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.

'Nitch', 'click' and 'envelope' are anglicised versions of French words - 'neesh', 'cleek' and 'onvelope' have more of a nod to the original pronunciation. I suspect that the various pronunciations go in and out of fashion.

Oh, more on topic, I saw "peaked my interest" a few days ago.

'Proberly' instead of 'probably'

And yy to 'of' instead of 'have'

Confusion over woman and women drives me crazy.

No one confuses man and men so why does the addition of "wo" throw people off so often?

Someone on the news said k-woo for coup, which wasn't even saying it incorrectly by saying it phonetically it was mighty strange.

Thigh food instead of Thai food

"Obvioushly"
Grrr!

I kind of understand the confusion/mispronunciation of woman and women.

When you say 'woman', you don't really say the 'man' at the end - it's more wo-min. And women is pronounced more like wi-min. Sort of like when you say the surname 'Goldman', you don't really say Gold-man, you say Gold-min.

Here in NZ though, everyone seems to pronounce them both as wo-min.

Spelling wise rediculous gets to me.

mischievEEous

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Prostrate instead of prostate irritates. Myself instead of me or I. And it's heart rending, not heart wrenching FGS!

I had a DH (now divorced) who would say "what I done was"
It's "did" not "done"
he would also say "I come into the room and saw bla bla " when talking about the past
No no no - it's " I came into the room and saw bla bla"
I accept this is grammar rather than pronunciation but I hated it and contributed to our marriage's ultimate demise
Oh and I heard a woman on the radio today (at camber sands being interviewed about the tragedy of the men drowning there yesterday) who didn't pronounce s single T.
It was amazing.
" I le' my kids go in the wa'er , is be'er for 'um"

I wonder how the glottal stop came to be? It can't be that people can't say, for instance, the t sound in "little" because they have no difficult with the t sound at the beginning of word. I can't see that it is in any way more difficult to pronounce the t if it turns up in the middle of the word, and indeed it always seems to me that it must be more difficult and inconvenient when in effect you are constantly stopping and starting in the middle of a word. So why did someone in the dim and distant past decide that "better" should be pronounced "be'er"?

Dh used to say "I seen" instead of "I saw" when I met him first. It used to drive me nuts. Unfortunately, I made him very self-conscious about it and he really couldn't remember which was correct so he used to stand there going "I seen....saw..... seen....saw" Eventually he got it, though!
MIL used to say "come-promise" instead of compromise. But when corrected, she would just say "Well, that's how I say it" as if you could just make up your own language.

Bald and bold. Wonder and wander.

My friend had her dog "newted"

Wierd instead of weird.

4 birth tents. Exhausting having to give birth so many times in a tent.

OrlandaFuriosa
I'm afraid there are many other sources that don't agree with you

www.dictionary.com/brows
browse/forte

Marsh-mellow instead of mallow. It's written on the packet!
I've heard 'ambience' pronounced
arm-be-arnce, loads of times, as if it's French. Isn't it 'am-bi-ence' as in an ambient temperature? (I might be wrong)

www.dictionary.com/browse/forte
Screwed up that URL, sorry

Pode-ee-a-trist - podiatrist

Fith and sicth for fifth and sixth.

I thought it was am-bee-onss, meaning atmosphere, surroundings (of a bar, restaurant etc).
Another pronunciation change that I think sounds awful is that the two ways of saying the definite article, the/ thee, ( thee before a word beginning with a vowel and th' before a word that starts with a consonant) are disappearing. So you get people saying th' apple instead of thee apple.
Sounds so ugly and disjointed to me.
But I hear it more and more, even on Radio 4. clutches pearls