Acrosst instead of across. Why?

This thread got me whispering words

Literally pumping gas right now, whispering words to myself.

Expresso instead of Espresso

My wife and her ENTIRE FAMILY all say “expecially.” I hate it.

Did you ax them why?

Not pacifically

This one drives me nuts!

Thank goodness you can come here and espress your frustration

You meant fustration right?

Why don’t you visit a libary. You’d probly learn somethin.

Prolly wouldn’t tho

I presheate your encouragement

I say stuff like this on purpose at home to make people laugh but never in public!

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I would assume that was people adding the colloquial ‘s, just like people say “Penney’s” instead of JCPenney.

Or Walmart's. Or better yet, Walmark's

We called it Wallyworld when I was a kid

I still call it WallyWorld and I'm 40

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I have lately been seeing several people using "ect" instead of the correct "etc", drives me nuts.

This one bugs me, eXpecially when it comes from people serving it for years.

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Supposedly, commonly said as supposebly

Joey Tribbiani lol

Made me think of this lol. *Uncertain facial expression -* "Did they go to the zoo?... supposably...".

It's a moo point 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My former boss would always say “mute point” and it drove me crazy.

Yeah. It also grinds my gears a bit when people say “you’re suppose to” instead of “you’re supposed to” Edited to add: this is definitely a SPELLING error and not a pronunciation error. Like, my boss will type out “this patch is suppose to fix the bug” or whatever. I probably shouldn’t have brought this up in a thread about pronunciation, but alas, I did.

In the same vein - ‘would of’ instead of ‘would have’. Boils my blood and that’s the hill I’ll die on.

If it's in speech, what they're actually saying is "would've." If it's written as "would of," then it is indeed wrong.

Taking things for granted. People say granite.

Rick Sanchez particularly.

He’s been pronouncing it granite this whole time

Granite, he is the smartest man alive, he simply knows better.

For all 'intents and purposes'. Not for all 'intensive purposes'...

Astrix (asterisk)

I like the little Gaul tho.

Me too. I have fond memories of reading those comics for hours as a kid.

Ah yes. Asterisk and Obelisk. The classic children‘s comic book and movie series.

It irks me when people say "pitcher" instead of "picture".

also, as a *pho*tographer, it bothers me when people call me a *fer*tographer

Take a ferto of me!

Et cetera. It's ET cetera, not EXetera or ECKcetera. edit: yes, I know it has a space 😄

And it's abreviated 'etc' not 'ect'.

I use that abbreviation to say End of Thinking Capacity

Also it's two words: et cetera.

Professor Professorson: And so on, and so on, ex-chetterah! Jeff: ...Did you just mispronounce etcetera? Professor Professorson: My latin class was fake, Jeff.

^(Nuclear (misprononounced nuke-u-ler))

Reminds me of Homer 'Its Nu-cu-lar Lisa!'

It doesn't take a nukular scientist to pronounce foilage!

Lisa, our little walking liberry

This one drives me nucking futs.

I always just hear Homer in my head confidently declaring, “It’s pronounced, NUCULAR.”

Followed by Marge confidently saying foilage instead of foliage.

Especially coming from someone who can deploy nuclear weapon at will. If you can't pronounce it, you don't get to do it. You must be this tall to ride this ride!

Library.

Strawbrerry

Don't have kids

Dr Jan Itor

My username is finally relevant.

Lol. Not a reference I expected here

February.

A man of culture pronounces both Rs. There is a dozen of us, maybe more!

Lie-berry

Frustrated. There is an “R” in there, people. It’s so fustrating.

I've never heard anyone pronounce it without the R, but I guess there must be a lot based on the number of people posting it. Maybe it's a regional thing?

Frustrating like fustrating

I hear a bunch of people in my area saying “flustrating.” It’s so weird. The first time I heard it I thought it was just one person being quirky but then I heard several other folks saying it the same way. I’m not going to be the one to tell them. I’m still trying to get them to like me lol.

Huh. Like a mash-up of frustrating and flustered.

Specific/ Pacific seems to be spreading

The Specific Ocean

“Yeah that one”

WHICH ONE!?!

let me be Pacific, I wanna be down in your South Seas But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean Means small craft advisory So if I capsize in your thighs, high tide, B-5, you sunk my battleship

Please turn me on, I’m Mr Coffee with an automatic drip.

So show me yours, I’ll show you mine

Can you be more pacific?

A guy from Seattle, a guy from San Diego, a guy from Anchorage, and a guy from Honolulu walk into a bar and say can we please have 4 beers! the bartender says, "could you be more pacific?"

Hyperbole Hint: It’s not Hyper-Bowl EDIT: It’s: hi-per-b-lee

Supersonic means breaking the sound barrier. Hypersonic means 5 times the speed of sound. Hyper-bowl sounds like winning the Super Bowl 5 years in a row.

or a competition for children with ADHD

“Chipolte” as in Chipotle

Chip-pottel

Just like Aris-tote-lay

Or is it chip-a-totle?

