Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

vettle

I knew someone that pronounced ambulance as am-blee-unce. was so funny.

My mom cannot say sushi, so she says shushi.

The other one that drives me nuts is think instead of thing.

travisseger

Pitcher for Picture. Drives me insane.

Jenniferlynn54

Supposably for supposedly

I hate supposably!! I also hate "arnge" instead of orange

magj0y

Birfday and ax/ask

MaybeAMonkey

When people say "heigth" instead of "height" - that word ends in HT not TH. Also, "acrosst" instead of "across" - last time I checked there wasn't a "t" at the end of that word! There are tons of other mispronunciations that drive me bonkers, but those were the first two that came to mind.

SueGeer

Uk southeners that put an 'R' in words where there aren't any like Class and Glass and Bath

Guilty! :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:

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?

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?

lol...garaaaahhhhge.

Jenniferlynn54

I don't say sammich....but I do say sangwich, on purpose...I do know the real word, I just like this one better lol:bigsmile:

juliecat1

Missour-ah. There's no ah at the end. It's an I
Ideals
WaRshington instead of Washington
Zink for sink
ToiRlet for toilet

People talk funny here.

silvergurl518

warsh/warshington--> wash/washington
aks --> ask
murland-->maryland
pen/pellow/melk-->pin/pillow/milk
aboot-->about
gym-->jim


^ kidding about the last, obviously.

AmyBecky74

anything pronounced with a boston accent

matroma

ValentiMe's Day

justaskforbrandy

i say crayons like "crowns" instead of "cra-yons" or however the crap you're suppose to say it. i never knew i was mispronouncing until my mom was like "what???" hahaha oh well.

nmterp

when people pronounce especially, "ex-specially" and when folks say they're going to the "liberry" There are no berries in Library!

jennifer52484

My husband says Valentime's Day.

Some girl i knew from the south would say "why are you so MAINE" ( Why are you so mean) lol cracks me up all the time.

matroma

Expresso instead of Espresso!!!! Someone else mentiond this on the thread-drives my husband and I NUTS!!!! They were even saying it on Master Chef, etc. that way!

LADYDEBORAH1984

it annoys me when people say 'pacific' when they mean to say 'specific'. The pacific is the name of a ocean!! and when people think ignorant means someone is ignoring you!!!!

krbates84

Ambulance = Amba-lance. Drives me crazy.

Troll

Pecan is NOT pee can. thats what you kept under your bed in the winter to avoid going to the outhouse in the cold.
Im from texas, its the state tree. if you are from tx and say pee can.....just....gtfo. really. lmao.

Not a pronunciation...but the word irregardless makes me want to punch kittens.

my fiance and i argue over oil, soil, and boil. its oy-yull soy-yull and boy-yull to him. its ohwl sawl and boll to me. We compromise. earl, dirt, and cooking water.

kellimr

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?'

He also calls people named Jeremy, Germ-e.

O-M-G.....totally the FUstrated thing kills me!! And I have heard it from like 6 people in the past year!! I have also heard (all from "grown adults") LiBERRY (Library) ....AMBLIANCE (Ambulance) etc...seriously ~ where did you learn to speak?

christimw

'erbs instead of Herbs.

There's a ****ing haitch in it.

Herb with the H is a name.

Silent H Herb is a type of plant. I've know many herbalist, and I've never once heard them call them herbs with the H. nor have I heard of a 'erbalist call themselves a Herbalist.

LADYDEBORAH1984

in england we say herb not erb but maybe its a cultural thing?? i hate it when people dont pronounce th they say f instead so fink and fankyou and frough!!!

bussaca

Illinoise... and I am not even from that state

stang_girl88

Axe instead of ask and melk instead of milk. My husband says melk and I am starting to do say it that way too lol

Midnight_Sunshine

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'm from Canada and American pronunciations also annoy me.

kuunsilta

Anything ending in an "a" having the "er" sound replacing it. Like "Anna" being pronounced as "Anner"

barkin43

nucular

THIS! It's nuclear. Say - new clear. Now put them together - nuclear.

annielaurie88

Amber from Teen Mom is the most notorious for this... makes me crazy:

Think instead of thing. IE: "You don't know anythink!" it's like the letter G doesn't exist.

OMG couldnt agree more! she is sooo freaking annoying, but totally addicting show :laugh:

kuunsilta

Also, when people call the Pacific ocean, the Specific ocean...

Jennloella

It drives me nuts when people put an " 's " on Nordstrom. Look at the sign, idiots! It's just Nordstrom!