Amusing mispronounciations
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Following on from the "Ah ha" moment thread which brought to mind some interesting mispronounciations I've come across. Thought I'd share mine and see what you lot have!
Car door sill - "seal". From a mate who works on cars for a living.
"Donate" instead of "denote" - a customer who was trying to tell me what certain headings meant in a report I was writing code for
"Kiri te Wanaker". My mother.
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Car door sill - "seal". From a mate who works on cars for a living.
"Donate" instead of "denote" - a customer who was trying to tell me what certain headings meant in a report I was writing code for
"Kiri te Wanaker". My mother.
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One of our company directors says 'Chimley' instead of chimney, not even in a mocking fashion.
A little piece of me dies inside whenever they say it.
Probably stuff I say wrong as well in fairness, but nothing as obvious as that.
Do the people who type the word 'brought' when they mean 'bought' actually say it out loud? "I brought a new car last week"
A little piece of me dies inside whenever they say it.
Probably stuff I say wrong as well in fairness, but nothing as obvious as that.
Do the people who type the word 'brought' when they mean 'bought' actually say it out loud? "I brought a new car last week"
Having spent chunks of my childhood in Norfolk, I am all-too used to;
Specific/pacific
Certificate/sustificate
For a number of years my organisation had a CEO who couldn't pronounce 'executive' - he always said 'execertive'
Also, in Clapham's Britain, people who pronounce Counsel with the emphasis on the last syllable would be shot in the face.
Specific/pacific
Certificate/sustificate
For a number of years my organisation had a CEO who couldn't pronounce 'executive' - he always said 'execertive'
Also, in Clapham's Britain, people who pronounce Counsel with the emphasis on the last syllable would be shot in the face.
My secondary school biology teacher always said "hule" rather than "whole". Apart from that single word everything else was pronounced as normally as possible.
"Make sure you fill in the hule thing", "it uses the hule plant", and so on.
As you can imagine to a room of 13/14/15 year old boys this was just the best thing in the world. Trying to get him to say sentences using the word. If we ever had to read out loud in class we would always pronounce the word in his way - surely he must have realised we were all continuously taking the p*&s?!
"Make sure you fill in the hule thing", "it uses the hule plant", and so on.
As you can imagine to a room of 13/14/15 year old boys this was just the best thing in the world. Trying to get him to say sentences using the word. If we ever had to read out loud in class we would always pronounce the word in his way - surely he must have realised we were all continuously taking the p*&s?!
I had a director at work who insisted on pronouncing louvres as lal-vrees. He was an utter cock and thought he was important enough to have his own pronunciations of words.
Skedule. Even my American mate knows to pronounce it sheh-jool when he’s over here.
Bloody Netflix generation and their Americanisms.
And yes, I know it should actually be pronounced seh-jool (cedule), as its Old French origin.
Skedule. Even my American mate knows to pronounce it sheh-jool when he’s over here.
Bloody Netflix generation and their Americanisms.
And yes, I know it should actually be pronounced seh-jool (cedule), as its Old French origin.
Ex-wife always had a tendency to mispronounce words and even make words up that sounded vaguely like they should, but the two that stick in my mind were spaghetti carbonharbra and minnellium which was a lot of fun in 1999. I wasn't the only one to take the piss out of her about the latter so we spent some time one evening with me saying it one syllable at a time, she could say mi-llenn-ium but it always came out as minnellium when she said it quickly.
I will probably get banned for this (or at least get chased out the forum by an angry mob with pitchforks), but I often say expresso instead of espresso. Reason being is that’s what my dad calls it, so I actually learnt the wrong word from a young age and had it continuously reinforced that’s how it’s pronounced. Trying to kick the habit, but usually don’t notice I’ve said it until afterwards!
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