People Who Can't Pronounce Common Words Correctly

Submitted by WyzWomn on 4 February, 2006 - 5:15pm.

The older I get, the more I think I'm a freaking Mensa-quality genius, since I'm one of the few people who seems to have the mental capacity and brain-mouth coordination to pronounce these words:

nuclear ("new-clee-er")
regardless (not ir-regardless, morons!)
February (notice that first "r," folks?)
mischievous ("miss-chiv-uss")
Iran ("ee-rawn," not "eye-ran")
Iraq ("ee-rock," not "eye-rack")

This is just a partial list, mind you. They number in the teens. I'm just too (not "two" or "to") upset right now to think of the rest.

Okay.

Now I feel better.

M.

P.S. Concerning the pronunciation of Iran and Iraq: how would we feel if Middle-Easterners pronounced America "ay-myrhh-eye-cay" or Germany "gear-main-eye?"

Tank u

Submitted by Anonymous on 21 December, 2007 - 8:51pm.

read em agin, madde miztake, changd first wett agin

Thank you

Submitted by Anonymous on 21 December, 2007 - 8:49pm.

LOL wett meself, the comments were wort it

S-AH-mon...not SAL-monMy

Submitted by orioles35 on 15 December, 2006 - 5:33pm.

S-AH-mon...not SAL-mon

My white trash soon to be ex-Monster-In-Law says this and I cringe every time.

NO DOUBT

Submitted by girliegirl818 on 1 December, 2006 - 10:11am.

Here are some more...

'Pitcher' instead of 'Picture'
'Fift' instead of 'Fifth'

Bush makes me cringe every time he approaches the podium! Idiot!

15th

Submitted by floristbecky on 10 December, 2006 - 11:34pm.

I live on fifthteenth Ave in San Francisco. On the nearest corner to my house the SF DPW has incised the concrete for poserity Fiftneeth Ave. Sigh....

Your mother's sistah!

Submitted by Docker on 28 November, 2006 - 1:31pm.

Ant or Aunt?

More Mispronounced Words

Submitted by Zaph on 23 October, 2006 - 9:50pm.

Oh, you hit it right on the head! Here are my top annoyingly mispronounced words:

1. Escape, not EX-scape (Jeez!)

2. Disoriented, not dis-orien-TA-ted (Unbelievable!)

3. Moot, not MUTE, as in, "It was a mute point" (Really? How could you tell?)

4. Etcetera, not EK-ce-te-ra (Help me!)

5. Supposedly, not sup-pose-UB-ly (Lord, give me strength!)

Okay, that's about all I can take at the moment.

I love you. Will you marry

Submitted by WyzWomn on 23 December, 2006 - 10:30am.

I love you. Will you marry me?

Here's another one that makes my fillings throb:

"aks" for "ask."

M.
loving mother and grandmother, episcopalian, and lifelong smartass
Festivus for the best of us!

Re. Disorientated

Submitted by William Robertson on 8 December, 2006 - 3:54am.

(Dis)orientated is the British version of the word. It's pronounced the way it's written.

RE: Disoriented/Disorientated

Submitted by Oz1 on 24 December, 2006 - 6:57am.

(Dis)orientated is not the BRITISH form, it is the ENGLISH form used in non American speaking countries including Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It refers to aligning or being aligned to the East, The ORIENT. You become dis-ORIENT-ated.

Irregardless

Submitted by kaiima on 15 November, 2006 - 8:10pm.

I had a coworker that said that all the time.

Now I have a boss that says the wrong word (or makes up his own) for stuff all the time (including people's names!):

1. Bonfils: "BonBellfees"
2. Beatrice: "Bernice"
3. Clinic Services: "Client Billing Services"
4. Tryka: "Trinkle"

pronouncing words correctly

Submitted by kywombat on 1 March, 2006 - 8:34am.

Am I the only one who gets the shivers (and not in a good way) when someone says they need to get orien-ta-ted? Arrrgh! The word is ORIENTED. We go to orientation to get oriented!! NOT to get orientated!!!

Here's another one...I'm a

Submitted by WyzWomn on 23 December, 2006 - 10:33am.

Here's another one...I'm a nurse, and when we check a woman during labor, we're checking her cervical DILATION, not "dilatation."

