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I had to make this a topic because I heard a discussion about it on the radio a few days ago. It's a tad nerdy, but there are some words that I just have to grit my teeth when mispronounced. I pick and choose who to correct, of course.
So here's my short list: I hate it when people pronounce
asphalt as ashphalt,
the t in often (It's fucking silent, like the t in soften or softener!),
Ramen Noodles as Roman Noodles,
conversated instead of conversed,
and also snuck instead of sneaked.
What are your pet peeves as far as pronunciation and word confusion go?
First, it depends on who is saying it, as to how annoyed I get. Someone who is a public speaker or radio or tv person infuriates me much more, because I'm thinking they should know better.
When someone is trying to get away they are not trying to ex cape. Now, if you are talking about a garment of clothing that once was a cape, maybe so. the term for and so forth is not ex setera, but etc
Lou
Especially as "Expecially"
Or the word "orientated." WHat's what about?
I'd be interested to find out whether this is just a thing that is common in England, or on the other side of the pond also. But it seems to me that one in four people...even edducated and well spoken people over here, pronounce specific, pecific. Why do they do it? Its not an ocean!
I just can't understand how that has become so common. People see it written down and still say pecific.
I get angry just thinking about it...lol.
I've heard that too, although not very often. There's only two that get on my nerves, but wow, do they ever get on my nerves.
nuclear pronounced "nucular".
I saw said as "I seen".
Other than that, the rest isn't too terribly bad.
I really hate to admit this, but orientat is a word. God knows it is misused, but it really is a word. How I wish I could ban it from the language because of the abuse it suffers. *smile*.
Related to this is when you ask someone an opinion about something and they might say "what you want to do is..." or "what you need is..." I want to scream, "Don't dictate my wants or needs. You don't know anything about either." *smile*.
Lou
I also hate when people say nucular or orgasm instead of organism.
And I don't like it when people say you need or want to do this. How about I suggest you do this, or in order for this to happen, this should be done. That doesn't bother me as much though.
Cam, a lot of people say pacific over here too. Quite annoying.
February as Feb-u-ary. It's Feb-ru-ary, and even people I know who make their living by using their voices mispronounce it. Arg.
Hundred as hun-derd or hun-dert. Dude. What's up with not being able to pronounce a medial R, one that's in the middle of a word?
Often as off-ten. Same deal, why do so few people recognize that that T is a silent one?
I'm sure there are others, but those are just the few that've cropped up in the last week.
OK, here are mine.
People who say they are going to, warsh,their clothes, or dishes. It's wash! I'd love to know where people get the R in there.
My oldest sister says pellow, instead of pillow, and, melk, instead of milk.
Also had a friend that could not say the word ambulance. she always said ambliance.
lol Alicia.
Mine would be my name...if ya have jaws it's Lakeriay as some people would like to call it Lakeria rhyming with bacteria...and my other one is liberry instead of libruary...and one more is skreet instead of street. I know I may be in the south where we already have terrible slang, but...all I ask of these folks to say these two words correctly.
I think my greatest annoyance is when people call Aluminium aluminum.
I thought I already posted my comments but can't find them, so here goes again.
I hate it when people pronounce the t in valet. I hear this most often when listening to an audio book. I also find a lot of people pronounce forte as fort. Again, I mostly see this in audio books.
I used to know someone who always said brought when he meant bought. He also said libary for library. I used to tease him and tell him to take that extra r out of bought and put it in libary and he would then be pronouncing both words correctly.
Hahaha, I forgot about libarry. I've heard that one way too many times.
when i was a tiny child i had a speech impediment. i still can't say some things correctly. for heavens sakes people, let's have some tolerance here. my dad had a sever hearing loss. He mispronounced tacos, chicago, and oprah til the day he died. They were tarcos, chicargo, and okra as in the veggie. also thief was fieth. i can't say penguin, denim, cinnamon, , statistics, or battery properly. also volley ball and a lot of other stuff. i'm not ignorant or uneducated. i just can't say these words.
I don't think any of us is criticizing someone with a hearing loss, or a speech impairment. My niece had a speech impairment when she was little, too. I have known several with hearing loss. It makes perfect sense that they will mispronounce words. We're talking about people who have no medical reason such as that. I think you're being a bit oversensitive here.
