Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

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  • PJ_73
    PJ_73 Posts: 331 Member
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    When people say 'pronounciation' as opposed to 'pronunciation'!

    Expresso instead of Espresso is another!
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
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    Kindergarten, not kidney-garden :grumble:
  • Kathy53925
    Kathy53925 Posts: 241 Member
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    Hubby says:
    Warsh- Warshing the clothes


    Others:
    Sammich

    I can't think right now, but really, spelling really drives me nuts and improper usage...like their, there, they're
  • beach_please
    beach_please Posts: 533 Member
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    WARSH! instead of wash.

    My father-in-law says 'warsh'.

    And instead of garage, he says "Grarge"... drives me nucking futs :grumble:
  • TexanThom
    TexanThom Posts: 778
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    Extraordinary= Great, wonderful, outstanding.

    Extra-ordinary=really ordinary, plainer, more common.
  • rhvandan
    rhvandan Posts: 185
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    pacifically instead of specifically


    THIS!!!!!! Absolutely!
  • jeannicoleau
    jeannicoleau Posts: 194 Member
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    It's not so much a pronounciation as a grammatical error. Using the phrase "on tomorrow" or "on yesterday"... as in " The meeting for our club will take palce on tomorrow at 4 o"clock."
  • rblair_22
    rblair_22 Posts: 202 Member
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    my mom says warsh instead of wash! Drives me nuts!
  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
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    People who pronounce their 'a' funny.
    Ex: The name Sarah, they'll say "sah-ruh" instead of "sehr-ruh"

    Or "tah-ruh" instead of "tehr-ruh" for Tara.

    ..much of my family is from New York. I haaaaaate the way they pronounce that!
  • karensoxfan
    karensoxfan Posts: 902 Member
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    Definitely suposably instead of supposedly. I have a friend who does this. It's not the right word! That word doesn't exist!

    Unfortunately, it is in the dictionary as a derivative of supposable. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/supposably
  • CyclngChick
    CyclngChick Posts: 57 Member
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    Walmarts...with an s on the end. I hear old folks say it which is cool cause I like the way old people talk. But then I hear others who are not old and I just want to say "It's WalmarT" not walmarts. And ideal in place of idea.

    Haha I know someone who says "Best Buys" too... ummm it's only one store!!!

    And a lady I work with says garaRge instead of garage... annoying!!!
  • CanuckLove
    CanuckLove Posts: 673 Member
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    "Prohib-itation" instead of "Prohibition" (Yes- not a common word but in my line of work, it is.)
  • impyimpyaj
    impyimpyaj Posts: 1,073 Member
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    My most common ones are:

    Nucular
    Supposably (even though this one is now in the dictionary as a synonym for supposedly)
    Excetera (instead of eTcetera)
    Societal (instead of social)

    Societal is a word, although it has a slightly different meaning from "social."
  • SherryR1971
    SherryR1971 Posts: 1,170 Member
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    I have a friend who says 'simular' and I want to scream when she does it lol

    Me, too! Also "Supposably"...there is a "D" in that word!!!!
  • amyrebtx
    amyrebtx Posts: 27 Member
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    Idear. There is no "R" in the word "idea"

    Maybe they should return that R to the "LIBARY!"

    LOL!!!
    "Irregardless" drives me bonkers. The word is REGARDLESS.
    Ordament for Ornament. Renember for remember. Yes, I hear many adults that say these mis-pronunciations regularly.
  • SpeSHul_SnoflEHk
    SpeSHul_SnoflEHk Posts: 6,256 Member
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    Oh yeah. I forgot asterick vs. asterisk
  • rhvandan
    rhvandan Posts: 185
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    There is a commercial on the radio currently talking about California Avocado growers.. Apparently one of the growers thinks he grows "EH vocadoes".. Drives me NUTS. I want to scream at him... "Dont grow them, if you can't pronounce them!!!" A-VOCADO.. Say it with me now....
  • impyimpyaj
    impyimpyaj Posts: 1,073 Member
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    Walmarts...with an s on the end. I hear old folks say it which is cool cause I like the way old people talk. But then I hear others who are not old and I just want to say "It's WalmarT" not walmarts. And ideal in place of idea.

    I used to work at Walmart, and I once got a check from someone written to "Wall Marks." I died.
  • auroranflash
    auroranflash Posts: 3,569 Member
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    "Heighth and width"

    Oh, and I used to work at Subway. You'd never think there would be so many ways to pronounce "chipotle sauce"

    Chipoddle was the worst, I think.
  • rhvandan
    rhvandan Posts: 185
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    Pitcher instead of PIC-TURE. Yes, that is another one... I could go on and on...

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