Please stop me!

[Darsa]

I have a friend who knits and crochets; she makes motifs (normally pronounced "mow-teef") and calls them "moffits"

I once, as an 8 year old, told my grandmother "good riddance" thinking that I was actually saying "good writings". We were moving to Maine from Massachusetts, and I meant that I hoped we would write to each other My parents STILL mention that, and I'm 39!

 

[bubie2.5]

A co-worker was sent by the company on a business trip, she kept mentioning her upcoming trip to "Tampax, Florida" every chance she got.

 

[lovesmurfs]

My MIL would do great in this contest....

Just the other day she was talking about someone living in a condom....
Urinary incontinence pads (Poise) are Poseys (flower)....
and now I draw a blank.... darn!

My mom once called a pizza place for her normal Sicilian style pizza. She asked for a Caesarean by accident. The pizza guy's response was, "Lady, we don't do that here!"

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

OMG! All of these are hysterical. I'm trying not to laugh so I'm ending up with tears running down my face. I am so getting busted for Dis'ing during work hours. Keep 'em coming.

 

[mrsbert]

I've got another from my co-worker. Just today she was talking about her DGD taking her senior trip to Hi-wi-e (Hawaii).

Do they not hear themselves?

 

[KSchwagg86]

Just laugh-it's funny!

 

[ArelysAdriana]

My family and I once went to the zoo where my mom loudly yelled "look at that ****-o-dial!" My poor mom can't pronounce crocodile to save her life.

ETA: ok, so the DIS doesn't like male roosters I guess.

 

[Handbag Lady]

A co-worker was sent by the company on a business trip, she kept mentioning her upcoming trip to "Tampax, Florida" every chance she got.

HAhahahahhaha!

 

[TeresaBelle]

My ex H used to get mad whenever I wanted to go out with my "high pollutin'" friends!

 

[mickeyfan9194]

My MIL is the Queen of mis-pronuncation! Just on her last visit, she commented on our Misaka china. It's printed Mikasa right on it, but she insists it's Misaka. Then she told how she and FIL are looking to buy a new car--a Toyota Scion (pronounced SKY-on. No silent c for her). Lastly, they just renewed their cell phone plan with VERY-zon. Her version does not rhyme with horizon.

Oh well, it's good entertainment. You can tell her how something is pronounced til the cows come home, and she doesn't care. In her world she's always right.

 

[Evil Genius]

A co-worker was sent by the company on a business trip, she kept mentioning her upcoming trip to "Tampax, Florida" every chance she got.

OMG!! I will never look at Tampa the same way again

My ex H used to get mad whenever I wanted to go out with my "high pollutin'" friends!

Were your friends gassy?


So co-workers went home yesterday and used ipso fatso in front of her husband. After he was done He told her it was ipso facto. She asked me if I knew that. I told her yes. I had to buy her a candy bar to cheer her up.

 

[tonilea]

Oh, I thought of another. We bought a new Chevy Beretta back in '89. DMIL told everyone we had bought a Chevy Corilla. (like gorilla with a "c")

She also called El Chicos Mexican restaurant "El Fanchos".

 

[Eeyore'sthebest]

Good for you EG for buying her a candy bar. You're a good friend.

I just remembered my father always correcting my DGM. She would always call me Alice. My name is Allison. Now, DGM moved in when I was 3 months old and lived there until she died when I was 23. She always called me Alice. Every now and then it would get to my dad and he would correct her. The conversation would go like this:

"Her name is Allison."
"I know. That's what I called her."
"If you called her that, why would I be correcting you?"
"I don't know why you would do that. Maybe you should get your ears checked" By now, DGM is looking at him like he's sprouted another head.

 

[arielsleepingbeauty]

I am a social worker and sit right next to a girl that mispronounces so much that i have to cringe, especially when she is speaking to a professional on the telephone. I dont have the heart to tell her she is wrong because who the heck am I? The one word she says in almost every conversation is
Et cetera. She always says egcedra and does not use it correctly. The first time i heard her say it, i thought she was saying excedrin, but after the second and third times it just didn't make sense.

 

[trip]

I worked with someone that would always use the phrase "mute point" instead of moot point. I just couldn't bring myself to correct her.

 

[Shyvioletisme]

My DH worked with a girl last year who called New Hampshire "New Hamster" yup. she actually thought that was the state's name...this was not a joke, she spoke to business contacts on the phone and called it that...people tried to correct her, but she still said New Hamster...

 

[tink_n_pooh]

My boss can not pronounce the word FILM, he says FILL - UM

The industry that we work in requires that we say "film" many many times every day, I've gotten used to it by now but I can't tell you how many times I've had to try to explain to our clients what on earth he is referring to

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

My mom and I are both "word botchers". My mom was trying to say bird watcher, and well, you know the rest. It's an apt description.

My famous one is nass and grossty. I was trying to say something was gross and nasty and it just didn't come out right. All my roommates my first CP would use that term (nass and grossty). It became an inside joke to us.

I was reading college level books in grade school, so I often came up with my own pronunciation. For a long time to me hearth was pronounced herth, not harth. I thought it was like "earth" with an h at the beginning. It took a long time for my parents to convince me it was wrong. I still think herth sounds better.

 

[PrincessKsMom]

My boss can not pronounce the word FILM, he says FILL - UM

The industry that we work in requires that we say "film" many many times every day, I've gotten used to it by now but I can't tell you how many times I've had to try to explain to our clients what on earth he is referring to

My mom says fill-um too! My MIL also says: Illi-noise. Arrrgggghhhh, drives me CRAZY!

 

[kristilew]

My famous one is nass and grossty. I was trying to say something was gross and nasty and it just didn't come out right. All my roommates my first CP would use that term (nass and grossty). It became an inside joke to us.

Yep, we do this on purpose to not swear at home. DD and I constantly remind each other not to "mitch and bone" about something. Now it has morphed to calling mean girls "mitches."