This one guy that my brother works with says he's "sweefin'" the floor and this month he calls "Optober". He calls Ramen noodles "Roman numerals".
My co-worker can not say defecate, she keeps saying decaffinate (I swear this is true).
So what is some funny stuff you'd heard people mispronounce.
2006-10-27 10:10:06 · 21 answers · asked by HazelEyes 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
My daughter calls her moms truck a "Savervin", it's a Saburban. (I'm not sure if that's spelled right)
2006-10-27 10:11:32 · update #1
I meant to say....My daughter calls her friend's mom's truck. Ha Ha
2006-10-27 10:21:59 · update #2
Or "Can I get a 'confirmination' on that?"
2006-10-27 10:26:22 · update #3
Or "I'd prefer to remain 'unanimous'
2006-10-27 10:36:10 · update #4
My mom calls salsa "sasa." She claims the "L" is silent. Wolves are "woofs," too.
When my sis was little, she called her bathing suit a "baby suit" and her suit case was a "soup case." She'd put her baby suit in her soup case. Still makes me laugh a little.
2006-10-27 10:12:54 · answer #1 · answered by Ms. Roberts 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My uncle had an interview for a corrections officer when he was 24. Right before he went into the interview he got really nervous, and his friend told him not to say anything wrong. He was thinking so hard about not messing up, that he kept calling the people who were interviewing him "Ocifer" instead of "Officer" haha...yeah...he didn't get the job...
2006-10-27 17:14:53 · answer #2 · answered by Huliganjetta 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My 3 yr old niece calls spaghetti, "sabaiki"
and an airport, "airoport"!
I have known adults in pakistan, mispronounce so many words.
Commonly mispronounced, are naive, suite, etc.
2006-10-27 17:23:51 · answer #3 · answered by saltnsaffron 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A co-worker kept telling me how she went to the Rendezvous chat room. She would tell me about this every day and she kept saying "ren - dezz - vus" not the correct French way to say it. (ron-day-vu)
I never told her she was saying it wrong. Someone must have because now she never mentions it.
2006-10-27 18:16:41 · answer #4 · answered by sister_godzilla 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When my son was 1 years old he referred to the threads inside his socks, he would say he had "Freds in his socks."
George Bush mispronounces Nuclear. He says "Newcooler." Too funny!
2006-10-27 17:14:47 · answer #5 · answered by nicolekadman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My ex-boyfriend called me to ask if our son had any doctor's appts. in the next few weeks, when i asked why he said he lost his health insurance. I asked him how that happened and he told me he got "determinated". I dropped the phone laughing. Needless to say i think he'll never forget the right way to say that again.
2006-10-27 17:37:22 · answer #6 · answered by Tisha 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Working in a hospital, I hear an awful lot of mispronunciations but the one that makes my teeth grate is:
Radiology. When they say it like....Radio - ology, with a long 'o' on the third syllable. That one makes me cringe.
2006-10-27 17:13:21 · answer #7 · answered by Shadow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
George Bush's version of nuclear, and the rest of the english language for that matter.
2006-10-27 17:21:07 · answer #8 · answered by Brite Tiger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when i worked in a library a popular reference book was "the ANNALS of america." often young people would ask for "the ANALS of america.
hispanics have trouble with the word "beach".
they often say, "i am going to the b i t c h now."
2006-10-27 17:23:34 · answer #9 · answered by doribll 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My dad, bless his heart, was an immigrant with an accent, and he used to call our hair bangs "pants". He would say "Comb your pants out of your eyes" all the time. :) My grandson say "pisssketti" for Spaghetti.
2006-10-27 17:31:08 · answer #10 · answered by Pepper's Mommy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