Pronunciations that annoy you

We now see Moe with a look of dumbfoundedness on his face as he says in general conversation: "Boy I wish I had some 'WOR-SES-TER-CHER-CHER-SHEER-SHEER-SHEER-SIRE-SIRE' sauce, I can't say 'Worcestershire.

- Three stooges episode half wits holiday


Hotwater

 

sort of depends on who's doing it and why.

i find honest accents interesting and amusing.

also there are many pronounciations i feel and find to be legitimately optional.

only when they are a deliberate intention to dis someone or some legitimate concept do they become in any way offensive.

i'm fine with most phonetic pronounciations, unless they are of a person or place intended to by pronounced otherwise.

i would be curious as to what phase states a sequence dress sequences through.

 

"Cigarrat" for cigarette. I'm guilty and I don't know why. I'll blame my mother again.

 

Dachshund, licorice, alzheimers. I have a theory that no two people on earth pronounce all 3 of those words the same way.

 

How many different ways are there to say licorice?

 

cig-ret

 

Moosic...hoomer...but then we could all talk scottish...now thats some shit!

 

lickorice, lickawish,licoris,lickarish,lickowiss, i have heard more but maybe you are right...i have only heard some other ways maybe once but really how often does somebody say the word anyway.

 

Cewpon instead of coupon.

 

Alltimers instead of Alzheimer's

 

you just spelled that two different ways with the same pronunciation.

 

Hmmm interesting

 

Schedule or SKEDULE


Not sure, which is correct.

 

People who plural things like Walmart and Kmart.

I am going to Walmarts.

 

YES. People around here do that with Sonic.

Hey, let's go to Sonics.

No..

 

It makes me want to ask them if they mean all of them. Sonics would drive me nuts for sure. I haven't heard that one.

 

I've heard quite a few people refer to it as oldtimers too... and it wasn't in a joking way.

 

Yes, that one is equally terrible.

 

man, this one drives me CRAZY. I used to volunteer at a nursing home that was exclusively for Alzheimer's patients, and the director of the nursing home pronounced it Alltimers. She had a master's degree and probably had to say the word 20 times throughout her day, every day, and she still couldn't get it right.

I used to have a friend that pronounced sit like set, like "I'm going to set down for a minute, I'm tired."

One of my oldest friends used to pronounce borrow like "borry" but she grew out of it.

My mom and I went to Boston a couple of years ago and I noticed she pronounces Massachusetts like "Massetusetts"

 

i worked with a guy who said his moms was gonna wash his clothe.
it took all my energy to not tell him that he put the plural on the wrong word.

maybe its just in the populated areas where you hear many different pronunciations.