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#1340761 - 02/10/10 01:56 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations DD Regs
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people who say q-pon instead of coo-pon for the word coupon.
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#1340764 - 02/10/10 02:02 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations A_G
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When my boss was in college, his professor used the word "euthenasia" several times in a lecture...and for a brief second, my boss wondered what "youth in Asia" had to do with the day's lesson...

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#1340770 - 02/10/10 02:17 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations A_G
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When I was a kid, wipers were wifers.
Hubby says Cherry-Os instead of Cheerios.
Nephew says lellow instead of yellow.
Mom & Dad pronounce Italian Eye-Talian.
My MIL says srimps instead of shrimp. (This one drives me NUTS!)


<--- Says q-pon.

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#1340777 - 02/10/10 02:30 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Ops
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I have a co-worker who says "flustrated" when she means "frustrated." (On a side note, the mom on "Little People, Big World" does this too. Drives me nuts.)

When he was younger, my son always called the remote control the "mo-ken be-trol."

When I was in high school, the song "We Are the World" first came out and a good friend of mine swore the lyrics said, "There comes a time when we eat a certain corn"!
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#1340782 - 02/10/10 02:38 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Hoosierland
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We have several people at my bank who cannot say idea, the say ideal. When did idea add an l onto it? LOL

Also, my Dad has a hard time saying things. For instance, instead of Fazoli's, he says Faziol's. He is also one to add "r"s to words that don't have them.

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#1340785 - 02/10/10 02:41 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Hoosierland
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My health teacher in high school would say hypotherami instead of hypothermia.
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#1340803 - 02/10/10 02:55 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations RR Sarah
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My boss awful at this! Here's a conversation he was having with some employees here:

"We have to be pacific when we're requesting documents from customers. We have all gotten a little compliant in how we do things, and that needs to change, myself included."

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#1340808 - 02/10/10 03:00 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Buccs
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Originally Posted By: Buccs
My boss awful at this! Here's a conversation he was having with some employees here:

"We have to be pacific when we're requesting documents from customers. We have all gotten a little compliant in how we do things, and that needs to change, myself included."


I'm thinking we might have the same boss Buccs. grin One of my faves is "varitable rate" instead of "variable rate".
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#1340809 - 02/10/10 03:01 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Bones
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How about when people pronounce regardless as irregardless. smirk mad
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#1340813 - 02/10/10 03:03 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Bones
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Nice to know he's not the only one.

Also I just realized one of my co-workers mispronounces 2 words. I will share her phone conversation:

"Do you like avocades? We made these great avocade enchilades last night and they were so good! But if you don't like avocades you probably wouldn't like them"

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#1340834 - 02/10/10 03:17 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations SunnyT
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Originally Posted By: SunnyT
Originally Posted By: Christina
Originally Posted By: Just Jay
My brother cannot say spaghetti... it's always been "noodles and sauce" in our house.


At our house, it's macaroni and gravy.... wink
I always thought that was a quirky Italian thing...


More of an eastcoast Italian thing..... that's what we call it too

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this phrase only applies to your mother's sauce, correct? And only if it is meatless?

I was so proud of myself for learning to make fabulous maranara and then all my (East Coast)Italian friends teased me that they NEVER call it sauce. I'm with you Jay...I'm German. But let's face it, Italians make better sauce/gravy/maranara....

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#1340837 - 02/10/10 03:19 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Christina
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<----- gets the best of both of those worlds! grin
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#1340843 - 02/10/10 03:24 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations A_G
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some people can't pronounce "nuclear"




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#1340866 - 02/10/10 03:41 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations A_G
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How about when people pronounce regardless as irregardless. smirk mad


Drives. Me. Crazy.

Also, when people say they 'borrowed' something to somebody, instead of 'lending' it. AARRGGHHH!!!!

My husband's family said some things kind of screwy that he picked up as a kid. He can't seem to get rid of some of them, and I stopped correcting him long ago, because he just gets cranky about it....
Instead of 'As a matter of fact..." he says 'matters of fact'...
Instead of 'still' in any sentence, he says 'yet'


And,
he says 'ambliance'. That's just something he can't pronounce, though smile
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#1340878 - 02/10/10 03:45 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations MadisonCali
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My wife, when talking about our son when he turned 1 would always say "1 years old."

Drove me nuts!

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#1340889 - 02/10/10 03:53 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Buccs
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I worked with a gal many years ago that could not pronounce memorandum. Alway said mendorandum.

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#1340894 - 02/10/10 03:54 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Buccs
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Yeah, my grandmother always puts a "t" at the end of worse. She is constantly mispronouncing words...but she's old and we just laugh in silence.

Buccs, I can't stand it when people say "1 years old" either. Drives me nuts. Also, saying liberry instead of library.
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#1340905 - 02/10/10 04:02 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Springtime
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I live in Massachusetts, and when I was a kid, whenever someone mentioned the Eye and Ear Infirmary, I always thought that it was the Iron Ear Infirmary. In Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville, one of the lines is 'looking for my lost shaker of salt'. I always thought it was 'looking for my lost sugar and song'.
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#1340912 - 02/10/10 04:04 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Spivol
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I have a pal who says "checkings account" instead of "checking account." That's a pet peeve.

Hubby says, "I'm gonna drink a couple beer" instead of "beers." We argue that one all the time. I keep tellin him "some beer, a few beers."

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#1340923 - 02/10/10 04:10 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations lynnway
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Originally Posted By: lynnway
In Jimmy Buffets Margaritaville, one of the lines is 'looking for my lost shaker of salt'. I always thought it was 'looking for my lost sugar and song'.


LMAO - until right now, I thought that was "looking for my lost sugar and salt" - not shaker! laugh Doh!

My college boyfriend's mom always said "I says" instead of "I said" or "I say". It drove me nuts. "And I says to her..." UGH!!!

I think someone already mentioned this (maybe I did), but it annoys me when someone says axterisk instead of asterisk. Or expecially instead of especially.
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#1340946 - 02/10/10 04:27 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Aggs
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The Fleetwood Mac song...line that says "just like a white winged dove".....my 15 year old was singing this in the car and I had to stop her and ask what she was singing..."just like a wild ranger"......

I just laughed and told her what the correct words were...she laughed and said..oh, that makes more sense!

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#1340947 - 02/10/10 04:27 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Ops
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[quote=VolOps]I have a pal who says "checkings account" instead of "checking account." That's a pet peeve.

Ugh, we have a member who does that, too. She says "shares checkins'" and "shares savins'" I can't stand it.
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#1340960 - 02/10/10 04:38 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations lynnway
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My sister is the queen...here are a few. She can't say aluminum at all so she just calls it tin foil. Oldtimer's instead of Alzheimers. Fustrated instead of Frustrated. The last two are like nails on a chalkboard and drive me nuts.

My daughter coined tuna hotfish when she was 2 and we still call it that instead of tuna hotdish.

My other daughter is speech delayed and nothing she says bothers me. smile My son also says lello instead of yellow, but he was delayed as well and I hold out hope that when he is older and in grade school that it will correct itself.
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#1340971 - 02/10/10 04:49 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Dip
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"warsh" instead of "wash" drives me nuts!
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#1340972 - 02/10/10 04:49 PM Re: Funny mispronounciations Ops
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Hubby says, "I'm gonna drink a couple beer" instead of "beers." We argue that one all the time. I keep tellin him "some beer, a few beers."


Does he have a couple of beer when he goes hunting deers? wink
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