Commonly Mispronounced Words
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- Gucci
Milk ≠ "Melk"
Any others?
- 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
- hahahasea_sea
- 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
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- Gucci0
Not sure if anyone's come across Mar-say-deez in stead of the way most people pronounce Mercedes.
- sine0
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 instancesmonospaced
- for the most part, I think I know what you mean... "ah-doh-bay"monospaced
- sorry, what i meant to say is some people pronounce adobe like abode, ah-dowb, instead of ah-doh-bee...sine
- sine0
also archipelago...
- _niko0
not sure if it's wrong or right but i hate
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- vaxorcist0
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....
- randommail0
Ralph Lauren.
It's LA-rin. Not La-REN.- is it?303
- No it's LOR-REN. Some people pronounce it "LAW-REN" which is wrong.randomname
- I guess I should have said LOR-rin.randommail
- Random.randomname
- For the record it's Lauren, like the girl's name NOT Laurenne (it's not french)BaskerviIle
- duckseason0
Foliage and foilage
- honest0
Leicester