I agree with Alicia. I wouldn't make fun of a hearing impaired person, and I don't think anyone posting to this topic meant any offense. . The examples I gave involve people who narrate books for a living and should know how to pronounce common words. The other examples I gave were meant to be humorous. The guy I mentioned was actually happy to have someone explain the difference between bought and brought to him.
perhaps i'm sensitive but I've had many people make fun of me because i call a penguin a pink win. they feel it is their sworn christian duty to correct me. Also many of the things people have discussed are regionalisms. for example people from philadelphia say warsh for wash. lots of baltimore residents call the sink a zinc. we have gotten so indoctrinated by the radio and tv that we think that regional differences are bad. they are interesting and what makes our country great. who needs cookie cutter speech anyway?
My ex used to go into a bar and ask for a picture of beer. People always looked at him like he was nuts and had no idea what the hell he was talking about. He also used to take pitchers with the camera. I tried explaining the difference between picture and pitcher until I was blue in the face. It never helped. Glad I don't have to listen to that crap anymore. And for the record, he wasn't deaf or impaired in any way. He was just a moron. There's a big difference between regional oddities and people with hearing and speech impairments. I think we all understand the difference and are only talking about educated, unimpaired people who should know better so relax.
I give my family and friends who do stuff like this friendly crap for it. My dad is one who says "warsh," for example. But if I just hear someone mispronounce a word, I'm not going to say anything. Like if I met you on the street, Turricane, and heard you mispronounce "penguin," I'd not have said a thing. It is true that if it's a stranger, I don't know if they have some extenuating circumstance, or what region of the country they may be from. Second, if they're a stranger, it's not my place to correct them. My family and friends I can give a hard time to in good fun, and they do not take offense.
I can't stand when people say axed. "Can I axed you something? Why can't people say ask?
also, It's walmart not walmark.
ocean dream, i appreciate what you said. friends and family can teas e me all they want. strangers not so much.
all this aside, here are ones that get my goat. there are two states in new england called massachusetts and conneticutt. this friend of mine's mom calls them connect-a-cut and mass-a-two-shits.
you know those things that wale on ambulances called sirens? this same person calls the vehicle and am blanz and the nthing that makes that loud noise the zy-reen.
Hhahahaha, si-reen is a regional thing too, I think. I remember when I was about nine, I went with my parents for a family reunion on my Mom's side, in Arkansas. An ambulance drove past, and one of the women, who had this really deep southern drawl was like, "Did yall hear them si-reens?"
Most people who pronounce Connecticut and Massachusetts as you describe do it deliberately, at least the ones I know. They do it to annoy the hell out of other people. But I'm sure there are some who genuinely say them that way.
I actually find myself occasionally saying picture instead of pitcher, but it's something I'm trying to work on, and I correct myself nine times out of ten.
I hate HATE HATE if when people pronounce the S in states like "Illinois". It's not Illa Noise, people!
And It's Louieville", not "Louis Ville."
Sheeeeeeesh!
tele-pathy instead of telepathy
miwk instead of milk (but I make fun of that so it isn't so bad)
I hear you, Musician. I'm originally from Iowa, and I get so sick of hearing Illinois pronounced with the S, or the capital city of Iowa, which is Des Moines, getting pronounced Dez Moinez.
I'm from the Philadelphia area and I hate warsh for wash. Pitcher for picture drives me nuts too. Ax for ask is another one. I also hate the term conversate for converse. This is a great topic, smile.
Or that way certain northerners from certain realms of existence say things like coffee and talk and walk. Jesus, your mouths are not constantly full.
Or Wisconsin as Wis Consin.
dex instead of desk brefix instead of breakfast ly berry instead of library mac donalds instead of mcdonalds. I knew someone who would say grannit instead of granted. Has anyone because of only hearing a word pronounced by jaws pronounced it wrong? Lol my two were serotonin and melatonin.
Oh yeah, then there's Brefkis instead of Breakfast and Diks instead of Disk. I need to find the right computer diks. Uhm, I believe the word you wanted was disk.
lol! You know how Jaws says "ploojin" instead of "plug-in?" My friend mispronounced that at work once!
I know someone who absolutely hates it when people mispronounce words ending in ING. Coming equals cummeen, dating turns into dayteen and such.
LOL, I know this is showing my stupidity, but I never bothered to wonder what "ploojin" meant. I didn't realize it was supposed to be plug in.
I want to stick a fork in my temple when someone says "nother," instead of 'other," mostly as in, "that's a whole nother story." I've also heard a lot of people say "pitcher," when trying to say "picture." Ah, and nothing like finding out you're pronouncing someone's name the Jaws way.
