Things people say wrong...a lot.

[kaytieeldr]

Two things that happen frequently at the restaurant I work at:

First, I hate when people pronounce queso with the q-u sound like KWAY-SEW. It's pronounced CASE-SEW.

Then pretty much the same thing, people ask for things like the queso cheese and the frijoles beans. So you want the cheese cheese and the beans beans. Drives me CRAZY!!!!

Oh, well. If we're going to get to redundancies , how about ATM machines and PIN numbers?

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Specific=pacific.

Double negatives such as ain't got nothing which then means they do have something.

Definitely being misspelled... it come from the word finite, get it right!

Apostrophes in the wrong spot, some big ones here on the Dis are the making of ADR's (ADRs), O'Hana's ('Ohana, it's Polynesian NOT Irish) and 50's (50s, or any building in Pop Century).

alot.

Another DIS specific, or WL expert specific= Roaring Forks, it's supposed to be Roaring Fork.



And going with the current trend of names, mine is hard for a lot of people. It's Dayna and when people read my name for the first time they often say Dan-ya, Dane-e-a... or something stupid. I want to ask them if they're a moron because it should be such an easy name, it's written out for them... DAY-NA.

 

[lacrosse_lady72]

Oh and some more...

"anyways" is not a word!!! It's anyway.

The misuse of their, there and they're.

 

[paintnolish]

The mention of gelato earlier in the thread reminded me, being the daughter of an Italian immigrant, the misuse of certain Italian words really bugs me. The worst is cannoli. That's the plural. Singular is cannolo. There is no such thing as cannolis. If you want to use the English "s" to make the dessert plural, it would be cannolos, and that I could handle, because it would be the proper way to pluralize something in English, but it bugs the heck out of me how many people will call one dessert a "cannoli" or say they're going to get some "cannolis".

"Gon DOUGH la" is another that makes me shudder, as is "Eye-talian". You don't say "Eye-taly", do you?

Oh, and another is when people say "for all intensive purposes". The saying is "for all intents and purposes".

In town there are these sandwiches everyone called gondolas, but they pronounce them as gonDOUGHla. I refuse. If I order one, I pronounce it the right way. I've lived here for 10 years and have yet to cave!
Italy...my dad's family (VERY Italian) calls the old country "It-lee." What's your take on that? We ask him if he's It-lee-in then!

 

[kimmar067]

Oh and some more...

"anyways" is not a word!!! It's anyway.

The misuse of their, there and they're.

 

[Deb in IA]

Another one that is frequently seen on the DIS:

"I could care less" when they MEAN "I COULDN'T care less".

I don't know how many times I've tried to explain that these are NOT the same!!

If you COULD care less, that means you really DO care about whatever you are talking about.

 

[threecrazykids]

My husband says "all the sudden" instead of "all of a sudden".

I cringe when people say something like "he has a prostrate issue".

Really? Does he have a problem lying flat on the floor?

It's PROSTATE not prostrate.

I have a friend who says avle instead of able.

 

[HeyIt'sMe]

Oh, my MIL is the queen of mispronoucing things. You don't want to know how she pronounces EPCOT!

One that cracks me up everytime is enchiladas - - she says "ant-chill-itis".

Oh, and instead of saying "I can't fathom how someone could blah blah blah..." she says "I can't phantom how someone could blah blah blah..".

 

[OK!]

Apostrophes in the wrong spot, some big ones here on the Dis are the making of ADR's (ADRs), O'Hana's ('Ohana, it's Polynesian NOT Irish) and 50's (50s, or any building in Pop Century).

THANK you. The use of apostrophes to indicate plurality is one of my HUGEST pet peeves, and it's often combined with another one in the following manner:

"Tomato's, 2 for .99¢"

...so not only are they offering the tomato's possessions for sale, but you get two of them for the bargain price of less than one cent! Woo hoo!

 

[Mrs.Toad]

In town there are these sandwiches everyone called gondolas, but they pronounce them as gonDOUGHla. I refuse. If I order one, I pronounce it the right way. I've lived here for 10 years and have yet to cave!
Italy...my dad's family (VERY Italian) calls the old country "It-lee." What's your take on that? We ask him if he's It-lee-in then!

