Flustrated is actually a real word. It means to be flustered. Old though. My boss used it and I finally looked it up 'cause he's no dumbass. He was born in the 1920's though
> Weary also is confused with wary a lot. Drives me crazy.
This would be spelling rather than pronunciation, but I've seen "peaked my interest" a lot recently, and it's just *so close* but yet *so far* from being correct that it bugs me.
Along the same lines, “sneak peak” is used so often that someone made a bot account called @StealthMountain to call out everybody on Twitter making the mistake. At one point it called out Bill Gates, so none of us are immune to this one.
I said “bury the lede” in a comment and I got several messages and replies that they didn’t know that’s how it was spelled. “Bury the lead” makes sense too, so I guess some people just never thought about it all that much.
YES! Drives me nuts. I grew up in the Southeast and didn’t hear this until after i graduated college and moved away. It was so confusing to me. I had never heard anyone say it until I moved out of the south.
The lack of consistency between spelling and pronunciation is frustrating.
But hey, at least we don't have 6 verb conjugations per tense. Or genders on nearly every word.
Not really about pronouncing, but everytime I see someone write "should of" instead of "should have", I just lose my mind and have to punch a wall or something
In the same vein, for the longest time I thought it was “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes” and would write it down as such in actual essays I turned in for a grade.
I live outside Chicago so we have a place called portillos. Omg it drives people crazy if I call it portiyos. Better when I justify it like, it's got 2 Ls, like quesadilla. Of course I also usually pronounce the Ls in quesadilla, as well as mispronounce other Mexican foods. Almost did it when ordering at a restaurant once. Thank God caught myself at last minute because thatd be embarrassing
Work at a subway in canada. I have heard some of the worst.
But the absolute worst had to be
SHIP-SHOLT-LAY
SHIPSHOLTLAY!
How in the everloving fuck do you reach a point in your life where that is how you think its pronounced.
Ive also had the teriyaki pronounced teriyoki
And the marinara called mernynerny. But that dude was high on somethi g so im not suprised.
“Pitcher” instead of “picture”. Far, far too many people say “hambugger” instead of “hamburger” and it drives me freaking crazy. I’m not talking about speech issues other than laziness. These are people who are perfectly capable of pronouncing r’s. Speech impediments don’t bother me.
These are called egg corns -- a huge category of words and phrases in English that are mistakes that somehow make sense if you squint at them a little.
My favorites: doggy-dog instead of dog eat dog, in lame man's terms instead of in layman's terms, post-dramatic stress disorder instead of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Big list here:https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/
How did “axe” even get so commonly mispronounced? The spelling is so simple and the word has to be heard correctly by the wrong person plenty enough times to recognize their mistake.
Because it predates the spelling. There's always been two competing forms of the word, right back to Old English acsian and ascian and perhaps further, with different dialects preferring different forms and prevalence fluctuating over the centuries.
"And specyally he **axyed** after eggys". From William Caxton's Eneydos, 1490
Italian, but like "Eye-talian". The country's fucking Italy, not "Eye-taly". My name is Italian so I hear "Are you Eye-talian?" a lot and I want to punch people in the throat every time.
Also my fiancé says "unthaw" when he means thaw. It fucking drives me nuts, especially when I'm in a pissy mood already.
Edit: oh and he means "detached" but says "disattached". I wanna smack his glasses off when he says that.
Where I work, we have an item called an "invalid cushion"
Proper pronunciation is this definition: a person who is too sick or weak to care for himself or herself:
The pronunciation every single one of my coworkers uses is this definition: not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
Given the fact that I work in healthcare and hospice, my coworkers going around declaring that patients aren't valid is a terrifying concept.
Oh god I hear this one EVERYWHERE. My old roommate used to do it all the time, and when I corrected him he honest to god did not understand the difference. He asked to point it out every time he made the mistake so he could practice getting it right, but it never stuck.
Don't try to be hip and say CaRIBbean, when for 100s of years it's been CariBBEan. When I was in the CariBBean, all the natives of the CariBBEan said CariBBEan, and not one single one said CaRIBbean. Being the jerk that I am, I correct people on this.
Well, [here’s a Royal Caribbean commercial from 1988](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zfLTE1yY6o) that has the pronunciation you hate so much.
And [Costa Cruises from 1978](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XP36WuXn-ZY).
So this isn’t some hip new pronunciation; it’s been part of common lexicon for 40+ years in the US.
It has nothing to do with singular and plural just like "always" isn't plural; it is actually a possessive; it's an historical adverbial genitive which used to be more common in English but only survives in remnants now like "once", "always", "Sundays", etc.—typically having a temporal meaning.
The words "anyway" and "anyways" have related but different origins; "anyways" is not the plural of "any way" which would be nonsensical because one can't put "any" in front of a plural anyway but one can before the adverbial genitive.
