OT: Mispronunciations you hate

[Vancat]

ECKcetera
Supposably
All the sudden

 

[Deepster]

I want to axe a question...

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Not a pronouciation but when folks write EST during daylight saving time. ET is never wrong!

The moment this thread strays from mispronunciation...not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[UCLJ0211]

Supposebly

Exspearment


When they say sangwich bothers me more.

My mom is Sicilian and often would drop the letter H out of words. "Ready to go ome?" Would always get me going.

Also “supposively”

 

[StllH8L8ner]

I hear "scenario" pronounced with an "air-io" and an "are-io".

As a Tribe Called Quest fan growing up, the "are-io" pronunciation offends me. Lol. It also sounds more snobby IMO.

 

[UCLJ0211]

I ok with that now. I had a student explain, "I stopped caring so long ago, I could care less now, but I chose not to."

So there’s still some level of care for the topic in that case

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

If no one said samwich we would never have sammies!!

nope

My niece Sammie posted a picture of her sammich Wednesday evening in a family group txt

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Yes- Probably the most misused expression out there

If not "out there," probably "in here."

 

[StllH8L8ner]

Lose and loose are used incorrectly every single day on social media.

 

[mauconnfan]

I could literally care less about this!

 

[UCLJ0211]

If not "out there," probably "in here."

Sounds like a mute point to me

 

[SoFla Steve]

Asteriks or asterik instead of asterisk.

 

[imno1]

This litera

I could literally care less about this!

no one axe you

 

[HCCForever]

I hear "scenario" pronounced with an "air-io" and an "are-io".

As a Tribe Called Quest fan growing up, the "are-io" pronunciation offends me. Lol. It also sounds more snobby IMO.

I worked with a guy who pronounced it Skah Nario.

 

[mauconnfan]

This litera

no one axe you

I axed myself!

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Zero is a number and O is a letter

And both should be banned from being in a WiFi password.

 

[Devland]

And both should be banned from being in a WiFi password.

As should lower case "L" (l) and uppercase "i" (I).

 

[RichZ]

I believe Covid 19 is the disease, SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes to disease.

The acronym is derived from... COrona VIrus Disease 2019.

 

[RichZ]

French really hate seeing Rue Street here in the states.
I was over in England an the name of a road was "The" street.

There is a "Street Road" in Ticonderoga, NY.

 

[mussels]

I think it may be a mid-west thing, but I've heard a fair amount of people just eliminate "to be" from something that needs to be done. "Shoes need shined", "House needs painted"

 

[RichZ]

And both should be banned from being in a WiFi password.

My health insurance # has a letter O in the middle of a sequence of numerals. It has caused numerous issues when various medical offices misread it and then don't get payed because the # doesn't match. With all the runaround to get it corrected and resubmitted, they end up getting paid way late. I think the insurance company put that in there on purpose to get a month or two of extra use of the money.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Fricken (or frickin)- It's not really a word. Be a man and buy the vowel u.

 

[tentoes4rings]

In regards to! I hear so many professionals use this as a go to expression to sound intelligent. And then instead of than.

“with regard to the economy”
“Give my regards to John”
“UConn is better THAN Syracuse”

 

[RichZ]

Irregardless is a word. Not complicated. It's in the dictionary. You can say it's redundant in its meaning or means the exact same thing as regardless. You can say it's nonstandard or irregular. You can say it's awkward and doesn't read well. Those would all be opinions and are valid.

But it is a word.

Definition of IRREGARDLESS

regardless… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

The dictionary folks cave in and add stuff like that that's in common usage even though it's wrong, all the time. The one that bothers me is factoid. It was a perfectly good word with a real meaning. (an incorrect statement that's repeated so often it gets mistaken for the truth). Then USA Today usurped the word, and used it as a title for trivial facts they featured. And now the original and real meaning of the word has been virtually lost, as the USA Today corruption of its meaning is listed first in the dictionary, ahead of the original meaning.
I know that lnguage evolves with usage, but to me, factoid's meaning (new) is kind of a factoid (old).