Word prounounciations that drive you nuts

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  • vettle
    vettle Posts: 621 Member
    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
    travisseger Posts: 271 Member
    Pitcher for Picture. Drives me insane.
  • Jenniferlynn54
    Jenniferlynn54 Posts: 19 Member

    Supposably for supposedly

    I hate supposably!! I also hate "arnge" instead of orange
  • magj0y
    magj0y Posts: 1,911 Member
    Birfday and ax/ask
  • MaybeAMonkey
    MaybeAMonkey Posts: 247
    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
    SueGeer Posts: 1,169 Member
    Uk southeners that put an 'R' in words where there aren't any like Class and Glass and Bath

    Guilty! :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:
  • JSheehy1965
    JSheehy1965 Posts: 404
    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
    Jenniferlynn54 Posts: 19 Member
    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
    juliecat1 Posts: 3,450 Member
    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
    silvergurl518 Posts: 4,123 Member
    warsh/warshington--> wash/washington
    aks --> ask
    murland-->maryland
    pen/pellow/melk-->pin/pillow/milk
    aboot-->about
    gym-->jim


    :) ^ kidding about the last, obviously.
  • AmyBecky74
    AmyBecky74 Posts: 437 Member
    anything pronounced with a boston accent
  • matroma
    matroma Posts: 24
    ValentiMe's Day
  • justaskforbrandy
    justaskforbrandy Posts: 90 Member
    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
    nmterp Posts: 74
    when people pronounce especially, "ex-specially" and when folks say they're going to the "liberry" There are no berries in Library!
  • jennifer52484
    jennifer52484 Posts: 888 Member
    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
    matroma Posts: 24
    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
    LADYDEBORAH1984 Posts: 64 Member
    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
    krbates84 Posts: 96 Member
    Ambulance = Amba-lance. Drives me crazy.
  • Troll
    Troll Posts: 922 Member
    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
    kellimr Posts: 69
    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
    christimw Posts: 183 Member
    '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
    LADYDEBORAH1984 Posts: 64 Member
    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
    bussaca Posts: 22
    Illinoise... and I am not even from that state :)
  • stang_girl88
    stang_girl88 Posts: 234 Member
    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
    Midnight_Sunshine Posts: 369 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'm from Canada and American pronunciations also annoy me.
  • kuunsilta
    kuunsilta Posts: 126 Member
    Anything ending in an "a" having the "er" sound replacing it. Like "Anna" being pronounced as "Anner"
  • barkin43
    barkin43 Posts: 508 Member
    nucular

    THIS! It's nuclear. Say - new clear. Now put them together - nuclear.
  • annielaurie88
    annielaurie88 Posts: 86 Member
    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
    kuunsilta Posts: 126 Member
    Also, when people call the Pacific ocean, the Specific ocean...
  • Jennloella
    Jennloella Posts: 2,286 Member
    It drives me nuts when people put an " 's " on Nordstrom. Look at the sign, idiots! It's just Nordstrom!

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