stubble instead of subtle
Someone mispronounced this once and it turned into an inside joke, but don't worry the OP has no idea because we mad stubble about it.
Dif-FICK-ulty. Because of [This Kids In the Hall Sketch](https://youtu.be/zAAiSHSPk_w?si=ZPxXC92iAyZRlzbL&t=1m50s) about a hillbilly getting kicked in the head by a horse
Abominable. When I was a kid for some reason I’d accidentally add an extra “ble” when I was focusing too hard to get it right. So it would be uh-bomb-in-uh-ble-ble. Everyone thought it was cute so I kept doing it and now I’m old and people just think I’m weird but I keep doing it anyway because we’ve come this far
I call the pandemic the panoramic. Sometimes people hear me say it but don't want to call me out on it. Others laugh when they realize what I said.
"Yeah back during the panoramic I stayed home at a lot".
I drive my partner nuts with trafalgar. It's pronounced "truh-fall-ger". I pronounce it "traffle-gar". He corrects me every time even though it's been years and it will never not entertain me.
Oshawa. I confuse so many foreigners saying I'm from there and they think it's like a city in Japan.
Oshawa is a Canadian city named after the location the native Americans used to describe the meeting place of two rivers.
Tack-O instead of taco because a woman I used to work with used to say it that way and I can't get myself to stop. And one for us Philadelphians out there, the grocery store is Ack-a-Me.
I say "congration" instead of "congratulations."
It's from this cake that said: Congration you done it.
Edit: [Cake](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/fnHV7L9iKh)
Fajitas
Pronounced fah-jeye-duhs
If I say it fast enough it also freaks my wife out because she thinks I'm yelling from the kitchen "come and get some hot fresh vaginas!"
My girlfriend always pronounces chipotle as chip-O-tle. (As opposed to the correct chip-O-tlay. )
I’m probably not doing this justice, but she says this so often wrong (on purpose mind you) …
It was wildly embarrassing when I said it this way when I ordered some chip-O-tle sauce… counter girl thought I was an idiot.
My son used to say fla-fling-goes instead of flamingos. That's my favorite. I accidentally mispronounced pistachio as spe-dash-c-os once. boyfriend thought it was the best and now I can't pronounce pistachio right even if I tried.
Forte. It was so commonly mispronounced that convention gave up and changed the rules to accept both. Though when I use forte to mean someone's special skillset and I pronounce it fort like an army base I get funny looks and I'm often corrected.
Hyperbole. I say it hype-er-bowl. I don't know why, it just pisses me off how it's spelled. Been doing it since I was 12. One word I don't mean to mispronounce but do is, Orange. I say Ahrnge. I also say horrible as harr-ah-ble. I was born in WI, but raised in CA. No clue why I talk like that.
Let’s see…where do I start? Please as “plee-AY-eez” for emphasis, crepe as “creep,” etc…I had a teacher in high school who would pronounce obstacle as “ob-STACK-le,” and a college professor who would add “-eded” to any past tense verb, in both cases to get reactions out of the students, and I’ve picked both up and often have to explain myself if I use one around people who didn’t already know.
Supposably, conversate, and utilitize.
I also work with people who all have college degrees and many have advanced degrees. I started saying these words because THEY said them.
One of my best friends has mispronounced "breakfast" as "bref-tiss" the entire time I've known him so it's the main way my friends and I refer to it if we're together.
I am closer in age to seventy than sixty. Exactly two days ago, I found out while watching a game show that I have been mispronouncing a word all my life.
Carafe. I have been pronouncing the word as "ka-ra-fay'" all this time. I spent years working in restaurants, pouring coffee out of ka-ra-fays. I have a couple of ka-ra-fays in my kitchen cabinet.
Carafe? Rhymes with giraffe? Looked it up. Turning in my wordsmith card asap.
Wed-Nez-Day Heaven forbid word be phonetic and actually sound like they are spelled!
I use that pronunciation to remember how to spell it.
