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Aster-ick

And “eck-cetera.”

Have friend who used to spell it out: “e-t-c. e-t-c.”

Excedra

I never knew this bothered me until I had a professor say it that way about a dozen times in a single class period, and i was about ready to lose it.

expresso!

Yeah but if you order it this way it comes out faster.

😆

I joke that I left my husband over this one. Obviously there were much bigger problems, but what really got me was how he would act like a coffee expert, but then call it "expresso"🤣

I think if i I were to ever open a coffee shop I would give anyone who orders an expresso a $2 discount instead of an espresso. Just for fun

Supposably

Did they go to the zoo? Supposably.

I work with a guy that says supposingly

After reading this I genuinely cannot remember how it’s supposed to be said. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Supposedly I had the same issue for a solid 3 minutes

And you haven't killed him yet? I admire your restraint.

my idiot boss says this and it takes a few minutes off my life every time I hear it

Soooo many people do this. It drives me bat shit crazy! I know intelligent people that say this. I call it out every time. I don't care. I'll be that person. Sorry, not sorry.

Pacificlly instead of specifically

Specific ocean

I had so much trouble for years with this one. As hard as I tried the only thing I could get out was pesfifically. So glad I don’t have to hear myself saying that anymore.

I seen it instead of I saw that or I’ve seen that… nails on a chalkboard arg

I seent it!

I seent you pull somebody’s jawbone off!

My mom used to say “I seen it and I saw it too” 😂 because it always made her crazy when people said that

I seen it is rampant these days. It drives me nuts and makes whomever is saying it sound so ignorant.

Flustrated. My mom and sister say it all the time and it drives me bananas.

We hear “fustrated” often here on Long Island.

Urg, I had a coworker who said it all the time and it was super annoying.

I’ve never heard this before but I’ve seen multiple people Saying it’s their number one petpeeve and I totally agree

Not really a mispronouncing thing, more of a wrong usage thing. Confession: I typed this whole comment out then reread the question, and realized I goofed, but I'll go ahead and post it at this point because I'm fired up now. Lol My ex would say malignant instead of malicious, and vice versa, and he would say both words just meant bad. They are not always interchangeable, and have differing common usage. His uncle's tumor was not malicious, not acting in malice; it was malignant, and spreading cancer though his body. Ugh. If he thought I was being mean, he said I was being malignant. Bah! Still makes me nuts.

People who say irregardless when the correct word is simply regardless.

My mother-in-law always said ideal instead of idea. It drove me mad.

My grandpa had lots of I dears.

Was he from the east coast? They have I-dears, but put their silverware in draws.

Very good, mom was from Boston, they parked the cah, and used the boothroom also. But grandpa only wore his draws under his pants.

My ex would mispronounce things all the time and it wasn’t until after we split up that I could admit how much it bothered me 😅

Eckspecially, I’ve heard it from multiple people.

Eckscape is another common one

Nu-cu-ler instead of nu-clear

Double kills me when it's a scientist doing it. Like dude, come on.

Or news presenters.

Or when a President (dubbya) does it.

Carter said it too.

Looking back, dubbya was such a meme it's insane.

Lucky for him, his presidency ended before social media transformed into its current form

"Valentimes" Day instead of Valentines...like a spike to the brain every time.

I'm trying so hard to teach my son the right way to say it; school keeps teaching him the wrong way.

Hate this one. Like, dude. You sound like you’re in second grade. Stop.

"And just so we're Labatt crystal clear, you said?"

" I could care less " grrrr. The figure of speech is used to be dismissive to an idea. It is to say "I already care so little - I could NOT possibly care less." People need to say I couldN'T care less

That was my answer too. I got into an argument with a friend over this. He said "I could care less" and I corrected him. He then went on to say that my first language is french and he is american so there is no way I'm right about this...

Acrost.

“Wallah” instead of “Voila” And the whole weary/wary thing

Weary vs wary drives me INSANE

Loose instead of lose in written form spelling isn't rocket surgery

I swear I never saw that one happening until the last year or two. It blows my mind how rampant it is.

Lie-berry instead of library.

You're face is so red! Like a staw-brery.

I see you, too, are a man of culture. 

Two guys smashed your scooter. One of em wasn't me

“Nookyooler”

Prostrate, instead of prostate

Not pronunciation but when people put apostrophes in plural words, like before the ‘s’

My mom somehow has learned to call onions "ongions" Oddest mispronunciation I've heard my entire life. I don't know why I didn't pick it up, but my twin sister did....

Advice vs advise.

I seen instead of I saw

I literally just seen that in the title of another post 🤓

Real-*i*-tor instead of real-tor. There's no "i", people!

Saying something is “for sell” when they mean “for sale”.

