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.

"Taken for granite"

Naw instead of now is one I see a lot. Fucking annoying.

Aah ok, Ambience is a French word., but, the English pronunciation is 'am-bi-ence',
not 'arm-bee-arnce' as I've often heard.
For Paris, we say Pah-ris - not Pah-ree (unless in jest!)

TheDowagerCuntess - thank you, I have honestly wondered about that for years

I used to intentionally mispronounce 'Mataland' with the sole purpose of pissing my now exH off.

Don't judge me. He deserved it.

I say arm-bee-arnce

The base verb is "orientate," so how on earth do people get to lose a syllable when putting it into the pat tense. I thought it was an Americanism.

Talking of which, "math," instead of maths.

Yes if you orientate something then it is orientated.

Americans orient something so it is oriented.

Aah ok, Ambience is a French word., but, the English pronunciation is 'am-bi-ence', not 'arm-bee-arnce' as I've often heard.
For Paris, we say Pah-ris - not Pah-ree (unless in jest!)

But then again, we don't say renn-dezz-vooz or bore-jus for rendezvous and bourgeois.

Someone on my Facebook writes 'acspeshally' instead of especially.

Weary instead of wary.

As in "the dog growled at me so I'm weary of going past it again."

I think the wary/ weary mistake is because there are a lot of scenarios where either works (although they don't mean the same).

You could be weary of going past a growling dog for example.

• force, not fierce

Chocolate, thanks for link, I know, but I disagree, supported by both Cambridge and Oxford. And I've never heard the age distinction thingy. My RP grannies etc said for-tay.

Perhaps, speculates, it's a US pronunciation, which kept the Elizabethan/Jacobean one, just as they ( used to ?) say erbs for herbs ?

On another theme, can't bear people using floor when they actually mean ground. A house or enclosed space has a floor, the forest has a floor, but generally otherwise it's ground. ground!

splendide, I assumed it's because people think of how they pronounce "wear" as in "I'm going to wear my green t-shirt today" and stick a 'y' on the end.

It's scons.

If you eat them at Scone then you eat scons at Scoon.

Client at work filled out form -question when did you symptoms start ? Answer
The smornin

I work with a woman who says 'texes' for the plural of 'text'. It drives me mad.

I saw somebody write 'I've just seen my double gander' as their Facebook status. Cringe.

Surely both pronounced the same???

Forte, that is.

You'd only be "weary" of going past a growling dog if you were fed up with or tired of doing so. If you mean cautious, you'd use wary.

As in "beware."

I quite enjoy "I'm defiantly not going there again." Nice mental image.

Discreet/discrete drives me up the wall. They mean completely different things!

Yes Clam, I know. But there are very few contexts where you couldn't swap them out and the sentence still work. It would change the meaning but the listener wouldn't know that.

I love threads like this when my inner snob gets a good pat on the back.
Some are normally autocorrect mistakes (defiantly), some differences of opinion/geography (scone) but some are just WRONG (brought/bought) and drive me crazy. It's like apostrophes- I've never really found them hard to understand.
'Chester draws' is hilarious - and seemingly common?!