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What's the most annoying mispronunciation you've heard?

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Sayyouwill · 20/09/2017 17:49

Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

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tobyturner · 23/09/2017 21:38

Collaboration instead calibration Angry

echt · 23/09/2017 21:48

I'm with you on "vahlent", though I've only heard it here in Melbourne, by people in Brighton trying to be posh: Brahton, instead of Brighton.

Actually, they say Brighton oddly here, too: BrightON, but then it's how it's said by everyone.

hula008 · 23/09/2017 21:48

The ones that bother me aren't necessarily wrong but just stick out to me:

Medsen instead of medicine.

Pul-moan-ary instead of pol-mon-erry (Polmonary)

MissionItsPossible · 24/09/2017 07:51

Carouselfish Where are you from? I'm a Midlander too and I pronounce it 'says'. My parents used to correct me when I was younger and said 'sez' sounded common!

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 24/09/2017 07:55

DH says "obstropolous" for obstreperous.

EvilDoctorBallerinaDuckKeidis · 24/09/2017 09:11

MissSingerbrains I don't count "jai" as a mispronunciation.

Pigface1 · 24/09/2017 09:18

My dad says 'greazy' instead of 'greasy' (with a hard 's'). It drives me nuts.

PidgeonSpray · 24/09/2017 14:48

resurrection = "Reece urh ecktion"(Not sure what the Reece part is about?!)

PidgeonSpray · 24/09/2017 14:53

@randomsabreuse my mum is italian and she pronounces pizza as pitza !!

Lilyargin · 24/09/2017 15:50

I don’t like ‘becoss’ for ‘because’ but I do recognise it’s a regional thing. Northerners, you are guilty!

Fauchelevent · 24/09/2017 16:27

I watched a video of an american guy making calzone and he kept calling it "ri-coata" (ricotta) and cal-zone (as in "zoned out, one syllable). Wanted to cry

SenecaFalls · 25/09/2017 00:06

"AmaZON*

That is the American pronunciation. So many of the examples on this thread are regional variations or matters of accent, not mispronunciations.

Snugglepumpkin · 25/09/2017 01:42

I used to know someone who insisted on pronouncing whisky as something that sounded like a cross between whea-key and wickky.
Absolutely no s sound involved.

I wouldn't even be able to guess how to spell it so it sounds as cringeworthy as it is.

I can feel my shoulders pulling closer together just remembering that.

Sayyouwill · 28/09/2017 22:32

New one
Expect = eshpeck

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ChevalierTialys · 30/09/2017 09:34

Not a mispronunciation because he's still learning to talk, but my 2 year says Wudder-Hye. Take a guess at what that Is!

shooeghMcFee · 30/09/2017 09:48

mis-chee-vee-ous instead of mischievous

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