Good for you! Don't ever cave on that one!!

It-lee -- LOL! The only person I know who pronounces it that way is my German aunt who also says "lieberry" and "kindygarden".

It doesn't bug me as much as cannoli or gonDOUGHla, because it sort of sounds like she's saying it too fast and skipping a syllable, but yea, it kind of grates on me, too.

 

[SpecialK]

When I worked in a bridal shop so many customers would call the little boy who carried the ring "ring barrier". AH!!! Drove me crazy. It's ring bearer.

Don't even get me started on how they pronounced cumberbund.

My inlaws used to live in a town named after Oliver Wendell Holmes. The town name is Wendell. EVERYONE pronounces it Wen-dale (with a very southern accent). It should be pronounced like Wendle.

My grandma has trouble prounouncing a lot of stuff but we don't really correct her. Korea is Kor-rear. Aunt Karen is Aunt Kay-ren.

My nephew was my ring bearer and was very disappointed to learn that he would be wearing a tux and not a bear costume in my wedding. He thought he was the ring bear!

FWIW, cumberbund is actually a variation on cummerbund - that's the word we've always used.

 

[Fintastic]

My MIL pronounces the "L" in salmon. Ugh.

 

[MichelleVW]

My MIL pronounces the "L" in salmon. Ugh.

omg....that one drives me batty!!

 

[MariDisney]

In town there are these sandwiches everyone called gondolas, but they pronounce them as gonDOUGHla. I refuse. If I order one, I pronounce it the right way. I've lived here for 10 years and have yet to cave!
Italy...my dad's family (VERY Italian) calls the old country "It-lee." What's your take on that? We ask him if he's It-lee-in then!

My "off the boat" Italian grandparents called the country "It-lee" with only 2 syllables.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

I'll admit to two myself. I pronounce the "l" in salmon sometimes and I say "vurld" instead of 'world." I don't know why but it's just how it's always come out when I said it. I do have Eastern European heritage but I don't think that is why I pronounce my "Ws" wrong.

 

["Got Disney"]

I have heard some call a surround sound system a "Round sound"....
so do you have a round sound at home?

 

[3boymthr]

Oh...I have another one. I have a friend who says "warsh" instead of wash and it drives me nuts. There is no "r" in "wash."
I have been told by same friend that I say "aunt" incorrectly. I say "awnt" and they say it should be "ant."

My husband and I have this debate and have come to the resolution that he has ants and I have ahnts. As this was a long standing debate I finally looked it up. You can tell your friend that in America either pronunciation of aunt is correct, however; if you want to be true to the origins of the word then correct pronunciation has no relation to an insect. Thus you win the prononciation wars as the dictionary never ever puts an "r" in the diphthongs of wash.

And adding to mispronounced words that are really annoying: my MIL always pronounces shrimp as ZRIMP , even my DH finds this annoying . Of course, his family full of mispronunciations. Warsh and Hourse (House?) and a few others.

But we live in the land of pahks and yahds and "...ing" with no "G's" so I can't really point too many fingers.

Though I do wonder where zrimp live....

 

[JVL1018]

My "off the boat" Italian grandparents called the country "It-lee" with only 2 syllables.

My "off the boat" Italian grandma called it It-lee, as well.
We say It-uh-lee, but hearing It-lee always reminds me of my gram.

 

[Aristomommy]

My SILs family pronounces onion "ung-yon" for some reason. Of course every time we go over they will serve something with ung-yons in it, LOL.

Working in the medical field, my biggest pet peeves are "Old Timers" for Alzheimers and "rotary cup" for rotator cuff. Since so many people have a rotary cup tear, it drives me crazy..

And using the word supposably instead of supposedly is something DH taught me (I'm not a native speaker of English) and now it seems everyone says "supposably".

 

[Elvistelth]

I've only heard it in old movies, but I can't stand when people say "muh" instead of my. Usually the characters who would pronounce, my, wrong would also say "Missourah".