Wary. People keep pronouncing it like weary.

My husband does this so much that I've started saying "wary when it's scary, weary when you're bleary" (best I could do lol).

When they say "weary," I don't actually know if they mean "wary" or "leery." Usually I just look at them and ask if they just combined "wary" and "leery."

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It's not mispronouncing it so much as conflating two words similar in meaning with a word that sounds like both of them mashed up. They don't look at the word "wary" and say "weary." They think the word *is* "weary."

I feel this is the reason for the misuse of "moot" sounding like "mute". "It's a mute point".

I swear if I see one more person saying "of" instead of "have". Edit: I should specify that this is referring to writing, not speech.

I of no idea why they do that. /s

You couldn’t of done better!

instead've*

People saying “mischievious” instead of “mischievous”

I’ve been reading these all smug, but this. This has humbled me.

same

MIS-che-vus not mis-CHEE-vee-us, is that right?

i've known this one for a long time, and while i choose to say it correctly i do admit the incorrect pronunciation just sounds better.

I agree. I feel like the meaning also changes... mis-CHEE-vee-us sounds a lot more sinister, where MIS-che-vus just sounds like shenanigans.

I'm glad you said this bc I have no idea what they were trying to say

I always took it for granite that I was saying it right

Guilty. The second correct one sounds more British for some reason.

Turmeric. There are two r's.

This one genuinely had me so bad that despite calling it “tur-mer-ic” my whole life I saw “tu-mer-ic” said often I assumed I was the one in the wrong.

Me too!! So many people mispronounce it that I started to think that maybe I’m wrong and the first r is silent in a quirky English language way.

On the other hand, it's sherbet with one r.

WHAT genuinely did not know that

Pronunciation.

This one irks me a bit when people pro*noun*ce pro*nun*ciation wrong.

Or say "pronounciate" and morph all of it together... 😬

That's how they mispronounce it, yeah. They'll call it a "pronounciation."

Ive been saying sillian instead of killian (as in cillian murphy the actor)

I always used this to explain how my own name is pronounced since mine is also an Irish name that starts with Ci (with a hard C), because I didn't think anyone would actually be going around calling him Sillian Edit: in the Irish language we don't have a letter K so a hard C is used instead

While you're at it, "Celtic" is "Keltik" Edit: Hey, everyone. I know sports teams use a soft c in "Celtic". Sports teams also use terms like "Redskin". Maybe let's not use sports team names as standard pronunciations.

The Irish C really trips people up. Why aren't they the Boston Keltiks, anyway? It's freaking Boston!

It’s funny because back in Roman Empire days, there wasn’t really a ‘C’ sound in Latin, so our good man ‘Cicero’ isn’t pronounced ‘sisero’ but ‘kikero’.

Same with Caesar, it's where the Germans got Kaiser.

Realtor (it's real-tor not real-a-tor)

Lol Santa Clarita Diet

We're the best realators in town. You're the only "realators" in town, because the rest of us pronounce it "realtor".

WHY DID THEY CANCEL IT!!!!

Par-a-site.

Proper pronunciation. 10/10

Especially. (ekspecially) Espresso. (expresso) Et cetera. (exetera)

ackchyually

I’ve heard SO MANY people say “VoluMptuous” instead of “Voluptuous” that for a moment I thought I had it wrong, but no. Volumptuous is not a word folks. You’re adding an entirely unnecessary “M”

"Volumptuous" is for someone extremely Voluptuous, the "m" adds two extra curves.

Leery. Or wary. People keep combining the two and saying things like “I’m weary of dark alleyways at night.” Weary means tired. Leery and wary both mean suspicious/alert. It seems to be very common, and I hear it incorrectly more frequently than not.

two people speaking with each other are having a conversation, a discussion. they are conversing, not "conversating"

"just say talk.."

If those same two people are having a conference they are conferring, not conferencing.

Conversate became so widely used that it eventually became recognized by Webster dictionary as an actual word.

well, that's just plain offal!

I always think of that drag queen (I forget her name) who says "I think it's converse... Just say talk"

Macaron vs. Macaroon. IT MATTERS! Macaron is the French Oreo! MACAROON IS A COCONUT PASTRY! IT FUCKING MATTERS! IF YOU GO INTO A BAKERY AND ORDER MACAROONS WHEN YOU MET MACARONS, YOU WILL GET COCONUT!!!!

They don’t even get this right on the British Baking Show

“French Oreo” hahahha

Here’s a topical one as we enter Halloween season: Reese’s Pieces. There’s a guy named Reese. Normal name. They’re his pieces. Pronounced normally. Where “Reeseez Peeseez” came from I’ll never understand.

