OT: Mispronunciations you hate

[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

 

[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.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Revert back been taken yet?
The back negates the revert.

 

[Get a Job]

Revert back been taken yet?
The back negates the revert.

I disagree. It may be redundant, but the "back" doesn't negate the meaning of "revert," as is the case with a double negative.

 

[Hogoff]

French really hate seeing Rue Street here in the states.
I was over in England an the name of a road was "The" street.
Not a fan of people saying "I may do that" or "that may work" instead of saying "I might could do that". "Mighty could" is a criminally underrated colloquialism.

People where I live are always saying “might could”. I don’t really like it, but it beats “fixing too” or more appropriately “fixin to”.

 

[Dove]

That yellow flowering plant we now see is forsithia. I always say frasithia. I don't care.

 

[Spaceman213J]

Are you from the Philly area? Seems like a Philly area thing.

From CT. It's funny because I went to Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Everyone asked if I was fromnoun Boston or in general MA because I said 'wicked' a lot.
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Back to the mispronunciations, my dad says idear and gawd when he gets nervous. It's always ineteresting when he's our church's lesson reader.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

My 12 year old grandson admonished me for dropping the (h) in the huge
I think in CT uge. Is acceptable if not accurate

 

[Chin Diesel]

I disagree. It may be redundant, but the "back" doesn't negate the meaning of "revert," as is the case with a double negative.

Since revert means to go back "revert back" means going back back.
Similar to when a person means to say they've changed and they mean to say they've done a 180 but instead say they did a 360. You are back where you started.

 

[Chin Diesel]

People where I live are always saying “might could”. I don’t really like it, but it beats “fixing too” or more appropriately “fixin to”.

But when you are thinking about doing something and you combine them in to "might could be fixin' to" is pure heaven.

 

[Caronimo]

Kevin Ahlee... -Pete Gillen

 

[RichZ]

People where I live are always saying “might could”. I don’t really like it, but it beats “fixing too” or more appropriately “fixin to”.

I wrote a term paper on the universality of colloquialisms, and the key was the phrase (approximate phonetic spelling) "Ahm a fixin a git" means exactly the same thing in rural Texas, Kentucky, the backwoods of Maine and the entirety of Appalachia, and is pretty much pronounced the way I spelled it phonetically throughout.

 

[White Dwarf]

I like to use disirregardless.

 

[MTHusky]

Might have been listed before but I hate when people add an "r" when it doesn't belong such as warter instead of water.

 

[Hogoff]

But when you are thinking about doing something and you combine them in to "might could be fixin' to" is pure heaven.

I’m gonna use that quote. I’ll let you know if it catches on.