What word mispronounced drives you crazy??

[jlundeen]

Real-tor - not "real-a-der"

 

[Lumpy1106]

I went to school on the Central Coast in CA. The names of a couple of the towns are Hispanic in origin, the pronunciation is NOT! You should always use the local pronunciation - that's just polite. That doesn't stop the newscasters in So Cal from twisting themselves in a knot trying to be politically correct though. Some examples, with the local pronunciation;
Paso Robles (pass-a-row-bulls)
San Pedro (san peed-row, or peed-row for short)
and the one that drives me nuts;
San Luis Obispo (san lou-is oh-bis-bow)
We hear the Hispanic torture, but also "san lou-EE oh-bis-po". WTH? Now I know you aren't a local. Also "SLO" (slow) for short, but really only get to use that if you live there.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Anyone from Boston on here? Please explain, Worchester (WOO-stah).

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

Texts, pronounced as "texas"

 

[LuvOrlando]

Anyone from Boston on here? Please explain, Worchester (WOO-stah).

I think PEE-bid-E is up there in curiosity.

In general, I adore accents and all the unique ways people say things, it gives a bland world some flavor... It's poetic license
I would never ever ever correct someone - how people pronounce things or write or spell or use language like art doesn't matter, the point is do I get their point. (See my hyphen ^ to me that's art & words are paint

 

[Lumpy1106]

I think PEE-bid-E is up there in curiosity.

In general, I adore accents and all the unique ways people say things, it gives a bland world some flavor... It's poetic license

Not complaining about woostah, just seems like there is a back story.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Not complaining about woostah, just seems like there is a back story.

Didn't mean you, never sure how to address one post and then move on to a general everybody response to the main topic.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Didn't mean you, never sure how to address one post and then move on to a general everybody response to the main topic.

Nah, all good! It just occurred to me that I might seem hypocritical if I am bugged by people not using the local pronunciation in my locale, then bring up an odd pronunciation on the other coast. I'm with you - local dialects rule!

 

[Welsh_Dragon]

Anyone from Boston on here? Please explain, Worchester (WOO-stah).

Does it copy the pronunciation of the English town Worcester (Woo sta) and county Worcestershire (Woo sta sher)? I think the pronunciation comes from Norman French.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Anyone from Boston on here? Please explain, Worchester (WOO-stah).

That would be a question for the Normans and the Saxons. By the way you spelled it wrong. It's Worcester.

 

[Lumpy1106]

Maybe belongs in a different thread, but I am really bugged by the term "Angelinos". Pretty sure that was made up by one of the LA mayors to make it seem like we are all one big cohesive family - CAN'T be farther from the truth! The counter-argument goes something like, "OK, what do you call people from LA?". I dunno - does that need to be a thing? You don't call people from New York "Yorkies". There is a term for people from Boston that the people from the northern New England states use, but it is not polite, and maybe would even get me in trouble if I used it here. How about we just don't?

 

[EricLaurie]

Illinois. It’s not ill-i-noise.

 

[Heigh-Ho]

Nuclear

Guilty. It's a hard word for me. Sounding it out in my head helps. I hate when what seems like an easy word just isn't

 

[Moliphino]

Anyone from Boston on here? Please explain, Worchester (WOO-stah).

Well, it's Worcester not Worchester. And yes, blame the British. Or Normans.

Does it copy the pronunciation of the English town Worcester (Woo sta) and county Worcestershire (Woo sta sher)? I think the pronunciation comes from Norman French.

 

[karen4546]

Yes! This one drives me crazy!

Also -

ValenTIMES Day instead of Valentine’s Day

supposably - supposedly

melk - milk

crown - crayon

And the fastest way to determine whether or not someone is from our city is to hear the person pronounce our city’s name. There’s a distinct way that people who aren’t from here say the name of our city, & it’s a dead giveaway that they’re not local - which, I suppose, can probably be said for a number of cities.

Yes! Our town is Ouachita City-pronounced Wash e taw not oo chi tuh

Salmon - my husband pronounces the "L"

 

[DisneYE]

Mine are all food-related bc you get to hear them often..these are the ones that make me cringe:
- Quesadilla - (ke-sa-dee-la instead of ke-sa-dee-ya)
- Tortilla - (tor-tee-la instead of tor-tee-ya)
- Bruschetta-Bro-shay-ta instead of Broos-keta-only servers (& Italians) pronounce it correctly, ppl ordering it dgara..
- Espresso -this is the most common- I've heard so many ppl say ex-spray-so instead of the obvious- it's so cringe.

 

[kandlsutton]

FISCAL as physical

 

[Christine]

FISCAL as physical

And vice versa. I have some rube at work (we are in finance) and he constantly says "physical year" in his presentations instead of fiscal year.

 

[Olaf Myfrenzargay]

Aks instead of ask. Like, what?

 

[Dural]

Illinois. It’s not ill-i-noise.

My mom's BF is from Minnesota and always pronounces it that way (we live in N. IL).

Wash pronounced warsh, so many people around here do it and I just don't understand it.