Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

farway

Worcester (as in Massachusetts) pronounced WHOO-stir

How ARE you supposed to say that? I've never been able to figure it out.

Depends, if Worcester [England] then as wooster, but I have heard some Americans pronounce it Woosester, then compound it but saying woostestershyre [ is pronounced woostershear in UK English]

But Dianne Warwick is still Warik over here, pronounced as per the town & county

AquaFitQueen

Here in the UK when even educated people say EverythinK instead of everything....and the uneducated people say EveryFinK. ugh.

iFeelBrandNew

Missour-ah instead of Missouri.

YESSS! you must be from missouri --- i cant stand it!

pinkpanthers1995

FUstrated instead of fRustrated. There's an R in there people!

I have a friend who does this all the time, even after I've told him he does it. He just laughs and says, 'Yah, isn't it fUstrating?'

^^This! Biggest. pet. peeve. EVER!

Tiggerrick

Across said as acrossT. Where does the T come from???

iFeelBrandNew

salmon -- and enunciate the L

drives me crazy

iFeelBrandNew

Missour-ah instead of Missour-ee when pronouncing Missouri.

Sounds so annoying to me! I'm from Central Missour-ee and most of the people I've met that say it that way are from the southern part of the state, so perhaps it might just be based on preference and the region you are from. However, TV news reports say Missour-ee and the dictionary also says it should be pronounced with a long e. It takes all of my strength not to correct someone when I hear it! :noway:

where in central missouri? i live in columbia!

3foldchord

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

my husband does that. he also says "instid" for ''Instead" and adds a 'g' to onion. it's like "ongion" but it's only 'half the g sound"- I can't even say it.

I don't like that "glottal stop" sound people use instead of enunciating "t"s in words. (like /wa`er/ for 'water'.../ki `ens/ for "kittens")

I also can't stand "dubbbya" for double-u (W)

AquaFitQueen

salmon -- and enunciate the L

drives me crazy

Nobody I have ever met, America, British or otherwise says saLmon. I actually lived in Salmon Idaho and it is samon if you said SaLmon, you'd probably be run out of town, lol

PJ64

Idear. There is no "R" in the word "idea"

There is up North lol!

ironanimal

Northeners call tongue 'tong'. You cook with tongs, silly people.

JSheehy1965

When people pronounce the word apricot as appricot.
When my boss pronounces the word "asparagus" as "exparagus" or he pronounces the word "permission" as "premission"
When I order a bagel in Bruegger's and ask for "butter", they will make me repeat the word over and over because they don't understand. Finally they say, "Oh, budddderrrrrrr". Once I was so annoyed by this, I said sweetly, "There are no 'd's in the word butter". (I'm British living in the USA) It's not rocket science...if I ask for butter and the options are cream cheese or butter...surely you can work out that's it's butter and NOT cream cheese on my bagel?

LauraMacNCheese

I say "arnge" instead of "orange"...also, boards creak; water (though I used to pronounce this wooder) flows through a crick.

Most people find the arnge thing funny rather than annoying though.

iFeelBrandNew

salmon -- and enunciate the L

drives me crazy

Nobody I have ever met, America, British or otherwise says saLmon. I actually lived in Salmon Idaho and it is samon if you said SaLmon, you'd probably be run out of town, lol

i tend to date outside of my race, and find that this specific race says it --- but it still drives me crazy... the L IS SILENT PEOPLE

Temporalia

I would probably offend a lot of people, english is my second language and in french, you don't pronounce the "h" sound so I often massacre some words. Bf thinks it is cute. Someone I use to hang out with would make me say thirty three and a third and I say it like dirty tree and a turd :laugh: I'm working hard on it :blushing:

impyimpyaj

Worcester (as in Massachusetts) pronounced WHOO-stir

How ARE you supposed to say that? I've never been able to figure it out.

