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Adults Who Mispronounce Simple Words...
Posted by lotusb • 8/18/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: dictionary anyone?
Am I the only one who gets chills of terror down their spine when a grown person (age 13 and up in this case) uses the word
"LI-BERRY"
Anyone??
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I don't like when they use "leet" text, that annoys the hell out of me. -
Oh my ..... how about when people put an "s" on the end of words like....
shrimps
walmarts
targets
feets-
LOL!!!! Yea past the age of 5 this is not attractive.
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Underwears!... I've hear that one a number of times. -
"anyways" -
I say underwears and anyways. Then again, I am country as hell and so does everyone else where I grew up -
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The opposite annoys me: when (mostly in writing) there should be an s but it's missing. "-st words" are problematic sometimes.
ex: two dentist, a group of therapist, etc
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i hate aks. aks i cannot stand!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
Yes..that one gets to me too.
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What about "worser"...and "tooken"...
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"bestest"
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OMG my son just said " This day is getting worser and worser" LOL....
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LOL!!!
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It pisses me off when people use 'LOL' or 'OMG'... but you don't see much of the around anymore, do you? -
LOL @ Trent.
I'm an LOLer from Hell. Welcome to my paradise.
*grin*
(but on a side note - every single time you see me say LOL - LMAO - or ROFLMAO - you can GUARANTEE that I am sitting there literally laughing soo hard - my kitties look at me like I've gone nuts...)
I suppose I actually might have. -
As long as you have a good enough reason to 'ROFL'
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i also hate people who CANNOT conjugate!!! please it's not you is. it's not i were or he were. please if you can't say it right shut up!!!!!!
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then there is the always popular "Nucular"
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LMAO!!! That one is pretty funny tho. Didn't George W say that???
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yes, and Palin
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you betcha!
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The debate between Biden and Plain was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Nucular was one of my favorites, jajajajaja -
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LMAOOOO I HATE Nucular!!!!! -
Well, she is plain, jajajajaja. I meant Palin, jeez!
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Here's one that gets me all the time. Folks in the Baltimore area tend to pronounce the fish "salmon" as "Sal-mon", rather than "Sah-men."
I keep telling them that I think they are eating salmonella.
Another that bugs me is "skrimps" for "shrimp." How do you even get "skrimp" from that???-
"skrimp" is a southern thing..lol...still pretty idiotic.
How about saying "Harris" instead of "Harass"?? -
Ah yes - "Harris-mint" - which I've always assumed was a line of refreshing mints produced by a company named "Harris."
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LMAO!!!
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People in Atlanta say skrimp, scrawberry, skraight lol
It's terrible!
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I forgot my biggest pet peeve!
"Mine's"
As in:
I need to get a new phone because mine's is gettin' old."
Never mind that even if you were contracting the words "mine" and "is" to form a new word (mine's), you wouldn't need to repeat the "is" as the next word. This just kills me. The mental image I get is one of minefields.
Here's another that bugs me. Let's say you have a Database at work that you refer to as the "Product Database", or "PD" for short.
Why, with "database" being the "d" in that name, would folks refer to it as the "PD Database?" That's like saying "the Product Database Database."-
That's like people saying the "Sahara desert" when in fact the word Sahara means desert! That's why its called that!
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I live in Kansas... and have family in Oklahoma... as long as they have teef I'm happy.
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LMAO!!
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lol
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I'm serious... If you don't live in the city, you probably aren't close to a dentist.
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You use those teef on the burfday cake.
I had a good friend in college who was a brilliant engineer. But somehow "burfday" was a big sticking point for him.
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Funny in my circle, TEEF means thief. If your phone got stolen it got "teefed".
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You got all your teef's does ya?
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When I was a janitorial supervisor, I had an underling who filled out an accident report that was barely legible. Like the word "close" instead of "clothes."
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Ouch...
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I know. it actually made me very sad
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I've worked with some guys who I don't think could read.
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Well that is a problem...I mean the whole literacy issue in America. I think that's one thing, however, some of the phrases discussed here have been heard from the mouths of MBA's and like people who should know better.
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Li-berry is a bad one. The *worst* offense (just drives me crazy) is "irregardless" (which isn't even a word!).-
@Agit8er
Well that's a dialect based word though..it's not actually a part of the English language as per my understanding.
I mean lets face it... "Bootilicious" is in the dictionary too. -
@agit8r: However, please note: It is still used primarily in speech, although it can be found from time to time in edited prose. Its reputation has not risen over the years, and it is still a long way from general acceptance. Use regardless instead.
