― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 4 August 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
I, on the other hand, have never pronounced anything incorrectly.
― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:49 (nineteen years ago) link
NUH-YALLZ????
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 4 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
HELL NO that would involve leaving the house and talking to people!
― sugarpants (sugarpants), Friday, 4 March 2005 01:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― jbr (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 4 March 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:13 (nineteen years ago) link
Also some of these pronunciation things seem regional rather than wrong, ya? Not espresso tho, I'm with Jeremy on that one - IT IS NOT EXPRESSO ARGH.
My nan says maintenance as "maintain-ants", ie the same way maintain is said.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 4 March 2005 03:35 (nineteen years ago) link
My Dad has always pronounced available as 'avaidable'. I have no idea where he gets the 'd' from. It always frustrated me that someone could fuck up such a simple word. And in such a weird way.
― Seuss, Friday, 4 March 2005 08:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Remy (null) (x Jeremy), Friday, 4 March 2005 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 4 March 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Friday, 4 March 2005 09:28 (nineteen years ago) link
Also lasagne. I say "la--saaaaaaa-neee-ur". I really stretch the "saaaa". Most distressing.
― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 4 March 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Horse of Babylon (the pirate king), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― colette (a2lette), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Some Dadaismus Implied (Dada), Friday, 4 March 2005 11:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Though there's no reason that should be easy to say.
― mei (mei), Friday, 4 March 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago) link
PHOTOGRAPHY
pronounced by everyone I know (incl. me) as 'fertagerphy'
― i'm shy (Abbott), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I used to ax questions, but have since corrected my use of that word.
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
My mother
always
says
ALBLUM.
I can't get her to stop and now it just annoys both of us if I mention it.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Thursday, 5 February 2009 21:17 (fifteen years ago) link
pluralism is one i noticed recently. i don't know why, but it comes out something like plurllllsm.
― Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
My boss cannot pronounce "supposedly" for the life of 'im. He only says "supposably".
― muomus (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
He's really a catalogue of misuses and mispronunciations. One that I have bitten my tongue for years in not correcting: "simplistic" used when "simple" is correct.
― muomus (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:18 (fifteen years ago) link
It's like "-istic" has saved "simple" from itself.
― muomus (libcrypt), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Wasn't there an Onion joke about this?
― It is not enough to love mankind – you must be able to stand (Michael White), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
things i say:
sposed (supposed)libary (library)samwitch (sandwitch -- only occasionally)
― Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:24 (fifteen years ago) link
caricature - this word is the bane of my enunciatory skills.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:27 (fifteen years ago) link
When I was a kid, my mother would ask me to explain how to pronounce words she had trouble with. The one thing she could never entirely get was the name "Charles." I think the idea that it was all one syllable was kind of ridiculous to her.
Long story short, now I can't say the name "Charles" without saying it kind of funny.
― nabisco, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Atlantic
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I love you.
― •--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 5 February 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
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