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10 Words You Mispronounce That Make People Think You're an Idiot (LIP)
So many pet peeves in here. Along with a couple that made me scratch my head. People say "aww-ree"? Really?
Though I'm not entirely sure that I don't occasionally pronounce the "t" in "often". Mental note to check myself.
Any he's forgotten?
Re: 10 Words You Mispronounce That Make People Think You're an Idiot (LIP)
I'm guilty of mispronouncing prerogative (though it's a word I hardly ever use). Noted!
Ex-presso kills me. So does irregardless. I've never heard that one IRL, but dude. It's not a word.
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moot/mute
my friend got those confused ALL THE DAMN TIME and she loved the say "its a mute point"
also - prospective/perspective
I still can't get its/it's correct most of the time though, so I reserve judgement. I figure others must have missed a big day at preschool too and jsut totally missed some basic lesson that everyone else got.
... every single day of forever.
My friend and I use irregardless with another mutual friend because it drives her batty. When we all worked together, we would purposefully find ways to incorporate it into our conversation.
I just saw a post on another board today that said something about a "mute point". Or as Joey would say "It's moo, like a cow's opinion." Lol!
I have to think about its/it's every time, but I usually get it right because I do stop to think about it. It is an exception to the normal rule which pisses me off.
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I'm guilty of "sherbert" and I just realized I might pronounce the "t" in often.
I personally hate the "r" added to wash. Drives me batty!
I'm pretty sure I'm guilty of the "t" in "often" - gonna have to work on that! And I'm also pretty sure I've said "prerogative" incorrectly, so I'll have to think about that one, too. I used to misspell and mispronounce "sherbet". I truly didn't know there *wasn't* a second "r" in there. Since I learned that I was spelling it wrong, I've also corrected my pronunciation.
My husband says a ton of words that drive me up the wall: excape for escape, exparagus for asparagus, bidness for business, and more. It seriously pisses me off.
My sister uses unrelenteless and irregardless all.the.time. Someone informed me that irregardless is now in the dictionary and that makes me angry.
Oh, and I know someone who says fustrated instead of frustrated. They drop the "r".
I am guilty of aww-ree .. but to my defense, I have never really heard anyone say the word, just been reading it and since english is not my native language, I read the words as they would normally sound. So yeah, I am guilty of the one that nobody has ever heard said this way..lol
Same thing with the word "often"
Leave it to the German idiots
I forgot about that one! My boss and several friends drop the "r." Ironically, they are the same people that add the "r" to wash.
Another one I just remembered is adding an "r" to the middle of daughter. One of my coworker is always talking about her "daurr-ter." I think that's how you would spell it?!? You get the point.
Omg - so many of these would make me batty. I'm totally mental over this stuff.
Aw - if it's any consolation one of my dearest (and most brilliant) friends from law school was from Munich and, while she spoke English beautifully, she'd occasionally drop some fabulous mistake. Like the time she confided being worried that a new beau had put her on a "peh-DES-tle".
Most of my major peeves are misuses instead of mispronunciations. I swear Brad uses "disrespect" as a verb in arguments just to piss me off. And don't even get me started on "which" v. "that". I've made it my personal mission to school the lawyering world on the difference between those two words.
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Nuclear is one of my pet peeves! They forgot "realtor." it's "re-al-tor," not "re-li-tor."
And I am also guilty of sherbert. I didn't know it didn't have the second R, I swear.
words that kill me
i axed him a question
pacific instead of specific
warsh
there are more but those are the kicked
Is this a Baltimore thing because I'm guilty of saying warsh
I also pronouce oil wrong, it sounds like ool.
I work with a lot of people who say this. And I'm sure I'm guilty of saying warsh a few times. LOL!
"warsh" is a baltimore thing (and a few other regions I believe) so it doesn't bother me so much bc I view it more as an accent than anything else....the same way my grandmother says "everythink" instead of "everything." She knows it ends with a 'g" but that's not how she grew up pronouncing it.
most of these do drive me nuts though. I hate bad grammar and mispronounciations. I especially really hate it when people get words or sayings wrong - "irregardless," "I could care less," "for all intensive purposes," etc. Drives me absolutely batty.
"Warsh" drives me up.a.wall. I don't know why but I think it's mostly because there is no R is "wash"! Same with "ex-specially". DH used to say this when we first met. I would cringe but tried to look past it. Finally when I felt we were comfortable enough, I explained that it made him sound less intelligent and he worked to stop it immediately since he didn't want to sound that way at work.
I definitely have been saying/spelling prerogative wrong. Not that I use it all that much but still.
Someone's getting a little brother!
DH's old boss, who was the CFO used "mute point" all the time, even in emails. He also used irregardless all the time. My mom used irregardless the other day and I had to bite my tounge. "Intensive purposes" irks me too.
I'm also guilty of "sherbert"
Sherbet- drives me CRAZY when people say sherbert! I've actually gotten into arguments with people over this, it's such a big pet peeve, lol.
I've never heard anyone mispronounce awry- that's a new one to me!
It really bothers me when people say John Hopkins.
Until I clicked on the link, I couldn't figure out what "aww-ree" was. I have never heard that for Awry.
warsh and warshington kill me!
Some of the mispronunciations brought up are definitely characteristic of the "Baltimore accent" or other regional pronunciations. My grandmother says "terlet" for toilet, "ool" for oil and they days of the week do not end in day, but "dee." As in "Mun-dee, Tues-dee, Wenz-dee..." I have another family member who actually says "birfday" for birthday and "Merlin" for Maryland. And he went to college, so he's not stupid... but I wonder if some people cannot hear themselves subjectively? I know my "Baltimore" pronunciation comes out sometimes, but I can usually tell when... like I can switch it off at work, but not worry about it when I'm with family.
OMG my mom does this. I make fun of her for it all the time. I think its def a regional thing.
Personally it makes my skin crawl when people say "I could care less". But so many people fail to grasp what they are actually saying here that I have almost given up my battle on this one.
I'm guilty of sherbeRt.
My sister and I cannot say the word crayon. We both say cran (like cranberry). However, it drives me batty when people pronounce it crown.
I think I say candidate wrong...
My latest pet peeve is "dug" instead of "dog"
I agree with all of the above mentioned. I think I am guilty of "oFten". Ladies I work with say "Mon-dee, Tues-dee", etc. That drives me crazy. These are also the ladies that say "See yous later." Or "What do yous think?". To make fun of them I answer with "Well WEEZ think ___".
Another one that I don't think anyone mentioned was jewelry pronounced as "jew-ler-ree". No people, it is pronounced as it is spelled "jew-wuhl-ree". (that's hard to write out phonetically)
The older generation in my family says "ool" and days ending --dee.
I hear a lot of "fustrated" which makes me, um, frustrated.
My friend says "pome" instead of "poem".
And a few that are a matter of choice but I can't stand: kewpon instead of coo-pon, in-ter-est-ing instead of in-trest-ing, or fin-ance instead of fyn-ance.
And about reading words the wrong way. I had read the word "rapport" many times and heard the word "rahpore" many times without knowing they were the same thing until just a few years ago
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Baltimore-isms don't bother me so much, but DH chalks his giant list of mispronunciations up to being from Philly and they still drive me nuts. I counter that he's lived in Maryland longer than he lived in Philly, but it doesn't get me anywhere.
I really need to learn to let things go.