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@lotusb--precisely, my friend!
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touche, fair enough
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Thank ya!
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"Kat" anyone?
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Well thats not a mispronounced word, it's more of a slang spelling... I think if I ever encountered someone who actually spelled Cat K-A-T, I'd convulse and then smack them involuntarily.
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I'm sure as hell that have a lot of mispronunciations but, thanks to the Gilmore girls and my friend from Chicago, I've gotten much better since I live in the US. Now, it drives me insane when my mexican friend says she is exhAUsted (she actually pronounces the AU as it would be said in Spanish).
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Fum gets on my nerves, also erbs.-
is that a UK thing? Not familiar with them myself
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Merikans saying erbs instead of Herbs.
A friend of mine saying Fum instead of thumb. -
Eh hem. Uhmerickans, thank you.
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ohhhhh (silent H)erbs! Why didn't you say so
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Herbs...yeah we sure do say it Urbs.
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I can't comment on the H-factor because in Jamaica the H is added anywhere there's a vowel, and taken away anywhere its supposed to be LOL.
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But why! Why say urbs?
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to drive brits crazy
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It enrages the dad.
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I've noticed we folks in the U.S. tend to not pronounce the H's-- following the French style-- for certain words where it seems you folks in the UK say them.
It was probably some early French taunting that caused the shift. -
Hmm that could be it, we do hate the French.
Not really, well a bit. -
what about "(h)onest"?
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we says "erbs" because "Herb" is a dude... it's just our way
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I hate when people get "disorientated" when they're supposed to be disoriented.
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it does add to the drama of their situation
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LOL well maybe if they got "orientated" with their dictionary they wouldn't be so lost. heehee
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possibly
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What about when people say "ruff" instead of roof?
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The verbal tick that I have problems with is the frequent use of the phrase, "You know". I once worked in an organisation one of whose senior managers resorted to "you know" to either preface or end every sentence she uttered. This was particularly irritating in the context of asking a question: no, I don't know, that's why I'm asking!
I once sat in a meeting of this company and was so thoroughly bored I decided to count the number of times she resorted to the phrase. In a meeting that lasted an hour and a half, she said it 73 times.-
ya know, that's like just... ya know, like wrong, ya know!
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@Agit8r
There are few things which can unleash my inner Hannibal Lecter, but frequent use of that phrase is one of them. -
One of my friends does that, he also uses like a lot. He blames it on being from north California.
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it is sort of a West Coast, but primarily a California (maybe only northern CA, idk) thing. maybe anywhere with hippies?
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Another one is the word, 'like.' My nephew can't say one sentence without using 'like' at least once!
And 'you know' also drives me crazy. -
We live in Canada and I've never heard someone say LIKE so much in one sentence, as up here.
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I caught the "like, y'know" disease from living in Northern CA for several years. I was also badly infected with "hella" and it took years to get that out of my system. When feeling hesitant, my verbal tick is to end sentences with, "so..." and trail off as though waiting for someone else to finish them or at least give me a nod of understanding (or, and more likely, pity for my idiocy).
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Wrassle, wershers
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Wershers??
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Oh! LOL...my grams says "warsh" instead of wash...
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LOL well Medea Simmons says Hellerrrrrr instead of hello.
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How about those people that saw "WARsheengton" and "Oareegawn"
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Wershers, ie washers, is a game
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there was this billboard near the airport that said "Oregon with the wind," So I'm like "Orəgən with the wind... what the?"
til I reversed engineered what they were playing at, in my mind, And then I was like, ya know, like "OHHH, oreGAWN with the wind... stupid Madison Avenue hacks!"
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I hate when people pronounce harrassment incorrectly. The emphasis should be on the "ASS" part LOL....not like HAIRassment.
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Can we talk about misspellings on discussion boards too?
Loose for lose anyone? I see that constantly--both on discussion forums and in blog posts! Drives me crazy.-
That gets me.
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Ay yi yi--me too. Apparently, many bloggers had problems in spelling class!
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Or there and their.
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They have loose morals, with nothing to lose.
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like carpitt
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It's always about something heart-wrenching so you don't want to say anything either, like "Did you ever loose a child" or "I loose my foot yesterday"
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LOL @ losing a foot yesterday.
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no, no, loosing... loosed.. I loose track
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LOL@agit8r--that's so true!