As a very English English person living in the American mid west I must say that for the most part I have come round to subscribing to the view that the world would be a vastly less interesting place if we all pronounced everything exactly the same. That said there are still some things that I haven't yet, and indeed probably never will get used too. The habit here for example of pronouncing additional S's in words. So for example, instead of saying something is in the girls' room people will go out of their way to say something is in the girls'es room.
Acrossed instead of across is another one that I hear a lot. As in "The store you're looking for is acrossed the street", instead of across the street.
The only one I can actually say that really grates on me though is the general American habit of pronouncing the I in Iraq as an "I" sound. So IRaq instead of Iraq. Interestingly the programmers of eloquence have at least gotten that one right. It just seems to me that if you're going to invade a country, you should at least show the common courtesy of pronouncing it's name correctly first.
In the interest of balance I should tell you all that this isn't a one-way-street. My wife constantly picks on me for adding an "E R" sound at the end of words ending in an "A". So Pizzer instead of pizza for example. Of course she is off her rocker and totally wrong in this assertion but still, I may as well tell you because if I didn't, she would. LOL.
Interestingly my take is completely the opposite. I think that the English often make an "A" sound instead of "E R" at the end of words because we're actually very lazy with the "R" sound in words generally. So murda instead of murder, cracka instead of cracker and so on. So next time you speak to an English person, have a listen and judge for yourselves.
Dan.
Dan, I've heard both. Maybe it's not a matter of being lazy, but just switching sounds, A for ER and vice versa.
I've got a whole side of my family saying their STR's wrong. Stressed equals scressed, construction becomes conscruction. One of my aunts turns her AR's into OR's sometimes. The one example I can remember was when she said something was retorded instead of retarded. My friend and I nearly busted guts at that one!
Here's one that I've been stumbling over forever. The noun for the word miscellaneous is miscellany. Jaws says Miss-Selleny when it's actually supposed to be misssa-laynie.
Another Midwestern trait, and I can personally vouch for this since I've got a lot of family from that area, is the tendency to add a bit of an A sound to the end of words ending in an O or Y sound Goa instead of go or kittya instead of kitty.
Dan, that er sound at the end of words made by you Brits doesn't bother me too much in actual conversation, however, I've actually had written communications on here and other places with Brits who actually write words out spelled with an er at the end where they don't belong. That bugs me more than hearing it in actual conversation.
Here's my list (Correct word first, then incorrection):
spaghetti- basketti
Illinois- Illinoise
Arkansas- Arkansis
Particular- puh tick uh ler
Etcetera- excetera
Sheep- sheeps
Fish- fishes
Ambulance- ambalamps
Hospital- hostible
Probably- probly
How're you?- How's you?
...and these all came from grown, educated, unimpaired adults.
it might be something to do with accents a lot of the time.
I've heard how's you and generally I think it's just some people's idea of being cute, not an indication that they don't know how are you is more correct.
Well, it's annoying none the less...and it makes me cringe!
Oh yeah! the mention of acrossed instead of across reminded me of something else that my ex used to say. The ex, and his whole family all put a t on the end of once and twice. I can't even get Jaws to say that crap it's so messed up. Idiots. And the ex also said groein instead of groin. It was all I could do to not bust out laughing when he said that to a doctor and the guy had no idea what he meant. Good times.
I've been laying here this morning unable to recapture sleep and my mind wandered back to this subject so instead of sleeping, I've come up with some more irritating speech mannerisms.
Firstly the predominately English habit of replacing the "TH" sound in words with an "F" sound. "Fing" for "thing", "fought" for thought etc. Why do so many people from my side of the pond do that?
Another one I've thought of, and this is possibly another mid-westerner thing, no matter how many times you say the word, "littler" doesn't appear in any dictionaries. The word you seem incapable of using is smaller!
But never mind all of the above, I have come up with my ultimate pet peeve. For some reason this has annoyed me beyond all reason since about the age of 5, and I've even known of teachers that teach this one, pronouncing the letter "H" as "Haiche". I'd actually like to recommend compulsory death by firing squad until people start saying "H" properly! Mind you, I'm probably not going to make any friends with that suggestion because I'm willing to bet that even the majority of contributors to this board do that one. LOL.
Dan.
Haiche! lol that one's always amused me, I don't know why.
I used to date someone who replaced the TH with F. I didn't mind it until he started spelling things with no regards to the actual pronunciation, but then again, he probably didn't hear proper TH's when it mattered. And I've heard him try to say TH, it sounds like, "Feh'''vvv'''vvthhh'''vver," and amuses me. even though it shouldn't. So some people never even learn how to say TH let alone where it is in words. What's interesting is that he doesn't usually put F in place of TH, he writes PH. Well, that's closer to spelling than F, lol
onvelope instead of envilope. It's an E N folks. Not an O N. Notice the E sound? Eh, eh, eh. It just gets to me.
