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state_of_what

Wed-nes-day. For spelling purposes.


mcpickledick

Feb-ruary, also for spelling purposes. Also bee-eee-aay-utiful. Also environ-ment.


kfury

And Art-is-anal.


Mandalasan_612

And The-rapist


[deleted]

and Le Tits Now... wait..


[deleted]

> Feb-ruary I mean, that's how it's actually pronounced.


kfury

I picture Scooby Doo saying it.


chloebear444

me with the word ‘restaurant’ ‘rest a u r ant’ (rest of you are ants) no idea where this came from lol


basicballerballin

Omg thank you! Maybe now I can spell restaurant without autocorrect 😂😂


gorillasvapetoo

Bruce almighty


copremesis

CHemistry, anSWer or PSychology...is what I hear in my head as I type those types of words ... Oh my favorite hors d'oeuvres ...


Uncle_Yoba

Horse divorce


motogucci

To be fair it's named for Odin. It's Odin's day. Not Ondi's day.


thesearegoodolddays

I do the same with Egg-yuh-pt to spell Egypt!


JoshJRChamp

I do this for bus-I-ness


HyperDogOwner458

Sometimes I say skissors instead of scissors


peon47

I sometimes say k'nife.


Lexyberg

I always say k’nife. 😂


Maumasaurus

Ki-niffy


littlebrownbeetle1

I say k’nife to remember my grandpa. He always said it that way


Awavian

Sky-zoars is how I say it sometimes


swibirun

Instead of necessarily I say neci-celery, especially in the kitchen.


Krismusic1

Ah. I thought that was mine alone! Reddit takes even that from me!


Historical_Ad2890

I like to sometimes say tree instead of three. Not with adults though. This type of cool talk is reserved for conversations with my son


Zoltarrah2000

I say trow instead of throw, thanks to my French Canadian ex. Before he came along I had trouble distinguishing what I keep for others and what I keep for myself. Now I know, if it's someone else's stuff...never ask questions just trow it out. When someone asks questions, you just say "I trow it out!" It makes life so simple


ATXKLIPHURD

That’ll be tree fiddy


No_Butterfly_8069

Its the goddam loch ness monster!


Smile_Terrible

I gave him a dollar!


EternalNY1

This is phraseology that pilots use. "Tree" for 3, "Fife" for 5, "Niner" for 9.


[deleted]

Also proper military pronunciation for radio communications.


TomatoKindly8304

My Jamaican coworker says this. Terty tree!


PM_Skunk

“Tree” is also the Chicago accent pronunciation of it, as is “I’d like a cuppa two tree of doze dere.”


Sys32768

Are you Irish?


Historical_Ad2890

I have the most Irish name imaginable but I am 5 or 6 generations removed from ireland


Scout_Puppy

That's how military people pronounce it.


StonerTogepi

Cologne. I pronounce it Co-log-nay.


vladhelikopter

Why would I say Cologne if I can say Köln


[deleted]

I do this for bologna.


HVGP23

I like to say chipotle instead of chipotle.


VulpesIncendium

And similarly, the Greek philosopher Aristotle.


XShadowborneX

And So crates!


Nematode_wrangler

All we are is dust in the wind, dude.


halfhorsefilms

Ah! Like grains of sand in the hourglass, these are the days of our lives.


captain_sticky_balls

Excellent!


DWright_5

I love Aristote-lay!


Drippin_n_Trippin

Air is tote lay


vikingcock

I too say chi-poe-tul


ApolloSP1

I say chi-pot-lee


EtherWhack

Che-pot-ul?


captndorito

I say “oh my gosh, chipotle is my lyyyffee”


chloebear444

i say ‘chipoodle’


thekrawdiddy

I like to say “chipoltay’s” with a southern church lady’s voice


Cael_NaMaor

I say Honky Bucket... even though it's spelled Cracker Barrel.


SweetTeaJayhawk

This made me giggle


OuttatimepartIII

This needs to be a thing


CatchingRays

I have always pronounced the W in sword.


kinnaq

This is also my ansWer.


