Do you mispronounce words?

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• Maisymoo82 Posts: 1,888

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  23/01/15 - 02:36 #2

  My friend does, and I keep a little dictionary of them all!
  
  My favourites are "desiphon" meaning " decipher" "whilrling dermish" instead of "whirling dervish" and "ex-a-ray" for "X-ray" she also makes up a lot of words, that do actually make sense!
  
  Another friend calls Wyndsors World of Shoes "Winosaurs" and Sesame Street "See-Sam Street"

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• Rachael. Posts: 2,331

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  23/01/15 - 09:44 #3

  I pronounce quite a few words wrong, probably a lot actually.
  
  Comfortable - I find difficult to pronounce and would say comf-tarble although I never use it as I just say comfy.
  
  Another one is Ibuprofen. Now this one annoys me as I know the correct way to say it but my ex pronounced it Ibrufen and it just sort of stuck with me. I want to slap myself every time I say it but it just comes out automatically.
  
  I speak Scottish slang though so there will be loads of words I don't say correctly.

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• Vulpes Posts: 1,504

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  23/01/15 - 09:56 #4

  I pronounce 'duvet' wrong. Also I pronounce 'era' not so much wrong (well, wrong in this country I guess) but the yank way of sounding more like 'error'.

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• Hogzilla Posts: 24,116

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  23/01/15 - 10:08 #5

  I can't say 'Canada'. It always comes out as 'Canadia'.

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• TheTruth1983 Posts: 13,462

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  23/01/15 - 10:11 #6

  We all mispronounce encyclopaedia

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• timebug Posts: 18,320

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  23/01/15 - 10:50 #7

  Victoria Wood in 'Dinner Ladies' made a joke of people
  who pronounced 'millennium' as 'minELLium' but at the
  time of the century change, I met quite a few people who
  actually said it that way!

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• davelovesleeds Posts: 22,593

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  23/01/15 - 11:05 #8

  I used to work with someone who always pronounced 'specific' as 'Pacific'

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• Doctor_Wibble Posts: 26,580

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  23/01/15 - 11:08 #9

  I know there's a few that I deliberately mis-pronounce because to get them right either gives an unwanted implication of familiarity with the subject or because I can't think of a suitable euphemism for something and I need an immediate ad-hoc substitute for one. But right now I can't think of any
  

  Maisymoo82 wrote: »

  ... and Sesame Street "See-Sam Street"

  A few of years of childhood in the Netherlands means that even decades later when I hear that name it echoes in my head as 'saysamstraat'...

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• TheTruth1983 Posts: 13,462

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  23/01/15 - 11:08 #10

  I used to say 'hostipal' and 'pasghetti'.
  
  Of course, I was only a wee nipper.

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• Arcana Posts: 37,521

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  23/01/15 - 11:20 #11

  I picked up the habit as a youngling of pronouncing sandwich as 'samwidge' and it's stuck with me for some reason.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 8,916

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  23/01/15 - 11:23 #12

  Not really, although my accent means I drop the letter "H" a lot, with "O" or "ER" at the end of a word becoming "A" so could be seen as sounding like a cross between Lorraine Chase and Danny Dyer.

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• TheTruth1983 Posts: 13,462

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  23/01/15 - 11:23 #13

  Arcana wrote: »

  I picked up the habit as a youngling of pronouncing sandwich as 'samwidge' and it's stuck with me for some reason.

  
  It's 'sammich' here in Tyrone.
  
  Can I get a ham and tomata sammich please?

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• Bethaneeny Posts: 10,094

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  23/01/15 - 11:23 #14

  Rachael. wrote: »

  I pronounce quite a few words wrong, probably a lot actually.
  
  Comfortable - I find difficult to pronounce and would say comf-tarble although I never use it as I just say comfy.
  
  Another one is Ibuprofen. Now this one annoys me as I know the correct way to say it but my ex pronounced it Ibrufen and it just sort of stuck with me. I want to slap myself every time I say it but it just comes out automatically.
  
  I speak Scottish slang though so there will be loads of words I don't say correctly.

  
  My Dr calls it Brufen - look me a while to work out what she meant.

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• Caxton Posts: 28,881

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  23/01/15 - 11:24 #15

  Outer Hebrides
  Outer He Brides
  
  Certificate
  Sir stiffercate
  
  I do not use the myself but I know people who do:D

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• TheTruth1983 Posts: 13,462

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  23/01/15 - 11:24 #16

  Vernon Bennett wrote: »

  Not really, although my accent means I drop my "H" a lot, so could be seen as sounding like a cross between Lorraine Chase and Danny Dyer.

  
  That's a frightening image

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• kitty86 Posts: 7,034

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  23/01/15 - 11:27 #17

  Arcana wrote: »

  I picked up the habit as a youngling of pronouncing sandwich as 'samwidge' and it's stuck with me for some reason.

  
  OH pronounces it "sangwich"
  
  No idea why

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• dee123 Posts: 46,258

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  23/01/15 - 11:30 #18

  Never. Like Mary Poppins, I'm practically perfect in every way ;-)

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• Tallywacker Posts: 1,561

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  23/01/15 - 11:32 #19

  Rachael. wrote: »

  Another one is Ibuprofen. Now this one annoys me as I know the correct way to say it but my ex pronounced it Ibrufen and it just sort of stuck with me. I want to slap myself every time I say it but it just comes out automatically.

  
  Brufen is just a trade name for ibuprofen. No such thing as ibrufen though.
  
  I've heard people say 'icining' when they mean 'icing' and the old classic is berger-haus instead of berghaus. Idiots.

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• Caxton Posts: 28,881

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  23/01/15 - 11:38 #20

  Bethaneeny wrote: »

  My Dr calls it Brufen - look me a while to work out what she meant.

  
  Brufen is just one brand name of Ibuprofen
  

  Brand names of ibuprofen
  Ibuprofen brand names include Brufen, Calprofen, Genpril, Ibu, Midol, Nuprin, Cuprofen, Nurofen, Advil and Motrin - there are many others. If you are buying the medication at a pharmacy, check the packaging for other brand names, in case they contain ibuprofen.

  and a list of countries where the numerous brand names are used http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ibuprofen_brand_names

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• Inkblot Posts: 26,889

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  23/01/15 - 11:41 #21

  The people who think up names for medicinal products should be forced to stand in front of a queue in Boots and ask for a load of items they don't know how to pronounce. Then they might think twice about inflicting the likes of Cetomacrogol on the rest of us.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 7,888

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  23/01/15 - 12:08 #22

  I pronounce correctly for where I'm from, yes. However it's like the scone/gone scone/cone debate. Both are correct.

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• chrisjr Posts: 33,282

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  23/01/15 - 12:12 #23

  The late great Ronnie Barker...
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0nFQgRApY
  
  Made for this thread

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• barbeler Posts: 23,827

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  23/01/15 - 13:27 #24

  The best one I've seen was from somebody on here, who pronounced probably as prolly.
  
  I used to know somebody who always referred to "pharmaKuticals".
  
  A very common one is itinary instead of itinerary.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 8,916

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  23/01/15 - 13:37 #25

  barbeler wrote: »

  The best one I've seen was from somebody on here, who pronounced probably as prolly.

  
  WTF ZOMG LOL

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• CRTHD Posts: 7,602

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  23/01/15 - 13:53 #26

  I can't say Bacarruda!
  
  and...why do some folks prononce nuclear as nukilar???

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