Mispronounced words and sayings
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- Gucci
Lately, I've been hearing different people mispronouncing the same words. And yes ... their first language is English.
example:
supposedly = supposeblymercedes = MARcedes (emphasis on the MAR)
What are some others you commonly hear that drive you to drink?
- T-Dawg0
nucular
instead of nu-cle-arI heard it in an interview last week
- canuck0
bagel (bay-gal / bag-al)
- 7point341
for all intensive purposes
- haha, took me a seclocustsloth
- to be fair i only found out about this one recently7point34
- i've said it wrong for most of my life7point34
- Well, for all intensive purposes it IS a ball peeing hammer. Right?killthefish
- that was my best guess7point34
- i hate that one, seriouslysputnik2
- fyoucher10
Tomato, Ta-maaa-toe
Potato, Pa-tot-toe
- mcLeod0
a whole nother
- grunttt0
i work for a boston agency so i constantly here "drawring (drawing), yogar (yoga), canadar (canada)... etc.
- bulletfactory0
worsh instead of wash
ie:
worshington instead of washingtonmissoura instead of missouri
- rough instead of roofwaterhouse
- wooder instead of waterwaterhouse
- fyoucher10
herrr...instead of hair
- sikma0
schedule
you know who you are. and i hate the way you say it.
- U mean...Shhhhh..edulefyoucher1
- shedjual?bulletfactory
- Skedewelrobthelad
- canuck0
cunt (k-unt / jnr-mad-i-son)
- bulletfactory0
the•rapist instead of therapist
- like... My the*rapist said the funniest thing the other day.voiceof
- Greedo0
mature (mat-sure vs mat-oor)
- grunttt0
my wife pronounces "You're the greatest thing ever to happen to me" as "You're drunk again"... she says it all the time. I'm quite a catch.
- 7point340
i remember it used to bother my ex when i mispronounced her name.
her name was megan, but it was spelled: MAEGAN
she hated it when i called her: "you fucking bitch"
- grayhood0
both bolth
- Vicentvangogh0
ghey instead of REPUBLICAN
- sikma0
Saskatch-u-wan instead of Saskatchewan
I see red when I hear that.