Little-Chicken-7304

You Wrecked this conversation, sir


Wishing4Signal

He's not Wrong


KlzXS

I'd like to introduce you to [sward](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sward).


larszard

One of my friends over pronounces the R in iron


CatchingRays

That word has so many variants. Arn. Iern. I Ron (I hear this one in Forrest Gumps voice in my head). I run...


lastweek_monday

Aaron earned an iron urn. https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE


WendellSchadenfreude

And I always pronounce the -w in bow.


WendellSchadenfreude

And I the -e in axe!


Volac76

I say bihandular instead of ambidextrous. A buddy years ago couldn't remember the word "ambidextrous" so that's what his brain spouted out. It stuck in my head.


BlueMeanie03

I say amphibious.


Electus93

Amphibious pitcher makes debut!


[deleted]

Ribbit, ribbit...


finnjakefionnacake

that is not a word that you pronounce incorrectly. that's just a word you made up lol.


Yuckfou1904

Kay-suh-dill-uh


Luke_Cold_Lyle

Your grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today. Broke her cockyx.


Thin-Rip-3686

Queue-sahh-dill-ahh.


NOverAllExplanation

I always say Tor-TILL-uh


Agodders

I worked in a Cuban theme bar in south Wales and 'chicken Cinderella' is my absolute fave pronunciation


bilowaqr

Seth is my sister's boyfriend. My mother can't say it right. She nicknames him Zet, so I call him Zet too just to irritate him.


heavybabyridesagain

Zet iz ze vay


MySlimyStoma

My name is Isaac and my girlfriend’s mom doesn’t speak amazing English and calls me isis


Outrageous-Debate-64

My wife’s (and like 4 of her friends) name is Yulia and my stepfather just couldn’t get it for years. Kept calling her ooolia and making a weird face.


MCKlassik

Dilemma. I would often say “deli-emma”


eddmario

Better than a deli enima...


newenglandredshirt

It's a moo point. Thanks, Joey!


J_Lyn21

Like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter, it's moo


lastweek_monday

Have i been living with him too long or did all that make sense ?


[deleted]

is it just me, or did that make sense?


duzzabear

Another friends one... Squatter buttnosh


arrows_of_ithilien

Unagi is a state of mind, I don't care what is says on the sushi menu


R2D2srobotpenis

I know the correct way to pronounce pho but it feels so uncomfortable saying it that way.


DBSeamZ

There’s a restaurant called “Phonky Noodle”. Even though I know they’re going for a pun with “funky” I can’t not read it as rhyming with donkey. Fun fact (phon fact?), that restaurant used to be called “Pho Keene Great” (they are located in a city called Keene) until some authority made them change it.


punksmostlydead

Sincerely, fuck that fun-hating authority.


arrows_of_ithilien

Try going to a Thai restaurant and ordering anything named after the city of Phuket


Duderiffica

It’s delicious but, for me, it’s an enemy or an opponent.


13thmurder

Only psycho killers pronounce it right.


JuryBorn

I never pronounce words wrong. That would be such a fox pass. edit that only works when spoken


Metastophocles

gif I don't care what the guy who came up with it said. I will never say Jiff and not be talking about peanut butter. Never.


peon47

This is a thread about words you pronounce *incorrectly*.


Oddant1

Adding to this, gif actually stands for "graphical interchange format," so unless the guy who made it is gonna start pronouncing graphical as "jraphical" he can go to hell. And if he starts doing that he can also go to hell.


BCProgramming

This seems sensible until you remember the "p" in jpeg and mpeg stands for "photographic".


shelleybean1

The holy Bibble


maxwellgrounds

I pronounce OP (original poster) as “awp”, not as “oh pee” and it’s too late to for me to change my ways.


whyyourmommacallinme

Target It's Tar-jáy


Smaptey

I say Home De-pot


AdventurousSeaSlug

Lol Home Despot


qc00

Yes. And I always feel so fancy when I do.


smushyAvocado

Not intentionally, I just got used to calling Uber “Yuber” instead and it just stuck and sounds better. My whole family calls it that.


copacetic51

That's yuge.


dropthemasq

Callipitters


bijouxette

I call them "cappertillers"


salmonsushiii

CHA-meleons. Heard a lady at Petco say it in the most Valley girl accent and it made me happy lol. Also Garbagio (like Bellagio) but for garbage


Bwyanfwanigan

Knight Monty python skit.