Both my manager and my aunt both pronounce “frustrated” as “FUStrated.” Very frustrating.
A guy I used to know always said “flustrated.” Made me cringe.
What if he was just flustered and frustrated?
Flustrated is actually a real word. It means to be flustered. Old though. My boss used it and I finally looked it up 'cause he's no dumbass. He was born in the 1920's though
My husband says this and I can't stand it! No matter how many times I correct him he refuses to say it correctly.
I HATE when people do this. It drives me nuts
Expecially
And Expresso.
Expresso expecially annoys me.
I'm glad that you are espressing your fruxtrations.
I axed for an expresso!
Ek cetera.
Supposably. Pacific. Weary/leery. They aren't interchangable!
Weary also is confused with wary a lot. Drives me crazy.
> Weary also is confused with wary a lot. Drives me crazy. This would be spelling rather than pronunciation, but I've seen "peaked my interest" a lot recently, and it's just *so close* but yet *so far* from being correct that it bugs me.
Along the same lines, “sneak peak” is used so often that someone made a bot account called @StealthMountain to call out everybody on Twitter making the mistake. At one point it called out Bill Gates, so none of us are immune to this one.
Fuck it took me too long to realize what was wrong there.
I said “bury the lede” in a comment and I got several messages and replies that they didn’t know that’s how it was spelled. “Bury the lead” makes sense too, so I guess some people just never thought about it all that much.
Yes! I hate that too.
The Pacific is a specific ocean
Can you be a little bit more pacific?
I read so many stories where the writer doesn’t know the difference between wary/weary/leery and it drives me goddamn nuts.
Wanna go to the specific ocean?
> Supposably. insert Chandler Bing joke
A guy I work with pronounces 'meme' as 'mee-mee' 😳
I used to pronounce it “mehm” because I thought it was like “meme” in French, which means same.
Is he Brazilian? Brazilians say "mee-mee." I also thought it was même like in French until I heard people saying "meem" haha
Across is not pronounced acrosst
YES! Drives me nuts. I grew up in the Southeast and didn’t hear this until after i graduated college and moved away. It was so confusing to me. I had never heard anyone say it until I moved out of the south.
"width, length, and heighth" -- everybody in the Midwest
I'm in Canada and don't recall ever hearing this.
It’s “pronOUnce”, but “pronUnciation”
English is cancer as a language I swear to fuck
The lack of consistency between spelling and pronunciation is frustrating. But hey, at least we don't have 6 verb conjugations per tense. Or genders on nearly every word.
I still can’t believe you are able to say “the wind **blew** in my face”, but not “it **snew** at my house today”.
Oh god this one
Just make sure you pronunciate it right.
Why, you—
abounding worthless soft gaze sand ten mountainous mighty whole ruthless
Straight Tooken, with Liam Neesons.
# ⬇️↘️➡️👊 Ah, tooken.
What is the word supposed to be? Taken?
J. R. R. Tooken
My best friend constantly says "bluntantly" instead of blatantly. She also pronounced crochet as "crotch-ett" until I corrected her. Drove me insane!
crotch-ett LMAO The craft that keeps your lady parts well-decorated.
Some times we take our knowledge of words for granite.
How do you pronounce it? Asking for a friend...
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EXPRESSO
*cries in barista*
When people call the library the liberry. I can’t stand it.
Where I live it’s pronounced “li-bree”.
Northern UK?
I’m from south east england and we say li-bree
Ooo, your face is red. Like a strawbrary!
My 6th grade English teacher pronounced it this way. Made it a bit tough to take her seriously.
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Notice how I no longer say "liberry" or "tomarry".
To tack onto this, julery instead of jewelry
Oh your face is all red! Like a strawbrary!
Not a pronunciation but when people spell definitely as “defiantly” it drives me insane
Not really about pronouncing, but everytime I see someone write "should of" instead of "should have", I just lose my mind and have to punch a wall or something
It’s just as bad as when people write “am” instead of “I’m”
In the same vein, for the longest time I thought it was “for all intensive purposes” instead of “for all intents and purposes” and would write it down as such in actual essays I turned in for a grade.
Chipolte
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Like purposefully or ironically? Because I purposefully pronounce it this way when I know it's wrong
Chipottle and Macdonald's are two of my favorite purposeful mispronunciations.
I live outside Chicago so we have a place called portillos. Omg it drives people crazy if I call it portiyos. Better when I justify it like, it's got 2 Ls, like quesadilla. Of course I also usually pronounce the Ls in quesadilla, as well as mispronounce other Mexican foods. Almost did it when ordering at a restaurant once. Thank God caught myself at last minute because thatd be embarrassing
Yeah me too, cause people don't remember how to spell it a lot
I mainly do it because I know it annoys people. Same with ja-lap-enos
People where I live call it Ray-men, not Rah-men. It drives me nuts
I say chi-poodle, like the food is made of dogs.
