Mispronounced Words: Tales of poor grammar

[jonpt]

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An example I found interesting awhile back that makes English one of the hardest languages to learn as a second language. Seven different ways to pronounce "ough":



though (like o in go)

through (like oo in too)

cough (like off in offer)

rough (like uff in suffer)

plough (like ow in flower)

ought (like aw in saw)

borough (like a in above)

[jmik58]

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Also, not necessarily a mispronunciation, but one of my pet peeves is when someone will say "I seen him yesterday" instead of "I saw him yesterday." That absolutely drives me up a wall.

My mom does this and i feel like throwing a kitten every time I hear it.

"Ya, we was thinking..." .. and I tune out

[Dirty Turtles]

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Creek = crick
Wash = warsh

[gerg1234]

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Creek = crick
Wash = warsh

"I gone head on down to the crick for a warsh."
I'm pretty sure I've heard somebody say that before.

[z Revis]

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What really annoys me is hearing people say "jag-wire" for jaguar. It doesn't make any sense.

I say jagwire.

How do you actually say it?

[jmood88]

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"Jag-war".

[55]

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I thought it was supposed to be pronounced "JAG-YOU-ARE"

[sydrogerdavid]

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You live here. It's not Missourah.

[BurghFan]

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Creek = crick
Wash = warsh

My aunt does the former and my maternal grandmother does the latter.

Also, my mom pronounces "escape" like "exscape"

My high school graduation, one of my classmates whose last name is Lauterbauch was receiving an award or something from the superintendent and he totally botched his name pronouncing it something like "Lauterbowl".

Another one of my high school classmates had the last name Zatezelo, but teachers were always pronouncing it "Zatzelo" when taking attendance of the first day of school.

My uncle was telling a story about one time when he was flying home from somewhere and the flight passed over Dubois, PA. The pilot announced they were flying over "Dubwah".

Once in college I asked one of my hallmates what they were serving at the food court that day and he responded with "Heroes". I thought "ok, cool, they're serviing hoagies" but I get there only to discover they were serving gyros.

College graduation, before the ceremony a person was reading off everyone's name to make sure she was pronouncing them right. She got to one guys name and Iforget what his last name was and the correct pronunciation, person reading off the names initially pronounced it like "New-wiener".

[snepp]

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Also, my mom pronounces "escape" like "exscape"

My wife does that, and I never miss an opportunity to point it out.

[trobinson97]

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Lol, my wife says "refriderajer". She'd be pissed if she knew I told people that...

[NYJets]

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I have a friend who doesn't know the difference between "worse" and "worst." Like instead of typing "Tom Brady is the worst human being alive" he'll type "Tom Brady is the worse human being alive"

Some announcer who's done a few UConn games this year pronounces the college Quinnipiac as QuinniPIac.

[CMH]

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One word I absolutely cannot stand is entrepreneur.

I will mispronounce that word every day of my life no matter how often I try to get it right.

[UK0wnag3]

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I could talk about this for days...

I'm a grammar snob, but I have a strong Bristolian accent, which for those of you who don't know means:

I often add an "L" to words ending in a vowel, hence "area" sounds like "arial"
I often add a superfluous "to" at the end of questions - "where's he to?"
I'm really heavy with the letter "r", rhotic is the word iirc.

I've never met an American who can pronounce my name. It's "Rhys" and I've heard "ry-hus" and "rice" among others.

Aside from that, I have family members who pronounce;
Chipotle as "chi-pot-all"
Samosas as "so-mo-soes"
Enchiladas as "on-chi-lar-does"
And one of them constantly says "lay down" instead of "lie down". :

And a friend who physically can't say "plug socket" instead saying "sug plocket".

[jmood88]

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As far as not being able to say words, for whatever reason, my mouth fights itself whenever I say "rural".