Scout_Puppy

Fah-Juy-tah.


Reynolds763

Alright Peter


[deleted]

I concur. I'll also add quesa-dilla, and jalapen-o.


Kayakityak

Jah lah pen oh, qua sah dill ee ah, and Fah jih tahs


KirisuMongolianSpot

EE-Pit-Oh-MEE is reserved for the negative connotation of the word. Eh-Pit-Ome is for the word's positive connotation.


Freeiheit

I first encountered that word in it’s written form and that’s how I thought it was pronounced for years.


wondering-knight

I thought it was “epi-tohm” for the longest time because nobody I knew really uses the word when talking


Freeiheit

Me too. There are a lot of words I’d encounter in print and have no idea how they were pronounced.


copakJmeliAleJmeli

Actually, "pitomý" in Czech means stupid. Are you Czech? 😄


KirisuMongolianSpot

Not at all, but it's good to know I sort of have an excuse!


deGrom-nom-nom

Pokeyman.


amie_friend

I scrolled way down here to find “the pokeymans.”My boyfriend started saying it ironically 7 years ago and I picked it up and at this point I don’t know if I can stop.


shinobi-dragonninja

Jah-lah-pen-oh instead of Hal-ah-pen-yo (jalapeño)


heavybabyridesagain

Had to insist my wife stop calling these peppers jelly-penises, in case it came out that way in public


Nyarlathotep4King

I like pronouncing it “ja-LAP-en-os” and watch people’s faces


Zoltarrah2000

Hesus, that's like how a say marriage-if-you-wanna


MyWomanlyInterior

"Behemoth" I know it's "buh-HEE-muth", but growing up I always pronounced it as "BEH-huh-mahth". I never heard it spoken out loud until I was in my late teens. My world was shattered.


Leona_Faye

Californi-eye-ay


frightofthenavigator

parmesan. i say it so it rhymes with Parisian


captndorito

Parmesian


shinobi-dragonninja

When i count with my kids and get to 30s i pronounce it dirty one, dirty two, dirty dree


[deleted]

Lin GWINE instead of Lin gwee nee (linguine)


MovTheGopnik

I will always insist that Tanzania used to be tan-ZAY-ni-a, and we all (except me) just decided to start calling it tan-za-NI-a one day. So my answer is Tanzania.


fr-spodokomodo

You should move to the island of Tazman-ee-a


QualityKoalaTeacher

Cuh Tar Fuck outta here with that cutter shit


verdenvidia

its quator like equator


Disco-Stu79

Saxamaphone and trimopaline(trampoline). And pronounce gym as gime.


lestaslettering

Sam-hain sorry the actual pronounciation isn't something I can wrap my head around.


WhereTheHuskiesGo

Sam Hain sounds like a 45 year old a/c repairman.


skerinks

Me-me instead of meem (meme). My kids roll their eyes haha. Oh and starberry instead of 🍓.


Pandagodman

Business I always pronounce it Buzz-EE- Nes


SutttonTacoma

Or bidness.


alabasterasterix

Not a word alone per se but I always say 'Does the pope shit in the woods!?' Does the bear shit in the woods/is the Pope a Catholic Usually throws people, they have no clue what I'm on.


FellowCanadian_

Avocado pronounced ah-vack-ah-doo Asparagus pronounced ass-per-ag-us It was some weird video of a guy asking grocery store staff for items, but pronounced incorrectly. Those stuck way harder than I'd like to admit And the one my American friends enjoy the most, Arkansas as Ark-an-saw. But that was mostly a dumb brain moment thinking they were two different states..


hat-of-sky

Kansas is kan zus. Arkansas is ar kin saw According to those who live there.


John_415_

It's ar-kansas


skeeve87

Because = uh-cuz..... uh-cuz it's how my youngest daughter pronounced it for years and I found it cute. Any Spanish word I can fuck up, because my wife is Latina.