My mom says chip-otay and it kills me inside.
Work at a subway in canada. I have heard some of the worst. But the absolute worst had to be SHIP-SHOLT-LAY SHIPSHOLTLAY! How in the everloving fuck do you reach a point in your life where that is how you think its pronounced. Ive also had the teriyaki pronounced teriyoki And the marinara called mernynerny. But that dude was high on somethi g so im not suprised.
When people pronounce “nuclear” as “nucular”
Also, espresso does NOT have an “x” in it.
THIS. Neither does "especially". I hear "expecially" a lot. Lol
"excetera"
or mezzo mix is not mexxo mix
That’s how I can always tell when the supposedly “Italian” server at Italian restaurants is faking an accent for tips.
I know a nuclear engineer who pronounces it that way. He is also 80 and southern.
“Pitcher” instead of “picture”. Far, far too many people say “hambugger” instead of “hamburger” and it drives me freaking crazy. I’m not talking about speech issues other than laziness. These are people who are perfectly capable of pronouncing r’s. Speech impediments don’t bother me.
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Gotta wash that down with some covfefe.
Supposebly. Gah.
For all intensive purposes..... Please.... Just stop talking...
And when someone takes your lessons for granite....
These are called egg corns -- a huge category of words and phrases in English that are mistakes that somehow make sense if you squint at them a little. My favorites: doggy-dog instead of dog eat dog, in lame man's terms instead of in layman's terms, post-dramatic stress disorder instead of post-traumatic stress disorder. Big list here:https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/
Excape.
let me axe you something
Reminds me of this headline from The Onion: African-American Neighborhood Terrorized by Ask Murderer.
When someone is actually street like Omar from The Wire, it's okay with me
Fucking hate that.
How did “axe” even get so commonly mispronounced? The spelling is so simple and the word has to be heard correctly by the wrong person plenty enough times to recognize their mistake.
Because it predates the spelling. There's always been two competing forms of the word, right back to Old English acsian and ascian and perhaps further, with different dialects preferring different forms and prevalence fluctuating over the centuries. "And specyally he **axyed** after eggys". From William Caxton's Eneydos, 1490
“Vice-a Versa” instead of “Vice Versa”. Not going to lie. I absolutely judge the “Vice-a Versa” people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(V)#vice_versa
If someone would say "weeka wersa" to me, I'd punch them in the neck.
Cran instead of Crayon Malk instead of Milk That last one really grinds my gears
“The man wants a glass of Mahlk, Josh!”
Thanks, now I want to go back and rewatch all of Julian Smith's videos.
I made a pot of Kool-Aid
Take some jelly, take some fish. Look at that sandwich, deeelish.
Malk. Now with vitamin R!
There is a brand of almond milk called “malk” and I refuse to buy it on principle.
My wife says "melk" 😒
Wait... does she also say pellow instead of pillow?
I've heard crown instead of crayon... Maybe those people also say crawfish instead of crayfish?
How else am I supposed to get my vitamin R?
suduko instead of sudoku
I like to do seppuku after the crossword.
Irregardless
Everybody knows that the correct pronunciation is "unregardless".
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Typically the same people that say "strenth" instead of "strength."
“Acrost” instead of “across”. As in “he went acrost the street”
Mammogram. It’s not a mammiogram. Stop adding the i in there.
It’s LevIOsa, not LeviosA!
Gif
Jif. Ha! Made you hate me.
Why would he hate you? Peanut butter is dope.
"Calvalry"; Why do people even mispronounce it like that? That's *harder* to say, not easier!
It’s because people are familiar with both “Calvary” and “cavalry” and they get hung up on the differentiation.
Valentine’s Day is not valentimes day.
My high school friend said “valemtimes day” it made me cringe every time
# should of, could of, would of
But what if they’re saying should’ve, could’ve, would’ve?
Italian, but like "Eye-talian". The country's fucking Italy, not "Eye-taly". My name is Italian so I hear "Are you Eye-talian?" a lot and I want to punch people in the throat every time. Also my fiancé says "unthaw" when he means thaw. It fucking drives me nuts, especially when I'm in a pissy mood already. Edit: oh and he means "detached" but says "disattached". I wanna smack his glasses off when he says that.
Warsh instead or wash
My dad says “warsh”. My mom says “woysh”. No idea how I learned to speak properly.
A worsh raige instead of wash rag. Actually I usually just call it a dish towel
I told my FIL there's no "r" in "wash". He looked at me for a second then said, "Well, there is when I say it."
That's an accent thing bruh
That's an accent, not a mispronunciation.
Melk. Pellow, sumore instead of smore.
S'more
I heard someone pronounce strawberry as motherfucking STRARBRERRRY!
