2006-12-19 10:38:34 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
It's one of the many vagaries of US English pronunciation. It's used so much it's become standard over there. There are lots of other examples - like saying "Noo-kyoo-lar" instead of Nuclear: Woody Allen does a whole running joke about that in one of his films (alrthough the guy who says "Noo-kyoo-lar" gets the girl anyway). Every regional version of English has examples of mispronounciation though - it's what you get for having a totally global language.
2006-12-19 23:39:14 · answer #1 · answered by Alyosha 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its not just that word as you have seen. its the difference in the culture your in, you grow up around people who mis pronounced the word originally so you say that word. for example if you grow up in America you would pronounce schedule as "sked-ule" if you are using the queens English then you would pronounce it as "shed-ule"
it is all about where you are and how often you are told that the word you are pronounceing is wrong, and corrected using the right word or pronounciation.
this makes me scream too as it is annoying when the pronounciation is wrong
you ever get annoyed when you hear someone correcting someone by saying "the proper English is...." AAAARRRGGGGHHH!
hypocrit!!!
its "the correct English is"
oh my punctuation isnt good but this question is about pronounciation!
hope that helps... just listen to peoples accents, you will find a variation concerning every word you can find im sure...
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2006-12-19 18:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by punk_fairy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wonder that myself. There are quite a few words that are constantly being mispronounced.
2006-12-19 18:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by Lov'n IT! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Good question, and why do certain people, notably older people pronounce 'paraffin' as 'parafeen', 'invalid' as 'invaleed' and 'memorabilia' as 'memorabeelia', and why do people use the awful nonsense word 'basically' in every sentence, and why do people misuse the word 'literally' so often?
2006-12-19 18:43:20 · answer #4 · answered by Phish 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because they hear other people pronounce it that way, and they don't take time to look at the word and sound it out phonetically.
2006-12-20 11:18:49 · answer #5 · answered by brevejunkie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well holycrap... my dictionary says to pronounce it that way >>> "MIS CHEE VEE US" Thought the dictionary knew everything !!!!!!!!!!!
I guess the dictionary is a thing of hit and miss!!
2006-12-19 20:06:41 · answer #6 · answered by Kitty 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
That is something that really gets on my nerves and I don't know why. Irrational I suppose but I really wish they would stop!
2006-12-19 18:47:02 · answer #7 · answered by Lou 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Blame 'The Shamen' and 'Ebeneezer Goode'.
2006-12-22 08:27:19 · answer #8 · answered by Dirk Diggler 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This most likely occurs because they misspell the word as well (i.e. as mischevious).
2006-12-19 18:44:33 · answer #9 · answered by Philip Kiriakis 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
po ta toe or po tar toe or to ma toe or to mar toe. It depends on where you come from
2006-12-19 18:45:15 · answer #10 · answered by tina 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