Mispronounced Words: Tales of poor grammar

[mb625]

Re: Mispronounced Words: Tales of poor grammar

This thread reminds me of the video series of a guy deliberately pronouncing NBA players' names incorrectly:

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Doesn't help that the dude's voice is the most obnoxious thing I've ever heard.

[Fly3]

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Doesn't mean it's not annoying

True, but it's such a common sound that he really didn't need to tie a word to it.

It'd would be like me saying, "I hate when people pronounce 'taper' like 'TAY-puh'." That specific pronunciation of the "-er" sound is not uncommon.

[Blzer]

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As a mathematician, I'm going to say you are just nitpicking. Feet squared is perfectly fine. They are saying it as it is written and there isn't anything incorrect about it.

Yeah, but when it starts carrying into things like the students saying "tan 30 equals 5/7's" as opposed to saying "the tangent of 30 degrees is five over seven," and they start losing sight of what it is they are actually trying to do. Hell, some people will start saying "tan TIMES 30," which makes things worse that they have no ****ing clue what they're doing if they're just following syntax and not trying to understand it.

[ScoobySnax]

When people say, "supposably" instead of "supposedly." I heard it two times today.

[Fly3]

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"Periphial" for "peripheral"

[Darkleaf]

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"Take it for grant it" instead of "take it for granted" lol

[jmik58]

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"Take it for grant it" instead of "take it for granted" lol

Which reminds me of this one:

"The ghost is clear" ... as opposed to "The COAST is clear" when sneaking around a corner, etc.

[VDusen04]

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Library pronounced "li-berry"

My mentor teacher pronounced it that way and it was just completely strange, because she gave off an aura of being intelligent, confident and all that other good stuff. As such, her mispronunciation of that single word always felt terribly out of place.

[jmik58]

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Just heard someone say they were "flustrated" (as in: frustrated)

Is that a combo of flustered and frustrated?

[55]

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When people say SHOW-DURR when they mean to say shoulder.

[Bmore Irish]

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this one is probably really common and i'm sure has been mentioned in here before, but i say wood-er instead of water. a lot of people around my way say that. same with warsh instead of wash. like warshington dc lol. some others ones that i dont say but are pretty funny Baltimore accents are zink instead of sink, and pockybook as opposed to pocket book. also ewl instead of oil. plus the plethora of words that i mash together when saying them.

[55]

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A lot of people around here (including my own ******* brother) say PICKS-BURG when they try to say Pittsburgh.

Annoys me to no end.

[BurghFan]

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Just heard someone say they were "flustrated" (as in: frustrated)

Is that a combo of flustered and frustrated?

My dad said that all the time, don't think he realized it wasn't a real word either. And yeah, my best guess is that it's a combination of flustered and frustrated. When I was a senior in college I was talking to my advisor and used "flustrating" to describe how my senior project was going and he said that his advisor back when he was in college also used that word.

[ScoobySnax]

I always hear people say, "Jury" instead of "Jewelry."

[mb625]

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I hate it when people spell "should've" as "should of." As in, "I should of gone to the store but I was too lazy." NO! It's a contraction of the words SHOULD and HAVE! Why would the word of even be involved? Doesn't even make sense from a definition standpoint.