Pismonunciations that drive you nuts

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I'm sure you've all got your particular teeth-clenching, fingernails-on-blackboard nemesis.

Today's offering: they did "drawring" in Art.

I will break him of that habit. I will!

Apologies and confession of not reading the whole thread so sorry if this is repetitive but there are two words that drive me totally nuts.

Secretary pronounced Secaterry. Why, it is Sec-re-tary

Nuclear pronounced Nuciller. Why, it is New-clear

Just why.

Haha love these so much seething rage

Thought of another - people that say "can you borrow me some money". It's lend! And no I can't.

My in-laws say salid instead of salad
And beet-er-root
It's really fucking annoying. I try to avoid talking about dinner in the summer

Oh yes and 'Canida' instead of Canada. Grrr.

Of you are sincere about something, or something is bone fide, the word you are looking for is genuinely, not generally. You fuckwit.

Pro noun ciation instead of pro nun ciation.
Especially if they are criticising someone's pronunciation.

Wrong audience here but tbh I can't say bona fide . I think of Victoria Wood and have the urge to say " totally bono fido!"

And if you are certain, the word you are looking for is definite, not defiant. That's more of a written one (on here) than a mispronunciation though.

And if I read que or kew for cue or queue one more time, I will start a spreadsheet of offenders.

While I'm complaining, the extra weight you have? What you want to do is lose it, not loose it.

Rant over. For now.

I can't believe no one has suggested proply instead of properly! My old headteacher used to say it and I always wondered how you could be a headteacherwithout being able to say the word 'properly'. 😀 (She was actually a great head).

Actually 'prolly' is increasing too

Miss-chee-vee-ous is my hatred too. It's like they've just decided to misspell it

Oh yes botally tono fido

Sekker terry aargh!! Steve Wright is a culprit.

My DH says electorial roll. I glare at him.

Oh CardinalSin that clip is outstanding! Not seen that before. They were so clever. Mind you, it reads like I typed it when I was a trainee sekker terry

DoomGloom I think defiant is an autocorrect for people who try to spell definite "definate" (still wrong! but not quite that wrong)

autocorrect is responsible for so many wrong words & misspellings that trying to work out what word was intended has become a fun game

People! Stop being autocorrect's bitch!

I take your point, but autocorrect (which, tbh, I know sod all about) isn't autoproofread. Do people think defiantly is pronounced 'definitely?'

Have we had probberly yet? We probberly have.

I think a lot of people probberly don't read what they've written before they hit post! And with no edit function on MN they're stuck with it.

also, autocorrect - on phones - can be very sneaky & change what you've written after you've left the word behind - happens to me all the time, I'm a fat-fingered phone typist - can't think of an example though. When I'm posting on MN I generally do check what I've written before I post, but not on FB because it can be edited.

This might one that is particular to dh but it sets my teeth on edge, he says cistificate instead of certificate

Lapdamce mine does that. Usually turning a short word into a much longer one
eg "so" becoming "somnambulism" and I only spot it as the page is submitting

My ex says "yet's" instead of "let's". He also even WRITES "yet's". Htf is he that stupid?

He also can't pronounce "accurate" - says "accriat".

Dickhead

Nothing.

'Nuffink'

Ahhhhgh!

Not many people really pronounce "sixth" as /siksth/ as the consonant cluster ending involves a lot of mouth gymnastics. Most people can attempt an approximation of the final sound, but it generally comes out acoustically as more of a /sikst/ than a /siksth/ Actually giving the /th/ its full pronunciation makes the word sound quite strange.

In fact, many dictionaries don't give the /th/ as part of the phonetic script for the word.

"draw-ring" is also starting to be considered as fairly standard. Intrusive R is very prevalent in many English accents.

"proply" also perfectly OK. Words where silent syllables or a neutral schwa centred syllable are quite standard.

Chocolate, family, history, properly- all examples where the neutral syllable can be spoken or not.

Posh people tend to use the silent syllable version.

@Llama Even those who suffer with long term prostate problems still say prostrate.

I say six th
do people who say sicth also say shhhhhtudents

And if yiu can say linguistic gymnastics you can say sixth :o