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What words that people mis-pronounce that drive you nuts?

post #1 of 219
6/3/04 at 5:39pm
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What words do people always mis-pronounce that just drives you crazy?

Not talking about words such as tomato or potato, or hard tp pronounce words, but just easy common words that other people seem to always mis-pronounce.

For me it's "Idea".

I hear a lot of people adding an R at the end, and thus say "Idear".

I can say 'idea' correctly and it just drives me nuts when other people say 'idear'.
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post #2 of 219
6/3/04 at 5:58pm
Just off the top of my head, I hate to hear 'warsh' instead of 'wash'.

'Nucular' is another. There's only one 'U' in 'Nuclear' folks!
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post #3 of 219
6/3/04 at 6:00pm
Kerosene when it's pronounced as Kerasahn and not Care eh Seen or Care oh Seen.


Chris
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post #4 of 219
6/3/04 at 7:06pm
I once worked for a yahoo boss, who pronounced nuclear, "nuke-u-lar," and chiropractor, "choir-o-practor." He also said things like, "I don't got" and "they don't got." Drove me NUTS! Of course, he also had terrible hygiene and wore clothes with big holes in them.
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post #5 of 219
6/3/04 at 7:19pm
"lie-berry" as in Seattle Public
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post #6 of 219
6/3/04 at 7:43pm
Abugrebegraba
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post #7 of 219
6/3/04 at 8:09pm
Nucular. I feel like throwing that person into a pile of fissile material, in hopes that they might "get it."

Warsh- I'm from WV, so I hear this a lot back home. Still annoying, after all these years. Marylanders taught me how to speak properly.
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post #8 of 219
6/3/04 at 8:10pm
About pronounced as aboat. Which pretty much rules out me listening to any hockey broadcasts.
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post #9 of 219
6/3/04 at 9:06pm
Chevrolet
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post #10 of 219
6/3/04 at 9:58pm
Eggs pronounced Aggs. Instead of e they say A. I don't know why that one gets to me. But hearing someone say scrambled Aggs drives my mad. It's an EGG.
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post #11 of 219
6/3/04 at 11:35pm
Around here, they call the letter "H" "haitch" instead of "aitch". Bugs the hell out of me.

And you Americans call the letter "Z" "zee" rather than "zed". Bugs me too Which reminds me of that "my name is Joe, and I'm a Canadian" routine...
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post #12 of 219
6/3/04 at 11:46pm
Alas, it is not possible for a Brit to answer this question without offending the entire American nation.
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post #13 of 219
6/3/04 at 11:56pm
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post #14 of 219
6/4/04 at 1:19am
Aunt

Don't know why but i bugs me when people say ant for their Aunt....
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post #15 of 219
6/4/04 at 1:21am
I don't really get the "idea" one, in Australia, its pronounced exactly as i-dear...

My friend used to pronounce Grand Prix as "grand pricks" instead of "gron pree".

Cheers,
Mike
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post #16 of 219
6/4/04 at 1:42am
Mike, I think Douglas means people who really really roll the "r" in "i-dear" at the end, and not those who pronounce "dear" with a very light "r" at the end. We get that here sometimes as well.

As for "grand prix", to be fair that's confusing French-stuff. How about "renn-dez-voos" for "rendezvous". Or "linger-ree" for "lingerie"?

Also: turning a "maisonette" into a "mansionette".

What amuses me sometimes is otherwise well-educated types pronouncing the "l" in "salmon".
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post #17 of 219
6/4/04 at 2:51am
I guess I'm lucky that I don't have any problems with spelling or pronounciation.

(and yes, that last word was misspelled deliberately).
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post #18 of 219
6/4/04 at 3:12am
My wife doesn't pronounce the "g" in hanger. She says she's always said it that way. It annoys the crap out of me.

Don't know why but i bugs me when people say ant for their Aunt....


Must be a regional thing or something because I'm pretty sure "ant" is an acceptable pronunciation.
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post #19 of 219
6/4/04 at 4:17am
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Mike, I think Douglas means people who really really roll the "r" in "i-dear" at the end, and not those who pronounce "dear" with a very light "r" at the end.