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Well least we forget...the infamous... "insane" instead of "inane" confusion by a particular BC'er...
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I missed out on that one. :-(
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Oh Jam..I urge you to search the key word "inane" and see i fit comes up...HILARITY.
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haha in my defense, my kids took a matchbox car to my laptop keyboard and they had to order the parts so I have a lot of mispellings because I am missing half of the keys and have to touch the little sensor pad directly Have mercy folks
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mirrow for mirror
febuary instead of febRuary
VIN number...VIN means Vehicle Identification Number...so Vehicle Identification Number number?
I have a very well educated friend...she has a Master's...but she says mirrow, febuary, and noocular...makes me NUTS!!!-
The post-doc in the lab also says noocular, arghhh!
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I own up to doing "Febuary." I have yet to work that first R in there.
Of course, I am also from New Jersey originally, so I say things like "dawg" and "cawfee." -
did someone say dawg? :-)
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Ah, just say "dawg" and there he gallops in!
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It's the same thing as PIN number now that I think about it, and I say that all the time! -
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Now do you say "dawg" or "dowag"...? -
It's one syllable. "Dawg." In Jersey we couldn't waste time dragging something out to two syllables when one would do...
We had shopping malls to go to, traffic jams to sit in, White Castle hamburgers to eat, skiball to play.
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Two more for consumption (or should I say "too more" to be on point with this thread?):
"Far" for "fire"
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"Crik" for "creek"
There's actually a creek in my hometown named "fire creek", but to hear locals tell it, you'd think it was "far crik."-
farcrik excellent
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Baaaaaaaahahahaha I'm laughing myself silly over far and crik. LOLOL. Isn't that a hillbilly kind of pronunciation?
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Oh yes... crick. It's all to familiar to me
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familiar here too. There's even a business nearby called "Blue Crick RV"
www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=blue+crick+rv&aq=0&oq=blue+Crick&aqi=g10 -
LOL if those people think a crick is a creek, I wonder what they think creek is???
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probably just thumbing their noses at city-folks
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hey now, you must be from Lancaster county
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I know people who think a Cadillac Escalade is an "Escaladee"
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Happy Valen Times!
Police catch criminals and put them in the patio wagon.
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Those two aren't just mispronunciations. The people who use them actually think the day we celebrate love is called Valen Times.-
LMAO!!
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There should be a survey to find how many people think that the "Star Spangled Banner" contains the words "Donserly Lights"
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LMAO!!!!!
When I was little I thought that "Oluff, the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names". I wondered why Oluff wasn't mentioned in any other Christmas songs. -
lol. Maybe Olaf is Rudolf's evil twin
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I stand by my beleif that Michael Jackson's 'Wanna Be Startin Somethin' lyrics are...
"Im insane bout tha sound a Micheal's song..."
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"Mama say mama sah mu maco sah" Phonetically spelled of course.-
jajajajajajaja
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I hate when people say paraSETamol instead of paraSEATamol
And my mum pronounces October Optober, and physical vysical, both of which do my head in conpletely-
No offense but where is she from originally?
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Right here in good old Norn Iron!!!!
(Northern Ireland - many of us here mispronounce many things indeed. And in my case, misspell...)
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Potatah instead of potatoe
And "catsup" instead of Ketchup.-
Lots of potatahs in Norn Iron. And tomoatahs as well.
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What about Fox News .. did anybody see that Michael Jackson clip with the caption:
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i'm from cincinnati (OH), and when i travel have this conversation at least twice:
Other Person: so, where are you from?
Me: Cincinnati...
OP: Ohh, you mean Cincinnatuh?
Me: Um... no... I mean Cincinnati.
OP: Yeah, Cincinnatuh's a nice place...
we're also right on the border of "Kentyuckah" and about an hour north of "Lewisville" (Louisville - pronounced something like Louvul)-
LOLOL Kentyuckah???? Is that mispronunciation or illiteracy!!! HAHA.
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Bad grammar and mispronouncing words is my biggest pet peeve ever. I answer phones for a living and the mistakes people make are hilarious! I had someone ordering the pattern "equestrian" and they couldn't say it, they had no idea what the word was!
Cathy
cathyjustadayinthelife.blogspot.com/-
LOL love how you snuck that blogpost in there. Stealth like.
A direct link to the equestrian post would be helpful.
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A Boat....??
Anyone?