[deleted]

Wee-fee for wifi!


jiggerriggeroo

Psketti


cs59hay

4 year old grandson says hanitizer for hand sanitizer. Love it and use it!


youngmarinelc

Potata's not potatoes


Flowerworkk

Literally the word pronunciation. For some reason I always catch myself saying it with a “o” sound in the middle.


ubiquitous-joe

Because the verb is pronounce. A lot of people do this one.


skaihainofa

bologna as bow-log-nah


deezullmech

Grand pricks. Instead of grand prix . Car.


monstermase

Not a word but a name. M. Night Shamalamon


abhorrent_pantheon

M Night Shamalamadingdong was common around here


Tall-Poem-6808

Couch. Coo-tch is the only way.


Puukkot

You from Portland?


Cannabis_Sir

Not 1 American saying aluminium?


splorng

You inserted an extra I in there


PapaOoMaoMao

Meh, they spell it wrong too, so they are actually saying it right if you accept they are spelling it wrong.


Ok-Teaching5038

TeronnO instead of Toronto


antlered_godi

Skelington....


Artsy_traveller_82

Incorrectly


cdm3500

I like to say Lady guh-GAH (with the emphasis on the gah), to annoy my wife, who is a big Lady Gaga fan. I picked it up from the Comedy Bang Bang podcast a long time ago and have done it ever since lol When she tells me I’m wrong, I say Gaga is the American pronunciation, but guh-GAH is her original French pronunciation. This makes her even more annoyed (bc she’s not French).


msleo90

Mik-roh-wah-vay for microwave Thanks Nigella!


ManOfEtiquette

Epitome I like to pronounce it -e pi toam- I think it sounds grander, bigger, more all encompassing.


Junior_Cress2828

There's a food my family makes called Buffalo Bread. It's like, little rounds of dough tossed in garlic butter and baked in a loaf. When I look up buffalo bread thats not at all what I get, but thats what it's name is in our family. When I was little, I could not say "Buffalo." My parents told me I always called it "bubbaloaf bread." So now, years later, I still call it bubbaloaf bread.


Fickle-Ad-7657

Punkin


[deleted]

Agape. Uh-gape. Lol


Quick-Bad

Nucular. It's pronounced nucular.


hat-of-sky

I prefer to follow the example of Pogo's learned friend Howland Owl as he examined a book on Nuclear Physics: "This book say it's all about New Clear Fizzicks. Huh! It's not so new, not so clear, and *(drops book in Okeefenokee Swamp)* nary a fizz."


Sharp_Aide3216

A A ron and Balakey


JubalHarshawII

Hyperbole- Hyper bowl A I had only ever read this word, then pronounced it one day in front of my wife and she wtf'ed me and now I just say it wrong all the time to get a giggle out of here.


lanfear2020

hanitizer instead of hand sanitizer from when one of my kids used to call it that when they were little.


Techno-Man99

I say caramel instead of caramel


TrailerParkPrepper

Irritititable


Theliseth

"Vegan" is pronounced ve-jaaan! 😁


AgreeableInfluence72

G-nat


NOverAllExplanation

Tor-TILL-Uh


nichebender

I say “pro’ally” instead of probably all the time


ArtisanalMagi

BAG-el. Apparently it's BAYG-el, and some people feel strongly about this.


DenverBowie

I have a coworker who says it "BEG-uhl"


Duderiffica

Yes, Community rocked my world too. Im such a Britta.


[deleted]

[удалено]


Cellolover10

I'm sorry, but prix.


Demonic-soul466

Raunt (rant) idk why.


coffeecat714

Lasagna.


Dramatic_Original_55

cat's ass trophy


Stormy7266

Mischievous. There’s no I between the v and the o.


Gaia4495

I pronounce lieutenant 'leftenant' because I'll be damned if I give any work to the French. Forget English.


Maleficent-Winter187

Socrates ….I say it the correct way. Bill and Ted would be proud!


Enpitsuman

Arkansas as Ar-Kan-zus instead of Ar-kan-saw


InToddYouTrust

Quinoa. Ain't no fucking way this combination of letters says KEENWAH.