Do you mispronounce words?

[Deja Q]

I often say "sleazer" instead of "Caesar" and "thigh" instead of "thai".

What would that fraud Freud say about this? :shrug:

[Pithlet]

1. I don't do this as much as I used to

but I'll mispronounce a word I've seen in print but don't remember hearing spoken too often. I'll have read it so many times and pronounced it in my head that way that it seems correct. I did this all the time as a kid.

[Redstone]

4. Did you learn to read early?

That was a problem for me when I was young; I read many words before I heard anyone say them, so tended to pronounce them the way they "should have been" according to the spelling....

Redstone

[Pithlet]

10. I did.

I remember hating it when adults laughed at me, too. I'll have to remember not to do that if/when my kids do that :)

[Left Is Write]

7. When I was a kid...

I didn't know how to pronounce Phoebe or Persephone, having seen them only in print. Thirty years later, I'm still tempted to say "per-sa-fone." :D

[Abelman]

20. I like those names

but I couldn't pronounce them correctly for a long, long time.

[eyepaddle]

2. Just some regional stuff

like real=uh-tor instead of reel-tor. Once I notice the problem though, I usually stop it.

[KitchenWitch]

5. so you know how to talk Minnesotan!

[eyepaddle]

12. ja sure, you betcha I do!

I'm bass, and my voice naturally sound like a stoned surfer--but get me around a few Fargo-sounding Minny-soh-tans, and uff da! Do I ever talk Minnesotan! :D

[Left Is Write]

17. And thank goodness you know how to spell uff da!

I saw a bumper sticker that read "Uff Dah" and I want to smack that person silly.

[KitchenWitch]

18. OMG

Yes it is Uff Da.

My mom's Aunt Emily wrote a short book, entitled "Uff Da" detailing life in turn-of-the-20th century northern Minnesota. She was also a prolific painter, in the primitive style.

[KitchenWitch]

3. I always say Seizure Salad

I do it on purpose

[Left Is Write]

6. Sometimes I do stuff like that on purpose...

Like "just in the nickel of time" instead of "nick of time" or "Home Despot" instead of "Home Depot." When my husband and I were first married, he actually corrected me on that last one. "It's Home Depot, honey. There's no s."

[KitchenWitch]

8. I thought I was the only one who called it "Home Despot"

LOL

We have stores called "Paper Warehouse" here...I call them "Paper Whorehouse"

[eyepaddle]

13. Yay, I say Home Despot too,

same goes for Office despot. Sometimes I change that to Orifice Despot. :evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

14. OMG

Kinfolk!

:woohoo:

[Lautremont]

21. I'm another who calls it the Despot.

Owning a home will do that.

Also: I (deliberately) say "pictureskew" for picturesque and "hyperbowl" for hyperbole. But I'm sure I have a little stable of mispronounciations I don't even know a-boot.

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. He was being territorial

Home Depot is a Guy Thing. :headbang:

[Elidor]

11. My stepfather deliberately mispronounces words

And he knows that if he does it often enough, other people start having a hard time saying the word correctly.

Instead of 'physician,' he says, 'fiss-izhunn.' 'Protein' is 'protean.' 'Muscles' and 'scissors' are pronounced phonetically. And it's not just here and there; it's every time he says these words. I've gleefully gone along with scissors, but the others annoy me because I find myself saying them unwittingly.

He also like to switch the first letters of two words: "Hey, kids, let's go to Query Dean and get a burger."

[flowomo]

15. nebba.

[trackfan]

16. I constantly dispronounce (sic) and malaprop worgs (sic) and

one of my great victories in lifegue (sic) (see how weird I am) is that I have gotten my wife to use many of my odd pronunciations and oddities, even though that type of humor actually pisses her off. I don't say "stop it" to the dog; I say "Stop Iwig" (that is not pronounced "eye-wig" but "i", (as in "it")-"wig"(accent on second syllable). I am a certifiable nutcase, I have THOUSANDS of such weirdities (sic) and use them constantly. Instead of "good dog" I say "boon dong". Instead of "bad kitty" I say "bang kimmini", etc., etc.

[ZombieNixon]

19. I do occasionally put the wrong emPHAsis on the wrong sylLABle,

but udderwise, noo...

[mtowngman]

22. On purpose- all the time

Drives my wife nuts.

I think the comedian's name was Norm Crosby who pretty much made a career out of doing it.