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What’s a mispronunciation that sends you into fits of rage?
What’s a mispronunciation that sends you into fits of rage?
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Someone saying pacific instead of specific.
my wife says “mannerism” like aneurysm and I think she’s going to cause me to have one
espresso vs expresso
gif vs gif
It’s orient not orientate.
Making words plural that aren’t… ‘All’s you’s guys need to do is…’
Should/could/would “of”
people who say “sherbert” instead of sherbet
Supposably. It’s supposedly.
‘Irregardless’ is Not. A. Fucking. Word.
“Aks” instead of “ask” drives me insane
The US basketball team from Boston.. I mean, their ancestors are mostly Irish, you’d think they’d use the more accepted pronunciation. I’m aware language and words change, but Sell Ticks always grates on my ears.
Someone saying “proNOUNciation” instead of “proNUNciation”.
Axe me I’ll tell ya.
Nookyoolar.. y’all, just look at how it’s actually spelled.
People who pronounce ‘GIF’ as ‘JIF’. GIF is an abbreviation for graphics interchange format
Envelope
“Chomped at the bit”.
It’s “Champed”, as in, to chew nervously.
For all the Germans out there: seit & seid
I have a professor this semester who pronounces “stereotypes” like “stereo-tippies”
The “ng” sound at the end of orangutan. It’s oranguTAN, not oranguTANG!
Etc.
When 95% of all english speaking people say “ex-cetera” when it should be “et-cetera”.
“Ax” instead of “ask.”
There are none,as long as I know what the person means,I’m ok with however they say it.
axe instead of ask
Mischievous. No one knows how to pronounce this. it’s supposed to be MISS CHUH VUS.
Arks in instead of ASK.
FFS. It’s not difficult. It’s just three letters.
Let me axe or aks you a question.
Allergic. Its All-ur-gic not All-ar-gic
As someone who works in telecom, telephony. Hard to write a description on how to pronounce it. But the best way to describe it, is to say it like you would say teléfono for Spanish.
Development, demolishing, pronunciation and most importantly GIF
Kiev/Kyiv
DefinAtely
ESStatic instead of ECstatic. JFC how hard is the C sound to pronounce?
when people pronounce chipotle as “chipotee”
I have a coworker who mispronounced Persephone for months. It made me giggle every time, he would pronounce it ‘purse-e-phone’ (like a phone in ones purse). We finally told him the proper pronunciation. His native language is not English and has very little (if any) Greek influence, so it didn’t make me angry. Getting angry about something like that is silly, but it did make me giggle.
Expecially. NoOooOo
Bagel pronounced BAG-ul instead of BAY-gul
Queue-pawn (coupon)
“Fustrated” makes me frustrated