Pronunciation pet peeves!

[Twillig]

What names do people eff up all the tim--and when corrected eff it up again?

1. Oregon. Ore-i-GUN. NOT GONE. GUN!

2. Nowitzky. No-Vitz-key! NOT "WITS-key" ffs.

3. Gonzaga. Gon-Zay-ga! NOT Gon-Zog-a

Please list your own pet peeves so I don't eff them up some day.

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Iraq. Eye-Rack

It bugs the hell out of me. :twitch:

Ear-Rock.
http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&va=Iraq

[Twillig]

9. Everybody knows it's

EYE-ROCK! I ROCK!

:headbang:

:hide:

[Odin2005]

41. IIRC, the proper arabic pronounciation is...

..."ee-rahk (with the far-back "glottal" "k" sound for the arabic Q).

[XemaSab]

56. Expresso

:grr:

[slide to the left]

79. actually

In arabic its eye-rock. But not the long drawn out eye like dumb people say it. I took arabic as my foreign language in college.
eeeeee-roq


On edit: spelling

[gollygee]

2. Italian - Eye-talian

as in at a restaurant:

"What kind of salad dressing do you have?"
"Ranch, French, and Eye-talian"

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. That one annoys me too.

You just want to ask. Do you pronounce irresistible "Eye-resistible"? :banghead:

[gollygee]

4. Yeah

really the same as yours (Eye-rack). They aren't hard words to pronounce.

It's like, Yeah Eye-talian like from Eye-taly

[RevolutionaryActs]

5. Or what about Eye-Ran

Really? You ran where? :eyes:

[gollygee]

7. Eye-ran so far away!

Flock of Seagulls!

[RevolutionaryActs]

8. HAHAHA!

:rofl:

[riona]

65. being part "eyetalian", i could do without that pronunciation

[riona]

66. massaTUsetts????

[Shine]

6. Well, my own first name is virtually impossible for most people

I'm not gonna post it here. You're just gonna have to take my word for it.

But friend, I could tell you stories.....in 42 yrs of living, I have never met anybody with the same first name as me. I've had a lifetime of people MIS-pronouncing it. heheheh.

Hated it when I was a kid, now I love it. I had to grow into my name.

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

20. Mxyztplk? Klptzyxm?

Is that you? :silly:

[Shine]

22. LOL!

:rofl:

[Dervill Crow]

31. Gee, I thought that was Mxyzptlk.

It's been a long time.

[Gormy Cuss]

34. It actually changed spelling over time, so your memory is correct too.

;-)

Now back to the fifth dimension!

[Dervill Crow]

36. Whew! I work as a proofreader, so that had me worried.

It was somewhere around 40 years ago that I read that particular DC Comic Book! Good to know at least the long-term memory is still safe.

[ChoralScholar]

54. Oh my God... I remember that!!!

Where did that come from?

[Gormy Cuss]

55. All the Superman comics geeks know...

:hi:

[nini]

10. I disagree on Gonzaga

A word with Italian roots would not pronounce the a long like that.

I will stand corrected if the word is not Italian/Latin based.

[Twillig]

12. Pacific Northwest consensus has it as

Zay.

That was the weakest felt of my peeves.

Who cares? they shouldn't even be in the effin' ballpark
with the Pac-10 it's a disgrace. (wait--that's another pet peeve....)

[nini]

13. makes sense on a regional level then

here a town nearby is called San Pedro with the e being long. It's not really a correct pronunciation, but it's how the locals say it.

[Twillig]

15. Some Americans pronounce their name of "Ian"

as EYE-an.

What can one do?

I guess Raymond Luxury-yacht really is Throat-Warbler Mangrove.

:toast:

[nini]

16. there's always eye-gor

:D

[Dervill Crow]

32. What hump? n/t

[trackfan]

77. Our former CEO pronounced that was, and fired somebody for

pronouncing it EE-an! The guy was a real piece of work.