A boat...instead of about?-
Okay I'm Canadian and Americans bug us about this one ALL THE TIME!! I say ABOUT.....I don't know what ABOOT is!!!!
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It's aboot for about if you are Canadian
Ok for "some" Canadians not all!
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Nuh-uh!!!! LOL
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Hee hee...I think it's kind of adorable...but ok. And not just Canadians..I knew a guy from one of the Dakotas and he said it too and a teacher from Minnisota who did it as well.
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People from the Maritime provinces in Canada talk weird.
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I always "loose" my keys (lose)
let me axe you a question (ask)
There must be more but that is all I can think of at the moment! -
I think I learned how to properly spell probably and vacuum within the last 5 years.
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I knew probably, but is that how you spell vacuum?? I just throw out a bunch of c's and u's and hope for the best!!
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Lol!!! Good strat.
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LOL nice abbreviation ^^
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Its cause i don't actually know how to spell it.
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LOL!!!!!
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Thanks
*moistens tip of pen with tongue and adds "stragegy" to list of newly lear-NED words*
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Oh, this one, Arkansaw.
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LOL well at least that one makes sense! When I was young I pronounced Arkansas exactly the way its spelled and looked like an idiot. I also thought Arkansas was the opposite of Kansas. LOLOL. Kinda like an angel and arch-angel.
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It IS pronounced Arkansas. AreKansas
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Arch-Kansas! nice
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hahaha i love that interpretation of Arkansas and Kansas. I never thought of it like that... maybe it's true...
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Kids perceive things so differently huh. Like when I was little I thought the word "Police" on the side of the cars was pronounced "policy"....which made sense to me because the police were the law....with policies to uphold LOLOL.
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I know, kids have these funny ideas... like police OBEYing laws! OMG!
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Then there's carmel ... it's a carAmel. Oh, Cathy and I were watching a TV show yesterday and they continually pronounced 'den' as 'day-yen' ... but they weren't from the south!!!
It's not a foy-yer ... it's pronounced foy-yeah. Something about those French words that has to bastardized. Like the last name Benoit. It's not Ben-noy-eet ... it's Ben-nwa.
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LOL I never knew that about Benoit!
This whole conversation goes off to a tangent of where to put emphasis in a word too. My mom says turtleNECK....I say TURTLEneck. -
Yes! "Carmel" drives me crazy. That second a isn't for decorative purposes!
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Nugget instead of nougat
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Nugget makes me think of bad things in a toilet.
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makes me think of McDonalds
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Or a booger.
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Well nougat and nugget are actually two different things, right? Like Snickers has nougat and McDonalds has nuggets.
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ROTFL can we please stop talking about nuggets.
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I'm pretty sure there's a breakfast cereal that talks about golden nuggets in the ad....
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I had a student who begged for a course extension in English. He emailed me and said "Please accept my work late as I have been working viagraously to finish..."-
Guess he got the extension then huh
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haha. If he got an extension for longer than four hours, he'd better call his doctor
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LMAO!!!
It writes itself!
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How about how Houston is HUE-ston in Texas but HOUSE-ton in New York.
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Tree instead of Three
People who say YUMAN instead of HU-man
Axe instead of ask
People who don't know that AK = Alaska and NOT ARKANSAS-
For some people TREE is a dialect thing.....different country.
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I know I risk getting put down for this, but I've noticed on tv that a lot of african american actor can't pronounce "ask", instead they say "aks"-
Already been noted although not attiributed to AA's....plenty of people say it that way, not just blacks.
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I guess that should be snarbs!
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I got another one..
People who say "heem" instead of "him"
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As do I...I live in Hickville...err, I mean Houston.
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Lol! At least your hillbillies dress better. Mine have a thing for overalls and chewing tobacco and snuff.
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people who cal lozenges losengers
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Drives me up a wall! My mom call calls spigot speakit, my husband calls milk melk. I'm sure there are others but I am most irritated by those.
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Ah, yes, Melk. My best friend says Melk. It's a part of the accent here.
She also says "pool" for "pull."
"Pool the melk from the frigidaire."
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My husband's from Cleveland too so I had no clue where it came from. Then, I met his step mom. It was an ah-ha moment. I forget where she's from but she isn't from Cleveland.
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oopsie!
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I heard another one on the news last night
Woolf-gang Amadeus Mos-art, I kid you not, the lady emphasized wOOlf-gang, I can almost past that she said Mosart instead of Motsart but woolf? -
I heard a good one today, I'd forgotten about it until this got bumped.
