Why Do "Aging" People Start Mispronouncing Words?

[MickeySP]

As a fan of the Walking Dead I will answer:

Hey, I am offended. At 55 I resemble that remark

 

[RedAngie]

I have a friend who says that. She also says that the queen was coronated.

My mum's best were when she talked about celebrities and said "she looks so young, she must go for buttocks injections." (She knew what she meant but pronounced it like buttocks.) And, we were at the airport and she asked if there was 'whiffy'. You know, whiffy, so you can get a wireless on your computer!

With the spelling on the internet now though, it'll be amazing if they next generation will be able to pronounce "probably" or other words. With all the acronyms, everyone is going to sound like R2 D2 with just grunts and squalks.

My doofus DH, the one who likes to spell BARF with store Christmas stockings, intentionally mispronounces certain words. "Whiffy" for Wifi being one of them. He even has me saying it way sometimes.

Others:
USB port: us-ba
GPS: gyp-sus

Appetizers can be "horse doovers" or "can of peas"

The green stalk vegetable that makes your pee smell bad is "as-pa-rar-a-gus" or "aspara-guts".

Dozens of others.


My father called that airborne vehicle that can hover a "he-lee-o-copter." Despite us correcting him dozens of times, he pronounced it that way and insisted he was correct.