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Woah! My little off-hand comment was not an attempt to hijack the thread, I promise! :) What burns me is when Las Vegas entertainers pronounce tomato as "to-MAH-to" or potato as "po-TAH-to". :D

Kevin, At least it's better than "sammich". ;) To answer the question posed in your sig, I think you may have developed the first perpetual-motion machine! * * * * * A waiter at a Chinese restaurant asks his customer how the meal is. "The chicken is rubbery." "Thank you very much." :)

What is the proper pronunciation of Pedro Almodovar? I always hear "a-MAL-do-var".

A friend of mine pronounces "cache" as "cash-AY" and "hybrid" as "HY-bird". He always had a good time with Worcestershire sauce too. :)

NO CAPS AT ALL IS BETTER THAN THE ALTERNATIVE. IS THIS THING ON??? CAN YOU HEAR ME??? I THINK MY KEYBOARD MUST BE BROKEN.

When I was a kid, I used to think the Bolshevik Revolution was the Bullshit Revolution. :)

When I wait in a queue for tickets, I am waiting "in line". When I buy tickets on the internet, I get them "online". However, my New York friend uses "on line" to mean "in line" as in, "did you wait on line at the theater to get Harry Potter tickets?" Very confusing. Is this an east coast thing?

This site goes the extra mile and turns the mispronunciation into a misspelling. Still cute though. :)

Sami, Right! No one ever says cen-TIM-i-ter or mil-IM-i-ter. Marvin, Surely you're familiar with "Tocata and fudge in D minor". :D Cameron, Foreign language words are often pronounced differently in English than in their native language, such as the beloved Japanese passtime of "carrie-okie".

One that REALLY used to bother me was the word "segue" pronounced "seg-way" (like the scooter?). An ex-roommate of mine, who has experience in record production (and has actually created segues between songs), says that any producer or engineer will pronounce it with one syllable only, "seg"...

Cameron, Are you sure? I thought it was properly pronounced "can", not "Caan" (as in James). EDIT: Our friendly neighborhood dictionary says BOTH ("can" and "kahn") are acceptable. As well as "cans". Who knew? Rev. Dr. Zen Dogg, Reminds me of another one: "fiddy" instead of "fifty". As in "I...

Three more: The film festival at Cannes is pronounced Cannes as in "canned ham", not Cannes as in "Wrath of Cannes". Luther Vandross rhymes with "gross", not "floss". The worst of them all: STAR TRACK.

A cafe latte with two shots of expresso. :angry: :thumbsdown: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * While researching the subject of silica, I sometimes see the word "adsorption" which I always assumed was a misspelling of "absorption". Lo and behold, our friendly neighborhood dictionary confirms that...

Herbert would like some sherbert. :angry: :angry: :angry: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:

The boy who cried "woof".

"lie-berry" as in Seattle Public