Word prounounciations that drive you nuts
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I work in a middle school.....Where do I start?
aks
dis
dat
you's
y'all
But the worst is mines & "without no"
Can you make mines "without no" cheese?0 -
Shedule instead of schedule...makes me nuts. It's a hard "C".
Shedule is the British pronunciation. I am Canadian and here you get both the American and the British pronunciations.
At least for this word the British pronunciation makes some sense...ie we have schnapps, and schnausers, and schnitzel....not to mention school...pronounced shool of course..:laugh:
But the one that got me most when I was a kid trying to learn spelling was "Lieutenant." We Brits and Canucks pronounce it "Lef ten-ant." Where did that come from?0 -
And still there's the ... birfday... baffroom0
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Drives me crazy when I hear people say "lots" instead of "a lot."0
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It took me DAYS to get my 13 AND 8 yr old to believe colonial was "ker-nal" & not "kol-o-nal"!0
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My mom says hurricane as hurricun. Argh!
My Mom says cellophone for cell phone. I really think she thinks its pronounced the same as cellophane. Sorry Mom!0 -
It took me DAYS to get my 13 AND 8 yr old to believe colonial was "ker-nal" & not "kol-o-nal"!
Did you mean COLONEL??? im pretty sure COLONIAL is pronounced just how its spelled:flowerforyou:0 -
ok, I'll play.
Valentimes - really? there is no m in that word
It is a val - en - tine
smh0 -
chicargo.
cadillac converter.
prolly for probably0 -
Kekkle instead of kettle
Free instead of three0 -
I have heard people say skettie instead of spaghetti0
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Gyro- Jirow
Oregon- Orygun
Washington-warshingon
Oregon- Ore GAHN.
Like... Can you read? It's Or-e-gun. Every time someone from another state pronounces it that way, I die a little inside.0 -
My grandmother prounounces "siren" as "sirene." Drives me batsh*t.0
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Shedule instead of schedule...makes me nuts. It's a hard "C".
This.0 -
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'll agree on one...aluminum makes no sense. Aluminium, though ridiculous to us is the way it should be.
Aluminum is a real alternate spelling and it is totally correct to say A-LU-MI-NUM0 -
Some of these I am totally guilty of.
I sometimes pronounce words incorrectly on purpose because I like how silly they sound.
This! Sezackly! I also spell them oddly sometimes, too. Sometimes I deliberately am redundant such as ending with too when I already started with also!:laugh: :laugh: :bigsmile:
You, my dear, are a rebel! And you crack me up!!
Yes, I am a rebel! Why just the other day I bought new pillows and I removed those tags that say "Do not remove under penalty of law." Sometimes I like to go against the flow!0 -
I sometimes pronounce words incorrectly on purpose because I like how silly they sound.
I do that a lot with my youngest sister, because there are some words that she pronounced oddly as a child, and I found it so amusing that it has become part of our banter - we'll pronounce words wrong in a very serious voice, like 'That's rid-ick-lee-us!' I find it fun to play with words, and to hear all the different ways of pronouncing them.
And it's also funny in this thread how quite a few people don't seem to realise that some pronunciations are simply genuine alternative dialectical pronunciations - like UK v US. I've been in forums on other sites where people have lectured me for spelling something wrong, and I've explained that I'm British and thus using the British spelling, and they've then grumbled that the Brits have changed the spelling to make it stupid! :laugh:0 -
a person using "Ideal" instead of idea, sayin "gots" instead of "got." and my biggest is when a person says "wiff" instead of with.
IT all depends how you are raised I guess. Once, I was down in a more "redneck" area in Ohio and the further you go south , the speech changes comparison to say Cleveland.
I was visiting at Logan Lake at a beach there and over heard a guy standing at the shore yelling out to his kids by saying "Don't go out too Fur!" I said to my friend I think he means "far" "fur," is something you wear. He said, no, "far" is something you build out of wood to keep warm...I laughed so hard0 -
My cousin pronounces funeral as fun-er-rule0
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I would probably offend a lot of people, english is my second language and in french, you don't pronounce the "h" sound so I often massacre some words. Bf thinks it is cute. Someone I use to hang out with would make me say thirty three and a third and I say it like dirty tree and a turd :laugh: I'm working hard on it :blushing:
i laughed so hard at this because my husband is Haitian and speaks french and so I asked him to repeat it and he said it the same way.... lol i laughed sooooo hard!!!! He also has a hard time saying "SMOOTH" he says "SMOOOS" and SMOOTHIE comes out smootie.... lol gotta love him!0 -
The american pronunciation of 'niche' makes me twitch.
Those two words are not supposed to rhyme!0 -
A former teacher used to say yoo-so-fa-gus for oesophagus. I've been saying it that way as a joke for so many years now that I can't say it properly anymore (:0
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Gyro- Jirow
Oregon- Orygun
Washington-warshingon
LOL, I've never heard Oregon pronounced any way BUT "Orygun" except in TV and movies, and I live in "Warshington" (which, thankfully, is only pronounced that way by about half the state).0 -
Oh god, you don't want to come to Englad, you'll find a different way of saying a word withe very person you'd speak too xD0
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My friend says canberries instead of cRanberries. Drives me insane.0
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Mediterranean
omg I have the worst time saying that word!! love the food though0 -
When people say uman instead of human while trying to sound smart0
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When people say uman instead of human while trying to sound smart
I noticed this when I was in Canada - I assumed it was a Canadian thing!0 -
In Scotland we make up our own words and language.0
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Gyro- Jirow
Oregon- Orygun
Washington-warshingon
"(snipped) Of course, "or-a-gun" is proper.
Nope. Only to a non-native.0
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