You guys, my TWO best friends, when I met them, pronounced wolf "WOOF".


Fucking WOOF?!?!? WOOF?!?!?!?!??>

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It took me years to correct that shit. What's the statute on child abuse? Because how much neglect does it take to raise their kids to adulthood still pronouncing words like three-year-olds? Should I call CPS?

Protege said:

:a:

INSATIABLE said:

crown = crayon

I have a fucking cellphone video of one of the above said friends spouting some drunken shit about his cat getting a vaccine that week. Except he didn't say vaccine.

He said vacc.i.nine. VAX-I-NEEN.

I'd post the vid here, but my screaming laugh after his verbal butchery would frighten the children.

Apparently, he's always thought it was vaxineen. Heavens.

INSATIABLE said:

that reminds me of
abundinance

Protege said:

Protege said:

Protege said:

those sound exactly alike when I say them

how about mischievIOUS instead of mischievous

DesertEskimo said:

omg totally

miss cheevius is an entirely different person

I don't think this one is anything more than a mispronunciation due to a thick tongue or accent, but my friend Beth's mother pronounces the word "told" as in "I told her..", "TOAD"


I TOAD her to stay out of the rain.

AsianBomb777 said:

I axed you once, I axed you twice, you do what you are TOAD!

DesertEskimo said:

POSELY when I'm speaking to you! Posely!

AsianBomb777 said:

go warsh your hands in the zink!

i believe those are both done by the same person but it's been a while since i've spoken with them.

which is a good thing.

AsianBomb777 said:

I don't even get that one

Protege said:

What insane Deliverance-style town do you live in?

AsianBomb777 said:

i used to live in columbus ohio. that's where most of these are coming from. it's like a disease or something...

Protege said:

oooohhhhh

I work out of Columbus from time to time


VERY friendly people there though.

AsianBomb777 said:

friendly people

just that a high percentage of the ones i know seem completely unable to say a few words.

like about half the dictionary.

Protege said:

I grew up in Alabaster, Alabama

There was only one book available for checkout at the public library. And it was the Holy Bible.

AsianBomb777 said:

the other one i hate, which is pretty much general because i've heard so many people say it, is when people say pronounciation instead of pronunciation. i mean i know it's pronounce/pronunciation but....really......no....wrong....wrongwrongwrong.

I was watching "Scrubs" yesterday- the one in which Janitor corrected the guy from the cafeteria for saying "LIBERRY" instead of "library".
Later in the episode, Janitor was mad at J.D.... The guy turned to him and said, "Gee, you're as red as a strawBRARY!"

.....keep going. I am convinced squoze is a word.


she squoze the hell out of the orange.

Imago said:

Now U know "die" and "me" don't rhyme!

chocolate1 said:

i hate when people say liberry

and omg.
laundry-mat.

it's a laundr-OH-mat.

i actually saw a sign recently that said LAUNDRYMAT in big giant ass yellow letters. and i almost threw a fit. almost. it was probably just a gimmick or some shit. but i really almost had a fit.

i'm so damn picky

myfavorite said:

fridgidator.....


zink (supposed to be sink)


divan ( couch)


put tit tin (put it in)

I had a student who insisted on saying "I-RON".
After I thought about it, why do we say "I-YERN"?

how do you guys pronounce "comfortable?"

wow.

I didn't realize there was so much pain to be shared in this collective experience we all seem to feel.

My family is West Indian and insist on pronouncing miserable as mizzerabble.

Protege said:

Is this a trick question?!

I have enough trouble pronouncing words that end with "-larly". I get so tongue-tied!