What word mispronounced drives you crazy??

[princesscinderella]

I purposely pronounce Tesla wrong because it drives my kids crazy I say it like Tezla.

 

[lucas]

Pecan.

 

[Cindy's Mom]

What is the correct pronunciation of "gyro" may I ask?

year-ro with a rolled r in the first syllable. Some say the "S" at the end, some don't its not a big deal with that.

Signed a Greek with 12 letters in her maiden name. LOL

 

[Moliphino]

While we are on the topic of "Speaking New England"... Jimmies are CHOCOLATE. Anything shaped like that but rainbow colored are SPRINKLES.

Not all of New England! They're all sprinkles out in western MA.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Source?

People Have Been Saying “Ax” Instead of “Ask” for 1,200 Years - Smithsonian Magazine

Why Chaucer said 'ax' instead of 'ask,' and why some still do - sprc.org

I was wrong, it's older than that.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

the name on the wrapper of the pieces, cups and peanut butter is the possessive of his name Reese's, apostrophe and all so the correct pronunciation is reeesis. or am I missing something

No, that's right. Some people say "Rees-eez Piece-eez"

 

[fly girl]

OH! And yet another one. Hmmm ... I am beginning to see I am closer to the "grumpy old lady" persona than I thought.

Almond! It is with an L people, not an h. And I bring you to this commercial which I adore.

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Foot instead of feet

Home Improvement show and square footage always referred to as 2400 hundred sq foot, 3000 square foot.

 

[gillep]

OH! And yet another one. Hmmm ... I am beginning to see I am closer to the "grumpy old lady" persona than I thought.

Almond! It is with an L people, not an h. And I bring you to this commercial which I adore.

Here in CA there are areas that pronounce it 'am-end'. The first time I heard it was on the radio when they were interviewing farmers at an almond orchard, all of the farmers were calling them 'am-ends' I was so confused. I looked it up, and it is a regional thing in a few areas where almond orchards are prevalent here in CA, but is not pronounced this way throughout all of CA.

 

[MillauFr]

Bourgogne

 

[Becky19]

How do you pronounce it? I don't personally know any Welshmen but on TGBBS I've noticed Mary Berry always said skon while Paul Hollywood says skown.

I'm from where Paul Hollywood is from and it definitely should be skon!

 

[NotUrsula]

Foot instead of feet

Home Improvement show and square footage always referred to as 2400 hundred sq foot, 3000 square foot.

I think this one may actually be correct, depending upon context. A house that has an interior area of 2400 square FEET may be described as a 2400 square FOOT home. I think that feet is correct if you are stating measurement, but XXX-foot is probably correct when you are using square footage as a descriptor that modifies an object.

We also do this when speaking of people. "Jim is 6 feet tall." vs. "Six-foot-six cornerback John Smith is very intimidating."

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

I went for a long, wet and muddy dog walk with my daughter today. As we were returning home, my daughter said, ‘Why are are doddling?’. I replied, ‘It is dawdle not doddle’. Her retort, ‘People in their dotage doddle like toddlers toddle!’. The young are cruel.

 

[Karin1984]

Ok, English wasn't his native language, but I had a manager who once pronounced bargaining as bar-gaining. After that I couldn't focus on his presentation anymore.
Another English word which is difficult for Dutch people is: idea.
Most common mistakes I hear are ID or I-deer. First time I heard I-deer, I hoped it would be a new Apple product, but it wasn't

 

[Olaf Myfrenzargay]

“Eck” cetera.

 

[tzolkin]

Pecan.

What's your version of the "correct" pronunciation?

 

[kimmar067]

....sooooo, is it "ruff" or is it "roooof"?

 

[kimmar067]

....there's a street two towns away from us - Farnham Ave. My DH always pronounces it "Far-man" Ave....drives me nuts.

 

[kimmar067]

YEARS ago [back-in-the-day] there was a girl on our volleyball team and, for some God-only-knows reason, she was randomly asking everyone during practice "Do you pronounce it "toh-MAY-tow" or "toh-MAH-tow"? After about the 6th or 7th person of asking this, she went up to one of the seniors, who told her [tongue in cheek], "My family is from Cuba. Everyone in OUR family says "TOE-muh-tow" and walked away.

 

[mrodgers]

I lived near the town of Emlenton. Everyone in the small city where I work says "Emolton".

I produce plastic pellets and expand the pellets into foam. I had just finished picking up and setting the sack of pellets next to the equipment when my coworker tells me, "I brought pellets over for you." Ah, no you didn't as I just got off the forktruck from bringing them over. He sat there arguing and yelling, "Pellets! Pellets! I said I brought the pellets over!" What he brought was a stack of wooden pallets.