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Poll: What mispronunciation bothers you most?
I cannot stand it when people say "lie-berry" when trying to say library. It makes me want to throw a book at them.
I'm sitting in the library working and a new guy is getting trained. The trainer suffers from this affliction...she better watch out for flying paperbacks!
ETA: She also just said "Li- Berry-An" add that to my list. And she just complained about people pronouncing her name wrong...oh the irony
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Re: Poll: What mispronunciation bothers you most?
supposively for supposedly. Drives me batty.
And wreaf instead of wreath. DH and his parents say this. I have no idea why. I tell him every time that there is no F in wreath, but it hasn't sunk in yet
Abraham Arthur 2/21/10 // Asher Kendall 11/11/11
specific/pacific
frustrated/flustrated
picture/pitcher
bundlesome - a made up word that I hear used by old ladies
I'm sure there's more. I'm always picking on people for stuff like that. I should pick on myself more, lol.
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My husband does this, as did a former boss. I hate that pronunciation.
Ax for ask
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This is too funny. My dad says Chi-pole-tay and this weekend I corrected him over and over again since Chipotle's in Adobo is his new favorite garnish for everything. He still can't get it right. In fact, now he says Chip-o-lo-tee.
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I hate when people say "ex-specially" when they mean especially.
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expecially
and my H says "periphial" instead of peripheral. UGH.
I went to undergrad in Pittsburgh, and I swear everyone there said this! Must be a regional thing.
Abraham Arthur 2/21/10 // Asher Kendall 11/11/11
I don't believe that this is an mispronounciation - it is just a *different* pronounciation.... like aunt - ONt/Ant.
Tomayto/tomato
He doesn't watch Top Gear, does he? I giggle every time they pronounce it like that.
All of the above and orienTATed. (Oriented).
One T people!
I was thinking this too.
Ditto. I say ahn-velope.
My FIL is from the Chicago area and he says warsh. It makes me giggle every time I hear it. Then I ask him to repeat it
There's no "r" in wash.
fustrated (frustrated)
pellow (pillow)
melk (milk)
uge (huge) - I know there are words with a silent h but I don't think this is one of them.
I had a boss who said On instead of Un - it drove me nuts!
Onbelievable
Onoriginal
Onconvinced
MARscapone- it's MAS-Car-pone (or Mas-car-pone-ay)
This. I get more annoyed when people misspell certain words, such as aggravated (they spell it aggrivated), ridiculous (they spell it rediculous), and I know there was one more but it's just not coming to me. GOSH it BUGS me SOOOO bad!
DH and SIL both say "crown" in place of "crayon". And they will argue to the death that they're saying it correctly. Drives me bat shiit. I told DH he's only allowed to call them Crayolas if he can't pronounce crayon correctly.
You wear a crown, you color with crayons. Not. That. Difficult.
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I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. ~ Alice
Fustrated instead of frustrated...
Pellow instead of pillow...
Melk instead of milk...
1/1 Spotting, 1/3 beta 36,000, 1/5 u/s empty sac measuring 7w (9w5d), 1/6 d&c
You will always be loved & missed our sweet angel.
UGH, my DH does this same thing and I make fun of him all the time.
He also says "stilling" instead of stealing & nekkid instead of naked
1/1 Spotting, 1/3 beta 36,000, 1/5 u/s empty sac measuring 7w (9w5d), 1/6 d&c
You will always be loved & missed our sweet angel.