What Words Do You MIS-Pronounce (And Don't Give A Damn If You Do)?

[arwalden]

No matter how many times you've been admonished and publicly corrected and ridiculed... are there any words you mispronounce "on purpose" or simply because you don't care that you're saying them "wrong"?

-- Allen

[CanuckAmok]

1. Steamroller.

I pronounce it "aardvark". Damn anyone who can't keep up.

[terrya]

2. "Washington"

The boyfriend now laughs at my continued mis-pronounciation of this word...I pronounce it "Warshington". But I don't care. :-)

Terry

[arwalden]

5. My ex-stepfather says "Warshington" and...

... he needs to "warsh" his hands. I think he's from Missouri.

-- Allen

[terrya]

8. Doesn't every one warsh their hands?

The b/f, Dougie, is a connoisseur of dialects...and says the "warsh" is a Midwestern thing.

[arwalden]

3. I say "ka-nife" and "supposebly"

just because I like they way it sounds.

[Bertha Venation]

32. Skizzors.

Pronouncing the "c" as a hard "k."

[Loonman]

4. Po-lice

Also VietNAM.

[arwalden]

6. Si-REEN on the amma-LANCE

is another one that I often hear.

[scottcsmith]

7. My shame...

Sometimes I mispronounce "Australopithecus africanus."

*lowers head in shame*

[XNASA]

9. Console

It comes out, Council.

Since I work in TV, and we have quite a few things called consoles, like the "Audio Console" or the "Switching Console", I say it wrong quite often.

And I've been told that I do.

[arwalden]

10. My Partner INSISTS That The Strip Of Grass Between The Highway Lanes..

... is a "MEDIUM".

I've given up on convincing him otherwise.

[trof]

26. If your town has very few of them,

then they're "medium rares".
<hee>

[Richardo]

38. I knew one guy who pronounced debris "der-bis"

and didn't know it was wrong....

[Insider]

11. worcestershire

more like "whatsthishere"

[BurtWorm]

29. My father used to call it "Worst-eh-shisht-eh-shosht-er-shire"

or various improvised variations like that. All in good "fun," of course. It's rubbed off on me, alas.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

12. I was really bummed at the supermarket last month

because they had those description cards on the cheeses and it said "gouda" is supposed to be pronounce "gowda." I have been saying it wrong my entire life and it's too late to change now, even though smoked gouda is my favorite cheese.

[trof]

30. It's even worse than that.

It's closer to howdah.
Except it's c-c-c-howdah.
Like you were coughing up a lunger.
Only the Dutch can say it properly, but it's disgusting to hear.
;-)

[ronnykmarshall]

13. Here's a few

"warsh" - wash

"Knife" - knife (the K is not silent)

"PO-lice" - police

"horsepistol" - hospital

"IN-surance" - insurance

"fuck face" - George W. Bush

[terrya]

15. Ronny, I laughed out loud (literally) at the last one.

But it should be noted that that really isn't a mispronounciation!
:-)

[VelmaD]

14. Library is my worst one...

I can't stop myself from saying li-berry. I have friends who are librarians - this drives them nuts.

I also always say flutter-by instead of butterfly. :-)

[arwalden]

17. What About "Straw-brary"

LOL. (As heard on "Scrubs")

[Beetwasher]

16. Forte

Most people pronounce it wrong. It's supposed to be pronounced like fort-eh but everyone says fort-ay, so in order for everyone to know what I'm talking about, I say for-tay as well...

Sometimes to I'll say pisgetti (spaghetti) just to be stupid and bilary instead of library also, just to be stupid...My girlfreind, who is japanese, doesn't get these little jokes...Oh well...

Also, sometimes I'll say reegents instead of reagents (pronounced re-agents). The scientists I work w/ always correct me...:shrug:

[CO Liberal]

18. "Realtor"

I keep saying "REE-la-tor" instead of "REEL-tor", no matter how many times my wife corrects me.

[noiretextatique]

19. Pious

i like to say "Peeus" but my friend tinore told me it's pronounced "Pyous."

[BurtWorm]

37. Interestingly, "impious"

is pronounced IMP-ee-us. Really!

[gator_in_Ontario]

20. pis-sketti

[Whitacre D_WI]

21. Gene-TAH-lia.

Ever since hearing "Top 40" by Mose Allison.

[trof]

22. I have to really work on "social security".

It tends to come out "soshacurity".
Which is the way damn near EVERY politicians pronounces it.
Which drives me up the wall.

[ktranz]

23. world

word:shrug:

[scarlet_owl]

24. Turlet, warsh, mashed po-turtles.

The first two (along with many others), are remnants of my St. Louis upbringing. The last one I say just to be cute.

[Bertha Venation]

25. Nuclear.

If President Bush says it's pronounced "nu-cu-lar," then by God, that's good enough for me.

:puke:

[terrya]

31. That's my BIG laugh of the day, Bertha!

And thank you for helping me feel better. :-)

[Bertha Venation]

41. it's been my pleasure

glad to make you laugh :7

[corporatewhore]

43. I really do say it i have to be super aware when i speak now

[PAMod]

27. When you have kids...

it's fun to remember how they said things early on.

So when my bride and I talk,

slippery is sipperly
Joseph is Jofus
spagetti is baskeddy

and so on.

[trof]

35. breftuss was her first attempt at "breakfast"

So we say "breftuss" now.
And pusgeddy.

[m-jean03]

28. I never do dat

:-)
But what I hate is when people who think they are smarter than me CORRECT my pronunciation, which I later check and find out I WAS RIGHT.
Example. My neighbor corrected me when I said Isabel AI-EN-DAY (Allende). He said AL-enday.. And my old polysci professor corrected me when I said NEE-cha (she said nee-chee.)

The lesson here is, don't misunderestimate your students and twenty-something neighbors! We are intelligenter than you thinks. :-)

[camero]

33. Syphilis

I pronounce it like Sid-philis. Everybody gets a kick out of it. It stems from my hearing problem. I can never get it right.

But it makes people laugh so I'm ok with it.

[Richardo]

39. My friends and I in high school coined "Gon-O'hara" for the other STD

I still think it's funny.

[corporatewhore]

34. I admit it i do say nucular

[slackdude]

36. Sherbet, sandwitch, lozenge

I have always pronounced this "sherbert." My wife gets very frustrated with me when I refuse to correct myself. She was withholding kisses until I stopped pronouncing sandwitch "sangwitch" (at least I stopped in front of her). I also pronounce lozenge as "lozenger."

[trof]

40. Miz t.'s the culprit in our house.

lozengers
cot-tails (cocktails)
farm and form sound the same from her
so does author and Arthur
and jelly and chili
When we first met she asked "Do you like jelly?"
Yeah, I guess so. ???
"Good, me too. Lets go to my place and make a pot of jelly."
oh

I think it's a Cajun speech-impediment thing.
;-)

[frogfromthenorth2]

42. About all of them..... (look at my tagline...)

[Breezy du Nord]

44. Symonym and Cimmanon

I still say them wrong.

[OKNancy]

45. Warsh

for wash
and I know I should say washcloth, but I call it a wash rag
-
and of course all the good Okie-isms
lay-g - for leg
long a -gg for egg

etc.

[corporatewhore]

46. bob wire

[wingnut]

47. Swave and Deboner

that's me.