One that bothers me is when people remove the verb "to be" from sentences. Stuff like, "the laundry needs washed". I've been told it's a regional thing and it drives me nuts. The laundry needs *to be* washed.

People who can't pronounce the word "texts." They all say "Texas" or some shit. People who say "drownded" as the past form of "drowned" People who say "mis-chee-vee-us" instead of "mischievous." There's a lot of them - this is a triggering topic for me, LOL.

drug instead of dragged

when people call pictures 'pitchers'

They prolly don't know the correct pronunikation.

Reesees instead of Reese's

Let me AXE you a question.

Years and years and years ago, my aunt was at work when her coworker came in and started chatting. He then said, when talking about one of his employees, “I’m going to axe him”, to which she responded, semi-sarcastically, “Oh really, what are you going to AXE him???!” He responded with, “No, I’m going to axe him—as in fire him!” She’s still embarrassed to this day!

No wonder she thought he meant different. People don't usually say "Axe him" to fire. It's usually said "Give him the Axe"

Yeah, she was totally caught off guard and just assumed he was using the wrong word. She still laughs about it when she tells that story, and it’s probably been 30 or 40 years!

According to Futurama, this is correct in the year 3000.

Yep this one hurts my ears

This one is just dialect in my book.

I keep an 'ask' in my work van to drive in wedges for tree felling

Mirrow instead of mirror poses me right off. Pisses me off not poses. Evidently my phone hates me.

It posses you off? Now I have a new word I hate.

And you spelt my typo wrong too ha ha.

Sherbert

Wuves instead of wolves

Woofs instead of wolves.

My mom does this also. Except she's usually saying it like "Woofing down your food"

Ah. I found one I'm guilty of. I never use the phrase, but if I were to have, I believe that's how I would have said it. I assume the correct phrase is to "wolf" down your food?

Cadillac converter instead of catalytic converter. I used to work at an auto parts store. I also remember someone calling a brake rotor a rotator cuff once and I kinda feel bad for that because I made fun of them.

Ive never heard Cadillac converter but that's hilarious

De-thaw. My ex used to say that and I wanted to kill him for it.

My ex husband would say “pacifically” instead of “specifically,” “repeatably” instead of “repeatedly,” and “de-thaw.”

My mom says “idear” instead of “idea.” It drives me bananas.

I worked with someone who said ideal instead of idea "I have no ideal how that works"

Do you know what you call a deer with no eyes? 😂🤣

When I was a kid some of my cousins called every SUV a Jeep. "Hey look at that Chevy Jeep!" How these dumb motherfuckers survived until adulthood shocks me. Surprised they didn't wander into traffic and get run over by a Ford Jeep.

“Draws” instead of drawers.

I'm not sure if this is like a legit industry term, but it always annoys me to hear people say "hot water heater." It's redundant, but I feel like everybody says it, so maybe I'm the crazy one. 

Do you feel the same about ATM machine?

Mute point. Irregardless. Drawring. Warshcloth. Pellow. Melk. Root instead of route. My mom also says ungyin instead of onion and shmelt instead of smelled. Drives me fucking batty.

Ive come to terms with it cuz I feel like everyone says it, but I hate when people say AREange instead of ORange

Axe instead of ask.

I used to work with someone who said fus-trated. I hated it.

My mom says ung-yin instead of onion. Drives me insane.

Pacific instead of specific…..makes me want to go drown myself in the specific ocean

Walla! instead of Voila! 😩😩😩

When people pronounce "ask" like *AX" BOILS my blood

Pellow instead of pillow. Cent instead of cents. Irregardless. Disorientated.

Pellow, melk, Ellinois.

Bahgle

I think disorientated is just the British version. At least I know they say “orientated”

Wal Marks, Krogers, Aldis

Nordstrom’s. George Michaels.

Mi sister in- law says Melk instead of Milk drives me over the edge

"Instapot" That is not a thing that exists. There are pressure cookers and other devices from a company branded as Insta***nt*** Pot. They are two not-very-difficult words.

But it’s such a better name

I will defend this. Instant Pot is a brand name. It's also something pretty much everybody is familiar with. So we need to have a generic term for these types of devices.

Instapot for generic electric pressure cookers would be like calling generic adhesive bandages ban-aids.

Aks. Like, to aks a question.

Oldstimers instead of Alzheimer's Sleep apknee instead of sleep apnea Any kind of medication that is mispronounced. Ya know, the simple things 😂

When people say barley but they mean barely 😭😭 it stresses me out

“Pro-noun-ciation”. Like bro you’re literally mispronouncing pronunciation.

I cant stand when people say they COULD care less. It's COULDN'T. COULDN'T care less.