My brother, not the shiniest apple on the family tree, says "shushpect" instead of suspect. I know he knows how to say it correctly but he just doesn't.
I shushpect someone dropped him when we were children.-
jajajajajjajajaja
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Maybe he's adding a little Humphrey Bogart into the case.
Does he also say pork chopsh and appleshaush?
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fo in place of for
sho in place of sure
Lakasssster instead of Lan-cast-er
sodi for soda,as in get me a "sodi pop"
Missipy instead of mississippi-
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I still think that Missipy had its origins in backyard football. As kids, we had to count to "5 Mississippi" before we could rush the quarterback. "One Missipy, Two Missipy..."
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fo sho mo fo
Well as a non native speaker i make lots of mistakes in written and spoken language... The biggest problem in the written one is word order... My language is very free in this and you can build the sentence any way you want to, also changing position of one word can change whole meaning of the information; the second biggest problem are articles... I know some simple rules but sometimes I just dont know and try to rely on "ze feelin'"
In the spoken language - especially when talking fast - I often mix "i was/were, he was/were, hair are/is, lasagne are/is, back are/is, sock/socket etc.", and really prepositions are my death (when i said that i am waiting on the castle it led to several misunderstandigs :)))
For sure its different for you as natives... I am honestly glad I can what i can and from time to time a wee mistake doesnt hurt. Anyway if you hit on my blog and are strictly against any mistakes dont rather read me then
I can compare it to children here, I hate the way they are damaging my language. More and more words are taken from english and they are just mixing those two languages without any reference to grammar of both, they dont respect rules and think that its "cool". Honestly i would cry when I think about that they are the "future"...
(sorry for such a long post but i am a little bored and am talkative at the moment congrats if you continued till here)
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I knew a kid that pronounced "Faux Pas," fox-pause until he was harshly corrected.-
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LOL @ Doll
Back in the day when he was a little asshole.
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oh and febrary instead of February and soulja instead of soldier
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Earfquake, anyone?
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Yep....thata a big one in Cali.
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As a kid, I was absolutely convinced "Neapolitan" ice cream-- you know, chocolate, vanilla and strawberry-- was...
Napoleon!
And while Bill and Ted proved that Napoleon dude really DID enjoy his ice cream, this was really not what the manufacturers meant. -
I had that issue too. At the time I had no clue who the short dead dude, who ate the Ziggy Piggy, was.
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Now I'm thinking someone really should make a brand of Neapolitan ice cream named Napoleon.
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Lol!! The thing about that is...people like me wouldn't even notice the difference...I'd still call it "the ice cream with three flavors" for fear of reverting back to the way I prounounced it as a child...lol.
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My wife's grandmother still says, "Asparagrass" for Asparagus. Although, that may be a malapropism..... but it's still funny as hell!!
Hey she's 93. She can say whatever the hell she wants as far as I'm concerned. And you can be damn sure I pass the plate of "Asparagrass" as soon as she asks for it!!!
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THAT is friggin adorable.
Yea I forgive my grandmother for saying "warsh" instead of "wash"
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Okay here we go.....I DETEST when newscasters emphasize WH at the beginning of a word!! Like wHHHHy and wHHHHHen. Sounds like a damn breeze blowing!!
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OK - here's the WORST of them for me.
*GRIN*
Pee Cans (for Pecan)
Winders (Windows)
Widders (widows)
Spids (instead of Spiders)
RATT-A - lUR (ok - someone please say it right.)
Spach-la instead of spat-chu-la
Gets me some - that just irks me.
*grin*
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LOL @ spachla.
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LOL that one made me almost reply in Patwah. A wha dat?
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We use it to make eggs and beacons.
Yes...
BEACONS -
Where the hell are you from? The same place where the hills have eyes???
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OMG, I never saw that movie.
My goodness what a scurry flick.
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That movie was scurry as hell!!!!
Okay I hate when people say "yella" instead of Yellow.-
What about "hella" instead of hell of.
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I HATE hella. It reminds me of my ex-husband.
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I say that was a set-up!!! You brought up the word Hella, now i hurt your feelings!
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Ahhh I see you got my comment heehee. I laughed til I died reading that.
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I've just heard a rash of these .... orientated, instead of oriented.
There was 2 or 3 of them on TV the other day. People being interviewed, etc. and they talk about getting 'orientated' in the right direction.
LOLOL. Boggles my mind.-
Well, see how much I know. Just checked it out on the Internet and it seems BOTH are equally correct.
