Pronunciation

MissSarah786 · October 2009

Target with a French accent. I'm sorry, but saying Tarjay does not make Target any classier. BTW, I love Target.

aMrsin09 · October 2009

and my dad says sangwich. Where the g came from I have NO idea.

lannerjarv · October 2009

realtors is a HUGE one for me. so freaking annoying.my boss says EYEtalian instead of Italian.. that makes me laugh.my mum says diabetis instead of diabetes. which also makes me laugh.

anna.oskar · October 2009

""I need to ax you a question" It's ASK damn it.Some people have accents therefore say ax."True, but certainly not a decent excuse in South Dakota.

MissSarah786 · October 2009

Iran vs Eron. It's not pronounced I-ran. It's Eron. And if you are from there you are Eronian, not Iranian.

ac_in_dc · October 2009

There are actually two accepted variants of both spelling and pronounciation for aluminum/aluminium. Back in the early 1800's aluminum was more expensive to refine than gold, so Napoleon would proudly display his aluminum cutlery at state dinners.

mandysmear · October 2009

There's a major road in edmonton called "Anthony Henday Drive". Mike's grandpa for some reason calls it "Arthur Henlay". It's so cute. So now we always call it the "Arthur Henlay". No one ever knows what the hell we're talking about.

aMrsin09 · October 2009

Nebb and Anna i'm chalking it up to the fact that they spell it aluminium instead of the US spelling of aluminum (no 2nd i)

sucrets4 · October 2009

aMrs - that reminds me of the BNL song

mandapanda78 · October 2009

My mom says "satonic" instead of "satanic". Usually she is upset when she says it, too, so it makes it much more laughable. Satonic sounds like a beverage to me.

ac_in_dc · October 2009

Do you remember the miss teen usa pageant contestant that referenced problems in "the iraq"?

IrishBrideND · October 2009

Aluminium is simply spelled different in British English. Hence the pronunciation difference. I can't stand "purent" for parent. Or "puncil" for pencil. My students and coworkers in Bmore said those all the time.

salt78 · October 2009

I also have a really hard time with "iron" and "oil". (It comes our as "eye-ern" and "oll".)

jfgrad06 · October 2009

So-cil =/= SOCIAL

MissSarah786 · October 2009

Ah, the Iraq, right next to the China and bordering the California with their maps of the world. And can you believe that they actually get those questions beforehand? And that was still her answer.

MeaghanandMichael · October 2009

I say farhead instead of forehead.I also say Rad-iator instead of ray-diator. It drives H nuts.Then there is his Boston accent though. Don't get me stahted on that one.

SwedishChick2011 · October 2009

When people pronounce Italian like Eye-talian. You don't say Eye-taly, so why would it be Eye-talian? My DH does this just to piss me off because I'm half Italian. Also, it's accurate, not ack-er-it. It's realtor and jewelry, not real-a-tor and jew-le-ry.

amethystanima · October 2009

People who say "familiar" as "ferrmiliar"

SwedishChick2011 · October 2009

height =/= heighthacross =/= acrostwash =/= warsh

jfgrad06 · October 2009

I work in a restaurant. We have sandwiches on ciabatta and focaccia bread. If I hear SEE-BATTA / KA-BATTA or FOE-CATA one more time, I'm going to scream.

MissLeahM · October 2009

laurenclaire1386: I did not know that. Thank you for setting me straight, for righting my wrongs. :P My coworker didn't believe me until I played the correct pronounciation from dictionary.com for her. My petpeeve is Sangwich. and "Over-dare" for over there.

mandapanda78 · October 2009

I knew a woman in South Carolina who could not for the life of her pronounce shrimp. She would try and try, but just couldn't do it. It would come out "skrimp" or "strump". Eventually she would just say "the little orange curly things that come out of the ocean". And she ordered them all the time!

vallyhoo · October 2009

I kind of enjoy mis-pronunciations, mostly when they are done in jest.Although I don't like adding superfluous "S"s, such as:RegardsTowardsForwardsBackwards

rkroer · October 2009

-- Congradulations (in writing and when spoken....that's supposed to be a T people)-- Collegiate pronounced "Collegick" --- I don't understand what is so hard about this word or how a T sound becomes a K sound. My former boss used to say this and I always got the urge to smack her in the face, it's a good thing I quit, she was a moron in every way.I, too, despise people who make store/brand names into plurals unnecessarily. Cub (Foods) becomes Cubs, um no. That's the store name. IdiotIt also makes my skin crawl when someone says Bag as Baaag (with that drawn out 'a' that makes it sound like they're choking on something)

kdcwedding · October 2009

"We went to the Libary" "It's LibRary, Troy." ... "Ohh, your face is red like a strawbRerry!"

missy68 · October 2009

This isn't a word, but a phrase.... I can't get over the "needs fixed" deal here in Iowa. The plant "needs watered" or the clothes "need washed."I've even seen it on a memo here at work. How about needs TO BE washed or needs washING???CEEment instead of cement (for some reason, though, I laugh when DH says it, maybe because I expect to hear it from a Southerner, not a midwesterner). THEE-AYter instead of theater.Ohh... And my mom says Vie-EEE-na sausages. First, I'm icked out that she'll eat them at all. Then, she says it that way.

mwhitson14 · October 2009

I also can't stand idear. A woman I work with at the library says "I have absolutely no idear" about 20 times a day and I want to wallup her with a book.

LesPaul · October 2009

Irregardless. NO. The word is regardless. And there's an idiot on the local radio who thinks it's cute to say sammich. NO. The word is sandwich.

3plus2=5 · October 2009

Jewelry is the American spelling and pronunciation.The British spelling is jewellery so those that add the extra 'e' sound towards the end aren't completely wrong. So long as they spell it correctly as well.

MissSarah786 · October 2009

Jf - I worked in a restaurant and this woman came in and asked for a "soofull" (soufflé). The waitress that had her knew what she meant, but simply responded "Sorry ma-am, we don't have soofulls here."

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