Depends, if Worcester [England] then as wooster, but I have heard some Americans pronounce it Woosester, then compound it but saying woostestershyre [ is pronounced woostershear in UK English]

But Dianne Warwick is still Warik over here, pronounced as per the town & county

So how about Worcestershire sauce? When I was a kid I thought it was "War-chest-er-shyre" but that's not right. Now I just grab the bottle and try not to pronounce it. :laugh:

iFeelBrandNew

i say peench -- instead of pinch. have my whole life. dont know where i got it.

my boyfriend thinks its cute LMAO

jynxxxed

salmon -- and enunciate the L

drives me crazy

Nobody I have ever met, America, British or otherwise says saLmon. I actually lived in Salmon Idaho and it is samon if you said SaLmon, you'd probably be run out of town, lol

My boyfriend's entire family says saLmon with the L.. they're from Alabama. SO MUCH is wrong with the English language in Alabama lol

iFeelBrandNew

Worcester (as in Massachusetts) pronounced WHOO-stir

How ARE you supposed to say that? I've never been able to figure it out.

Depends, if Worcester [England] then as wooster, but I have heard some Americans pronounce it Woosester, then compound it but saying woostestershyre [ is pronounced woostershear in UK English]

But Dianne Warwick is still Warik over here, pronounced as per the town & county

So how about Worcestershire sauce? When I was a kid I thought it was "War-chest-er-shyre" but that's not right. Now I just grab the bottle and try not to pronounce it. :laugh:

i say worsch-t-sher LOL

sleepytexan

expresso
IN-surance
pacifically (specifically)
supposably (REALLY!?)

roachhaley

ad-vocado
expresso
hi-un-dye (hyundai)

This isn't a word but I HATE when people say "for all intensive purposes"

NewChristina

I hate when people pronounce

height

as

heighttthhhhhhhh.

Oh, me too. This drives me crazy! It's heighT and weighT, lengTH and widTH. It seems many, many people don't get this. My other one is NUTHER.

As in: That's a whole NUTHER... I've even said it myself, and I cringe. Where did this work come from? I hate it.

LauraMacNCheese

expresso
IN-surance
pacifically (speifically)
supposably (REALLY!?)

uyent

Gyro- Jirow
Oregon- Orygun
Washington-warshingon

First GO HOKIES! The Gyro one drives me crazy too. Toluene = Tall-la-lene

leomom72

:laugh: cant wait to read the rest

zombie_porno

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

High five on that.

AquaFitQueen

salmon -- and enunciate the L

drives me crazy

Nobody I have ever met, America, British or otherwise says saLmon. I actually lived in Salmon Idaho and it is samon if you said SaLmon, you'd probably be run out of town, lol

My boyfriend's entire family says saLmon with the L.. they're from Alabama. SO MUCH is wrong with the English language in Alabama lol

LOL. yeah I have a few friends from Bama....they have a different english, lol

sleepytexan

When people pronounce the word apricot as appricot.
When my boss pronounces the word "asparagus" as "exparagus" or he pronounces the word "permission" as "premission"
When I order a bagel in Bruegger's and ask for "butter", they will make me repeat the word over and over because they don't understand. Finally they say, "Oh, budddderrrrrrr". Once I was so annoyed by this, I said sweetly, "There are no 'd's in the word butter". (I'm British living in the USA) It's not rocket science...if I ask for butter and the options are cream cheese or butter...surely you can work out that's it's butter and NOT cream cheese on my bagel?

the budder thing cracks me up. my Aussie friend always has to do that . . . but you do know that you Brits kill the word garage, right?

pineapple1989

I dont like the way Americans pronounce patronise "pay-tro-nise" instead of "pah-tro-nise" although it doesnt really affect my life as I'm not there!

Bentley2718

My husband pronounces "varies," var-ries (the first syllable rhymes "car," the second with "fries"). As a statistician, the word varies is near to my heart, so this is painful to hear. He has a number of other terrible pronunciations, but this is the worst for me to hear.