common mis-pronunciations

[wherethewildrosesgrow]

Since using Facebook, I've noticed a lot of people pronounce things wrongly,
Discusing instead of disgusting
Pacific instead of specific
Brought instead of bought
Tenderhooks instead of tenterhooks
and this ones my favourite....
chester draws instead of chest of drawers

It make me wonder if I'm unknowingly guilty of some without knowing ?
list the ones you've noticed, don't forget to own up to any your guilty of, I will.

I've seen 'soar' to mean 'sore'. That's spelt incorrectly though, not mispronounced.

Equality pronounced equALity rather than equOLity.

It's trivial but sounds so jarring and totally distracts me from what the other person is saying!

Andylion
Apparently the musical term derives from Italian and the other forte derives from french

Hunter clique is pronounced cleek.

ControVERsy instead of conTROVersy.

And yy to 'his'.

So how do you say forte and forte?

I think I say them the same - luckily I don't think I've said either very often.

Um, what's the difference between forte and forte? I would say FOR-teh in any context.

Aloud instead of either a loud or allowed.

But my real pet hate is gawjus (written) instead of gorgeous.

And I was always taught that CONtroversy was correct.

Me too NotMe, but I've just looked it up and it should be "fort" for "it's my forte".

Although some people argue that Fortay is the correct English pronunciation now.

His instead of He's!!!

I've come across that more often the other way round - e.g. "He went to get he's lunch and took he's car". Though I suspect that quite often autocorrect puts the apostrophe in. And yes, I have to sit on my hands not to point it out round here.

Actually, thinking about it, there are two mispronunciations that bug me.

Schedule, pronounced s-ked-ule
Nuclear, pronounced nuc-u-lar

Both American pronunciations spoken by English people. Grrr.

I think nuc-u-lar is wrong in the US as well - didn't Bush used to get ridiculed about it?

Orlando and delicate Weirdly enough, I would use either jam-packed or rammed to describe somewhere that is very busy. Never heard of ram-packed though, maybe a mix up of the two?

One that gets me a lot is the mix up between desert and dessert.

Forte (to be good at something) is pronounced fort
Forte (the musical term) is pronounced forté

Mabey for maybe is becoming more common.

Draws instead of drawers is most annoying!

I used to work with a lovely French lady who said 'donkey ears' instead of 'donkey's years'. We now regularly say it on purpose ☺

I thought "expresso" was the French translation of "espresso", which is Italian. And as it is an Italian drink we've adopted, we use the Italian word. So "expresso" is incorrect in English and Italian, but fine in French.

Nougat... I always pronounced 'nugget' until my husband heard me one day and corrected me! 'Noo-gah', sorry!

Splendide amongst the many, many things Bush was ridiculed for! H says it, but we both have a speech impediment so I josh him on that and he joshes me on mine, but it bugs me when I hear politicians say it.

ControVERsy instead of conTROVersy.

I know this isn't a defence on MN, but the former is the North American pronunucation.

And I was always taught that CONtroversy was correct.
No wait. NotMe is correct. I was focussing on the UK pronunciation in the other post.

I saw on here 'I had a wrestler's night' instead of restless!

Medcine instead of medicine.

Proply instead of properly.

Would/could/should of instead of have.

Penguin I'm glad someone got it!

Rosesarered yes, that was the joke. Y'know, mispronunciations and all