[Dervill Crow]

29. Really? My husband pronounced it Gon-zay-ga, and I corrected him.

The sportscaster then pronounced it Gon-zay-ga. First (and second) time I ever heard it that way. I feel really ignorant, since I've lived in the NW for 50 years.

Live and learn.

[Odin2005]

42. In the upper midwest it's gone-ZAH-gah

[brainshrub]

11. This is how I pronounce oven:

"oh-ven"

My parents pronounced it that way, and I haven't been able to stop it.

[Alleycat]

14. Ex husband used to say

He wanted a BEG-gle instead of a BAY-gle. Used to drive me crazy. In fact I think thats why we got divorced. (only kidding);)

[CanuckAmok]

17. For the last time, you philistines, it's "oot", not "out".

.

[Odin2005]

45. Then you need to get oot 'n aboot more often.

:evilgrin:

[Hissyspit]

18. What is the correct regional pronunciation for Nevada?

I always get that backwards.

[XemaSab]

57. Nuh-VAH-duh

With the middle "a" sound like the "a" in apple, and the final "a" like the "a" in about.

:shrug:

[TankLV]

59. "home sweet home"

for me anyway.

[blue neen]

19. ProstRate for prostate.

Guys get their Praw-state checked.

[Twillig]

21. Aboot your avatar--

Is it 'Still-ers', or Steel-ers?

[blue neen]

23. We love our Stillers here in western PA.

And we're not talking about Jerry and Ben! :)

[ghostsofgiants]

70. How do you know they aren't off grovelling with their face to the ground?

[Kat45]

24. Can;t forget nukular. I'm also bothered by 'liberry'

[smirkymonkey]

25. "NOO-KYU-LER"

for "Nuclear." Arghhhhhhhhhhh....:nuke:

Also, "Ax" for "Ask" - like nails on a chalkboard.

[Cobalt Violet]

26. Core instead of caah.

That one drives me nuts! :D


Oh and "Pork the core." Instead of "Paahk the Caah".

[Wapsie B]

27. Po-TAA-to, Po-Tahhhh-to...........

[bluecrush]

28. "Wurtter"

instead of "water"

[Dervill Crow]

33. Also "wudder." n/t

[Flying Dream Blues]

52. Don't forget "worter"...ugh

And "worsh" for wash

[elshiva]

46. Baltimoreans say "wodder," hon!

[tuvor]

30. You guys say "sorry" funny.

We Canadians pronounce it SORE-ee, but US pronunciation is more like SAH-ree.

When we say "SAH-ree" this is usually what we mean:

[Odin2005]

43. I say it sore-ee as well.

[Dervill Crow]

35. Malk for milk, warsh for wash, and window seal for sill.

Those are the ones that immediately come to mind.

[Twillig]

47. Warsh makes me cringe.

--as does "Flustrated"

I want to hang them out a window like "Otto" in A Fish Called Wanda
until they see the light and apologize.

[nytemare]

37. Supposebly and medium

medium for median, the thing that separates two sides of a road.

[Clintmax]

50. Me too on the "Supposebly".

A guy I work with uses it all the time. Drives me nutso crazy! :rofl:

[doc03]

38. Pronunciation- pronounced- Pronounceation

[Goblinmonger]

39. Samich for Sandwich

God I hate that.

[Odin2005]

40. New Englanders and Brits cutting off their R's.

I often get grief because I have a fairly strong upper-midwestern accent (the two "th" sounds often end up as "d" and "t", so "the" would become "da" and "third" would become "turd," and I often use "ya" instead of "yes").

[MassLiberal]

49. well, that's not exactly mispronunciation

That's a regional accent. I have very fond memories of my mother's family from Worcester, Mass., saying "baahth" for "bath" and "bee-ah" for "beer." It makes me sad that regional accents are going away.

[Pool Hall Ace]

44. This is not an astrick --------> *

Stop it.

And the "t" in often is silent.

