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Printableveronikka said: The cashier where I have lunch said receive instead of receipt
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Protege said: it's an actual word (and a simple, first grade one at that) but it's horribly mispronounced by far too many people i've been acquainted with.
sawl = saw 
back in grade school, i was known for being able to spell really well (!!!!  ). so anyway, this girl comes up to me and says "how do you spell sawl?" and i'm like "  wha?"
so she's like, "as in, 'i sawl a truck go by.'" i'm like, "saw. S. A. W." and she's all like, "no! i mean sawl. like you sawl something."   I love this because I teach 2nd grade and I hear made up words like "sawl" all the time. My students like to talk about their "cousints" (cousins)This one bothers me so much! | |
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brocklynn said: I love this because I teach 2nd grade and I hear made up words like "sawl" all the time. My students like to talk about their "cousints" (cousins)This one bothers me so much! wow cousints is another one that drives me crazy. especially when i see some 20 year old saying it. i'm like HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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brocklynn said: Protege said: it's an actual word (and a simple, first grade one at that) but it's horribly mispronounced by far too many people i've been acquainted with.
sawl = saw
back in grade school, i was known for being able to spell really well (!!!! ). so anyway, this girl comes up to me and says "how do you spell sawl?" and i'm like " wha?"
so she's like, "as in, 'i sawl a truck go by.'" i'm like, "saw. S. A. W." and she's all like, "no! i mean sawl. like you sawl something." I love this because I teach 2nd grade and I hear made up words like "sawl" all the time. My students like to talk about their "cousints" (cousins)This one bothers me so much!In Texas you hear seent alot instead of saw. Hot mess.  | |
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Say it out loud
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Protege said: INSATIABLE said: You guys, my TWO best friends, when I met them, pronounced wolf "WOOF".
Fucking WOOF?!?!? WOOF?!?!?!?!??> LPEDGLE)I@)$I@_$(@($@)$!@+_ 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?
crown = crayon My mom pronounces the word "crayon", "crane". WTF?
I know someone who pronounces the word "huge" as "yuge", and the bagel place "Bruggers", "Bruggels".  Both of those drive me bonkers. RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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my old counselor was a foreigner. he would call goody tooshoos goody tissues and when he would use the word aftermath he would say aftermap until I corrected him To Sir, with Love | |
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i just remembered how i was talking to this person and they were like "are your cats sam-mees?"
and i was like "What? my cats are mine  " cuz i was thinking they were talking about some person named "sammy"
apparently that's how they say siamese. i'm so bad at understanding accents. HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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Protege said: i just remembered how i was talking to this person and they were like "are your cats sam-mees?"
and i was like "What? my cats are mine " cuz i was thinking they were talking about some person named "sammy"
apparently that's how they say siamese. i'm so bad at understanding accents. To Sir, with Love | |
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there's no such thing as jewlery.
it's JEWELRY. JEW-UHL-REE. not JOOL-UH-REE. you know how there are precious stones in jewelry? those precious stones are known as JEWELS. not JOOLUHS. JEWELS. a piece bringing together several jewels is known as JEWELRY. again, not JEWLERY. OK?! | |
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JustErin said: I recently had a conversation with a friend whom I consider to be very intelligent and she said, "conversate".
that one especially makes me grind my teeth. i once even heard a school principal being interviewed on television say it. | |
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PurpleRighteous1 said: ok this thread has me dying. But my poor mom can't say stamina to save her life. She always mixes up the m and the n.
I also had a lengthy argument with my best friend about when to use the word "an" intead of "a". I said "an" was used before words that start with a vowel sound and he insisted that it just had to be a word that started with a vowel. I had to research it on the internet and email the correct info to him. 
But then there's 'an historic'  | |
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'foliage' is not pronounced FOIL-age. | |
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fhqwhgads said: PurpleRighteous1 said: ok this thread has me dying. But my poor mom can't say stamina to save her life. She always mixes up the m and the n.
I also had a lengthy argument with my best friend about when to use the word "an" intead of "a". I said "an" was used before words that start with a vowel sound and he insisted that it just had to be a word that started with a vowel. I had to research it on the internet and email the correct info to him.
But then there's 'an historic' "an historic" gripes my ass. we don't say "an hippopotamus", do we, even though the "h" sound is exactly the same. i used to complain about it but i think i'm in the overwhelming minority on this one.  | |
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Anxiety said: there's no such thing as jewlery.
it's JEWELRY. JEW-UHL-REE. not JOOL-UH-REE. you know how there are precious stones in jewelry? those precious stones are known as JEWELS. not JOOLUHS. JEWELS. a piece bringing together several jewels is known as JEWELRY. again, not JEWLERY. OK?!
