Mispronunciations that drive you nuts.

[Jeff Hahn]

The spelling nazi thread got me thinking. Do you know someone who consistenting mispronounces a word and it drives you nuts?

I had a 5th grade teacher who pronounced apostrophe as “apostafee.”

My maternal grandmother pronounced battery as “batree.”

The name of the local township where our cabin in Ontario is located is The Archipelago. My Mom always pronounced it as “Arch-ipelago” instead of “Arkapelago,” no matter how many times we corrected her.

I had a former tournament partner who always said that someone had “Old Timer’s Disease,” rather than Alzheimer’s Diesase...and he was serious and not making a play on words.

Life’s little pet peeves!

[Sunkist]

What's wrong with batree?!

[TampaJim]

You've really not experienced true mispronunciation until you spend time in Maine.
They actually change words around, adding/subtracting/morphing vowels primarily.
The good news is that you can enjoy both good company and food while listening.

[Doorman1]

My little sister is 55 and stills calls hamburgers, hangaburgers.

[Fedora]

Radiator pronounced rat e ater

wash pronounced worsh

supposedly pronounced suppasibly

[jc2bg]

Gamagatsu....

[njpaulc]

I was trying to get my masters in economics and had a professor from Genoa, Italy, who had a fairly heavy accent. He mispronounced many words, but one time he said a word so "strangely" it took me about 15 minutes to figure it out. I don't remember the word (although I though,t at the time, i would never forget it) but when I figured out what he said I almost jumped out of my seat cheering it was that obscure.

[Iowa Bass Hunter]

A few guys at work are always "axing" questions. Every time they "ax" a question I just want to laugh.

[fr8dog]

Nucular, sammich, and being from Western New York, it was always dis, dat, dem, and dere. (hey!)

[11pounder]

My wife is from small town New York and calls hamburger meat, hamburg meat she says it's not hamburger until it's pressed into a patty.

[grayline]

My buddy says "why dont anybody listen to any of my IDEALS"
My granny used to sit on the setee
Gayrage,dresher,warsher,foots,
From the hood... whats a case quarter? Whats a poke?

[RazorCat]

Living in the Deep South you get to hear the English language “transformed” on a daily basis. I grew up in Texas on the Texas/Arkansas/Louisiana border, and have traveled to every Southern state. It’s amazing how different the “lingo” can be from state to state.
But, the whole time I was growing up, and throughout all my travels all over the world in my 60 years, I’ve never heard a single person I’ve spoken to use the word “sammich”. Sounds plain silly.

[juice780]

People who can't pronounce Appalachian correctly. I went to Appalachian state and at the football games if the refs would mis pronounce it the whole crowd would boo.

[RonB59]

Spare tar = spare tire & crescent wranch = crescent wrench

[Dan21XRS]

Warsh for wash... Dan

[berudd]

When I see English butchered, especially here where there is plenty of butchering taking place, I always wonder if the same people carry on about all 'dem illegul aleeuns'.

Some good ones I see here are using 'seen' when you should use 'saw.: I seen a new boat yesterday. Then the guy here not long ago that said for all intensive purposes when he meant for all intents and purposes.

I'm sure it would result in a lot of hurt butts but would be funny to have a thread where you just cut and paste all the terrible grammar and spelling you find on BBC.

[FishinSkinny]

Cent and cents.

[Rude196]

Pockeeston. Not only did a supposedly well educated person pronounce it this way but he had some in the news media following along

[getfished]

Aks me any thing you want.

Have a goot one.

[Ranger RT]

You misspelled nuts... It's Nutz