Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

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  • Tracepa98
    Tracepa98 Posts: 219
    Omg, I cannot stand when people use "Yall". Its a southern thing and with me being from the north, it doesnt exist. Its like nails on a chalkboard every single time I hear it. Just say you or you all!


    Another one that "grinds my gears" is when people call it expresso. It is ESPRESSO. There is no X!
  • flpmomi
    flpmomi Posts: 117 Member
    I love my dad and I know he can't help it because he is Filipino, but when he talks, I can't help but give him the O.e, every time he say a word that starts with a 'F" and it sounds like a "P". I have been trying to correct him since I was like 5. God, love that man! lol
  • valorieflowers
    valorieflowers Posts: 154
    Kindergarten, not kidney-garden :grumble:

    Hahaha I have never hear of kidney-garden! That's pretty funny.:laugh:
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    I just thought of something else... I am on a roll LOL

    It drives my BF nuts when I say Victoria's Secrets. He's goes, "It's ONE secret, not multiple secrets!"
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
    Prounounciation instead of pronunciation. That drives me crazy.

    :heart:
  • NuttyCake
    NuttyCake Posts: 34 Member
    ruff instead of roof HATE IT!!!! or uge instead of Huge

    I agree! It's a roof. Not a dog! It doesn't bark.

    Also, another one that I can't stand... Ex-pecially. Ughhh.
  • RunsOnEspresso
    RunsOnEspresso Posts: 3,218 Member
    I don't like when people say woof instead of woLf, please pronounce the L, you don't say the plural woofs do you, no its woLves! Roof is almost as bad.

    I think this is sometimes the accent. My midwestern accent comes out on some words (wolf & roof included) and I hear about it from my BF. It's like the Famliy Guy episode/commercial with cool whip/wheat thins. We have pretty much that same dialogue.
  • tracyowens22
    tracyowens22 Posts: 49 Member
    ValentiMes instead of ValentiNes... super annoying
    Purdy instead of Pretty
    Set instead of Sit
  • chanixxx
    chanixxx Posts: 64
    aks, Messican, da/dat/dis/dere don't get me started
  • ErinBeth7
    ErinBeth7 Posts: 1,625 Member
    pacifically instead of specifically
    ERGH!! Yes.
  • valorieflowers
    valorieflowers Posts: 154
    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.

    Really? I have lived in AZ and the Northwest my whole life and always said "koo-pon". But my parents were from the midwest. I'll have to see if I notice any other west coasters that say "koo-pon"...
  • Gogretchen1
    Gogretchen1 Posts: 74
    "EK-special-ee" for especially

    so bad.
  • Cfkearney
    Cfkearney Posts: 197 Member
    I think it's funny that so many have said irregardless and supposably. These are my top 2. Also I agree with carAmel. There is a second A after all. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's not there! LOL

    My mom has her own language. She says "warsh" like I'm warshing dishes. Lickwish instead of licorice. kabasy instead of kielbasa. Lots and lots of words like that. Oh and she says carmel.

    liberry
    fity instead of fifty
    nuva - like whole nuva level or and a nuva thing....:explode:
  • nikinyx6
    nikinyx6 Posts: 772 Member
    Guy I work with says 'brefix' rather than breakfast...wouldn't be an issue, except in the travel industry 'bed and breakfast' comes up a lot. He's been corrected, and reprimanded, but refuses to change, and no, it's not a speech impediment...
  • christimw
    christimw Posts: 183 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.

    I worked at Subway right when that came out, you have no idea how many people wanted "chipotole" sauce.

    And one lady always came in and ordered a TUNAR sandwich.

    and earl & vinekar instead of oil and vinegar. that was the one that drove me the most crazy.
  • _VoV
    _VoV Posts: 1,494 Member
    Worcester (as in Massachusetts) pronounced WHOO-stir
  • ahviendha
    ahviendha Posts: 1,291 Member
    ma-toor instead of ma-chur (mature)

    pronouncing it "ma-toor" makes me want to say "what do you pronounce ALL french based english words with the proper french accent?!"
  • mhankosk
    mhankosk Posts: 532 Member
    wooter instead of water. Its an "a" people! :huh:
  • tcunbeliever
    tcunbeliever Posts: 8,219 Member
    Inta-gritty (Integrity)

    Mo-Bile (mobile - it's a mobile phone...mo' bile is what your stomach makes when you eat something nasty)
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    It is a Philly thing... but Sasage for Sausage... Drives me crazy....
  • Austin1988
    Austin1988 Posts: 243 Member
    Post instead of supposed. It's cute on a 7 year old...not on some who has graduated high school.
  • sjeagle30
    sjeagle30 Posts: 292 Member
    Well I know I drive my kids nuts when I say Movie Thee-a-ter instead of it sounding like thee-ter which they claim is the way it should be. Who knew :p
    I also never ever knew it was a hippopotamus.. I always thought hippoPONTamus!!!
    Another one I always say wrong is expecially and not especially.
    The one that really blew my mind...... Santa's reindeer's name is not donner...WTF I guess it is donder!! I had to go to the night before christmas book to look because I did not beleive it!!!
  • smittybuilt19
    smittybuilt19 Posts: 955 Member
    Digical in place of digital.
  • jsj024519
    jsj024519 Posts: 400 Member
    hearing mispronounced words is the worst. I just want to curl up in a ball and die.
  • laurenellenmarie
    laurenellenmarie Posts: 331 Member
    My boyfriends mother and grandmother say "Schwimp" instead of "Shrimp".

    My father also says "Colon-oss-ah-mee"
  • impyimpyaj
    impyimpyaj Posts: 1,073 Member
    Worcester (as in Massachusetts) pronounced WHOO-stir

    How ARE you supposed to say that? I've never been able to figure it out.
  • MrsHyland
    MrsHyland Posts: 87 Member
    I have a habit of saying "Acrosst" instead of Across. It drives someone I know bonkers! :laugh:

    A bunch of people at my work say this. It drives me crazy but then I start to doubt myself and think maybe I'm the one that's wrong saying across...
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    We have flyers that we send out to customers that they can edit; hence, they are “editable”. We have someone here who constantly refers to those flyers as “edible”…you can’t eat a f**king e-mail!!!!


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  • Molly_Maguire
    Molly_Maguire Posts: 1,103 Member
    My all time BIGGEST pet peeve:

    "NUK-yuh-ler" instead of "Nuclear". (There is only ONE correct way to pronounce this word; "nuclear", having to do with the NUCLEUS, not the "NUK-yuh-lus"!)

    I've heard presidents of the United States say this, and it makes me want to throw a rock at their head!
  • wendybrat75
    wendybrat75 Posts: 52 Member
    I would probably annoy most of you on here! :laugh:

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