Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

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  • lydia_the_tattooed_lady
    lydia_the_tattooed_lady Posts: 324 Member
    Chipotle. NOBODY CAN SAY THIS WORD. I used to work in a cafe where we had a chipotle themed sandwich....every single customer pronounced it "chi-pol-tay" :noway: the L is definitely AFTER the T, folks!!
  • snoopytwins
    snoopytwins Posts: 1,759 Member
    Pas-ghetti instead of spaghetti....seriously makes me want to hurt that person!
  • BioShocked89
    BioShocked89 Posts: 330 Member
    The word Caramel. How do you pronounce it? I've heard different ways and I'm not sure who's butchering it or saying correctly.

    Also, my step dad's last name. People try to pronounce it weird ways. It's Mabe. Pronounced like the word "maybe" without the "e" sound. People try to pronounce it like it is the word "maybe". It's really funny when they try to pronounce it like "Mah-bay". It makes me laugh when they would ask for Mister Mah-bay on the phone. Lol!
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    NOT a pronunciation.. BUT-- now that the floodgates have been openned...

    When people say something like "I will try and go to the store." -- "We are going to try and run 5 miles." -- "Our company will try and serve you better.."

    shouldn't be "TRY TO"- you either TRY or you DO- you don't "Try and do"

    Or when thye say they are
    "growing their cogregation" or 'grow their children into responsible adults'.. or 'grow their customer base' -- you grow plants- you raise or increase other things
  • Feisty_Red
    Feisty_Red Posts: 982 Member
    Mirror... but people say mirrar!
  • Bentley2718
    Bentley2718 Posts: 1,689 Member
    Worcester (as in Massachusetts) pronounced WHOO-stir

    You forgot Lebanin (spelled Lebanon) and BER-lin (Berlin), both in New Hampshire.
  • Seriousmom3
    Seriousmom3 Posts: 164
    Idear. There is no "R" in the word "idea"

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


    AH HA HA HA
  • snoopytwins
    snoopytwins Posts: 1,759 Member
    NOT a pronunciation.. BUT-- now that the floodgates have been openned...

    When people say something like "I will try and go to the store." -- "We are going to try and run 5 miles." -- "Our company will try and serve you better.."

    shouldn't be "TRY TO"- you either TRY or you DO- you don't "Try and do"

    Or when thye say they are
    "growing their cogregation" or 'grow their children into responsible adults'.. or 'grow their customer base' -- you grow plants- you raise or increase other things
    Oh...you'd hate me. But, I've lived in the South long enough that "I'm fixin' to" do things. Yup...try that one on. At least I don't say "fiddin' ta." LOL!
  • SlimsLiftingMoreThanLipstick
    SlimsLiftingMoreThanLipstick Posts: 122 Member
    WARSH! instead of wash.

    and Warsher instead of washer!
  • sevsmom
    sevsmom Posts: 1,172 Member
    I could care less instead of the correct: I COULDN'T care less.

    That and my pastor always said TERlet instead of TOYLet. LOL
  • sunshinesquared
    sunshinesquared Posts: 2,733 Member
    Torlet for Toilet....drives me crazy!
  • monalissanne
    monalissanne Posts: 159 Member
    When people say "on tomorrow" or "on today" or "on yesterday." It's redundant. I don't hear it too often, but just about every single DJ on 97.9 The Box here in Houston says it and it makes me physically tense up. :explode:

    Also, "ideal" instead of idea. "I have no ideal." The meaning is completely different.
  • NavyKnightAh13
    NavyKnightAh13 Posts: 1,394 Member
    Wooster-its a name of a town that is about 2 hours from where I live, but when i used to live in that area everyone says "wuhster" and so when I moved to Northwest Ohio from North Central, my husband says "around here the cows go 'moo' not 'wuh'" so it now drives me crazy when someone else says it like i used to. :laugh:
  • Birdie
    Birdie Posts: 256 Member
    My sisters hate when people say pun-kin instead of pumpkin; and skel-ing-ton instead of skeleton.
  • xxbookwormbabexx
    xxbookwormbabexx Posts: 92 Member
    Pillow - pellow
    Milk - melk
    Wash - warsh

    AHH! It's more spelling and grammar that drive me insane though.
  • PBsMommy
    PBsMommy Posts: 1,166 Member
    I once worked with a woman who pronounced Envelope (paper kind) as N-vel-up.