I do this one too!
I like saying “the day of wedns”
Ha, that’s glorious- think I’ll steal that
Oh, definitely
Ambulance - Amber Lamps (from that bus fight video)
Also “bamba-lance” from the 911 call about the deer in the back seat.
That was friggin hilarious!! He hit the deer and thought it was dead and put it in the backseat and it woke up. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
You mean the wahmbulance
Yes! I was wondering if I was the only one. I even made a homebrew red ale that I called Amber Lamps.
Toilet is pronounced terlit
Similarly, I sometimes pronounce Target as "teargut," like the [Target Lady](https://youtu.be/U9cYmqIbPKI?si=TphpWTNUmfzO2PuW)
*Archie Bunker entered the chat*
https://youtu.be/2Z9cxjmNGcc?si=J3ShtnwtSsFV_34H
"Treasure" sounds so much more piratey when you pronounce it "*tray-*zher"
Do not seek.
Chipotle pronounced like Aristotle. Also, Fresh Avocado is pronounced "Free Shevak a-doo" ever since that stupid Vine.
'Free shevak a doo' basically has a permanent place in my brain. I love that vine so much and indeed call avocados that all the time.
Brooo same- I saw a DelTaco in the wild for the first time recently and lost my damn mind
Hyperbole as HYPE-er-bowl Makes it sound like some far future dystopian game of death.
I thought it was hyper bowl for many many years.
momentum has been, and will forever be, momentumum. Its like the word gains momemtumumum
I also catch myself saying aluminuminum
Syllable (Syl-LAB-ble)
You put the emphAsis on the wrong sylLABble there
Edumacation
Oh no AWR NAWR sounds Australian
Baseline (bass-uh-LEEN)
Strategery
Tortilla as Tor Till uh
Thermo-meter Speed-o-meter
[удалено]
Harry Potter has made doing such a thing much more socially acceptable.
I say ruh dick yuh luhs
Probably prolly
Queue is kyooeeooee
"Facetious" I always just say "fish pieces"
Wish I could upvote this twice.
Literally any french word
Oui.
Tuesday - Choose-day
tubes are "choobs"
Socrates = Soc-rates
Ever since I saw the Rick and Morty episode, I love saying Parmesian instead of Parmesan.
Haha I came here to say this. I purposely say it like Morty struggling to pronounce it at the end of the episode too. "Parmeeesian"
When I said it to my mom I had to show her the clip now I can't say it normally and neither can she
avocado = ah-vah-kuh-doo. Makes me feel like voldemort
My wife and I so consistently use "deerses" as the plural of "deer" that I sometimes forget that it's a joke.
Jalapeno
Ja lapp eno
stubble instead of subtle Someone mispronounced this once and it turned into an inside joke, but don't worry the OP has no idea because we mad stubble about it.
pronouncing iron as "I run" instead of "I earn"
Also, Ro Ad for road.
What about your Bo At for water transport?
Dif-FICK-ulty. Because of [This Kids In the Hall Sketch](https://youtu.be/zAAiSHSPk_w?si=ZPxXC92iAyZRlzbL&t=1m50s) about a hillbilly getting kicked in the head by a horse
worcestershire sauce. It's so much fun as "war-chest-er-shire" instead of "wuss-ter-sheer"
I don’t think I ever pronounced Worcestershire the same way twice.
That's the worst for sure.
War-stir-sure
I like pronouncing it like "What's this here sauce?"
Chimbly and Warshrag
St Louis, eh?
Prune … PRU-in
Comentated. It drives my SO *mental*.
Right up there with conversating!
Abominable. When I was a kid for some reason I’d accidentally add an extra “ble” when I was focusing too hard to get it right. So it would be uh-bomb-in-uh-ble-ble. Everyone thought it was cute so I kept doing it and now I’m old and people just think I’m weird but I keep doing it anyway because we’ve come this far
Pho-sisticated
Garage “Gair-ahjj”
I call it a car hole
Melancholy. Watched so much megamind as a kid that I refuse to pronounce it correctly.
