Things people say wrong...a lot.

[flipturngirl]

Hello from ORE-ah-gun

 

[raysnkaysmom]

lol...I've never heard 'unthaw'... but thats like those who use 'irregardless'.. it means 'regardless'..and irregardless is not the correct word to use... drives me crazy....lol




and..uho.... I say 'buh- rhett'
lol

from dictionary.com

Show Spelled Pronunciation [buh-ret]
–noun a clasp for holding a woman's or girl's hair in place.


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LMAO...yeah...I say it like the dictionary tells me too.

 

[IDoDis]

OK, I am a stickler for correct pronunciation and grammar, etc. Help me understand the distinction. When I see "frum" I say it to rhyme with "hum". And when I say "from" I say it to rhyme with, well, "hum". Can you give me a rhyme for "from"?

"From" has a schwa sound so the "o" is pronounced like a "u" just as you are doing. If you say "from" with a British accent, you do get more of the short "o" sound, but in the US it has a short "u" sound.

 

[IDoDis]

The two words that are my pet peeves:

1) sol (sall) for saw "I sol a red bird."

2) valentime -- It's valentine.

 

[rie'smom]

"I'm leavin outta here" or "I'm leavin out" instead of I'm leaving.

 

[CDoobee]

Hmm...I also live in St. Louis (and have for more than 30 years), but I use the Z sound in the middle of the word, as does everyone I know. I would never, ever, EVER in a million years, however, pronounce the state's name "Missourah." That irritates the LIFE out of me. Grr.

I agree 100%!

 

[CDoobee]

And a decidedly non-Disney one:
I'm in the Health field, and have heard every possible mispronunciation of prostate (mostly prostrate like a PP said), sigmoidoscopy (sigamoscony) and colonoscopy (colonoscofy). They are either scoping the sigmoid colon (sigmoidoscopy) or the entire colon (colonoscopy). What is the problem with these words?

A lady I used to work with, in the Healthcare field, said colonostomy (for colonoscopy) and incubate instead of intubate, as in "Mr. Jones was having trouble breathing so they had to incubate him". It drove me nuts!!

 

[DisneyGalUK]

OK, I am a stickler for correct pronunciation and grammar, etc. Help me understand the distinction. When I see "frum" I say it to rhyme with "hum". And when I say "from" I say it to rhyme with, well, "hum". Can you give me a rhyme for "from"?

I'm giggling at your post because I was thinking the same thing.

I would say FROM to rhyme with PROM.

 

[onelilspark]

Here's one I learned from my father...

It's not sher-BERT it's sher-BET. Look at the way it's spelled: Sherbet.

 

[onelilspark]

Hey - I was in "Chi-lie" just last week!

Upstate NY is full of these - up north there's a town called Pulaski - named after a war hero whose name was pronounced as you might think, Pull-as-skee. But around here we call it "Pull-ask-eye" with a long i.

Or Lowville. Low rhymes with cow.
And, Vienna. Long i, so it's Vy-enna.

One that bugs me is Illinois. I always learned the s is silent. But I always hears people, including DH, pronounce it like Illi-noise.

I heard "Pulask-eye" on the radio the other day, I was blown away. I was like, are they trying to say "Pulaski?" I thought it was just the one guy talking who messed up

 

[WDWKOOK]

Bay Lake Towers

There's only one Tower

 

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

OK...I've got a few more that I thought of last night. They don't drive me crazy...but they are certainly peculiar colloquialisims (or pronounciations).

My first job out of college I worked for a Congressman from West Virginia. This lady called in and was chatting with me about a concern she had and she kept saying, "well, and with my sugar...." or "my sugar can be so high..." I had NO clue that she meant she was a diabetic. I thought she was complaining about the cost of sugar !

When I was dating my boyfriend (now DH) in high school, his mother (who was from South St. Louis) asked me to go get her something from under the zinc. I had NO clue she was talking about the sink. I kept looking around in the kitchen for some kind of chunk of metal! She also pronounced forty-four as far-ty-far and said "ritza" for pizza!

My cousin from New Jersey used to always say "quad-ah" for quarter and "wa-dah" for water.

The one that I neglected to mention though that makes me crazy is when people say MUTE for MOOT. Hmmm....perhaps if they were mute.......!

This has been a fun thread. Thanks OP for starting it!

K

 

[OK!]

Oh...this is funny...I just remembered a friend of DD's from NC.

There was a girl on her cheerleading squad who we thought was Rachel BEALE. One day I was trying to find her name on the phone roster but couldn't find it, well, that's because her name was really Rachel BILL, but with the major accent these girls had, they pronounced it BEALE!!!

Same thing, but opposite-- there used to be a Jenny Craig or Nutri-System (or similar) commercial where one of the spokespeople said something like, "$5 a mill? That's incredible!" I knew she was saying "meal" with an accent, but it still drove me insane.

 

[xCourxCorex]

I have a friend who says "Mine as well" instead of "might as well" ...drives me crazy whenever she says it!

My Dad also can't say "photography", he calls it Pho-TAG-raphy.

One more I forgot! I'm not sure there's an actual correct way to say this, but if I am talking to someone I sent a text message to, I say "I texted so and so" .. I have a friend who would say "I text him" ... it doesn't make it seem past-tense (to me anyway) because there is no "-ed". Not that texted is really a word, but just text sounds wrong.

 

[2girlsmom]

Love this!
We torment my best friend a bit because she says oinge for orange and romaine for ramen, but those expressions are just funny to me, not annoying.

I agree, axe for ask just sounds illiterate, even when the person in question is actually quite intelligent. My father's family is in TN, while most of them have southern slang which doesn't get me, one cousin says regidgefrator for refrigerator, pss ghetti for spaghetti, axe for ask, borrow for loan, and a long list of others, and in her case I do find it annoying. When we were children, I would try to correct her, but she refused to change the way she says anything, now she is over 40 and still using these words incorrectly.

 

[princesspiglet]

Listen, you all can say Reese's however you want, it truely does not bother me. But I am telling you, if you come to Hershey, Pa and someone hears you say Reese's like the name and not Ree-sees- they will try and correct you.

We all may be saying it wrong- according to the phonetics and general population on this thread- but it is how we say it. An yes, we all do say Pee-sees too. And yes, we also say Ree-see sticks.

And as a plug to our newest product- run out and try the new Ree-see's Cremes! They have a creamy peanut butter center enrobed in milk chocolate. Little squares of heaven I tell you!!

 

[OK!]

I've never heard of "unthaw." Wouldn't that be freeze?

And this girl who grew up a Michigander says bar-ET, not buh-RETT.

Ditto on both accounts.

 

[OK!]

Just thought of another one... for the phrase "seeing as how" (as in, "Seeing as how Jim was such a big baseball fan, it only made sense that he would get season tickets."), I often see (and hear) "being as how" or even *shudder* "beens how." How they ended up with that last one is a mystery to me, but it makes me cringe.

 

[Disney Ella]

Listen, you all can say Reese's however you want, it truely does not bother me. But I am telling you, if you come to Hershey, Pa and someone hears you say Reese's like the name and not Ree-sees- they will try and correct you.

One of the families in my church when I was a child was named Reese and they pronounced their name Reesee too. Over time, pronunciations do tend to change. Most people don't pronounce "Roosevelt" correctly anymore, saying "rose-a-velt" instead, but I bet back in FDR's day most people pronounced it "ruse-a-velt."

 

[connorlevismom]

My mom calls AmericInn hotels American Inn and I just want to ri[ my ears off everytime she says it.

Kristine