Mispronunciation

• GOONx19

  

  People at UK accent the wrong syllables of words and it drives me crazy. Umbrella is not pronounce UMbrella. Insurance is not pronounced INsurance.
• ManO'War

  

  My Mom mispronounces so many words that I can't keep track. It's to the point that on holidays we will bring up her current faux pas.
• Bigred1995

  

  Is he foreign?
• ZWICK 4 PREZ

  

  Bigred1995;996259 wrote:Is he foreign?

  Kinda. He's from Dover.
• baseballstud24

  I remember a guy on here that used to spell "steroids" "steraroids"
• ernest_t_bass

  

  baseballstud24;996443 wrote:I remember a guy on here that used to spell "steroids" "steraroids"

  I miss sowing season.
• justincredible

  

  Cincinnat-uh.
• Midstate01

  

  In Ohio it's (lancaster) Lang-kis-ter not LangCassTer. Drove me nuts growing up.
• stroups

  

  Midstate01;996454 wrote:In Ohio it's (lancaster) Lang-kis-ter not LangCassTer. Drove me nuts growing up.

  
  I admit that I call it langcasster, I a also say Newark really fast so it comes out as nerk most of the time. If you want to see something funny go to Perry county and watch people order taco bell. I am not kidding you it is like the wild and wonderful whites of west virginia.
• Devils Advocate

  

  You farkin bastages are a bunch of iceholes....
• justincredible

  

  stroups;996526 wrote:I admit that I call it langcasster, I a also say Newark really fast so it comes out as nerk most of the time. If you want to see something funny go to Perry county and watch people order taco bell. I am not kidding you it is like the wild and wonderful whites of west virginia.

  I'm a Newark native and the correct pronunciation is Nerk.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  How do you all pronounce Louisville?
  
  - Loo-eees-ville
  - Loo-uh-vil
  - Loo-iss-ville
  - Loo-eee-ville
  - lvile
• Fab4Runner

  

  My boss is the worst of all time. We work in transportation and he cannot say 90% of the cities we deal with and even some of the states. He gets everyone's name wrong (it took him 8 months to learn how to say my last name) and I am convinced that he doesn't even try to read things...he just looks at the first few letters and guesses.
  
  His texts and emails are also a complete nightmare.
• justincredible

  

  ernest_t_bass;996562 wrote:How do you all pronounce Louisville?
  
  - Loo-eees-ville
  - Loo-uh-vil
  - Loo-iss-ville
  - Loo-eee-ville
  - lvile

  bolded
• Fab4Runner

  

  justincredible;996569 wrote:bolded

  Same.
• GOONx19

  

  ernest_t_bass;996562 wrote:How do you all pronounce Louisville?
  
  - Loo-eees-ville
  - Loo-uh-vil
  - Loo-iss-ville
  - Loo-eee-ville
  - lvile

  None of these. The Kentucky version, anyway, is pronounce Loo-will-ville.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  GOONx19;996577 wrote:None of these. The Kentucky version, anyway, is pronounce Loo-will-ville.

  That sounds beyond retarded. Loo-will-ville?
• GOONx19

  

  Yupp. I say it Loo-ee-ville and they get mad. So I continue saying it.
• Sykotyk

  

  My grandmother grew up in Western Pennsylvania and had some great ones. The most notable being: en-velps = envelopes. Never knew why she pronounced it in that manner. My father says "chwuh-nee" dollars instead of twen-tee. My father adds the 'r' to words that don't need it: Warshington D.C., "Warsh the car", etc. My friend's wife says "wooder" instead of 'wah-ter'.
• justincredible

  

  I say crick instead of creek.
• Timber

  Common ones that I hear mispronounced on a daily basis at work:
  
  Once = "Onced"
  Twice = "Twiced"
  Angioplasty = "Angioplastic"
  Chimney = "Chimley"
• Midstate01

  

  stroups;996526 wrote:I admit that I call it langcasster, I a also say Newark really fast so it comes out as nerk most of the time. If you want to see something funny go to Perry county and watch people order taco bell. I am not kidding you it is like the wild and wonderful whites of west virginia.

  
  Lol I'm from junction city... I've heard some bad bad language lol
• Midstate01

  

  justincredible;996693 wrote:I say crick instead of creek.

  
  Me too and my wife said only people from perry county say that, so she's wrong!!!
• Belly35

  

  Fab4Runner;996564 wrote:My boss is the worst of all time. We work in transportation and he cannot say 90% of the cities we deal with and even some of the states. He gets everyone's name wrong (it took him 8 months to learn how to say my last name) and I am convinced that he doesn't even try to read things...he just looks at the first few letters and guesses.
  
  His texts and emails are also a complete nightmare.

  ate when that appens
• Midstate01

  

  Words pronounced here in Hawaii
  How you doing is how's it
  Three is tree
  That's ok is no worries
  If its 3:30 it's tree tirty
  No thanks is no tanks
  
  I could go on all day. They sound very very uneducated, but for the most part they are. School is very much on the backburner here. If there are waves, most kids aren't at school. They get out at noon on wed and Friday's.
  It's pretty bad