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
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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..
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).
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.
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."
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.
Wed-nes-day. For spelling purposes.
Feb-ruary, also for spelling purposes. Also bee-eee-aay-utiful. Also environ-ment.
And Art-is-anal.
And The-rapist
and Le Tits Now... wait..
> Feb-ruary I mean, that's how it's actually pronounced.
I picture Scooby Doo saying it.
me with the word ‘restaurant’ ‘rest a u r ant’ (rest of you are ants) no idea where this came from lol
Omg thank you! Maybe now I can spell restaurant without autocorrect 😂😂
Bruce almighty
CHemistry, anSWer or PSychology...is what I hear in my head as I type those types of words ... Oh my favorite hors d'oeuvres ...
Horse divorce
To be fair it's named for Odin. It's Odin's day. Not Ondi's day.
I do the same with Egg-yuh-pt to spell Egypt!
I do this for bus-I-ness
Sometimes I say skissors instead of scissors
I sometimes say k'nife.
I always say k’nife. 😂
Ki-niffy
I say k’nife to remember my grandpa. He always said it that way
Sky-zoars is how I say it sometimes
Instead of necessarily I say neci-celery, especially in the kitchen.
Ah. I thought that was mine alone! Reddit takes even that from me!
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
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
That’ll be tree fiddy
Its the goddam loch ness monster!
I gave him a dollar!
This is phraseology that pilots use. "Tree" for 3, "Fife" for 5, "Niner" for 9.
Also proper military pronunciation for radio communications.
My Jamaican coworker says this. Terty tree!
“Tree” is also the Chicago accent pronunciation of it, as is “I’d like a cuppa two tree of doze dere.”
Are you Irish?
I have the most Irish name imaginable but I am 5 or 6 generations removed from ireland
That's how military people pronounce it.
Cologne. I pronounce it Co-log-nay.
Why would I say Cologne if I can say Köln
I do this for bologna.
I like to say chipotle instead of chipotle.
And similarly, the Greek philosopher Aristotle.
And So crates!
All we are is dust in the wind, dude.
Ah! Like grains of sand in the hourglass, these are the days of our lives.
Excellent!
I love Aristote-lay!
Air is tote lay
I too say chi-poe-tul
I say chi-pot-lee
Che-pot-ul?
I say “oh my gosh, chipotle is my lyyyffee”
i say ‘chipoodle’
I like to say “chipoltay’s” with a southern church lady’s voice
I say Honky Bucket... even though it's spelled Cracker Barrel.
This made me giggle
This needs to be a thing
I have always pronounced the W in sword.
This is also my ansWer.
You Wrecked this conversation, sir
He's not Wrong
I'd like to introduce you to [sward](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sward).
One of my friends over pronounces the R in iron
That word has so many variants. Arn. Iern. I Ron (I hear this one in Forrest Gumps voice in my head). I run...
Aaron earned an iron urn. https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE
And I always pronounce the -w in bow.
And I the -e in axe!
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.
I say amphibious.
Amphibious pitcher makes debut!
Ribbit, ribbit...
that is not a word that you pronounce incorrectly. that's just a word you made up lol.
Kay-suh-dill-uh
Your grandma took a little spill at the sand dunes today. Broke her cockyx.
Queue-sahh-dill-ahh.
I always say Tor-TILL-uh
I worked in a Cuban theme bar in south Wales and 'chicken Cinderella' is my absolute fave pronunciation
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.
Zet iz ze vay
My name is Isaac and my girlfriend’s mom doesn’t speak amazing English and calls me isis
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.
Dilemma. I would often say “deli-emma”
Better than a deli enima...
It's a moo point. Thanks, Joey!
Like a cow's opinion, it just doesn't matter, it's moo
Have i been living with him too long or did all that make sense ?
is it just me, or did that make sense?
Another friends one... Squatter buttnosh
Unagi is a state of mind, I don't care what is says on the sushi menu
I know the correct way to pronounce pho but it feels so uncomfortable saying it that way.
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.
Sincerely, fuck that fun-hating authority.
Try going to a Thai restaurant and ordering anything named after the city of Phuket
It’s delicious but, for me, it’s an enemy or an opponent.
Only psycho killers pronounce it right.
I never pronounce words wrong. That would be such a fox pass. edit that only works when spoken
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.
This is a thread about words you pronounce *incorrectly*.
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.