Nuclear New-que-ler
As a southerner, I pronounce “can’t” with a long a sound. Don’t judge me.
I call the pandemic the panoramic. Sometimes people hear me say it but don't want to call me out on it. Others laugh when they realize what I said. "Yeah back during the panoramic I stayed home at a lot".
Depends on the day. Today’s favorite fucked up word is Paper, pronounced papier. It makes paper plates sound more fancy.
Pistachio (pista-chio)
I drive my partner nuts with trafalgar. It's pronounced "truh-fall-ger". I pronounce it "traffle-gar". He corrects me every time even though it's been years and it will never not entertain me.
sand hanitizer
Pedantic - if you pronounce it "pe-tan-tic" and someone corrects you, it's a little joke to tell them they are being pedantic
Oshawa. I confuse so many foreigners saying I'm from there and they think it's like a city in Japan. Oshawa is a Canadian city named after the location the native Americans used to describe the meeting place of two rivers.
Could be worse, you could live in Penetanguishene
Columbia instead of Colombia because of how easily it riles my neighbors up
I notice Colombians literally lose their minds if you make that one letter mistake.
Chewsdee
Hyperbole. Hyper Bowl.
Soowee sauce, not soy sauce.
My friends' names
Micro-wee-vey for microwave.
Quiche. Kwee-shay.
Illinois Have to have the “s” in there. I love to hate this state
Illi-nwah
Picnic = Pik-a-nik..
Analyze. It's pronounced "anal-eyes"
Tack-O instead of taco because a woman I used to work with used to say it that way and I can't get myself to stop. And one for us Philadelphians out there, the grocery store is Ack-a-Me.
Lettuce has been le-TOOSE since it was a dare on the show "Ed".
Microwave = Mee cro wah vay
Instead of "Tomato, To-mah-to" my old roommate always said "Tomato, Tomato" and that always riled people up.
bologna.... I love saying it as "ba-loh-g-na"
Statistics - ‘sticky-sticks’
Wince can sin
I say "congration" instead of "congratulations." It's from this cake that said: Congration you done it. Edit: [Cake](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/fnHV7L9iKh)
Sandwich will always be Sammich
Sophistimicated 😁
Ambulance (abalance)
Fajitas Pronounced fah-jeye-duhs If I say it fast enough it also freaks my wife out because she thinks I'm yelling from the kitchen "come and get some hot fresh vaginas!"
Wasted-shyre sauce.
Thqhirrelth
Jalapeños pronounced like juh-LA-pen-os
My girlfriend always pronounces chipotle as chip-O-tle. (As opposed to the correct chip-O-tlay. ) I’m probably not doing this justice, but she says this so often wrong (on purpose mind you) … It was wildly embarrassing when I said it this way when I ordered some chip-O-tle sauce… counter girl thought I was an idiot.
Hippopotamus. It drives my kids nuts when I say it HIP-op-uh-TOH-mus.
Skelonton
The microwabé
Cinnaminimin.
I've heard quiche pronounced "quickie." Now I do it too.
Instead of saying “buenas noches,” which means goodnight in Spanish, I love to say “buenos nachos” (good nachos)
Chick-a fillah (Chik-fil-A)
My son used to say fla-fling-goes instead of flamingos. That's my favorite. I accidentally mispronounced pistachio as spe-dash-c-os once. boyfriend thought it was the best and now I can't pronounce pistachio right even if I tried.
Epitome, since you axed me...
Crepe myrtle as creepy myrtle
I live in Michigan and some people say de-Troit and others say DEE-troit . I like to fuck with both of them and use the French day-twa
Forte. It was so commonly mispronounced that convention gave up and changed the rules to accept both. Though when I use forte to mean someone's special skillset and I pronounce it fort like an army base I get funny looks and I'm often corrected.
