Words you always pronounce wrong

[JohnKleeb]

Carnagie and Badnarik. :shrug: ok those are proper nouns.

[burrowowl]

1. Funiture

because is more fun than furniture!

[CornField]

2. Most all of them -- I'm originally from Oklahoma

;)

[JohnKleeb]

6. hah I am from Virginia

and I say the strangest stuff, I say eh like a Canadian but I often say y'all like a southerner.

[Fridays Child]

Now, wait a minute!

I resemble that remark. ;)

[dolo amber]

3. Oh dear lord, there's so many

Linoleum...rhinocerouseseseseseses (whatever the plural is, I can't stop)...rural...I basically have verbal retardation about half the time. :7

[jeff30997]

4. Look! A beautiful nucular foilage !

Being a French-Canadian,I'm sure that if I had a conversation in English I would mispronounce a lot of worlds...Except those two.

[UL_Approved]

12. Couldn't be any worse that Jean Cretien

A country that has two official languages, and a Prime Minister that speaks neither.

Of course, now you have Paul Martin, the massage therapist of the Shortbus Dictator...

[jeff30997]

14. Hehehe...

[MuseRider]

5. Repertoire

For some reason this one never seems to fit in my mouth. Too bad since it is a word I need a lot, it always comes out wrong. :hi: John!

[JohnKleeb]

9. heh I can see why

what is Repertoire?
:hi:

[MuseRider]

17. Here you go.

1. The stock of songs, plays, operas, readings, or other pieces that a player or company is prepared to perform.
2. The class of compositions in a genre: has excellent command of the chanteuse repertoire.
3. The range or number of skills, aptitudes, or special accomplishments of a particular person or group.

[JohnKleeb]

18. oh I can see why, since youre in music

Only instrument I ever knew how to use was the recorder, and I always would lose it in elementary school, heh those were the days.

[Verve]

7. This is very embarrassing but in high school I pronounced perturbed

as Pur TA bed. My high school boyfriend never let me forget! He even named his cat Purtabed.

[RPM]

8. potato

no matter which way i say it, someone tells me i am wrong :-(

[fluffernutter]

10. my stepmom always says "gararge" it cracks me up

i ask her "how many R's are in garage again, Jodee?" ;)

[Kenneth ken]

11. *phrase*

supposed to - I am very fond of "post to" even though I know it's incorrect.

I also tend to pronounce "elevator" as "lift" :7

[libnnc]

13. hmm...

hegemony
armoire
sesquicentenial

[donheld]

16. Welcome libnnc

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

31. being at a school that just celebrated its 150th anniversary,

I can tell you that sesquicentenial isn't an easy word for ANYONE to say.

[ellie]

15. plethora

I always have the accent on the wrong syllable

[Ramsey]

19. Wash

I've had to train myself to say it without an "r" (as in: "warsh")
Southern accent thing.

[LDS Jock]

20. I feel left out.. I can pronounce everything

but as a kid I couldn't say aluminum. It came out more like aluminumnum.

[JohnKleeb]

23. hah I think thats how the europeans say it

[MissBrooks]

21. Omnipotent

I always say that wrong...

[Redleg]

22. I have always pronounced "bury" as "bury" instead of as "berry."

I always will pronounce it that way until they change the spelling.

[Turn CO Blue]

24. Anesthetist always trips me up.

For some reason, I can pronounce anesthesiologist, but not anesthetist.

[Turn CO Blue]

25. We mispronounce some words on purpose...

we always pronounce certain infamous words the way our little guys said them when they were two years old...

Hat = Hap
Gloves = Glubs
Snow = 'no (wanna go play in the no ?)
Tortilla = torteewuh
Probably = probly

[Skittles]

26. PECAN

I like to say PEE-CAN - drives Texans CRAZY! :D

[JohnKleeb]

29. oh I think I would do that

[fleabert]

35. That'll do it...IT'S PUH-CAHN!

from a loving texan who couldn't resist.

[steely]

27. guafinesen

meds mess me up

[barb162]

28. February...I tend to pronouce it Febuary and so it seems does

everyone else

[Elidor]

30. Clitoris

[Jean Louise Finch]

32. Abdomen

I also don't know if that's how you spell it.

[StrongbadTehAwesome]

33. there are several

Being from Missouri, I say "warsh" for "wash" unless I can consciously catch myself. This sucks as I work and go to school at Washington University.

Also, like most people, I read at a higher level of vocab than normal speech, and apparently I'm not great at intuitively figuring out pronunciation. So by the time I actually hear a word used in conversation, I've had this screwed-up mental pronunciation for it in my head for a while (years in some cases), and have probably said it out loud incorrectly before. This has tripped me up with "aspartame" ("ass-per-tame" in Nicolespeak), "exacerbate" ("excerbate"), and clitoris (I'm actually still not sure what the real pronunciation is for that one), and others.

[njdemocrat106]

34. Coffee?

I'm from New Jersey, and I'm told by outsiders that it's not "CAW-FEE". Oh well, I don't drink the stuff anyway.

[fleabert]

36. perineum

Per-in-eee-um
or
pear-ah-nee-um

I never remember which is correct, and end up saying both and defining for clarification. (I always overdo it)