What mispronunciations drive you nuts?
2007-01-13 02:07:56 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
lol, my mom has a friend who says "lawl" and worse than that she INSISTS that that is the way it's pronounced. And her husband is a LAWYER - I'm not sure HOW she pronounces that!
2007-01-13 02:55:43 · update #1
omg yes. my husband says it all the time. i'm living in the south, and i hear it all the time! ooooo!
theater is one too. my hubby pronounces it "thee-ater" with a long "a" sound. he knows that it drives me crazy.
i do like the word "necked" for naked. drives my mom crazy, though, so i think that's why i do it around her only.
2007-01-13 02:19:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Regional dialects can be confusing...but I find them fun as well.
When I first moved down South, I was trying to find somebody and stopped at a gas station to ask where so-an-so lived. I was told that he lived "below the Corn Cob Church."
After some confusion, I came to realize that he lived, in a house, PAST the Concord Church.
2007-01-13 10:20:33 · answer #2 · answered by 4999_Basque 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't really mind mispronunciations... it actually cheers me up lol... that's basically the reason why I help my classmates in their English...
2007-01-13 10:11:57 · answer #3 · answered by silvs 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I don't hear any difference. You sound like a real sour apple though. Why don't you try to find good in things instead of hating things around you?
2007-01-13 10:10:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Eh. How do you say HEIGTH? is it H8th - who the hell says that?
It annoys me when people say Pay-tronising instead of Pah-tronising.
2007-01-13 10:11:00 · answer #5 · answered by Fitz 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
well...this isnt a mispronunciation but i cannot hardly stand it when people say "I just seen it over there" instead of SAW it...grrrr
2007-01-13 10:12:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I just allways thought they had an overbite,but it urks me when people say "it's a phrase of speach" instead of "figure of speach.
2007-01-13 10:19:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
My husband does that, it does drive me crazy
2007-01-13 10:11:48 · answer #8 · answered by T Time 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Down south, it's "aks" instead of "ask." Makes me want to strangle someone.
2007-01-13 10:11:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
who the heck says heigth?
2007-01-13 10:10:51 · answer #10 · answered by yuygj2000 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