I've always found that to be a bit of a strange one though and over the years, perhaps some what oddly, I've found myself pronouncing it either way. It is a word taken from the French though originally and so technically the "ON" pronunciation is quite likely the more correct one. I think the "EN" sound only came in because over the centuries it has been anglicized.
We've taken plenty of other French words though beginning with "EN" and yet stuck with the "ON" pronunciation, encore, ensemble, entree, entourage, and entrepreneur to name a few. Yet with all of those we'd consider it odd if the "EN" sound was used at the beginning.
Not only is our own language often hard to dissemble, but we even manage to make other languages confusing also.
Dan.
pecific instead of spacific.
expecially instead of especially.
ketch up instead of catch up.
Haiche? I've never heard that one. Ever. Actually I've never heard most of these.
How about this one? Where we at instead of where are we?
Oh I always want to scream when I har somebody say "It was tooken from me." instead of "It was taken from me." Oh yes and some people say ax instead of ask. I feel like saying "Can I ax your head off for asking that question incorrectly?" Lol
Dan, interesting point about the French derivitives. However, I feel that in this anglosized world of ours we must adapt. The rules of language are often bent.
Oh and I heard cup-board instead of cupboard. Just because it's spelled that way doesn't mean you say it that way.
Funnily enough that last post was a bit contradictory, though I doubt it was meant to be. lol
Was it? Well my mind has only been half there as of late but thank you for pointing out my inadiquicy. rofl.
Aargh, too many big words, brain reaching critical mass.... lmao
Agree with post 46 about the envelope. It's an envelope, not an onvelope! Oh I can't get jaws to pronounce it anyway. I also find the ketch up instead of catch up irritating! My mobility instructor when I was at school was originally from London I think and she used to say that one all the time when she said something about going to catch up with someone or something! Gurr'rr'rr'rr'rrr'rrr'rrr'rrrr'rr'rr'rrrr????? That was annoying!
Lmao leele.
lol margorp.
Aks instead of ask seems to be very common among African Americans I've noticed, although I have heard others use it occasionally. As for the Envelope thing I'll use either pronunciation. But what really grates on my nerves is when people pronounce the H in words beginning with WH. This usually occurs at the beginning of the word, so white becomes H'wite and what becomes H'wat, you get the idea. They pronounce it as though the H was first instead of after the W. I don't know why this annoys me so much but it does. Anyway the H is silent.
A lot of good ones hear that I agree with. Ax for ask, pitcher for picture, excape for escape, expecially for especially, and on and on. One of the biggies for me is when some people say "How are yous guys?" Grrr.
Bryan, I thought that was just a Family Guy thing. Lol, Cool-h’whip…
Oh no. I had a lot of teachers particularly in elementary school who did that. In fact Family Guy might even have been spoofing the practice now that I think about it. I don't know if it's a dialectical thing or what, though certainly that can't be the only explanation since I've known people who had no discernable accent or dialect and yet they still did it. Like I said I don't know exactly why it grates on me but it does.
how about chacolate instead of chocolate. Wierd.
One thing that annoys me is how Jaws mispronounces things. I actually have a three-page list of words that I add to the dictionary whenever I get a new version. For example, Weerdo is waerdo, Ahmish is aymish, chockletty's chocolatey, you get the idea.
I've never seen the choclaty mispronunciation but I know Amish and whatnot.
Or how about "asterix," or "asterik," for asterisk.
Many of the aforementioned words really get to me as well. My dad says "melk," and it drives me nuts. Same with "pellow." I believe I heard someone at the dentist's office pronounce it as "pallow" once--no joke.
And since living on the East Coast over the past few years, I have certainly encountered more than my fair share of "Yous guys," and "yous twos." I'm having to learn to just grin and bear it.
I also find myself highly annoyed when I hear people pronouncing the plurals of words ending in "s t" or "x t" by adding an extra consonant, e.g. "breakfastes" instead of "breakfasts," and "textes" instead of "texts."
People in the south say Monday as mondy! And I don't know whye! that is not propper inglesh! People up North speek better than people in the south. Damm whye don''t we speek propperely? I'm from the south, But I'm glad I don't sound Like that!
