Why Can't People Pronounce These Properly?

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

How about "jagwire" for jaguar?

January 31, 2007

pontifika commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

My boss says this all the time.

February 1, 2007

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Aaaargh!

February 1, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

AAAAAAAAAAGH!! This list makes my skin crawl!

February 2, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Thankfully, I've never actually heard anyone say "jagwire," so I'm going to pretend it never happens. Eeeeeyew...

February 2, 2007

oroboros commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Don't forget "excape"! :oP

February 2, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

You know, so many more people have added "rigamarole" to their lists than "rigmarole"... It makes me cry.

February 2, 2007

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

sangwich

February 2, 2007

inviolateandimmobile commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I think a huge part of my soul just died.

(But while I'm here, how about 'fith' (for fifth) and 'probly'?)

February 5, 2007

abraxaszugzwang commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I'm with you on everything except rigamarole. I am, however, going to change the spelling in my Rubbies list from axe to aks.

February 5, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Abraxas, I'm glad you mentioned that--I was wondering for a few days why you hated the word axe so much (I think it's kind of cool, if it's not being used in place of ask). Now I get it.

February 6, 2007

notanotherjazzpoet commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

This whole list gives me the heebie jeebies (which, interestingly enough, ninjawords doesn't recognize).

I'm racking my brain trying to think of the myriad mistakes freshmen composition students make. Updates forthcoming with the newest batch of papers.

February 8, 2007

trivet commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

feb-u-ary, jew-lery, could care less?

February 8, 2007

abraxaszugzwang commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

My mother hates jewelry pronounced that way, but the british spelling is jewellery and the word jewel is pronounced jool, so jewl-ery.

February 8, 2007

wunderkammer commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Old Timer's disease, anacronym

February 9, 2007

sionnach commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

grevious, liberry book, should of, incent, nuptuals, she was prostate on the couch, chaise lounge, 'you've got another thing coming', mash potatoes, mute point, acrost

February 23, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Thanks for all the "great" additions. I can add words to this only a few at a time, and can't read the list more than once a week or it gives me hives.

February 23, 2007

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

You're a brave Wordie, chained_bear.

February 23, 2007

repsac3 commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I love this list... I know it's wrong, but I find some of these have a certain "charm"... (But then, I'm a fan of Spoonerisms, Yogiisms, & Farberisms, too...)

August 27, 2007

annabethblue commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I just 'favorited' this list because it creeps me out so much! I'm not sure what that says about me.

Not sure if you can work this in...but how about when people say "nine-one-one" instead of "nine-eleven" for September 11th? That one really drives me crazy.

September 18, 2007

uselessness commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Likewise, I suppose, when people refer to the emergency number as "nine-eleven." Although to be honest I think my beef is the whole thing about calling the day 9/11 instead of something with more meaning. Apparently the day has been designated as Patriot Day, but I find that name unbearably jingoistic and can't bring myself to say it.

September 18, 2007

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Agreed, uselessness. But I wonder whether it'll just take more historical distance from the actual event(s) for that to happen. When did Pearl Harbor Day start being called Pearl Harbor Day? Anyone know?

It'd be hard to assign 9/11 a name like that, though, since the attacks happened in three separate places. Still, I too can't bring myself to call it Patriot Day.

September 18, 2007

john commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

With all due respect, 9/11 should be called "Freedom Day."

In no small part because Patriot Day is already taken, and taken seriously in Maine and Massachusetts.

September 18, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I don't call it Pearl Harbor Day, I call it December 7th. And for some reason I can't bring myself to say "9/11" either, I say "September 11th."

I don't know about Freedom Day, Patriot Day, whatever. It was a monumentally sucky day. No amount of happy adjectives is going to make me forget what it felt like to watch that stuff happening, so I'd just as soon call it "September 11th" and hope that other people understand. If I'm lucky enough to live for decades and decades, and I'm one of the last people who's old enough to remember that feeling, I'll just have to trust that the following generations will try to understand.

Just like I try to understand how December 7th felt.

Anyway... wow! These comments really went off on a tangent!

I'm glad folks are likin' on this list. It still makes me feel itchy and allergic to read it!

September 28, 2007

skipvia commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Flustrated?

October 11, 2007

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Saaay, I like that, skipvia! Flustered and frustrated at the same time. :-)

October 11, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Ohhhh, yuck! That's a good one!