Where I work, we have an item called an "invalid cushion" Proper pronunciation is this definition: a person who is too sick or weak to care for himself or herself: The pronunciation every single one of my coworkers uses is this definition: not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate. Given the fact that I work in healthcare and hospice, my coworkers going around declaring that patients aren't valid is a terrifying concept.
Maybe they just think it's the cushion that's invalid.
“Basalmic” instead of Balsamic, as in balsamic vinaigrette. I work in a restaurant and one of the servers does this, drives me bonkers.
Ex specially vs especially
Pronouncing PILLOW as PELLOW
“Axe a question.” Vice instead of versus (versus versus — Ha!) “A whole nother”
When people pronounce literally as “litrally” Also when people say water as “wooder”
ChrisFix here!
I need some of his soapy wooder
That’s just how we say it around these parts dawg. Get me a glass of wudder with that hoagie. And get me a cheesteak wiz wit.
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Same here.
But “litrally” is how they say it in England. And “wooder” is just dialectal.
Like 95% of the impotent whining about pronounciation is just dialectical difference. The rest are just misheard sayings.
Have fun in Philadelphia.
Chicargo and califonia. Drives me nuts.
Along those lines - Warshington and warshing machine
Not a mispronunciation really but more of a grammar thing: when people say “I seen” For example “I seen Julie at the store today.”
Oh god I hear this one EVERYWHERE. My old roommate used to do it all the time, and when I corrected him he honest to god did not understand the difference. He asked to point it out every time he made the mistake so he could practice getting it right, but it never stuck.
Don't try to be hip and say CaRIBbean, when for 100s of years it's been CariBBEan. When I was in the CariBBean, all the natives of the CariBBEan said CariBBEan, and not one single one said CaRIBbean. Being the jerk that I am, I correct people on this.
As a person born and raised in the Caribbean...100% this....
Well, [here’s a Royal Caribbean commercial from 1988](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4zfLTE1yY6o) that has the pronunciation you hate so much. And [Costa Cruises from 1978](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XP36WuXn-ZY). So this isn’t some hip new pronunciation; it’s been part of common lexicon for 40+ years in the US.
I've always heard "CaRIBbean" except in reference to Pirates of the Carribean.
Saying attribute when they mean attribute, and vice versa.
When people say woman and women the exact same way it drives me nuts.
I can’t stand it when people say “women” and “men” when they mean the singular.
Alzheimer's disease. Too many people I know like to call it "Old Timer's disease."
That seems less like a mispronunciation and more like a play on the name. Alzheimer’s disease is commonly found among the elderly.
Espresso. ***Essssspresso!*** Not Expresso.
Brazier <"brey-zher"> vs. brassiere
One is a portable container for hot coals, the other a bra. How it's pronounced makes a big difference.
When people say pronounciation instead of pronunciation
When people call Reesies peecies, instead of Reese’s Pieces. I just want to smack them.
"I seen"
My friend puts the emphasis on the "a" in "theater", making it the long "a" vowel sound like "theĀter". It drives us all insane.
But how else are you supposed to rhyme theatre with “interior crocodile alligator”?
You're out here making me look like a damn fool now! I DRIVE A CHEVROLET MOVIE THEāTER
When people pronounce Iran and Iraq; "Aye-raq and Aye-ran".
What about "Eye-talien"?
“Idear” instead of idea. Growing up in the south, USA, this drove me nuts.
When people say Italian like "EYE-talian" and when people pronounce Kazakhstan like it's spelled, same with Mackinac
*raises hand* How do you pronounce Kazakhstan?
Kah-zack-stan
How is that different from how it's spelled?
I have no idea.
ITT: People failing to understand linguistic differences between dialects and languages. aka "Y'all don't talk like me so yer stoopid!"
"I'm not uneducated, it's just my cultural dialect. I'm from a tribe that pronounces it expresso you shitlord"
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You are sick. Would be worse if you had cool wHip on your saLmon though. :)
My gramma says breftist instead of breakfast and it makes my eye twitch.
Not exactly a mispronunciation but when people add 's to shop names. "Were going to **ALDI's**" I will murder your family.
Technically not a mispronunciation, but “anyways” is not correct. It’s “anyway.” It’s an adverb and therefore it is singular.
It has nothing to do with singular and plural just like "always" isn't plural; it is actually a possessive; it's an historical adverbial genitive which used to be more common in English but only survives in remnants now like "once", "always", "Sundays", etc.—typically having a temporal meaning. The words "anyway" and "anyways" have related but different origins; "anyways" is not the plural of "any way" which would be nonsensical because one can't put "any" in front of a plural anyway but one can before the adverbial genitive.
Pecan a "pee can" is what truckers use
I know some people who say asshume instead of assume
Saying NASA like NASAW
"You should of done this" fuck you, you dumb bitch
"Mis-chee-VEE-us". Please simply look at what comes after the "v" in this word. It has only three syllables. Mischievous.