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People who deliberately pronounce words incorrectly and repeatedly.
A coworker of mine is forever deciding which restERAAAnt to have dinner at.
— Bones from New York | Conversation | 11.5.2008 | Comments (34)
COMMENTS ››
Also Exsqueeze Me.
— Diana
Does applying another language's pronunciation on an English word count? ( e.g. pronouncing Target -> Tar-jey, or removing the pronunciation, Fajita -> Fah-Jie-Tuh )
— Biffy
Some people can't help it. For example, instead of saying 'caramel' I say 'carmel'. Mainly due to the fact that that's how it was pronounced by my parents. My grandfather pronounces 'vinegar' as 'vineger' (the g sounding like a j). For some people, it may be a habit. For others, they may just prefer pronouncing a word a different way.
— Anonymous
I greatly dislike when people pronounce 'shrimp' as 'scrimps' or 'strawberries' as 'scrawberries'. Come on!
— Anonymous
Ugh, my mom has been doing that alot recently. I'm sorry, but "sammich" is not cute.
— Trentdaddy
How about "supposebly"? Ugghh!!
— Julie
sammich is cute
— Anonymous
Have to admit I'm bad about this one. I like to say garage like british people, with the stress on the first syllable. I also say ta-ta-towel for some reason. I'm sure it drives my wife crazy, especially because my two year old daughter now thinks that's how you say towel. I have dozens more including some of the ones pointed out above.
— Ant
Supposebly is the worst!!! And people are aware of that fact that they say it wrong but wear it as some sort of badge of honor!
— posted 11/5/2008
How about "nucular"?
— cattycorner posted 11/5/2008
What about "probaly" ARGH!
— bluesarahlou posted 11/5/2008
Aminal, Liberry!
— Kate posted 11/6/2008
I think it's more like words they are intentionally mispronouncing, such as "Targey" for Target.
— Biffy posted 11/6/2008
I hate the following: "Murrh" for "mirror" "thank" for "think" "fer" instead of "for" "Mundee" for "Monday" "whorsh" for "wash" "wrench" for "rinse" "PeeeKANS" for "Pecan" **Can you tell I live in Texas?
— lars posted 11/6/2008
how about when someone types prolly instead of probably....i think prolly is worse than probaly...wth???
— gig posted 6/2/2009
Anyhoo. I want to slap people to say 'anyhoo'. Or use 'anymore' in the hep new way. "I'm so tired anymore." WHAT?
— Tig posted 6/2/2009
That sounds poetic ...
— Biffy posted 6/2/2009
I hate it when people deliberately mispronounce my name(for example 'Regina'). I correct them and they keep on pronouncing it wrong, no matter how much or carefully I enunciate the word. Why do people do that?
— Gina posted 8/15/2010
I greatly dislike when people pronounce 'shrimp' as 'scrimps' or 'strawberries' as 'scrawberries'. Come on! I've never heard that before. odd.
— posted 9/5/2010
I hate when people try to sound extra smart and use the word "As" unecessarily out of context... I think this is becoming an Addison, TX culture.
— B.Collins posted 10/13/2010
What a site! We can bitch about anything! I grew up in Boston with the full accent. Once I started travelling for business in my 20's, I taught myself "midwest" talk to avoid the stairs and fun people had with me about how "funny" I talked. Her's a thought; if you know what the person means when they mispronounce a word, who cares!! It's called communicating. The truth is, most of our fellow Americans have a hard time constructing a coherent sentence anyway; i.e. "He threw his dinner up," instead of the correct "He threw up his dinner."
— Denver posted 10/21/2010
There is a big difference between deliberately mispronouncing words to be cutesy (which is what this peeve is complaining about) and differences in regional dialect (which is what Lars and Denver are addressing). I'm from Virginia. When my family says "pecans," it rhymes with "cans." When my friends from New York say it, it rhymes with "bronze." These are differences in regional dialect. We giggle at each other and it's all in good fun. My extremely southern-accented grandmother says "sayr-dee" instead of Saturday, which is entertaining. She finds it entertaining that I say "wah-ter" instead of "war-ter." When people think they're clever for saying "Tar-jay" instead of "Target," it's annoying. That is what the OP is irritated by. Oh and Denver, it's perfectly appropriate to end sentences with prepositions. It's the sentences like, "Where are you at?" that are incorrectly using terminal prepositions. Sorry to burst your grammatically uppity bubble.
— Becky posted 10/25/2010
Boston accents, hahah. Eat it Denver.
— jordan posted 11/4/2010
I hear a lot of people pronouncing the word "for" as "fer". It does not seem to be a regional thing but all over the country. People in the spotlight and those who are not say fer and it drives me crazy! Am I out of the loop? Being a retired English teacher maybe you can understand the way I feel.
— lynn posted 3/27/2011
I pronounce words wrong. I have never said February. I say Febuary. But recently I've met a young lady who deliberately pronounces words wrong. Bra = briar, manure = maduder. It has gotten so I am constantly asking what she's talking about and it's not cute, it's annoying.
— Ignorance is not bliss posted 4/24/2011
When people say pacificly when they really mean specifically.
— Dan posted 8/8/2011
I know the terminal-preposition comments are old, but this record needs to be set straight: the "up" in "He threw his dinner up" is neither incorrect, nor a preposition. It's an adverb, the second half of a phrasal verb. Ain't nuthin' wrong with endin' a sentence with an adverb. Bad grammar is annoying, but incorrect corrections are, too.
— Kendall posted 11/16/2011
Real-a-tor instead of real-tor. Annoying!
— Amy posted 2/3/2012
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