October 30, 2007

cathari commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

What about "sammich" for "sandwich"? My friend once interrupted a conversation to praise me for saying this properly. Now I can't stop noticing that everyone else pronounces it wrong. I've never heard "sangwich", though.

October 31, 2007

arby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I secretly like sammich. I know it's wrong, but it's just so cute. And I'm still not convinced that rigamarole is even wrong. Rigmarole sounds wronger to me.

October 31, 2007

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Me too, arby! I like rigamarole better. It sounds more like what it is.

However, the rest of this list makes me itchy. ;-)

October 31, 2007

arby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Yeah! Rigmarole doesn't have enough syllables to be appropriate.

October 31, 2007

arby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

What about kerfuffle vs. kerfluffle? Personally I like the first but hate the latter, and yet more people seem to use the version with the extraneous "l". Why, God, why??

*shakes tiny fists*

October 31, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Stop saying rigamarole. It gives me hives.

Pretty please. ;)

October 31, 2007

jeff commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Off kahilter annoys me.

October 31, 2007

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Only if you stop saying sez. ;->

October 31, 2007

rocksinmypockets commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

C-b, this list is awful! I mean wonderful! I mean awful!

Oh, how about "ornt juice"? I used to think it was kind of cute. That wore off.

November 8, 2007

rolig commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

In Baltimore, we say: "seeya downy ocean hun" when we're planning a rendezvous in Ocean City.

December 6, 2007

pomegranate commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Tell me that I am not wrong in my pronunciation of iron as it is spelled. People all around me say "iern" and insist they are correct! Also, how do you pronounce "excelsis"?

Great list, c_b!

December 6, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Terribly sorry to disappoint, pomegranate... I say "i-earn." Also "ex-chell-sees" is actually the Latin pronunciation, which I only hear (and say) in Christmas carols. But I can see how any other pronunciation would grate on one's nerves.

December 6, 2007

bilby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I-ern-ically, I think I-ron doesn't quite cut it, though you can probably sell the name to Apple.

December 6, 2007

mollusque commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

How about "suprise"?

December 6, 2007

mollusque commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Reading this list is like running into bobbed wire.

December 11, 2007

bilby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I never pronunce any fink properly. I'm from Straya. I'm a Phil Stein.

December 11, 2007

mollusque commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

How about "surpress" for suppress and "bolth" for both?

January 28, 2008

cricket commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

How about liberry? or crown? (crayon)

March 10, 2008

frindley commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

1. fillum (for film)

2. using "ink" in words that should end in "ing", e.g. "anythink"

My experience of "guesstimate", however, is that it's used knowingly and deliberately as a semi-humorous device, not out of ignorance or carelessness.

March 30, 2008

rolig commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

These things use to get on my nerves; now I just live widdem.

My 7th-grade English teacher, Miss Dibert, always used to say certainy instead of certainly. I never understood where that came from.

March 30, 2008

yarb commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

My boss is forever asking me to "flush out" certain points in reports etc. Flesh! I scream silently. Flesh out!

May 23, 2008

dontcry commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Is "shaguar" OK? 'Cause I LOVE saying shaguar! Yeah baby!

May 23, 2008

reesetee commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Go on & flush 'em out, yarb. That'll show them.

May 23, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Belatedly adding words people have kindly suggested here. Thank you, and sorry for the delay!

October 10, 2008

bilby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Orf.

October 10, 2008

sarra commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

secertary :(

cyumoonity :( :(

October 10, 2008

sarra commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

Oh god, literry. Someone on the radio today announced a "literry quiz".

October 14, 2008

bilby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I've head esculation a few times recently.

October 29, 2008

frindley commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

We need verbage, of course!

And perhaps old-timers disease.

October 29, 2008

mollusque commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

How about disgard for discard, perhaps influenced by disregard?

October 30, 2008

nuxiy commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

I think americans tend to pronounce "Aluminium" as "Aluminum"

May 19, 2009

nuxiy commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

... and Cabriolet is a tough one

May 19, 2009

bilby commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

The news keeps telling me Stralya is vunnerable to swine flu.

July 21, 2009

chained_bear commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

... you have my sympathy.

July 21, 2009

Imakeabunchoflists commented on the list why-can-t-people-pronounce-these-properly

costed, guesstimate, and utilize, aren't mispronunciations, they're just words. ice tea is no worse than ice cream. heighth is older than height.

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