    I'm guilty of this one! :grumble:

    Of course, I pronounce a lot of stuff different than most of ya'll would. Just because of the way I was raised. When in a professional setting or when talking to important people I try my darnest to be correct, but for everyday talking I don't go out of my way.

    Tire always comes out as tar.
    I add "r" on a lot of words it shouldn't be. Words with natural "r"s sound weird when I say them (hour, Shower, etc.)
    Aluminum foil is known as warp-em-in foil, because I cannot seem to say aluminum.
    I say all words with the long "i" sound weird (knife, fight, dice, etc.)

    My husband and his family are orgianlly from Vermont and say some things that are weird to me. Like water, they say something like wortor....

    And my step mother has this weird thing instead of saying only, she says onliest. It use to drive me cray, now I just chuckle when I hear her say it.
  • stephc0711
    stephc0711 Posts: 1,022 Member
    Pee-can. It's puh-cahn.
  • wareagle8706
    wareagle8706 Posts: 1,090 Member
    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 an American pronounce Sublime that way, and I'm an American haha.

    Drives me nuts:
    Pacific instead of Specific
    Valevictorian instead of Valedictorian
    SupposABLY instead of SupposEDLY
  • AquaFitQueen
    AquaFitQueen Posts: 218 Member
    The first person to use all these mispronunciations in a sentence WINS!
  • sevsmom
    sevsmom Posts: 1,172 Member
    Wooster-its a name of a town that is about 2 hours from where I live, but when i used to live in that area everyone says "wuhster" and so when I moved to Northwest Ohio from North Central, my husband says "around here the cows go 'moo' not 'wuh'" so it now drives me crazy when someone else says it like i used to. :laugh:

    You can ALWAYS tell when someone isn't from around here and pronounces Wooster like Rooster! It is odd that it sounds more like Wuss-ter, it take the double "O" sound from look or book and adds the "W" and "ster" on the end.

    Clear sign that someone ain't from NE Ohio!! :-)
  • rhvandan
    rhvandan Posts: 185
    One of my oldest friends used to say am-ba-lance instead of AmBUlance. She could NOT wrap her tongue around the correct word. Poor lady.. And now she's a PA.
    LOL
  • ErinBeth7
    ErinBeth7 Posts: 1,625 Member
    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 always said it "worse-ta-sure"
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    Mirror... but people say mirrar!
    most people that mispronounce it here say MEER - annoying either way!
  • jericamom
    jericamom Posts: 49 Member
    Impor-dant for important. Pitcher for picture.
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    Pas-ghetti instead of spaghetti....seriously makes me want to hurt that person!
    this one is only OK if you are 3 yrs old.
  • pamperedhen
    pamperedhen Posts: 446 Member
    Italian ~it's "IT" alian NOT "EYE" talian {we came from IT aly not EYE taly}:laugh:
  • stephc0711
    stephc0711 Posts: 1,022 Member
    Mirror... but people say mirrar!
    most people that mispronounce it here say MEER - annoying either way!

    For my MIL, it's Mirr-ah. UGH
  • mgobluetx12
    mgobluetx12 Posts: 1,326 Member
    Fustrating for frustrating (I've heard this WAY too much lately)

    I hate when people say, 'for all intensive purposes...' instead of 'intents and purposes.'

    I saw someone on here say 'by enlarge' instead of 'by and large'

    There are too many to remember.
  • amberlykay1014
    amberlykay1014 Posts: 608 Member
    My mom always pronounces the "L" in Spanish/Mexican words like "tortilla." Totally drives me nuts.
  • PBsMommy
    PBsMommy Posts: 1,166 Member
    As I read all the pages, I came to the conclusion.....

    most of ya'll would form an angry mob with pitchforks if ya'll heard me talk. :laugh:

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