylvania, two places with regional variations.) So on the second test, when I got to that section, I went up to him and asked him how HE pronounced the word. After that, I got them all right on every test. :laugh:

ShyFeather

The only thing that drives me nuts is when people make assumptions about others by the way they talk. Because, you know, if you don't pronounce things the way I do you must be saying it wrong, like there's a "correct" pronunciation for everything.

When I was in college, I took a linguistic course. One of the things that was on every test was to put words in phonetics. My father was Scottish, my mother French, which left me with a very weird accent, so I did poorly on that section. I asked the teacher what I did wrong and he went over the words with me. It was because of my accent that I got them wrong. (A - boot for about, okay.) He said that I was American so I should know the proper way of pronouncing the words. I argued that there are regional variations, but he denied this. (To make matters worse, I was going to the Univ. of Minnesota, but I was raised in Pennsylvania, two places with regional variations.) So on the second test, when I got to that section, I went up to him and asked him how HE pronounced the word. After that, I got them all right on every test. :laugh:

To be honest, that sounds like a horrible linguistics professor. I'm a linguistics major right now. There is a deep interest in how we pronounce words differently and why, but they would never say there is a proper way. In fact, the term for that is prescriptive linguists. Shoot, my USA Dialects class is taught by an immigrant with a heavy Greek accent XD A GOOD linguist (a descriptive linguist), in my opinion, is one that describes the differences in accent but doesn't tell people how they should say things.

Jennloella

Haha maybe in Oakland .....but here we definitely use the R

peles_fire

ex-presso instead espresso. Drives me buggy.

LaurenLite

Ohhhh- I'm in New Orleans. SOOO many words:

Pitcher (picture- HARD "C" sounds like pickture). For goodness sake, just say photo! LOL
Zink instead of sink
Turlet instead of toilet
idear (idea)
Yellar (yellow)
earl (oil)

But yeah, picture is a biggie.

abberbabber

Apparently I pronounce "horror" like "*kitten*" :laugh:

princessage117

My hubby says that I say "cran" and not "crayon" but that's just how I always said it, didn't notice it was wrong. It drives him nuts.

BIGJIMMYU

People that pronounce "w" double ya! It's "double you"! It's even worse when they try to tell you a website:-"double ya, double ya, double ya....

Cheeses me off!