Phrases, Words and Mispronunciations That Bother You

[olkofri]

Also people calling tuques "beanies" or "stocking caps."

Much nicer words compared to what I call them. (I can't stand those damn things.)

 

[simong]

'Innit' '110 percent' 'Lakeland Sauce' all these 'boil my piss' whenever I hear them.

 

[brian64]

Much nicer words compared to what I call them. (I can't stand those damn things.)

Funniest thing...I just had some peanut butter while wearing my stocking cap.

 

[olkofri]

Funniest thing...I just had some peanut butter while wearing my stocking cap.

If you were to wear the jar on the head you'd come closer to what I call those caps. ?

 

[kcghost]

The misuse of the "unique". Unique means the one and only. It doesn't mean a rare case or limited quantity.

 

[canucklehead]

Cite! Not site!

It comes from the word “citation”, which in Latin means “shitty car from the 80s”.

Citations were terrible cars ahaha.

 

[tobefrank]

Y'all are a grumpy bunch. I find common mispronunciations amusing, not annoying. I'm not originally from Australia so I love hearing what they call Occa Australian with it's strange and unusual sayings and pronunciations.

I also find it amusing that @cosmicfolklore often uses 'setting' instead of 'sitting'. It conjures up the idea of sitting in a very relaxed manner.

In my household mispronunciations simply become part of the language. For example, we use 'blankent' instead of 'blanket' because my daughter used to pronounce it like that. Another example is 'undiewear' for 'underwear'.

My son used to forget to pronounce the 's' or 'sch' in words, so 'school' became 'cool' and 'special' became 'pecial'. I think for a while he simply didn't hear those sounds. We frequently still pronounce words that way (well my wife does to her own great amusement).

 

[kola]

Overused phrases :

"at the end of the day..."

"epic"

"surreal"

"unprecedented"

"roll-out"

And maybe the most misspelled word in all of history (and so frequent on pipe forums);

It's tongue - not tounge, tong, tung or toung.

 

[olkofri]

Among most hated sounds: aspiring one's "t's". Be--er, advan-age, win-er... AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!

 

[edger]

Among most hated sounds: aspiring one's "t's". Be--er, advan-age, win-er... AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!

The dreaded glottal stop. I agree.

 

[Jaylotw]

Among most hated sounds: aspiring one's "t's". Be--er, advan-age, win-er... AAAAAAAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH!

That’s common here in NE Ohio to drop the “t” in some places. Not in the Cockney way...but yeah, winter is winner around here. Also the City of Mentor is NOT pronounced Men-Tor but Menner. You can always spot people from out of town by how they pronounce it. We also have Mantua...that’s pronounced “Man-Away.”

 

[Jaylotw]

I've meet enough freaks i.e. people. That I find it harder and harder to be annoyed by mispronunciations. In fact the guy I work with who sometimes talks about the covis virus entertains and bemuses me. I don't know if he thinks that's how it's pronounced or if it's his own intentional term for it. I really don't know. But I get less and less bothered about that. I honestly think it's my girlfriends fault. She's great but she is really stubborn about things. If I point out that a word is actually pronounced one way, she will not accept that. Seriously it is like if the CIA tortured you with hot sauce for years and now you find ghost peppers to have a mild tang.

Some mispronunciations are amusing and acceptable. I know an old hillbilly type who works at a state park and is really proud of the “pervillium” he built at the picnic grounds. I call pavilions per-vill-ee-ums now. Some words and things just grate though.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

For some strange reason in our house the remote control has become referred to as a “turtle tamer.” I have no idea why. But, when we have had people over for the first time, when we ask where the turtle tamer is, they know exactly what we are talking about.

 

[canucklehead]

For some strange reason in our house the remote control has become referred to as a “turtle tamer.” I have no idea why. But, when we have had people over for the first time, when we ask where the turtle tamer is, they know exactly what we are talking about.

Channel changer, turtle tamer, close enough.??

 

[kola]

In the states, many pronunciations of words are regionally-based. In my part of the Northeast we said crick (and it was specifically descriptive). A crick was smaller than a creek (just a little trickling thing) and a creek was smaller than a stream and a stream was smaller than a river. Although a creek could also be considered a stream. But most often not.

And many families from Western NY said "warsh" instead of wash. And we made fun of them (as if they were hillbillies). Those things are handed down via family generations.

For pecans? We said pee-cans and not puh cons. We thought that puh-cans was a southern thing and/or spoken by rich snobby folks.

And we still have the valley girl crap where people use the word "like" in every other word in a sentence. "So like I was driving my car, and like, this guy looks at me, and like, he like totally creeped me out, like."

"Totally." "Totally-like."

 

[ofafeather]

110 percent'

That one! “Go out there and give 110%!”

 

[kola]

just saw another one:

supppp or wasssuppppp. lol

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Chimley for chimney.. There I guy I work with. I swear everytime there is one in sight he says chimley.

 

[jmill208]

Y’all need to relax a little.

BTW, Happy ValentiMes Day tomorrow.

 

[kola]

I hear "Chim ahh nee" a lot too.