Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

1…5681011…17

Replies

  • gc_tweety
    gc_tweety Posts: 205 Member
    I say so many of these things on purpose but still hate it when people do it because they think they are correct. LOL! My biggest peeve is when a "th" is replaced with an "f".

    North=Norf
    South=Souf

    Oh and I ask people who say liberry if they pick liberries from a liberry bush. :tongue:
  • jcstanton
    jcstanton Posts: 1,849 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!

    No, I've only ever heard it prounounced the way it's spelled sub-lime (like the fruit). Not sure where the other pronunciation came from.

    Schedule prounounced as shedjewel---sounds so snobbish to me.

    Someone else already mentioned this, but aks instead of ask. My niece and nephew get mad at me when I make them say it correctly. I've told them a hundred times, "You wouldn't say ksi instead of ski, Alaksa instead of Alaska, or taks instead of task, so don't say aks instead of ask."

    Warsh instead of wash.

    Winder instead of window.

    Mix the last two, "Ima gonna warsh my winders today." *SIGH* One of the burdens of being a born and raised northerner living in the south. I hear mispronunciations all the time.
  • NewChristina
    NewChristina Posts: 250 Member
    My mom always pronounces the "L" in Spanish/Mexican words like "tortilla." Totally drives me nuts.

    I had a friend that I went to Mexico with every year. I would die of embarrassment when she did this^ . And once, she ordered

    KWEZ A DILL YAs. :embarassed:
  • pamperedhen
    pamperedhen Posts: 446 Member
    "Stawp" or "stahp" instead of stop.

    http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/392/695/527.png
  • harr3mi
    harr3mi Posts: 87 Member
    D-i-tails
    Finn-ancing
    Diabee-tus
    Earl (Oil)

    Nuff said
  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
    Has anybody else ever heard someone order a "chicken fuh-jye-tuh" instead of a fajita? Say it outloud.. it sounds super wrong every time I hear it at Taco Bell. :laugh:
  • Sojaided34
    Sojaided34 Posts: 113
    my four year old says hangabur for hamburger. :smile:
  • LauraMacNCheese
    LauraMacNCheese Posts: 7,173 Member
    D-i-tails
    Finn-ancing
    Diabee-tus
    Earl (Oil)

    Nuff said

    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSgFtL_-TYvVUXhV2_c-EQSugWVsigddrDqOQ5AGSKd-MvrvdvRDHcD9TFY
  • kborton1122
    kborton1122 Posts: 914 Member
    Diabetes pronounced dia-bee-dis instead of dia-bee-tees.

    Brett Michaels pronounces it this way along with others and it's just wrong.
  • ToEKnee213
    ToEKnee213 Posts: 1,031 Member
    Italian ~it's "IT" alian NOT "EYE" talian {we came from IT aly not EYE taly}:laugh:

    I bust my mom on this all the time....she likes Eye-talian dressing. I keep telling her, the country is Italy not Eyetaly.

    "All intensive purposes" is "to all intents and purposes."

    Diabeetus instead of diabetes.

    Internets instead of internet.

    Man-days instead of mayonnaise.

    Shore instead of sure.

    Contraption instead of contraction.

    illegible instead of eligible.



    My mom calls me a grammar Nazi. Yup!
  • Drop_it_Like_Its_Hawt
    Drop_it_Like_Its_Hawt Posts: 226 Member
    nucular

    YES! I can't stand it when I hear "New-que-lar" instead of "new-clear"
  • jwaitman
    jwaitman Posts: 367 Member
    Oh, so many but I think the one that makes people sound the dumbest is Aks. It is Ask people. Learn the language and how to speak it.
  • jamaljohar
    jamaljohar Posts: 55
    My wife, love her to death, says
    "light bob" instead of "Light Bulb"

