2007-08-08 15:05:47 · 48 answers · asked by Shylia 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Conversation. I have a daughter that is 23 (my youngest) and she always says "conbersation". It drives me nuts. No matter how many times I correct her, she continues to mispronounce it and it is like nails on a chalk board to me.
Thanks for letting me get that off of my chest. Your question just sent me in to an menopausal moment but I'm better now.
2007-08-08 15:22:27 · answer #1 · answered by nana4dakids 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Any observe mispronounced bugs me yet particularly my final call, human beings have a tendency to forget their grammar college English and continually desire to objective and advert the "gh" to my final call while "gh" is by way of the fact the final 2 letters in English is silent.
2016-10-09 15:20:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Defense. This started with fans at football games, yelling deeeefense, when encouraging their team's defensive unit. Nowadays, it seems that everyone, even news reporters and politicians, are using the long d, when pronouncing the word. It is pronounced defense, not deefense. For example; we don't have a Secretary of Deefense, now do we?
2007-08-08 15:14:08 · answer #3 · answered by DAKal 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Illinois
2007-08-08 15:09:07 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mispronounced words don't bug me very much.
But when you start going into really, really bad grammar ("Where you at?" instead of "Where are you?") THAT bugs the crap out of me.
2007-08-08 15:08:46 · answer #5 · answered by Bree 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the word shrimp and street. I have heard strimp and skreet. It sends me though the roof! But the worst of all for me is the term "out of bound." Some people say, "Out of balance." I will correct that as long as I am living.
2007-08-08 15:09:51 · answer #6 · answered by Darth Maul 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not when it's mispronounced, but when it's used at all...conversate! I know dictionary.com acknowledges it as a word, but it sounds so made up!!! I would use "converse" instead.
2007-08-08 15:09:10 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tijuana
It is pronounced: Tee-wanna
Everyone says: Tee-ah-wanna
2007-08-08 15:09:29 · answer #8 · answered by Granny 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I live in Arkansas....I hate it when Warsh is said besides wash!
I can't go out, I need to warsh my hair (or har as one from here might say)
2007-08-08 16:55:16 · answer #9 · answered by Tikled_Ivory 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My last name is a very common one, yet some people just can't get it right. Grrrr
2007-08-08 15:08:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