[blondeatlast]

48. Feb-you-ary. ARGH (but

I keep it to myself pretty well).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

51. Real-a-tor for realtor.

The person who helps you sell your house is a REALTOR -- two syllables -- not a freakin' REAL-A-TOR! Drives me nuts.

[Flying Dream Blues]

53. Heighth for height, pitcher for picture, sim-ewe-ler for similar...

I'm "shewer" there are more.

[Telly Savalas]

58. When "America" is pronounced as if it had only 2 or 3 syllables.

(Especially when this is done by an Ivy League alumni, but I won't name any names.)

[NMMNG]

60. Nu-cu-lar for nuclear, and am-blance for ambulance

Among other things.

[KitchenWitch]

61. Italian - Eye talian!

:grr:

[amitten]

62. Ssheshule (schedule). Cosh-tume (costume). Oh, I could go on.

But I won't because I'm making myself angry.

[tjwmason]

67. There's no k in schedule

I visibly wince everytime somebody puts one in - I gather it is correct in American, but it certainly shouldn't be there in English.

[amitten]

85. It is usually pronounced with a hard C, like many other words...

for instance, "schism" and "schizophrenic" and "scholastic".

And the hard c is indicated in Webster's dictionary, so I guess it is correct.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

63. It's not pronounced "President Bush."

It's pronounced "Raging Asshole of the Apocalypse."

[Skittles]

64. forward as "FOE-ARD"

important as IMPOR-DANT.....ANY southern pronounciation that makes a two-syllable word out of a one-syllable word, like THAY-ER for there..........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[tjwmason]

68. The letter between G and I

Many of my countryfolk mispronounce this as Haitch rather than Aitch.

The nearest town to me is Beaconsfield which should be pronounced Bekonsfield yet too many folk pronounce Beacon. :grr:

[Callalily]

69. Fort Michimilimackinac (n/t)

[riona]

71. Bidniss

[ghostsofgiants]

72. My roommate always says "Pacific" when he tries to say "specific".

Pretty annoying.

[American Tragedy]

73. I can't stand it when I hear the word picture pronounced 'pitcher'.

Now, I'm accomodating of variances, like rhotic/non-rhotic pronunciations of -r sounds and the like. Maybe this form of picture is an aspect of some obscure regional accent of which I'm unaware. If it is, then I'm sorry, but it just drives me crazy. It has even confused me at times. What pitcher? Where?

[AllegroRondo]

74. Can I AXE you a question?

Which way to the LIBERRY?

[The Sushi Bandit]

75. Cod-a-Rod-O

Thats the was I said it for years until I meet my 2nd wife. She lived in Colorado!

[JohnKleeb]

76. haha

I say Ore-Gun and Gon-Zog-A. I admit it, I say I-rack and Eye-talian too though not over empathizing the eye.

[TheBaldyMan]

78. Vitamin & Aluminium

You yanks just haven't got the hang of English yet.

It's not VITE - amin it's VITT - amin

it's not ALOO - minum it's ALOO - min - EE - um

bloody colonials

[Radio_Guy]

80. A few

Often is not Off-ten but Off-en

Tournament if not Toor-na-ment but Ter-na-ment

Legislators is not Leg-is-lay-tores but Leg-is-lay-ters

Athlete is just like it is spelled, not ath-uh-lete

Liable does have an "a" in it. It is not Libel

A chest of drawers are not chester drawers

Realtor is not real-uh-tore

Yet I hear many of these mispronunciations on the news by "professionals."

[slide to the left]

81. Temp-er-ter

Temp-U-RA-ture, it has four syllables.

[1gobluedem]

82. Sherbert

It's sher-BET; there is no second r.

Prolly for probably

consortium as consor-see-um and negotiate as nego-see-ate instead of SHEE-um and SHEE-ate

Millions more but that's enough for now.

[edbermac]

83. Grand Prix

:silly:

[Initech]

84. "Noo-kyu-ler"

I had a biology teacher who discredited Bush because of his frequented mispronounciation of this word.