I bet you get a twitch over shit like this | |
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When I first met my husband, he used to try to impress me with his intellect, untillll.....
He said something about a figure of speech called a HYPERBOIL I said, Huh?????
You mean HYPERBOLE I laughed my ass off at him for about five minutes. He didn't think it was funny.  | |
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Imago said: Anxiety said: there's no such thing as jewlery.
it's JEWELRY. JEW-UHL-REE. not JOOL-UH-REE. you know how there are precious stones in jewelry? those precious stones are known as JEWELS. not JOOLUHS. JEWELS. a piece bringing together several jewels is known as JEWELRY. again, not JEWLERY. OK?!
I bet you get a twitch over shit like this if we can't at least speak correctly, we might as well go back to drawing pictographs on the walls using a stick and our own dung.  | |
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Anxiety said: Imago said:
I bet you get a twitch over shit like this if we can't at least speak correctly, we might as well go back to drawing pictographs on the walls using a stick and our own dung. Wow that's the most dramatic HYPERBOIL yet with regards to our sentiments about the issue here. You have a way of expressing yourself. Posely, when you're upset. | |
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I'll post it again as some may have been lazy to wade through this whole thread.
http://www.yourdictionary...spron.html 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English A handful of these actually surprised me as I found I'd been getting it wrong. 
cardsharp is right? spitting image is wrong? you don't pronounce the 't' in 'often'?
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Imago said: Wow that's the most dramatic HYPERBOIL yet with regards to our sentiments about the issue here. You have a way of expressing yourself. Posely, when you're upset.
wtf edit [Edited 3/20/08 17:31pm] HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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Imago said: Anxiety said: if we can't at least speak correctly, we might as well go back to drawing pictographs on the walls using a stick and our own dung. Wow that's the most dramatic HYPERBOIL yet with regards to our sentiments about the issue here. You have a way of expressing yourself. Posely, when you're upset.  | |
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Protege said: Imago said: Wow that's the most dramatic HYPERBOIL yet with regards to our sentiments about the issue here. You have a way of expressing yourself. Posely, when you're upset.
wtf edit [Edited 3/20/08 17:31pm] My sister and I will say "Posely" ALLLLL the fucking time and just crack up about it. It's like a weird deliberate form of Thai induced Turrets Syndrome
blah blah blah POSELY!!!! blah blah blah
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Imago said: Protege said:
wtf edit [Edited 3/20/08 17:31pm] My sister and I will say "Posely" ALLLLL the fucking time and just crack up about it. It's like a weird deliberate form of Thai induced Turrets Syndrome syndrome
blah blah blah POSELY!!!! blah blah blah out of all the "words" mentioned in this thread, that one is posely hilarious  HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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i used to work with a security guard who used to pronounce the word "fetish" as "fed ex".
i never corrected him because i thought it was awesome. 
and um, no, you can't ask what i was doing talking about fetishes with a security guard. | |
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Protege said: Imago said: My sister and I will say "Posely" ALLLLL the fucking time and just crack up about it. It's like a weird deliberate form of Thai induced Turrets Syndrome syndrome
blah blah blah POSELY!!!! blah blah blah out of all the "words" mentioned in this thread, that one is posely hilarious
I would METICULATE that it is often tragic as well. | |
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Anxiety said: i used to work with a security guard who used to pronounce the word "fetish" as "fed ex".
i never corrected him because i thought it was awesome.
and um, no, you can't ask what i was doing talking about fetishes with a security guard. You dirty baker | |
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Protege said: Imago said: Wow that's the most dramatic HYPERBOIL yet with regards to our sentiments about the issue here. You have a way of expressing yourself. Posely, when you're upset.
wtf edit [Edited 3/20/08 17:31pm] :posely: I love that! | |
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fhqwhgads said: Protege said:
wtf edit [Edited 3/20/08 17:31pm] :posely: I love that!Thai people are so cute | |
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Imago said: Protege said: out of all the "words" mentioned in this thread, that one is posely hilarious
I would METICULATE that it is often tragic as well. especially when you've toad people over and over again! HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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fhqwhgads said: Protege said:
wtf edit [Edited 3/20/08 17:31pm] :posely: I love that!:colons:  HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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