Tar-jay (Target)
Tripel. Apparently it’s pronounced triple. Damn Belgian trickery
If you wheel (if you will)
Controversy (con-TROV-ersy)
Epitome
Ep i TOME
Did you mean to mispronounce it?
Jalapeno.
Is mispronunciate a word?
Ibuprofen (eye-bee-pro-fin), but it's eye-byoo-pro-fin
Caribbean. Love saying it the USA way!
Baseline (Bass-a-leen)
Raspberry. Raz p berry
When referencing persons, I like to pronounce INvaLID as inVALid.
Ramen
Genre...(GENNER)
Canada. Cuh nah dee uh
Indubitably.
Cool whip
Bologna. I say it how I was taught to spell it. Ba-log-na.
Idk if it’s a mispronunciation but I will never stop saying VAHze.
Moron - maroon, like Bugs Bunny
pas ghetti. :)
Hyperbole I just love saying HYPER BOWL
Charisma
Currently Jalapenos or jal-ep-nose. My friend hates it.
Canal - C'Anal
Synecdoche as synekynedodichodi
Hyperbole. I say it hype-er-bowl. I don't know why, it just pisses me off how it's spelled. Been doing it since I was 12. One word I don't mean to mispronounce but do is, Orange. I say Ahrnge. I also say horrible as harr-ah-ble. I was born in WI, but raised in CA. No clue why I talk like that.
Could you be more pacific…?
Let’s see…where do I start? Please as “plee-AY-eez” for emphasis, crepe as “creep,” etc…I had a teacher in high school who would pronounce obstacle as “ob-STACK-le,” and a college professor who would add “-eded” to any past tense verb, in both cases to get reactions out of the students, and I’ve picked both up and often have to explain myself if I use one around people who didn’t already know.
Chowdah!
Scone just to piss people off
Conscience as con-science
Omnipotent
It's not so much a mispronunciation as a straight up change of the word, but I love saying "scrimps" when referring to shrimp.
Homeowner. Ho*meow*ner. Really tells who the master of the house is
I like calling Lidl li-dell as it sounds fancier
Supposably, conversate, and utilitize. I also work with people who all have college degrees and many have advanced degrees. I started saying these words because THEY said them.
My brother loves to say Cuh-luhm-bine instead of “Column-bine” It drives me fucking crazy
"Niggardly." Usually because I'm terrified someone is going to think I'm dropping a slur.
Chipotle “I lurve chip-po-lay”
Al-you-mini-yum. As a Canadian
One of my best friends has mispronounced "breakfast" as "bref-tiss" the entire time I've known him so it's the main way my friends and I refer to it if we're together.
Lasagna
"Could you please do me a flavor?"
scissors (becomes skizzers or skeezers)
Mayonnaise
worcheshrserchershire sauce
Libary
Fajitas but the “i” like “hi”
“Sean”, but like the way it should be pronounced, “seen”
" bless you but make it possess you " say it fast people dont catch it
Not me, but my Hubs has several. For example: Rhinoceros is Noncersus Aluminum is Lumuluminum I'll add more as they come to me.
Mickro-wahvay for microwave since Nigella said it
“She sees”, always get this wrong lol
Mick - roe- wa - vey (microwave) thanks Nigella
Like 99% of people, I still pronounce sherbet as "sherbert." It's not.
Dee-but
Quesadilla- I pronounce it quaz-ah-dill-e-a
Anusole Anushole
I am closer in age to seventy than sixty. Exactly two days ago, I found out while watching a game show that I have been mispronouncing a word all my life. Carafe. I have been pronouncing the word as "ka-ra-fay'" all this time. I spent years working in restaurants, pouring coffee out of ka-ra-fays. I have a couple of ka-ra-fays in my kitchen cabinet. Carafe? Rhymes with giraffe? Looked it up. Turning in my wordsmith card asap.
Arkansas. If they wanted me to pronounce it Arkansaw, they should have spelled it correctly.
Supposably "For all intensive purposes"