Mispronounced words and sayings
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- Gucci0
heidth x width
- gramme0
my lovely wife says "volumptuous". Like it has lumps in it.
- capsize0
fortay instead of fort
- you uppity fuck.grunttt
- =)grunttt
- forte is a word.
it's pronounced "fortay"
http://dictionary.re…
Gucci - http://en.wikipedia.…capsize
- disputed at least but if yr a dancing master saying fortay is probably OKcapsize
- gramme-1
"Hey you're a graphic artist, right?"
No, I do not design pennysaver ads or t-shirts for the short bus crowd.
- Vicentvangogh1
Llyod instead of Hedge
- tasty0
Worcester, MA
pronounced "Woo-ster"
not "WAR-CEST-ER"At least that's what the gas station attendent told me when iwas lost - but people from boston have some serious accents.
- voiceof0
I hate "Graphics Designer" it changes the whole job description
- instead of Sign Maker?grunttt
- Graphics seems to infer making singular graphics like clip art whereas Graphic is more broad where designer takes the lead and Graphic is the mediumvoiceof
- and Graphic is the medium
One makes the tool the other uses themvoiceof - I'll get my black turtleneck on the way out.voiceof
- my boss calls me "our graphics girl" or "the graphic arts girl"...pisses me off. I AM a goddamn GRAPHIC DESIGNER!tedismyfav
- ironic that your last word got cut off by the comment box.gramme
- johndiggity0
uge / huge
axe / ask
pitcher / picture
aluminium / aluminum
- voiceof0
Drownding instead of Drowning
- mcLeod0
my last name, McLeod, which is supposed to be pronounced Mac-LOUD
I get Mac-Lee-Odd and Mac-Loyd all the time.
- Gucci0
Chowdah!
- Greedo1
ha there's plenty of towns in massachusetts that have all these ye olde english names that are constantly mispronounced by the leafpeepers:
stoughton (stoh-tun): stoffton
billerica (bill-ricka): bill-air-icka
gloucester (gloss-ter): glou-chest-air
- Vicentvangogh0
BUSH INSTEAD OF MORON
- Vicentvangogh0
BUSH INSTEAD OF MCCAIN
- Gucci0
i've heard the odd tongue get tied when saying "picture box" which then quickly becomes
"picture bock"
- capsize0
disputed pronunications
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…kills thread
- rleeker0
i have a client that always says PITCHER instead of PICTURE.
- blaster0
5 to one, have dozen to another... duh!
- threadpost0
I could care less.