OT: Mispronunciations you hate

[RichZ]

“Warshington” in place of Washington; “warshing machine” vs washing machine. Drives me nuts, but we all have our flaws:

I call coleslaw “co-slaw”. I know it’s wrong, but oh well.

Western PA guys I used to hang with in my street racing days, said Woorsh for Wash. And a pair of pliers was a plar.

 

[Hoophound]

It seems as though sangwich was like the word used most often where I grew up. I hated it also axe for ask.

Sangwich is Italian American slang. My family never said it that way but it was pretty common in New York.

 

[Kenny11]

A lady at the Chinese restaurant just said she was there to pick up her “General Toce” chicken. I don’t even know the right way to prounounce tso but the way she pronounced it got me more angry that I should’ve been for some reason.

 

[tentoes4rings]

Okay...my #1. How is even possible to mess up? And even if its a spellcheck gaffe....at least correct this.

How about when people write too with one O? It drives me crazy. Maybe it’s acceptable slang but is it huge effort to add one more O??

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Everyone is calling social distancing quarantine. You’re not in quarantine unless you’re sick.

 

[Get a Job]

Everyone is calling social distancing quarantine. You’re not in quarantine unless you’re sick.

Or live with someone who is sick.

 

[UofCT]

Mine as well

 

[Leebo]

Or live with someone who is sick.

Or suspected of being infected.

No symptoms necessary.

 

[browndog319]

This likely isn’t widespread at all, but I have a cousin who used to pronounce “breakfast” as “breakfRast” and “beginning” as “begEnning” and it would frustrate me to no end.

My daughter says breakfast “breffkist”. It makes me crazy. Some people in her dad’s family say it (south Philly roots). She doesn’t say “wooder” or “Iggles”, but she says this grating thing.

 

[RichZ]

Sangwich is Italian American slang. My family never said it that way but it was pretty common in New York.

That would explain it. His name was Donato Salvatore.

 

[Poe]

Nuclear, when pronounced nuke-you-ler.

Also, “on accident”

 

[ClifSpliffy]

'ammends' how the heck can u think 'ammends' sounds like 'ahlmonds?'
almonds has a friggin L! where's the L sound in 'ammends?'

 

[Citrusdog]

I have so many... but, one that really chaps my behind is...

"Aren't I" (Are not I????) .....It doesn't get much worse than that.

The proper response is "Am I not..."

 

[husky8273]

Manhaddan

 

[AllAbout5]

I personally can't stand it when someone doesn't pronounce the letter t when it comes after an n.

For example: "innernet" instead of the proper "internet"

Another is when people say "hundrit" instead of "hundred".

What are yours?

Whenever someone would mispronounce Christian Vital. It is NOT Vit-All, it is not Vitale. It’s the most triggering thing to listen to the past 4 years

 

[ucp990411]

Some people in VT pronounce garage as gararge.

 

[RichZ]

Just thought of something. I knew two people who say this, and both are from Philly. But they were related, so it may be family thing rather than a Philly thing. They put a T on the end of cousin. As in cuzzint. I loved these people. But when they got to talking about their family, sooner or later, the fingernails were going to hit the blackboard.

 

[StllH8L8ner]

My mother-in-law says "earl" for oil. Never fails to get a chuckle whenever we hear it.

 

[RichZ]

My mother-in-law says "earl" for oil. Never fails to get a chuckle whenever we hear it.

I know a lot of guys from the deep south that pronounce it all. As in, "Dju rimimber tuh changer all?

 

[Waquoit]

On the redundancy front, I'm amazed at how many restaurant menus say "with au jus" or worse, "with au jus sauce"

I think my all-time favorite from the Department of Redundancy Dept. is when they used to introduce "The Man of a Thousand Masks- Mil Mascaras!"

 

[Waquoit]

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"

Sounds like the cast of Sling Blade

 

[methodology]

The second is my biggest pet peeve. My daughter and I have a game called “Idiot Spelling Bee”. She found some website with stupid kid names with parents who bend the rules of phonics. She then has me try to spell them. I’m a pretty great speller. I have spelled 0% right. We used to play a lot but we have passed many, many hours during the pandemic with this game.

If you name your kid “Knaghtahleigh” (and I’m not kidding), you deserve to get punched in the face. It’s also why we started only writing “Love, Emily”on Valentines in elementary school. Because I won’t acknowledge your kid’s name.

What about the mother who named their child Abcde (pronounced Ab-si-dee)

 

[browndog319]

What about the mother who named their child Abcde (pronounced Ab-si-dee)

So stupid. That hasn’t come up in the game yet but I might get that one right because I’ve seen the story.
Over/under on when parents start spelling it “phonetically” to make it unique?

 

[browndog319]

Oh, another fun thing to pass the time - check out Scottish Buzzfeed or Scottish Twitter. They spell their accents which is hilarious, one. The other thing is that they are just freaking funny people.

 

[Bliss]

Some people in VT pronounce garage as gararge.

Or "grodge" in the midwest.