Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

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

    Expresso instead of Espresso is another!
  • xxnellie146xx
    xxnellie146xx Posts: 996 Member
    Kindergarten, not kidney-garden :grumble:
  • Kathy53925
    Kathy53925 Posts: 241 Member
    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
    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
    Extraordinary= Great, wonderful, outstanding.

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


    THIS!!!!!! Absolutely!
  • jeannicoleau
    jeannicoleau Posts: 194 Member
    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
    my mom says warsh instead of wash! Drives me nuts!
  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
    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
    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
    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
    "Prohib-itation" instead of "Prohibition" (Yes- not a common word but in my line of work, it is.)
  • impyimpyaj
    impyimpyaj Posts: 1,073 Member
    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
    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
    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
    Oh yeah. I forgot asterick vs. asterisk
  • rhvandan
    rhvandan Posts: 185
    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
    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
    "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
    Pitcher instead of PIC-TURE. Yes, that is another one... I could go on and on...
  • acrue21
    acrue21 Posts: 22 Member
    When my husband says "Battery" is comes out "Battree" and when he answers the phone to say hello its comes out "yellow" lol Oklahoma hick accent .
  • avir8
    avir8 Posts: 671 Member
    Stewie Griffin: Hey, pass over some of that Cool wHip
    Brian Griffin: What?
    Stewie Griffin: Well, you put Cool wHHip on pie.
    Brian Griffin: It's Cool Whip
    Stewie Griffin: That's what I said, Cool wHHip
    Brian Griffin: Cool Whip
    Stewie Griffin: Cool wHHip
    Brian Griffin: Why are you putting so much emphasis on the H?
    Stewie Griffin: What are you talking about? I'm just saying Cool wHHip
    Brian Griffin: Say whip
    Stewie Griffin: Whip
    Brian Griffin: Now say Cool Whip
    Stewie Griffin: Cool wHHip
  • DevoteeofIset
    DevoteeofIset Posts: 77 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!

    The first time I heard Sub-leem I almost fell off my chair. I was alone but looked around because I was in disbelief and had to try and find it again to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. I had to ask people too... No one I know or have asked says Sub-leem.
    I think some idiot read the card wrong. I refuse to accept this pronunciation :D
  • Babygirl928
    Babygirl928 Posts: 378 Member
    irregardless :)
    ^^KILLS ME!!!! LOL
    and the more poplar aks.....and yes it was intended lol
  • SherryR1971
    SherryR1971 Posts: 1,170 Member
    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!

    My dad is from SC and he says "SAY-ra" instead of Sarah, and "Kay-ren" for Karen...
  • ClareRae
    ClareRae Posts: 153 Member
    All of this reminds me of an Eddie Izzard bit... Check it out.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs5H7cgcpkg
  • foxfirekenzie
    foxfirekenzie Posts: 244 Member
    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.
  • dlyeates
    dlyeates Posts: 875 Member
    Liberry for library (there is an R in it)
    Ambalance for ambulance (it's a U not an A)
    Supposably for supposedly (it's a D)
    Axe for Ask (I tell my students it's the "naughty word" with a K....*kitten*-k)
    Pronouncing the S in Illinois
    Melk for Milk (it's a short I sound!!)
    Wesconsin for Wisconsin (again...short I sound)
  • impyimpyaj
    impyimpyaj Posts: 1,073 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!

    The first time I heard Sub-leem I almost fell off my chair. I was alone but looked around because I was in disbelief and had to try and find it again to make sure I wasn't losing my mind. I had to ask people too... No one I know or have asked says Sub-leem.
    I think some idiot read the card wrong. I refuse to accept this pronunciation :D

    The only time I've heard "sub-leem" was on some makeup commercial or something, and I think they were trying to sound French. :laugh:
  • TheRealParisLove
    TheRealParisLove Posts: 1,907 Member
    omg it's a COUpon, not a Q-pon.

    and if i hear one more person say heighTH instead of heighT...

    That must be regional dialect. No one on the west coast says KOO-pon. It is KYOO-pon out here. Even the dictionary includes both pronouncations.

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