"cacophiny" I've heard many a verbal miss pronunciation if the afor mentioned word. Oh, and lest I mention my own name!
The south thing is at least partially dialectical though. Sort of like Aks instead of Ask.
Sometimes I joke with a friend and say "fridey" or "mondey" to make fun of how people sometimes say it.
That thing about adding the a at the end of some words like what post 37 was saying also annoys me. I also don't like when Spanish words are pronounced incorrectly. An example would be when the short e sound is pronounced as long a (such as "Hohzay" instead of Jose. *sigh* Oh well, some screenreaders will still mispronounce it either way. I can understand if someone can't roll their r's; I even have trouble with that at times, but otherwise Spanish words shouldn't be hard to pronounce correctly.
This made me giggle and not cringe as such, but on Twitter the other day somebody mentioned use of duck tape. I know that can go by rather quickly with speech, but yeah, that's instead of D U C T tape, they said duck tape. Wha, so you took a roll of Scotch tape and attached it to a row of ducks, so the ducks are taped together? Youch!
lmao Chris; I've yet to hear the duct tape one!! hahaha.
alsome, instead of awesome. how the fuck do people come up with that one? wow.
who knows.
Well I used to think it was Duck Tape. LOL.
rofl.
I knew a girl in high school, and no she wasn't blind, who wrote 'taken for granite' in a paper, rather than 'taken for granted'. Anyone can misunderstand if they have not seen the text written, but that one was funny considering.
interesting.
Taken for Granit. LOL. I think I've heard that one before.
I agree about the excape, but I've never heard it pronounced it that way. Regarding Inquisitive intensity's first post, with Sunck is gramaticaly correct while sneaked is not. You can't say I sneaked a cookie from the cookie jar, you can on the other hand say i snuck a cookie from the cookie jar.
Turricane, Please don't be offended. I also can't pronounce some words, and for example Penguin in russian (my native language) is pronounced just the way you do. There is nothing to be afraid of and we don't mean to hurt your feelings in any way.
Lol, this is funny kuz I agree with a lot of these words. I freakin hate it when people say Warsh, and hwip cream. hahaha, my grandma says it like hwip cream and I tease her relentlessly. I say Ax for ask, so it don't bug me kuz I say it constantly. lol, I also say pitcher for picture and I say ya's a lot. I hate when people say of-ten, and mondee instead of monday. Oh my God, my grantma says mondee too. lol, also pellow for pillow or melk for milk piss me off. My family has been known for saying "peellow." Heh, very thick Hispanic accents I reckon.
But what get's on my nerves to the point that I laugh histerically is how some people pronounce W. Dubblia, dubbia, dubbliea, etc. hahaha, another grandmother special. I say asterix and dex, pretty much any word with SK I switch and say it like an X.
Jessie
It's never crossed my mind to get offended at mispronunciations of things.
Now some make a person look silly, like a public figure saying 'nucular', but I couldn't say it offended me.
Well, here goes my fourth try at a post to this topic, maybe it'll go through this time.
I think it should be a capital offense for English teachers to end a sentence with the word with. So when they say things like "I'll take those with" instead of "with me". I believe for other teachers it should not be a capital offense, just a crime worthy of at least ten years in prison. Thankfully, after I told my English teacher about his complete misunderstanding of grammar in front of the class, he has stopped. By the way, he is one of those teachers who are good that way, he wouldn't yell at me or anything. Also, I once asked my mom to help me find a cd because I had burned some plugens onto it and I had made my sister label it for me , the wrong spelling.
Ugh, I hate it when people say stuff like excape, expecially, basically any word where they say an x instead of an s. I even heard someone say excort instead of escort, come on.
Oh definitely. Or the ones who pronounce certain state names as two words. Wis Consin instead of Wisconsin. Of course part of that may be dialectical but not always. Or the ones who add a letter. I had a friend who used to do that all the time. Winsconsin instead of Wisconsin. Actually it was more like Wins Consin. Whatever the case it still got on my nerves since I consider Wisconsin my home state even though I wasn't born there.
wow. lol
Yeah. Even my wife does stuff like that. With words that have silent letters she pronounces the silent one. So she pronounces the L in Salmon.
Winsconson, lol. Well, I say excape, ax, all that shit. I'd say that's my worse problem.
Was reading through this post and everybody seems to have mentioned some of my pet peeves already, but there's one that I heard once that stopped me in my tracks. I once knew a physician who pronounced "pharynx" as "pharnix" and "larynx" as "larnix".
for the person who said fishes annoys them, they'd better go to all the scientiffic publications about our marien friends and yell at the editors. in those settings fishes is appropriately used.
