humididity - I think about it too much when saying it and introduce a stutter effect.
― Bob Six, Friday, 6 February 2009 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
- architecture- antibiotics
― salsa shark, Friday, 6 February 2009 00:06 (fifteen years ago) link
What Pleasant Plains said, i pronounce it "really, me too"
― not_goodwin, Friday, 6 February 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Ugh I say samwich way more than I should and I don't know where that came from.
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 6 February 2009 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Hierarchy. Poxy word.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
My wife sometimes says 'ashume' and that drives me frigging bananas.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Friday, 6 February 2009 09:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"lil" never seems to roll off my tongue quite right. Or else it just sounds incredibly weird when you focus on it too much.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 6 February 2009 10:04 (fifteen years ago) link
After 36 years, I still find it difficult to say my last name. It looks simple, but it's hard to say it clearly without slurring it.
― nate woolls, Friday, 6 February 2009 10:17 (fifteen years ago) link
My brother kept saying eskliator for escalator the other day and I had to say 'Stop saying eskliator it's escalator'. I wasn't proud of myself but I was going mad.
'Orangery' for the win.
― Abbe Black Tentacle (GamalielRatsey), Friday, 6 February 2009 10:20 (fifteen years ago) link
For years I pronounced segue to rhyme with league - more through ignorance than an inability to pronounce it. I can't think of anything offhand that I can't say properly (or as properly as you can with Scottish rolling 'r's).
I have a friend who can't say pattern (comes out as pat-ren) and it annoys the shit out of me. Someone else I know says boppin instead of bottom.
I used to get annoyed with Rafael Nadal saying "sufrace" in interviews but then realised I couldn't pronounce anything in Spanish and should maybe cut the guy some slack.
― super shareaholic firefox add (onimo), Friday, 6 February 2009 10:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, so how ARE you supposed to say segue?
― nate woolls, Friday, 6 February 2009 10:25 (fifteen years ago) link
segway. It got me for years too :/
― one art, please (Trayce), Friday, 6 February 2009 10:28 (fifteen years ago) link
libary (library)
YES. i had a girlfriend that used to give me hell about this - "and you get all huffy about W & nucular, lol!!"
it was cold, man.
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Friday, 6 February 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
You guys are all pronouncing "sandwich" wrong. It's "sammitch."
Anyway, I have a friend who pronounces "compilation" with a long "i." Drives me batty.
― Pancakes Hussein Obama (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 6 February 2009 14:07 (fifteen years ago) link
things i say:
sposed (supposed)libary (library)samwitch (sandwitch -- only occasionally)
I wouldn't say any of those are mispronunciations, just normal examples of elision and assimilation. I think lots of people would pronounce those words that way. I would say all of them like that, or possibly 'spose to', 'lie-bree', and 'samwidge'.
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Erm... the first part of that post ^ is a quote from upthread, by the way
― Teh Movable Object (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, I have a friend who pronounces "compilation" with a long "i." Drives me batty.― Pancakes Hackman
― Pancakes Hackman
i have this same friend
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
In a twist, I must've heard the word before I ever read it, because I have journal entries from early adolescence in which I spell it "segway."
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I never realized this until someone pointed it out a couple of years ago, but I actually pronounce all four syllables of "comfortable."
― Bianca Jagger (jaymc), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
^ this is okay, unless it's comFORTable
i used to say "pahrahdiggum"
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Friday, 6 February 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh BTW I can't pronounce my own first name correctly -- it's really embarrassing, okay thanks
― nabisco, Friday, 6 February 2009 18:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i always pronounce remember memember.there are prolly others, i have a very lazy tongue.
― ianmaxwell, Friday, 6 February 2009 18:57 (fifteen years ago) link
There are mispronunciations that have become oddly ingrained in the corporate culture of my job. It's like 1 person says it incorrectly and then everyone starts making the same mistake.
A couple of examples that come to mind:peripherals pronounced peripheealsincidents pronounced incidenses
― Moodles, Friday, 6 February 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
murder
― Jena (who is actually a man) (Jena), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:11 (fifteen years ago) link
san(d)*witch
* the d is there in that it affects the transition from n to w but is unpronounced itself. surely that's right? one thing that has always got on my tits is the southern based media's belief that northern (north-western?) english peepz pronounce the word 'fuck' as ' 'fook'. i mean wtf?