Actually, I think he meant people who put any 'r' sound at the end of the word idea (since there isn't an r anywhere in the word ) We get that a lot in New England. People around here won't pronounce the letter r when it is present in a word, so I guess they make up for it by adding an r sound to words that shouldn't have it

My personal pet peeve has always been 'jewlery' instead of 'jewelry'.

MikeP
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post #20 of 219
6/4/04 at 5:08am
pre-formance
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post #21 of 219
6/4/04 at 5:56am
'Idear' and 'warsh'? I've actually never heard those pronounced like that before, fortunately. You guys talking to Coach Zee from Homestarrunner or something? I'll have add my vote to "nucular," and it's surprising how many people have heard that, considering it's not really an everyday word. Tycho on Penny-Arcade linked to several stats culled from across the nation of the different pronunciations for various words, and it was pretty interesting, but since I guess we're talking about mispronounciations, that's a different thing altogether.

Edit:
"Great Jorb!!!!!"

Someone had to do it.
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post #22 of 219
6/4/04 at 6:05am
Alzheimers..............All-timers.........

There is no "T" in this word people. This one drives me nuts. I also have a friend that adds a "T" onto words like 'chef' and 'chess'. Weird.
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post #23 of 219
6/4/04 at 6:05am
Louisville mispronounced as "loo-uh-ville".
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post #24 of 219
6/4/04 at 6:22am
Heighth (HEITH). As in "measure the length, width and 'HEIGHTH' of that wall". People, just because the first two words in a series end in 'TH' does not mean the last one does also. Most of the above (idear, aiggs, warsh) can be chocked up to regional accents (I've been know to have an 'idear' or two in my time and dated a southern belle who liked bacon and 'aiggs' for breakfast) but this is the equivalent of saying "past, present and puture" or "mother, father and childer". I got into an argument about this with a guy who insisted it was "heighth" until I asked him to list his "heighth and weighth". He shut up after that.
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post #25 of 219
6/4/04 at 6:53am
Having lived there in my childhood, I hate when people pronounce Lompoc, CA as "Lom-pawk" rather then "Lom-poke". They even do it on tv shows (there is a federal prison and air force base there) that are filmed near there, so someone should know how it is pronounced.

And the ever popular "aks", as in "I don't know, let me aks my mother that question."
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post #26 of 219
6/4/04 at 7:43am
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Alas, it is not possible for a Brit to answer this question without offending the entire American nation.


Please, what's with you and your fear of the letters t and d?

It's pronounced LITTLE...not Li' ole

You can't just leave out letters because you're British.

Let's take a trip through Webster's together. Don't you know, only the western U.S. speaks properly?
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post #27 of 219
6/4/04 at 7:51am
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Alas, it is not possible for a Brit to answer this question without offending the entire American nation.



Actually, one of the ones that bugs me is when people pronounce 'roof' as 'ruff'. To me, it's always been rOOf.

Not really a mispronounciation, but one of the things that drives me nuts is when people say "I seen" rather than "I've seen" or "I saw". My sister-in-law does that one a lot...drives me crazy.

Side note: As a Canadian, I'd just like to say that I have never, EVER said 'aboot'. It's always been 'about' ... never 'aboot'. I *think* that's only a east-coast thing.
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post #28 of 219
6/4/04 at 7:56am
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Side note: As a Canadian, I'd just like to say that I have never, EVER said 'aboot'. It's always been 'about' ... never 'aboot'. I *think* that's only a east-coast thing.


East coast Canada? You Canadians, always in denial about the "aboat" thing. Dude, it's there.
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post #29 of 219
6/4/04 at 7:58am
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Louisville mispronounced as "loo-uh-ville".

Yes, it is supposed to be pronounced as loo-uh-vul (at least if you live in kentucky).
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post #30 of 219
6/4/04 at 7:58am
Most Canadians I know will pronounce "process":

pro-cess

while most Americans will pronounce it:

prah-cess

For me it's a dead giveaway in determining a Canadian visitor to the US.
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