People who pronounce animal aminal kill me.
Oh yes and a few years ago i was at a conference and this woman was talking about us being "umble." It took me quite a few minutes, in which I wasn't listening to her points to realize she was speaking of "humble."
Pharnix and larnix? Gees, sounds like that doc had better get his or her ass back to medical school. lol Just when I thought I had heard them all ... Wow.
As for the posts mentioning haiche, I have heard that one before. *squirms ...*
I actually had a Hehlth teacher who did the Larnyx thing. And she said it was an acceptable pronunciation.
I thought haiche was dialectical. I've got a good friend that says several words with H in them that way.I remember the first time he said I'm dropping it off in the haiche Q, I laughed. Needless to say I always think of that playing hellmoo now.
I've heard that Haiche thing is also common in some parts of Britain. But the Aks ting is wa really gets on my nerve, or when people pronounce he silent letters in words. My x used to say southern as south ern and Salmon as Sallmon, things like that.
Okay, I had no idea people were still posting to this, but it's a damn good topic.
I heard of haich since I speak with people who reside in the UK. I don't have a problem with it. It makes since because of words like hate, have, and heart. But what I hate is when they pronounce the h in words like herb. They don't pronounce the h in hour, so come on!
Also, as for the hw for words beginning with wh, I read a book in which the narrator pronounced all his wh's like that. I thought I might die! It was a good book though, so I survived.
Another thing I hate is when people say nucular instead of nuclear, or orgasm instead of organism. I've even heard people pronounce words this way while reading. Can we not read?
Earlier this summer, I went out to dinner with my family, and the waitress said had tooken. Very rude, but I gave her the what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you look. I'm sorry, had took is bad enough. But had tooken! That is a fatal error.
Also, my dad says ast instead of ask. So he'll say: "Go ast her." That makes my heart stop for a second!
My O and M instructor always said acrosst instead of across. Quite bothersome.
Funny story: One time while my mother was working on her second master's degree, she took my brother and me up to her school. We were standing on the balcony of a building and my brother read the sign on a building across the way. He read: "Student Onion." Even though the sign obviously said union. I laughed my ass off!
It just goes to show how screwed up this language is. Why can't it just be like Spanish where words are pronounced as they are spelled?
lol, I hate it the most when people say "O" for "OU" like, abote instead of about. I believe that's a Chicago accent though, it just annoys me. Like how they pronounce their A vowl sound, like back and hat. Can't describe it in writing, it's almost like they're saying "Be-ack" or "He-at." lol, idk.
I intensely dislike it when I hear people say "gooder" "funner" and "I seen" And yes, I've heard well-educated adults say these.
"irregardless" is another one. OH, and "all of the sudden".
One of my best friends says "melk" instead of "milk" and my sister says "pellow' instead of "pillow". My French grandfather often refers to homework as "homeworks". My equally French grandmother says "My hairs" instead of "my hair".
The hayche thing...I've only encountered it once. I had a chemistry teacher from Newfoundland who would pronounce it that way and it was actually more amusing than it was irritating.
This one isn't overly common, but I have heard people say "bating suit" instead of "bathing suit" and it drives me mad.
Oh, and let's not forget "Eyetallian" instead of "Italian"
The "nuclear" versus "nucular" thing is also a major irritation.
However, despite these irritations, I do recognize that certain "mispronunciations" are a result of differences in region and dialect, and I have a deep love of different accents and manners of speech. So, I don't mind much when people mispronounce stuff on the whole.
-Meglet
Aaaaaaahhh! I totally forgot about irregardless or all of a sudden.
It's amazing that we grow up in this country and people still can't figure out this language, or they just make a conscious decision to slaughter it.
There are an astonishing amount of people who just don't care. I have corrected friends and family members (though I'd never correct someone on the street, of course) and they say that they know the difference but they don't really care and want to continue on the way they have been.
Oh...I've just remembered that some people say "supposably" instead of "supposedly" as well.
Or for all intensive purposes instead of for all intents and! purposes.
Omg, for some reason this one bugs me quite a bit. When elliquence mispronounces Berak in BerakObomma. God, every time I try to add an entry to the jaws dictionary that sounds right, it doesn't. And what make it really sad is that I don't even like him as our president, and it still gets on my nerves! Argh!
It pronounces his last name correctly even when it's spelled correctly as Obama. But it's not a common name so you have to expect it wouldn't necessarily get it right.