M.
loving mother and grandmother, episcopalian, and lifelong smartass
Festivus for the best of us!

I about fell out of my chair

Submitted by schrizo on 2 May, 2006 - 9:56pm.

I about fell out of my chair laughing when I read this. I had an old roomate in college who always said he was disorientated. I made fun of him constantly, then eventually had to point out to him according to Webster's disorientated was in fact a word, meaning that the alter in his church was aligned in the improper direction, and, instead, that he was in fact, truly, disoriented.

Flustrated!

Submitted by Zaph on 23 October, 2006 - 9:59pm.

You're killin' me! I had a boss once who was constantly saying she was "so flustrated!" All of us would just roll our eyes, smile and nod, because she was obviously attempting to say "frustrated."

Well, one day for some reason I thought I would look in the dictionary. Lo and behold, what did I find? Flustrate! It means to fluster and frustrate. Duh! Who knew?

Wolf

Submitted by azscp on 15 February, 2006 - 4:38pm.

Wolf (there is an 'L' in woLf, not 'wuf')

Press your tongue against the roof of your mouth.

S

Vanilla

Submitted by azscp on 15 February, 2006 - 4:35pm.

Vanilla ("va-nil-a" not "Va-nell-a"

That's for my lady.

S

milk

Submitted by jkostfe on 26 May, 2006 - 1:00pm.

How about:

Milk, pronounced like "ill" not "melk", or how about "carrots, onions and salary", but these don't come close to the irritation felt with "length, width and heighth".

If my grade-school nuns were around, someone would have bruises.

Point people to www.dictionary.com

Jesus vs. Teddy Roosevelt

Submitted by WyzWomn on 23 December, 2006 - 10:36am.

Okay,folks, how about the nimrods who use "calvary" for both soldiers on horseback AND the site of Christ's crucifixion?

I'm on a roll here...pass the Dijon!

M.
loving mother and grandmother, episcopalian, and lifelong smartass
Festivus for the best of us!

Milk

Submitted by Grammarianparex... on 20 November, 2006 - 11:33am.

If you ax me, I would undoubtably say that on the eastern seaboard, accept for people on Staten Island, melk is perfectly exceptable.

Axed

Submitted by Docker on 28 November, 2006 - 1:33pm.

If I axed you, I'd have to call the am-blanz, then your baby's father.

I'm calling Al Sharpton...

Submitted by WyzWomn on 23 December, 2006 - 10:37am.

Ouch!

M.
loving mother and grandmother, episcopalian, and lifelong smartass
Festivus for the best of us!

you meant "If I axed you, I

Submitted by hstrick on 17 December, 2006 - 9:23pm.

Didn't you mean...

"If I axed you, I have to call da am-blanz, then YO baby daddy."

Eggzacly!

Submitted by Mikey on 19 December, 2006 - 1:20am.

Eggzacly!

Random

Submitted by Collinsware on 20 December, 2006 - 12:07pm.

This is the funniest website ever!! Try coming to Boston.....We have some serious grammatical problems here!!

random-er

Submitted by blondezyila on 20 December, 2006 - 5:05pm.

You might try looking for Yo Babies Daddy at the LI-berry.
If one were to eat some liberry pie, make sure you have your nakkin on your lap.
The one that I hate I "I could care less..." when one is attempting to explain how little they care.
I was in class the other night - a graduate class mind you - and one of my classmates referred to Davd Duke as an anti-semantic...

See? We don't even HAVE to

Submitted by WyzWomn on 23 December, 2006 - 10:38am.

See? We don't even HAVE to make this stuff up!

M.
loving mother and grandmother, episcopalian, and lifelong smartass
Festivus for the best of us!

Happy Festivus,My personal

Submitted by Fifi on 23 December, 2006 - 8:59pm.

Happy Festivus,
My personal favorite, and ever so timely, for all the good kiddies hoping fo a visit from Santa, when he comes down the CHIMLEY!!!!!!

Take a filum of my Elum

Submitted by Oz1 on 24 December, 2006 - 6:44am.

Besides those already mentioned (which drive me to distraction) I can't stand it when people can't pronounce the LM combination without putting a "U" between them.