What word mispronounced drives you crazy??

[fly girl]

I uses terms like totes adorbs and on fleek when I reeeeealy need to irk my DS - sometimes he just has it coming, KWIM?

As for tater tots, that is perfectly acceptable given it is the actual proper name of the dish but you have given me a new idea for driving DS nuts by starting to refer to them as potato tots. Thanks!

I love it! And oh yeah I play that game with DD too. My main ammo is typically singing to her music. Fastest way for her to change the station. I can only listen to "Drivers License" so many times. Play something else popular radio station!!!

 

[Jennasis]

I don't say taters but this cracks me up. It does sound hillbilly. Like totes or adorb (or totes adorb!) unless your 12 years old -- and I know a lot of 12 year olds, and they don't even use it -- you sound ridiculous.

However, I hope you don't need to call 9-1-1 when someone says they had these on the dinner table.

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I don't know of another term except tater tots.

Disney calls them potato barrels. (Disney is wrong)

 

[1GoldenSun]

Mischievous. It's mis-chiv-us, not mis-chee-vee-us!

And the absolute killer in my opinion is height pronounced with a th on the end.
It's width, breadth, length.....and height! HT not TH. It's hite, HITE, HIIIIIIIITE!!!

 

[Katie Dawn]

I've never heard of "jimmies" in the sprinkles world. Thought maybe I just had never noticed the labels, but looks like using jimmies is by no means an industry standard.


Oh, and supposably makes me roll my eyes internally.

 

[leebee]

"Idear" is from the New England Conservation of 'R' Theory. We drop 'em where they should be ("pahk the cah") and put them where they don't belong: "Great idear, Lindar!"

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

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Before we get too far, I want to point out that "aks" has been an acceptable pronunciation of "ask" since the 1600's, thank you very much.

Wow. People have been pronouncing it wrong longer than we thought.

How do you mispronounce Scone?? Never thought of other ways to say it unless I am missing it

I pronounce it "Yuck."

Biggest one for me is one of my staff calls it a Sammich

Don't they know it's a Sammy?

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Er. Guilty as charged on most of these and I'm far from lazy. I'm from South Philly and have a very heavy Philadelphia accent. It's not mispronouncing words, it's the dialect. Just like a person from the UK drops the 'r' sound at the end of words, a working class city accent has words that are pronounced differently. I have a college ejecashun, yeah no.

Sandwich- sanwich
Library- liberry
February- Febewerry
Towel-tal
Step- tret
Water- wooder
etc.
Oh, and Sprinkles are round and always colored. Jimmies are long and either chocolate jimmies or rainbow jimmies.

 

[Deb]

shrimp. first of all, the plural of shrimp is shrimp. not shrimps. And it's shrimp not srimp.
It's also sa-mon not sal-mon

 

[DaisyDuck001]

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.

Curious how anyone mispronounces "Neverland".

 

[Meglen]

My name. Megan, Should be Meg-ann sound but people do Maygen or Meegan.

 

[Disneylover99]

I just can’t stand hearing people say, anywho.
Move the w to the end of the word and say it right!

 

[marthachick]

Appalachian. It is NOT Ap-a-LAY-shun. It is Ap-a-LATCH-un. (We live about an hour from Boone NC and we have a lot of people who have or currently attend Appalachian State University. )

 

[EMom]

Realtor, not ree-luh-ter
Jewelry, not Jew-luh-ree

 

[Lizgistix]

A certain someone in my family cringes when pancakes is pronounced panna-cakes, so obviously I periodically say panna-cakes because I like pushing people's buttons sometimes.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

Fo-ward (forward). Drives me nuts when people drop the first “r” sound.

 

[Elle23]

computer issue

I was wondering how people could possibly mispronounce this.

 

[Christine]

Arcadia National Park - it is Acadia National Park (no "r")

I've always wondered why that is? Why is the "r" silent? That seems to follow no other language pattern I've seen. Seems like it *should* be Arcadia and everyone dropping the "r" is wrong!!

 

[mrodgers]

Gyro. As in the Greek pita sandwich.

Drives me nuts.

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

 

[tzolkin]

I've always wondered why that is? Why is the "r" silent? That seems to follow no other language pattern I've seen. Seems like it *should* be Arcadia and everyone dropping the "r" is wrong!!

The R isn't silent. There is no R. It's Acadia National Park. However, Arcadia is also a word, which is where the confusion/mispronunciation comes in. I think most people think it's the same word, but it's actually two words with one letter difference.

 

[Christine]

The R isn't silent. There is no R. It's Acadia National Park. However, Arcadia is also a word, which is where the confusion/mispronunciation comes in. I think most people think it's the same word, but it's actually two words with one letter difference.

Oh, got it!!! Misread that!