Nasty said:

Acrossed the street and pass the laundrymat to a partment I'm renting out.

fhqwhgads said:

trousers.... i can't believe i didn't figure that out

and omg

AsianBomb777 said:

You mean back when you thought limes were unripe lemons?

AsianBomb777 said:

when i was a kid i used to say hors douvres like "whore doovers."

and foie gras was "fooey grass."

fhqwhgads said:

Yeah, about that time

fhqwhgads said:

oh my gawd.

When I was a kid I used to get annoyed that all the kids in the neighborhood sang Raspberry Beret , "Raspberry Parade". I was certain the correct lyric was "Raspberry Braid"

my dad always says "expresso" rather than espresso.

i'm like, what the fuck is express-O? i want espresso

I don't like 'penchunt' either

Or 'INdeecaytiv'

Just wrong.



But of course, there are many words that if broken down are actually pronounced differently in regular flowing speech to how they're spelt. Take 'hitman' for example. We actually tend to say 'hipman' just because of the shape our mouth is forced into before the 'm'.

Nasty said:

I used to pronounce 'jalapeño' peppers "Holy Pen yo"

omg, when people break out in CHIVES it's awful.

the first time i heard that i was like, "how the hell did that happen? "

AsianBomb777 said:

Nasty said:

My sister in law did that just two days ago. Right before Mon ordered her usual Mocha, but without milk, sugar or cream (um, is that just a more expensive Americano for no good reason? coffee drinkers help me out here).

They seem to have this trend here. A beggerlee (bakery) can just mean the food itself, and a note is often called a 'bank'.

'Foxy' or 'Forksy' instead of 'Fauxie'

fhqwhgads said:

the list of too often mispronounced words goes on forever.

when people say revelant instead of relevant, that's awful too.

fhqwhgads said:

forksy?

Nasty said:

I have an irrelevant humour.

Sports commentators have an uncanny knack to mix up their well worn cliches and metaphors so that you get things like 'a bolt out of hell', 'he launched a tyranny of abuse at the referee', 'all guns flying' etc.

I think I have more problems than these people in that I keep thinking of more ways people say things wrong.

The first time I heard someone say "I got a hotel suit. " I was seriously like, "You bought a suit just to wear to a hotel? "

And I'm not having...

"They played good"

"We got beat"

"He spit"

fhqwhgads said:

they do i wonder if when they apply to be a sports commentator, they aren't accepted if their analogies, metaphors, etc. actually make sense

Nasty said:

YOUR HEAD ASPLODE!

fhqwhgads said:

when i make the very mistakes i'm complaining about here - for example, i do have a bad habit of saying "we did good" on occasion - i have a tendency to go "i talk english goodly." that always gets a few looks.

Nasty said:

Playing ps2 games back in the day my friend and I started saying 'dieded' instead of 'died', as in 'Dude, did you get dieded again?'. The trouble is, it's overtaken 'died' in my brain as the first option in all circumstances.

fhqwhgads said:

i have so many words like that.

when i'm around my family i call a knife a "kuh-nye-fee"
often i say i "finisheded" something. more often i say "i lookeded at it" or that i "readed the book"
i call roast beef "roast beast" on occasion
and i also have a habit of saying someone is asleep by saying they're "aseepin" sometimes. that comes from kid-speak though. no idea why that particular thing stuck; it just did.

i'm glad i don't say these things in polite society though

Nasty said:

Oh shit, that sounds just like me!

I use that 'Isgusting!' one I mentioned earlier, plus ones like yours, the 'finisheded' type ones. When my friend and I are drunk on 'beerses' we're 'drunkdedieded' or 'wastedieded'.

fhqwhgads said:

i totally getted that.
i also say shit like "I'M DOON IT!" and often add "ay" to the end of words ending in "ee" sounds - i.e. creepy = creepay. i've demonstrated that countless times on the internet, i think

This is more a culture thing but when Americans pronounce Aussie with an s sound where it sounds like they're saying ossy. It's pronounced using a z as in ozzie.

Nasty said:

That's funnaayyyy!

fhqwhgads said:

it's ironic to a degree that i find intentional mispronunciation absolutely hilarious but the unintentional kind is highly disturbing to me. one would think i would be on the side of those who didn't know better.

but no, instead it's a sort of comfort that there are people who understand the true pronunciation of words but choose not to use it just because it's amusing or whatever.

Nasty said:

It's fine until it becomes a bad habit you can't break and it's no longer a choice. Then you're fuckededieded.