    Shes from South Florida so im guessing it can be a florida thing?
  • missjennifer1966
    missjennifer1966 Posts: 143 Member
    Hands down for me is flustrated. It is like they are trying to say flustered and frustrated...and that is frustrating! lol!
  • ElizaRoche
    ElizaRoche Posts: 2,005 Member
    sammich - sandwich........... omfg, I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :explode:
    daygo - San Diego
    gurl- gIrl you idiot, its GIRL!!!!! :grumble:
  • Steph4454
    Steph4454 Posts: 164 Member
    just watch the show Swamp people for a good list.....
  • bittenkittenx
    bittenkittenx Posts: 1 Member
    ebonics in general annoy the hell out of me. How hard is it to learn English words in the first place? I used to work at a call center, and I was HAPPY when people who didn't speak English as a first language called and attempted English, because THEY spoke it better than most others who have English as a FIRST language. No offense to anyone on the East coast of the US, but it's more prominent on that side than it is here in AZ.
  • Carlyannabelle
    Carlyannabelle Posts: 621 Member
    Crick for creek

    Guilty!! But that is how we say it in MT! lol We do spell it right though, well at least I do!!

    Enroot instead of enroute
  • nannabannana
    nannabannana Posts: 780
    Zinc for sink............awful..
  • jlapey
    jlapey Posts: 1,850 Member
    Pee-can. It's puh-cahn.

    THANK YOU! I knew a girl who pronounced it "puck-on". Just sounds like something really rude to do, "puck on" somebody. ugh.
  • jadesign19
    jadesign19 Posts: 512 Member
    Aks, nothing drives me more bonkers.

    an axe is what I'm swinging in the picture...

    THIS! I can't stand that this the norm.

    I have a pet peeve with the area where I live now they call a roof of a house a "ruff". I felt like a fool because I didn't understand them and when they elaborated I said "isn't that what a dog says."

    Another one is instead of saying "with you", they say "which you". I always want to say god bless you afterward.

    (gosh I have a lot of hidden anger that I didn't realize:noway: )
  • amtru2015
    amtru2015 Posts: 179 Member
    nucular

    ^^^ YES!!!!! OMG my mom says this all the time and i want to scream
  • anastasiawildflower
    anastasiawildflower Posts: 197 Member
    Expresso instead of Espresso is another!

    This times a million.
    As a coffee-snob I want to punch my dad every time he says it.
    I once had a customer order a MO-cha latte... so i repeated the order back to him exactly as he said it and he thanked me for not calling it a Mo-kah.
  • jynxxxed
    jynxxxed Posts: 1,010 Member
    My wife, love her to death, says
    "light bob" instead of "Light Bulb"

    Shes from South Florida so im guessing it can be a florida thing?

    I live in Florida and I've never heard that one.. maybe it's from one of the more 'country' areas. The more towards the beach you go is usually far from anything 'country'.. and then there are places (usually more inland) that I can't even understand what they're saying because of their accent. :tongue:
  • crw72209
    crw72209 Posts: 169 Member
    Caw-ledge - college
    PO-Lease - Police
  • christimw
    christimw Posts: 183 Member
    my husband says HOtel and it drives me crazy. hoTEL.

    being from the south i hear lots of stuff.

    piller for pillow
    winder for window
    alot of older people add an R to the end of names that end in A.
    my parents always tell me i need to learn my kids to do <insert action here> you don't LEARN them you TEACH them.

    my aunt says oxygen like osh ic gen.
  • beccarockslife
    beccarockslife Posts: 816 Member
    'erbs instead of Herbs.

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

    And getting SPECIFIC and PACIFIC mixed up

    and I-Bru-Fen instead of I - BU - PRO - FEN
  • gaiareeves
    gaiareeves Posts: 292 Member
    Most Americanisms make me twitchy.

    .
  • 3foldchord
    3foldchord Posts: 2,918 Member
    'erbs instead of Herbs.

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

    Hour
    Honor

    they also begin with an "h", but it is 'silent'
  • DaughterOfTheMostHighKing
    DaughterOfTheMostHighKing Posts: 1,436 Member
    my mom and sister say 'birfday'. and they make fun of my son because he takes his time to speak correctly! ha! :angry: :grumble: :noway:

Categories