Commonly Mispronounced Words 5858 Responses

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• Gucci

  Milk ≠ "Melk"

  Any others?

  May 24, 12, 7:11 a.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  skuse me while i kiss this guy

  • haahah– ESKEMA

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:12 a.m. – Permalink

• CygnusZero4

  Not mispronounced, but the word iron is not spelled like it's pronounced. Looks like it should be pronounced eye-run.

  • this bothers me.– CanHasQBN1/3

    iyern– partdeux2/3

    eye-RON even– Amicus3/3

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:13 a.m. – Permalink

• Morning_star

  Moet - Not Mo-Eh, but Mo-et

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:14 a.m. – Permalink

• Morning_star

  Aluminium
  Nuclear

  • ah... the metal's british vs american sound.... nukular is simply evil and stupid though....– vaxorcist1/2

    American version is wrong.– animatedgif2/2

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:16 a.m. – Permalink

• CygnusZero4

  asterisk: as-ter-isk, not as-ter-ik
  electoral: e-LEK-tor-al, not e-lek-TOR-al
  etcetera: et-set-er-a, not ek-set-er-a
  mischievous: MIS-che-vus, not mis-CHEE-vee-us
  mispronunciation: mis-pro-nun-see-ay-shun, not mis-pro-nown-see-ay-shun
  nuclear: noo-klee-ur, not noo-kyu-lur
  nuptial: nup-shul, not nup-shoo-al
  primer: (schoolbook) prim-mer, not pry-mer
  picture: pik-cher, not pit-cher
  prescription: prih-skrip-shun, not per-skrip-shun
  probably: prob-a-blee, not pra-lee or prob-lee
  supposedly: su-pos-ed-lee, not su-pos-ab-lee
  ticklish: tik-lish, not tik-i-lish
  triathlon: try-ath-lon, not try-ath-a-lon

  • you mad.– NathanNice

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:16 a.m. – Permalink

• Fax_Benson

  Can't think of many universally mispronounced words - it's quite specific to particular regions, I would have thought.

  • particularly in Britain– Fax_Benson

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:20 a.m. – Permalink

• i_monk

  your: yor
  you're: yew-er, not yor
  there, their: th-air
  they're: they-er, not th-air

  • way to take the fun out of it– Llyod1/5

    < not true– monospaced2/5

    You've been pronouncing them wrong then. (that's you-v, not yov)– i_monk3/5

    I've never heard anyone say "yew-er"– randommail4/5

    hahaha– sea_sea5/5

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:21 a.m. – Permalink

• prophetone

  interac

  • For non-Canadians, Interac is a debit card.– i_monk1/3

    you mispronounced that... it's "for the non-cool peoples..."– prophetone2/3

    and everyone who has uttered the word, they always seem to say interacT.. drives me crazy– prophetone3/3

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:32 a.m. – Permalink

• monospaced

  aks

  • <– duckseason

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:36 a.m. – Permalink

• Gucci

  Not sure if anyone's come across Mar-say-deez in stead of the way most people pronounce Mercedes.

  • oh, and Porsche. Most Americans say, "porsh"– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 7:58 a.m. – Permalink

• sine

  adobe... i know how to pronounce it, but have always pronounced the other one (Adobe Photoshop) as ah-doh-bee...

  • it's Ah-doh-bee in all instances– monospaced1/3

    for the most part, I think I know what you mean... "ah-doh-bay"– monospaced2/3

    sorry, what i meant to say is some people pronounce adobe like abode, ah-dowb, instead of ah-doh-bee...– sine3/3

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:03 a.m. – Permalink

• sine

  also archipelago...

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:03 a.m. – Permalink

• _niko

  not sure if it's wrong or right but i hate

  SH-edule

  • British stylee– monospaced

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:04 a.m. – Permalink

• vaxorcist

  GIF... to confuse the suits at one 90's startup, the creative staff would simply vow to pronounce it with a soft G on every odd day of the month and with a hard G on every even day of the month.. took them a long time to catch on....

  • Haha awesome.– Hombre_Lobo

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:04 a.m. – Permalink

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  • hahahaha– Miguex

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:04 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  Aunt ≠ "Ant"

  • It most certainly is if you are from the north of england.– MrT

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:31 a.m. – Permalink

• randommail

  Ralph Lauren.
  It's LA-rin. Not La-REN.

  • is it?– 3031/5

    No it's LOR-REN. Some people pronounce it "LAW-REN" which is wrong.– randomname2/5

    I guess I should have said LOR-rin.– randommail3/5

    Random.– randomname4/5

    For the record it's Lauren, like the girl's name NOT Laurenne (it's not french)– BaskerviIle5/5

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:35 a.m. – Permalink

• GeorgesII

  any french word pronounced by americans,
  and any english words pronounced by frenchs,

  >> rendez-vous ≠ randizz vuuuz

  • i don't think anybody pronounces it the second way.– CanHasQBN

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:37 a.m. – Permalink

• duckseason

  Foliage and foilage

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:39 a.m. – Permalink

• honest

  Leicester

  

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  Dog-earMay 24, 12, 8:40 a.m. – Permalink