Commonly Mispronounced Words
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- CanHasQBN0
Death to America or Death to the infidels?
- ArmandoEstrada0
MY pet peeves:
Room not Rum
Roof not Ruff
Finance not F'Nance
Diabetes not dabetes- i think it's die-a-beeduhs vs die-a-beedees.CanHasQBN
- What he said.ArmandoEstrada
- Maaku0
You're favorite:
Your vs. You're
- both are pronounced the same way. this is a punctuation issue.CanHasQBN
- homonyms sound the same therefore are impervious to mispronunciationalbums
- The are pronounced differently.i_monk
- apparently yew-er.
haha.randommail
- albums0
beautiful
only 3 syllables, people find an extra one sometimes
- drgs0
for 10 years i pronounced integer as integreger
- Knuckleberry0
I cannot pronounce "Interested", I slur it into "ntrstd"
- albums0
Hwhip ≠ Whip
- Stewie Griffin?randommail
- Coo HwhipETM
- HWIL HWEATON!Akagiyama
- prophetone0
skuse me while i kiss this guy
- CygnusZero40
Not mispronounced, but the word iron is not spelled like it's pronounced. Looks like it should be pronounced eye-run.
- Morning_star0
Moet - Not Mo-Eh, but Mo-et
- Morning_star0
Aluminium
Nuclear- ah... the metal's british vs american sound.... nukular is simply evil and stupid though....vaxorcist
- American version is wrong.animatedgif
- CygnusZero40
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
- Fax_Benson0
Can't think of many universally mispronounced words - it's quite specific to particular regions, I would have thought.
- i_monk0
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 itLlyod
- < not truemonospaced
- You've been pronouncing them wrong then. (that's you-v, not yov)i_monk
- I've never heard anyone say "yew-er"randommail
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- ArmandoEstrada0
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- ArmandoEstrada0
- I Quit.ArmandoEstrada
- it's youtube, not youtu.be, fuckin' amonospaced
- Thanks. Noob moment...ArmandoEstrada
- NathanNice0
refrigerator, not fridgerator
- prophetone0
interac
- For non-Canadians, Interac is a debit card.i_monk
- you mispronounced that... it's "for the non-cool peoples..."prophetone
- and everyone who has uttered the word, they always seem to say interacT.. drives me crazyprophetone
- monospaced0
aks
- Gucci0
Not sure if anyone's come across Mar-say-deez in stead of the way most people pronounce Mercedes.