Words People You Know Mispronounce

[Miranda]

What words do you or your acquaintances/friends shred to Hell?

A friend; Vicectomy for Vasectomy.

An acquaintance; French Benefits for Fringe Benefits.

I am just throwing this in for good measure; Old timer's for Alzheimer's.

[Head Wreck]

Llanelli

Abertawe

Pwll

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

Pillow somehow becomes Pellow to a certain sexy someone I know.

[TomCat]

Pacifically, instead of specifically

[Rayne]

My ex says "has" instead of "as" ...

I have a LOT of words that I personally mispronounce. Probably because of my joint accents I picked up from my parents. New York and Georgia is a very odd mixture.

[TygerLili]

I'm thinking of the Friends episode where Chandler complains about a girl who says "supposibly".

I personally hate it when people pronounce coupon like "Q-pon", even though I think according to the dictionary that pronounciation is acceptable. It sounds to me like a cross between a Q-tip and a tampon.

[TomCat]

OK, I'm a "scientist" and I get to work with everyday folks all the time. There are a plethora of sceintific names of mold and chemical types that I frequently have clients asking me about...if only I could tape my conversations with them...

[GreggZero]

a friend or mine says:

IDEAL instead of IDEA

COMFORTFUL instead of COMFORTABLE

LAYGS for LEGS

PIN for PEN

MELK for MILK

THEN for THAN

SAULCE for SAUCE

Oh yeah and the ever popular

WARSH for WASH

when I try to correct them,

they get mad at me

[odims_sphere]

I'm all the time saying prolly instead of probably, even in text.

[SuZQZ]

I know of a few people who say expecially for especially. There are a bunch more from people I work with, but my brain is currently in the "fried" state.

[SuZQZ]

Ooh! Thought of another. I have witnessed people using prostrate for prostate (the gland) and vise versa... quite funny considering they are two completely different things!

[Miranda]

Sit for set, set for sit.

[sass_in_the_pants]

My grandma is forever saying warsh instead of wash.

And I HATE HATE HATE when people say libary instead of library.

HATE.

[CountdownToBreakdown]

People around here use the word 'hope' for 'help'.

It annoys me personally.

And the word 'doth' is always butchered.

Also, a girl in a play with me said "craned" instead of "crannied".

Or maybe I'm way too proper about things.

[TygerLili]

A woman I used to work with said "ax" instead of "ask", and "ebery" instead of "every".

But she also used to have very loud, vulgar conversations about wanting to "do" patients at the clinic we worked at, within earshot of said patients, so the mispronounciation was a minor annoyance in the grand scheme of things.

[Msterbeau]

My mom can't pronounce "r"s very well... nor "h"s... not "th"s. She's Canadian by birth so I cut her some slack. :-)

A hawk is an awk...

[Shade Everdark]

It annoys me when people refer to my home state as West-consin, and not Wi-sconsin. It doesn't change the way you pronounce it just because it happens to be west of here (though Illinoisans do it too. I retaliate by intentionally pronouncing the state Illinoize. Gets 'em right back.).

And yes, I'm a hypocrite, but I am at least doing it intentionally.

[GreggZero]

speaking of states..

OREGON

people that live there call it ORGAN

[GreggZero]

Oh and OHIO

heard it pronounced OH-hi-YO

[freydis]

Linksys.

They always say "linskees" or "linskey".

[phee]

Who would of thought that McAfee is such a task

[TomCat]

New Orleans, as we Yanks call it, is really pronounced:

" N' aw-linz "

For real, visit there sometime. LOL

[n0Mad]

I've also heard "supposibly", "prolly", and "ax".

Others:

nucular

expresso

burfday

flustrated

[xbittergracex]

berfday annoys me, as well as ax...how about Valemtimes Day? You wanna know what is like driving nails in my temple? People who say Uman instead of Human.

My uncle was from the sticks of kentucky...lived in a little shack in a "holler".

He called me one time...and I remember the conversation so vividly...I'll share the short little story with you...

"i wen down ta that lil church thar...theys battist (thats baptist for you northerners). Theys in there speckin in crazy ways Missy. Theys sayin hummalalas in shit. It was crazy. In this crazy red headed feller....he was wavin his erms in talkin to THE GOOD LORD...in sayin hows they gon brin alls us to geeeeezUS. It was perdy excitin...but we left at noon cuz the stow was opnin and we had to buy a case a beer. knowwadda mean?"

I miss him He rocked! Gotta love those crazy good ol' boys. I just went down there for his funeral....and people are definitely hard to understand when you get to these small little towns in the sticks.

[honeymustard02]

Ider for idea

Rut for root

Ruf for roof

God there's been so many. Living in the midwest was amazing.

They do say warsh out there.

Wadter for water.