Damn. Sure does sound wrong to me! -
Scroll up a ways, I posted the exact same thing! Now I'm confident we are correct and they aren't!!
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What about "foe-ward" for "forward." I always wonder if these people say "toe-ward" for toward.
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I hate when brand names are mispronounced. I admit a long time ago I thought Enyce was pronounced "Ennis", but have since learned the correct.
Escalade = Es-Ka-Laid
Versace = Ver-Sa-Chee
And I don't like when people say Speshow for Special. Ain't that speshow.-
Don't even get me started on "Tyoota" instead of the proper way. It's like the "y" can just be inserted wherever one desires. Why not make it Tootay?
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Or Yatoot.
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Do colloquialisms count??
"Cah" instead of Car.
It's cute for the first month in Boston and then it will drive you nuts.
I know there's a graveyard of lost "R"s somewhere.-
Also:
Pok= park
Bowiston= Boston
Sacks= socks
LAAGa= lager
Bah= Bar -
Bah sounds like a sheep. LOL
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Oh cab drivers are the best. After a year in Brooklyn I could actually speak that jibberish that Jamaicans speak...I would be in the front seat of a taxi after a night of partying at like 8am, talking to the driver about lord knows what. All I know is by the time I got home we knew each other by name and he was palming me his number for if I ever needed some HERBS.
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LOL you mean Patwah! Yuh speak like a yaadie too?
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Paaak the caaaa
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I shya do!
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LOL go start a "I wish I could speak patwah" thread
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R ya makin fune of me lingweestics chide?
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Stephen Fry and Proper English
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AAAAAA hahahahahahahahahahahaha...thats sooo freakin funny! And I DO hear that. -
I have two - real-a-tor instead of Realtor (imagine stupid trademark symbol here) and hot water heaters. If the water's already hot, you don't need the heater, do you?
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I hate when people say REAL-ator.
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I used to date a boy that put a c sound after any word that start with S. I still do that sometimes.
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Mispronunciation brings laugh, and to a comedian laughs mean security. If anyone should mispronounce a word, he or she may get a laugh, too. But that kind of laugh means insecurity.
Sometimes we know just the word we want to use, and we get embarrassed because we mishandle a word by giving it a twist that makes it wrong.
Frequently mispronounced words:
intrepid
irrevocable
longevity
minutiae
posthumous
prescience
rudiment
succinct
vagary-
I don't know what any of those are LOL.
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I work in hospitals and doctors offices and the one word when mispronounced that KILLS me is
NUCLEAR - it's new/clear...please please don't say this word like George Bush -
I often hear people say: 'I could of done that.' It's: 'I could HAVE done that'. -
Then there are those that write posts about that "Libian" instead of "Libyan"
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I could of wanted to having saying that
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I think people having idiosyncatic pronunciations can be part of their charm, and regionalisms and other diverse use of the language enrich it. Standard English would have edited out the best lines of Joyce or Faulkner or any number of writers who have given us great literature.-
In some ways I agree with you about the regionalism. I have a lot of friends in Jamaica and if you know how they speak English, you'd know they drop the H off the beginning of H words. Such as "Hi there".....they say "I there". So the funny part I'm getting at is when they write it, they write "I" for HI.
Hell is Ell.
Happy is Appy.
You get the picture.
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Yep, I agree. Never underestimate the power of artistic/poetic license.
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My favourite is Nuclear. IT"S NOT NUCULAR! *grumble grumble*-
The old "Newk-yoo-lar" has come up before... likely due to its being uttered by various Christianist politicians
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I saw a couple signs at a movie theater for the movie Inglorious Bastards and both signs spelled it Basterds. I busted up laughing so hard that I almost got into a car accident.
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that is appearently the movie title... I have no idea why.
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LOL! I get irritated when people say "labtop" instead of laptop. -
Supposibly instead of supposedly!
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Well I am dyslexic and I do on occasion mispronounce words that I am not used hearing other people say, and have only really read. Example: 'ameliorating' I try to avoid this behavior, but because of my disability, mispronouncing words is a fact of life. So when others do the same, I can completely understand. Pronouncing a word correctly is trivial, in my mind. I pay much more attention to the point of their statement. -
I used to pronounce posthumously this way:
Post (long o) hu mess lee
Then my big sister corrected me. it is correctly pronounced Pahs tum ess lee
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What about when people say joolery instead of jewelry?
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