What word mispronounced drives you crazy??

[ILoveMyDVC]

Veteran pronounced vetran

Hey! that's mine - no stealing! Makes my teeth crawl. Rampant inthe Northeast. Everything is Vetchtan's...

 

[luvsvacation]

My mom pronounces some words wrong and so I grew up always thinking the way she said them was correct...imagine my surprise when I realized they were eyebrows and not eye bras! Another one was pan a cakes for pancakes.

 

[NotUrsula]

I tend to cut people slack for accents, but my Irish mother had an accent-influenced thing of substituting leading THR and TR sounds for one another in English, and it always struck me as funny because it changed so many words to other real words. She said "tree" for three, but she also said "thrust" for "trust."

I can still clearly remember how much trouble I got into once as a teen when she told me to be home by 7 because she didn't "thrust you out alone after dark." My smartass reply was, "Well, I would certainly hope not!"

 

[RangerPooh]

Ax instead of ask.

I here it way too much here in the south. I don’t hear aks or ask, I hear ax. It’s so commonplace and not corrected. Ugh.

 

[Tinkerbell58]

notary public not notary republic

 

[DeeBee3]

I just want to add that this whole thread cracks me up! The way we all say things is so different and it just changes from region to region and family to family. My husband always laughs at the way I say certain things and I had no idea it was different! My mom and her family are from the Bronx, and although I am not from there, I think it rubbed off on me a bit!

 

[Rockbro]

It just makes me crazy - like they are too lazy to use the "H"

there are two pronunciations of Rachel?

Yes. One is Rachel and the other is Rashell (A more french version, with an accent over the "a").

 

[zoo2tycoon]

Specific- people say pacific

 

[disneygirlsng]

Yes. One is Rachel and the other is Rashell (A more french version, with an accent over the "a").

I've never heard either of those names pronounced that way, and I've known quite a lot of both.

 

[PrincessBelle39]

Sarah and Sara are both pronounced the same way. Saaarah. Long a sound in the first part. The no H makes no difference. For some reason people say “seerah”. There is no E. And you don’t pronounce the H. Source: am a Sarah

Here Sarah would be pronounced 'S air ah'. Sara would be pronounced 'S are ah'

 

[Donald13]

Here Sarah would be pronounced 'S air ah'. Sara would be pronounced 'S are ah'

Where are you? I get the s are ah here in New York a lot. But my whole family says it saaarah. No one pronounces the h

 

[disykat]

It's not a word mispronunciation, but a way of speaking that has become more common - skipping the T sound in the middle of words (T-glottalization). Button becomes buh'-on, mountain becomes moun'-in. It really makes me nuts.

I'm so glad to hear you say this! It drives me nuts and every time it comes up in conversation people look at me like I have two heads and they've never heard it before. I kept looking on speech therapy websites trying to find if it is something they remediate and I've never found it. An example of someone who does this is the gal from Married at First Sight - Jamie Ottis.

 

[NotUrsula]

I'm so glad to hear you say this! It drives me nuts and every time it comes up in conversation people look at me like I have two heads and they've never heard it before. I kept looking on speech therapy websites trying to find if it is something they remediate and I've never found it. An example of someone who does this is the gal from Married at First Sight - Jamie Ottis.

My understanding is that for most who do it, it's kind of deliberate, sort of a fad. (Not unlike vocal fry in some circles.) I'm not sure that it would be corrected for in that case; I can just see some poor therapist striving to eliminate a pattern that the student is actually practicing in the mirror every night.

 

[Rockbro]

This isn't a pronunciation thing, but I strongly dislike when people spell my first name incorrectly. There are 3 ways to spell it. Without going to far into it, it is an Irish name.

EDIT: on a side note, it is a very pleasant surprise when someone gets it right!

 

[FigmentSpark]

Okay, this is embarrassing admission time. First, I'm not American, so I didn't grow up hearing about the "GOP". As an adult, I didn't care a lot about US politics, but I did read articles about it, particularly as, in the last four years, there was so much news about the Republican party. In fact, I only recently learned that GOP stands for "Grand Old Party".

So, that said, in my head (don't laugh... okay, you can laugh) I've already read "GOP" as gop... a word that rhymes with "sop". So when I started watching news about the election last fall, imagine my surprise to hear all those newscasters talking about the G. O. P. ? It still makes me bristle when they say it as it's correct initials, because I can't get all those years of thinking it was a word (gop, that rhymes with sop) out of my head.

I'll step away, now, in my embarrassment.

 

[DLgal]

Yes. One is Rachel and the other is Rashell (A more french version, with an accent over the "a").

Wouldn't that be Rachelle in French? It has a different spelling.

 

[PrincessBelle39]

Where are you? I get the s are ah here in New York a lot. But my whole family says it saaarah. No one pronounces the h

Australia

 

[lovesmurfs]

I listen to a LOT of audiobooks. Anything the paid narrator mispronounces drives me batty. Surely there are producers, editors, and the ability to retake a sentence if something is mispronounced. I listened to a Nora Roberts book where the main character, Malachi, is pronounced "Mal-A-key" the entire book. It's Mal-ak-eye. Gah!

 

[NotUrsula]

I listen to a LOT of audiobooks. Anything the paid narrator mispronounces drives me batty. Surely there are producers, editors, and the ability to retake a sentence if something is mispronounced. I listened to a Nora Roberts book where the main character, Malachi, is pronounced "Mal-A-key" the entire book. It's Mal-ak-eye. Gah!

I think that was probably all of those folks overthinking it in this case. That character is supposed to be Irish, and Malachy is a very common name in Ireland -- pronounced (you guessed it) MAL-a-key. Even though it's spelled the Biblical way in the book, someone probably thought it stood to reason that an Irishman would go with the "Irish" pronunciation, never mind that it's not truly the same name.

Irish Gaelic names tend to tie the tongue in proper knots if you are not familiar with the language, and the spelling is very random in English because it is transliterated, which is, of course, also true of Hebrew. (There was a time I used to threaten to name a child Caoimhe, just to watch DH twitch. )

PS: I think that the transliteration issue also explains Rachel/Rachael and Sara/Sarah

 

[lovesmurfs]

I think that was probably all of those folks overthinking it in this case. That character is supposed to be Irish, and Malachy is a very common name in Ireland -- pronounced (you guessed it) MAL-a-key. Even though it's spelled the Biblical way in the book, someone probably thought it stood to reason that an Irishman would go with the "Irish" pronunciation, never mind that it's not truly the same name.

Irish Gaelic names tend to tie the tongue in proper knots if you are not familiar with the language, and the spelling is very random in English because it is transliterated, which is, of course, also true of Hebrew. (There was a time I used to threaten to name a child Caoimhe, just to watch DH twitch. )

Wow. I've never heard it pronounced that way -- you're probably right. Maybe I'll actually listen to the book again! (it's The Three Fates, and one of my favorites...to read). Although it's spelled in the biblical way in the book, and siblings are Rebecca and Gideon.