― or something, Saturday, 7 February 2009 06:05 (fifteen years ago) link
this week i've forgotten how to say "unequivocally"
― PappaWheelie V, Saturday, 7 February 2009 06:08 (fifteen years ago) link
i cannot pronounce the name Robert Rodriguez ever on the first try. thankfully i don't have to say it often.
― circa1916, Saturday, 7 February 2009 11:06 (fifteen years ago) link
also "edited it"
― circa1916, Saturday, 7 February 2009 11:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a friend who can't say pattern (comes out as pat-ren) and it annoys the shit out of me.
My primary school teacher used to do this. She was one of those people who pronounces film as fillum as well. I presumed it was a regional thing.
I can't pronounce my own first name either. Well, I can, but I have two different ways of doing it, and I've never quite settled on which one sounds better.
― ailsa, Saturday, 7 February 2009 11:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I knew the word segue as a written word and the word pronounced segway as a thing as well, but i was about 18 before I worked out they were the same thing. I presumably never had cause to write it down/read it out loud before then.
― ailsa, Saturday, 7 February 2009 11:21 (fifteen years ago) link
not that anyone's right or wrong on this one, but i once had trouble understanding the name someone meant when she said i needed to talk to "cahr - uhhl." up until then i had only heard "carl" as a one-syllable name.
― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Saturday, 7 February 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
(i was like "carol? carla? what are you trying to say?")
― forecast from stonehenge (get bent), Saturday, 7 February 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago) link
niche
― pterodactyl, Saturday, 7 February 2009 14:25 (fifteen years ago) link
If I'm being lazy, I sometimes say "problem" kinda like "prollum" and "probably" like "probly". Also, nailing all the consonants in "exactly" can be tricky, ha.
(Is pronouncing "comfortable" with 4 syllables really unusual in the Midwest?? I do sometimes say "comftable" but I just thought that was laziness.)
― Sundar, Saturday, 7 February 2009 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
dittz - i always mean to find out the etymology of that word b/c it makes no sense to me that it should be pronounced "segway". for so long i thought people who said "segway" were taking the piss.
― lex pretend, Saturday, 7 February 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
For some reason, I've always said "melk." It's just a lot of effort to go from the downward "M" to the upward "I" when pronouncing it, if that makes sense.
― steve "no neck" yamaguchi (vermonter), Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i have trouble with "specific". usually comes out something like 'spaz-pacific"
― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:21 (fifteen years ago) link
i always mean to find out the etymology of that word b/c it makes no sense to me that it should be pronounced "segway"
wild guess: france
― nabisco, Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
italian, apparently. meaning "it follows" and taken from directions in sheet music.
― joe, Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:59 (fifteen years ago) link
"lesser" comes out "lessel" 90% of the time unless i am focused on saying the "er".
― gangsa paradise (tehresa), Sunday, 8 February 2009 02:02 (fifteen years ago) link
if french u would say" seh-gyew"xpost
― gangsa paradise (tehresa), Sunday, 8 February 2009 02:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Puyallup, Washington.
― remy bean, Sunday, 8 February 2009 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
"niche"
saying "neesh" seems pretentious. i say "nitch." but now i'm worrying that i invented this and that no one else says it this way?
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 26 April 2013 17:42 (eleven years ago) link
quiche or kitch
― calumerio, Friday, 26 April 2013 17:44 (eleven years ago) link
I'm surprised no one has said hamster yet.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Friday, 26 April 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
I cant say "statistics". It always comes out "sasiststics"
― frogbs, Friday, 26 April 2013 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
i always mix up "sale" and "sell"
― clouds, Friday, 26 April 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
but now i'm worrying that i invented this and that no one else says it this way?
I say it this way.
― jaymc, Friday, 26 April 2013 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
I noticed only recently that I have problems with 'gallery' that don't correspond to how I pronounce anything else, it comes out like 'garrarry' unless I'm very deliberate with my tongue shape. A single word speech impediment.
― the kind of man who best draws girls' eyeballs (Merdeyeux), Friday, 26 April 2013 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
saying "neesh" seems pretentious.
It's a French word. Either say it like it should be pronounced or say alcove. ;)
― He has a lot of baggage (handlers' perks) (Michael White), Friday, 26 April 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link