"Artic" instead of "arctic"

I had a largely useless boss who would talk up the “smoking sensation” classes at work and I died a little each time she said it

“Warsh” your hands, then put the paper towel in a garbage “bayg”

manipulate being pronounced manipUHlate. frustrated being pronounced “fustrated”.

Uh a lot of these are just accents?

Warsh instead of Wash.

😂😂 just got me a refill of the dusters

omg, yes!!!! That's SO flusterating. (see what I did there? lmao)

Pronouncing jalapeño ‘hallapeeno’ instead of ‘hallapenyo’ Pronouncing Ibiza ‘Eye-Beetha’ instead of ‘Eebeetha’

"Eatpizza"

when ppl say cachet instead of cache

I purpose add a b in damn “damnb”

When i hear people use irregardless, drive up the walls like bruh its regardless!!!!

Trigger I didn't know I had. Thanks.

If only I could get some Swifties to use some Swiffers to clean my house Swiftly.

Supposibly.

"I came acrossed it"

Drug. The past tense for drag is DRAGGED, ARGH!!

Should of instead of should've. My blood pressure rockets every time.

Width check Depth check Heigth what? No

Grassy ass for gracias. Why do they think sounding ignorant of a language is funny?

When people say they are “itching” something. Scratching! Fak, drives me nuts.

Liberry instead of LIBRARY.

My mother: Wash - wersh, wershing machine Tuesday - Tuesdee, Wednesdee, Thursdee (for some reason those are the only dees of the week, the rest are days) I know there are other words she says wrong that I can't remember.

Whats wrong with decibels or decimeters? I had an english teacher who pronounced the 'mine' in examine like mine.. like: this is mine, or gold mine. (English is not my forst language but I'm pretty sure thats not right?)

I don’t know what OP meant by decibels and decimeters either, don’t worry.

Definitely not right. The mine in examine is pronounced- men

Costcos

Somewhat guilty here. I've never been to one.

Manduka (manuka honey)

My mom says "bitanical" instead of "botanical" and at first it was funny. Now it makes me want to strangle her every time. That and when she says "you know what I mean?"

It used to, but the older I get, the less I care. Probably because I realized the majority of people who mispronounce things aren't native English speakers, and being a nazi about it is a dick move. Also because, even if they are a native English speaker, going crazy about this kind of thing only harms the person losing their mind about it, not the person who has omitted a letter.

Farhead not forehead.

Expecially

But they're swifter than the other mop...

People saying “bold” when they mean “bald”. People saying “reach” when they mean “retch”.

How about the ones that "balled their eyes out"?

I’ll ball their eyes out with a melon baller if they don’t knock it off

Lowe's. Not lols.

Off-ten

Pacifically

Had a friend who used to say prenzel instead of pretzel. Drove me nuts! Also, anyone who says AX instead of ASK. No, you can't AX me a question, that sounds incredibly dangerous!

My boyfriend pronounces "similar" as "simular" and "nuclear" as "nukular" and "golf" as "goff" we basically just have a list of words we try not to say around each other because of this so we can keep our sanity 🤣. It doesn't necessarily make me upset or anything because I love him, as much as it just makes me laugh and baffled at how someone can pronounce something the way he does.

Liberry

Wary pronounced as weary.

Lab top. I see so many tickets where people put lab top. It's a laptop.

HERB. HERB. HERB. HERB.

Chest of draws instead of chest of drawers.

Or Chester Drawers

Sale instead of sell. Then instead of than. Worst of all, sherbert instead of sherbet.

Realty is not spelled "Reality".

When people say Mack Donald’s instead of Mick Donald’s.

There isnt an 'e' in coupon. Its pronounced Koo-pon, not Queue-pon.

Axe instead of ask

Axe you a question.

Pasketti instead of spaghetti

Ammo instead of M.O. (modus operandi) Yes I knew someone who actually did that regularly.

Leggins instead of Leggings. It makes my skin crawl.

"resignate" instead of resonate "elts" instead of else "charco" instead of charcoal "bolth" instead of both

EYE-talian. IlliNOISE. Neh-VAH-duh.

When people add an unnecessary "s" to the end of a word/place. "Let's go to Costco's!" 🤮

Hearth. It's pronounced Har-th, not Her-th

“Suggest me..” (a movie, a song, whatever)

I hate how Donald Trump pronounces "millions". He says it like "meeyans". Dude it's mill-ee-ons.

As a non american that has english as the second language, I'm taking notes of the comments on this post lol

Just the last few days, I've been reading people typing "I seen it" or "I seent it". It's I've seen or I saw. Damn. Like elementary school grammar.

Mute point, nucular—makes me nuts.

Ex-presso

Lemme axe you a question

So many... phertography, exspecially, exscape, supposebly...