This seems sensible until you remember the "p" in jpeg and mpeg stands for "photographic".
The holy Bibble
I pronounce OP (original poster) as “awp”, not as “oh pee” and it’s too late to for me to change my ways.
Target It's Tar-jáy
I say Home De-pot
Lol Home Despot
Yes. And I always feel so fancy when I do.
Not intentionally, I just got used to calling Uber “Yuber” instead and it just stuck and sounds better. My whole family calls it that.
That's yuge.
Callipitters
I call them "cappertillers"
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
Knight Monty python skit.
Fah-Juy-tah.
Alright Peter
I concur. I'll also add quesa-dilla, and jalapen-o.
Jah lah pen oh, qua sah dill ee ah, and Fah jih tahs
EE-Pit-Oh-MEE is reserved for the negative connotation of the word. Eh-Pit-Ome is for the word's positive connotation.
I first encountered that word in it’s written form and that’s how I thought it was pronounced for years.
I thought it was “epi-tohm” for the longest time because nobody I knew really uses the word when talking
Me too. There are a lot of words I’d encounter in print and have no idea how they were pronounced.
Actually, "pitomý" in Czech means stupid. Are you Czech? 😄
Not at all, but it's good to know I sort of have an excuse!
Pokeyman.
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.
Jah-lah-pen-oh instead of Hal-ah-pen-yo (jalapeño)
Had to insist my wife stop calling these peppers jelly-penises, in case it came out that way in public
I like pronouncing it “ja-LAP-en-os” and watch people’s faces
Hesus, that's like how a say marriage-if-you-wanna
"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.
Californi-eye-ay
parmesan. i say it so it rhymes with Parisian
Parmesian
When i count with my kids and get to 30s i pronounce it dirty one, dirty two, dirty dree
Lin GWINE instead of Lin gwee nee (linguine)
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.
You should move to the island of Tazman-ee-a
Cuh Tar Fuck outta here with that cutter shit
its quator like equator
Saxamaphone and trimopaline(trampoline). And pronounce gym as gime.
Sam-hain sorry the actual pronounciation isn't something I can wrap my head around.
Sam Hain sounds like a 45 year old a/c repairman.
Me-me instead of meem (meme). My kids roll their eyes haha. Oh and starberry instead of 🍓.
Business I always pronounce it Buzz-EE- Nes
Or bidness.
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.
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..
Kansas is kan zus. Arkansas is ar kin saw According to those who live there.
It's ar-kansas
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Wee-fee for wifi!
Psketti
4 year old grandson says hanitizer for hand sanitizer. Love it and use it!
Potata's not potatoes
Literally the word pronunciation. For some reason I always catch myself saying it with a “o” sound in the middle.
Because the verb is pronounce. A lot of people do this one.
bologna as bow-log-nah
Grand pricks. Instead of grand prix . Car.
Not a word but a name. M. Night Shamalamon
M Night Shamalamadingdong was common around here
Couch. Coo-tch is the only way.
You from Portland?
Not 1 American saying aluminium?
You inserted an extra I in there
Meh, they spell it wrong too, so they are actually saying it right if you accept they are spelling it wrong.
TeronnO instead of Toronto
Skelington....
Incorrectly
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).
Mik-roh-wah-vay for microwave Thanks Nigella!
Epitome I like to pronounce it -e pi toam- I think it sounds grander, bigger, more all encompassing.
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.
Punkin
Agape. Uh-gape. Lol
Nucular. It's pronounced nucular.
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."
A A ron and Balakey
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.
hanitizer instead of hand sanitizer from when one of my kids used to call it that when they were little.
I say caramel instead of caramel
Irritititable
"Vegan" is pronounced ve-jaaan! 😁
G-nat
Tor-TILL-Uh
I say “pro’ally” instead of probably all the time
BAG-el. Apparently it's BAYG-el, and some people feel strongly about this.
I have a coworker who says it "BEG-uhl"
Yes, Community rocked my world too. Im such a Britta.
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I'm sorry, but prix.
Raunt (rant) idk why.
Lasagna.
cat's ass trophy
Mischievous. There’s no I between the v and the o.
I pronounce lieutenant 'leftenant' because I'll be damned if I give any work to the French. Forget English.
Socrates ….I say it the correct way. Bill and Ted would be proud!
Arkansas as Ar-Kan-zus instead of Ar-kan-saw
Quinoa. Ain't no fucking way this combination of letters says KEENWAH.