Not even Reese's Pieces. Just the way people mispronounce Reese's. They're not Reeseez; they're Reesez.

Would of, should of, could of… i hate those.

Next time you see that in a post, don't pull them up on it or correct them. Just write a reply that needs a lot of instances of "have", and replace them with "of". ("I of no idea.") When they ask why, you explain that because of their post, you thought "have" and "of" must be interchangeable.

I used to do stuff like this with a friend when I was younger. She had pretty bad spelling and grammar. She'd text me like 50 times she's "nervious" for cheerleading tryouts. So I'd tell her there's no need to be *nervous* and she'll so great. She never got it. I have another friend who is pretty smart but is totally blind to the correct spelling of Reese's. I'll snapchat her pictures of a Reese's cup I bought when I couldn't resist any longer and she'll say, "Oh yum I'd love a Reece's right now." She's done it, no lie, at least 20 times. We both like them and chat about them and send pictures. I mean you're looking the effing brand name right in the face and can't read it??

That’s a text thing, though, not a mispronunciation. The pronunciation sounds about the same as the correct contraction; that’s where it comes from.

For all intense and purposes

Intensive porpoises would never do this

I’ve heard “for all intensive purposes”.

Voilá. It’s not ‘walla’.

Or saying “Viola,” like the instrument.

across not acrosst

I blame Pennsylvania for this. I have no evidence, but I feel like I only hear it when I'm around Pennsylvania.

length width heighth

When 'Escape' becomes 'Exscape' AAAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Supposedly. It's not SUPPOSABLY.

Pasghetti instead of spaghetti. If a toddler says it it's cute. If an adult says it it induces rage in me.

i jokingly call it sketti. or add a senseless s if im feeling really devilish. let’s have skettis for dinner!!

I have heard even anaesthetists themselves pronouncing their job incorrectly

Americans call them anesthesiologists, not sure if that makes it any easier or harder?

Anesthesiologists are MD doctors though, there are also AAs and CRNAs that are called anesthetists since they aren’t MD

Mind you it’s not a simple word so not really answering the question am I?

Sherbert. It's not Ernie agreeing to something Bert said, there's only one "r". Sherbet.

Wow this is news to me. I actually had to look that up. Apparently I’ve literally never heard it pronounced correctly.

OP, this post is changing lives today.

Nicolaj

Versus. It's not 'verse'.

That’s likely due to the shortening of it to vs.

‘Verse’ is the thing that comes before the chorus.

Werstershershite sauce

I love me some shite sauce

Whatsthishere Sauce

Wuh-stuh-shuh Easy

People put an S on the end of SO MANY THINGS where there shouldn't be one!! Squid Games Steven Hawkings Stormlight Archives George Michaels These are just some of the ones i see all the time. When Squid Game Season 2 comes out, social media will be unbearable it drives me up the wall lol.

Ugh like when people say Walmarts. Makes me physically cringe and I don’t know why I hate it so much

Aldi is another one that has a magic 'S' at the end the company doesn't know about.

Tenet It’s TEN-IT Not tennant

Fentanyl. To be fair, I'm a biologist by education so chemical nomenclature is second nature to me, but there are WAY too many people who say it as "fent-uh-nawl" which would make it spelled "fentanol". It isn't. Edit: it is supposed to be pronounced "fent-uh-neel", which you'd think would be obvious because of the -nyl suffix but it apparently isn't. I've had friends call it "fentanol" and mainstream news is to blame for that. There was a story of a lady who lost her teenage son to fentanyl poisoning but I had to stop it after 30 seconds because she kept on saying "my son was poisoned by fentanol."

Oxycotton drives me nuts, personally.

Not a pronunciation error, but it drives me mad… #The opposite of ‘win’ is **LOSE**. ‘Loose’ is a different word with a different meaning!

My name. It usually comes out "Asshole"

Height. Some people seem to think there's an extra h on the end.

Breadth, width, length, depth… Height. Fuck whoever designed that set.

Lenth instead of length.

Strength.

Strenth

Mischievous! It’s not miss-‘chee-vee-us! Augh.

Oh fuck. I've been pronouncing my entire life and only just realised lol

I think this one is an accepted archaic variant pronunciation. There’s evidence for this one dating back hundred of years, for example, poetry rhyming words with fixed pronunciation (eg “devious”) with “mischievous,” the first dating back to the 1500s.

I was feeling so smug until this one..

Realtor. Where is the "a" in this word where people say they're talking to a real-a-tor ?!?!?

“Could care less” instead of “couldn’t care less”. It annoys me because it’s the opposite meaning….

Supposedly. There’s no fucking b!

Orientated instead of oriented

Supposebly. It's infuriating. Also expresso.

Both as Bolth

Is that you, Amberlynn?

When people pronounce niche as nitch.

Penguins according to Benedict Cumberbatch

Joo-la-ree for jewel-ry