Phrases, Words and Mispronunciations That Bother You

[tobefrank]

There is a local government area in Perth called the City of Cockburn. They have decided that Cockburn should be pronounced 'co burn' perhaps understandably.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Indeed we did! Not that I'm a good example?. I'm from London and I'm always saying 'ave instead of have.

You 'ave gotta be kiddin'! My son and I refer to Harry Kane as 'Arry. Same with one of the Royals—(though not to his face.....)

BTW- Did you ever see some of the Mike Myers on SNL doing a slightly berserk older Scot.
"C'mon, love, give us a kiss!" As he headbutts the fellow, often his "son". (IIRC)

His tag line: "If it's not Scottish, its CRAP!"

 

[jpmcwjr]

The way New Yorkers pronounce coffee blows my mind.

Cawffe

?

Yuppers; for years at the Deli on way to work I was asked if I wanted my Cwaffee "Regulah.

 

[olkofri]

All in all, annoying phrases, words, and mispronounciations aren't nearly as vexing as acronyms for everything. ??

 

[jpmcwjr]

Still, it doesn't explain away the grievous wound of "shedule" or "jag-u-war", offenses which place a great stain upon a great nation.

In any event that's better than many in the West who say "Jag-wire"!

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yuppers; for years at the Deli on way to work I was asked if I wanted my Cwaffee "Regulah".

And my attempt at phonetic spelling is how I heard it at that place in lower Manhattan. They had the very best bialy(s) I've ever had.

 

[jpmcwjr]

All in all, annoying phrases, words, and mispronounciations aren't nearly as vexing as acronyms for everything. ??

WTF?! It's SOP,IRRC. FUBAR i.a.e!

 

[Jaylotw]

Yuppers; for years at the Deli on way to work I was asked if I wanted my Cwaffee "Regulah.

Was that on Lawn Guyland?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Wall Street. But most of the staff lived on Lon Gisland, the near boroughs.

 

[Merton]

Not a pronounciation but a phrase: he or she "is good people"

 

[coming to_falling too]

All in all, annoying phrases, words, and mispronounciations aren't nearly as vexing as acronyms for everything. ??

Lol

 

[Chasing Embers]

In any event that's better than many in the West who say "Jag-wire"!

Anyone pronouncing the j and g hard are doing it wrong as well.

 

[canucklehead]

Anyone pronouncing the j and g hard are doing it wrong as well.

A Hajwar? ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

A Hajwar? ?

More like HA•war with the g nearly silent.

 

[jrharrigan]

"Begs the question," which does not me "causes us to ask the question" at all.

 

[Mr.Mike]

When people say "important" with a "d" instead of a "t". Drives me crazy!

 

[whiteburleydude]

Tony Romo said "Xspecially" like 10 times during the Super Bowlt this year. Luckily, only 100 million people were watching.

 

[mawnansmiff]

"Still, it doesn't explain away the grievous wound of "shedule" or "jag-u-war", offenses which place a great stain upon a great nation."

When I bought my Tudor Pelagos watch I viewed a few Youtube videos of the watch, all were American. What tickled me was the pronunciation of 'Tudor'. Some said "too~da", some said "too~door" but none got it right as "tew~da".

Reminds me of Jay Leno talking of his prized "Boo~gady" car collection

Regards,

Jay.?

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Aluminium

Yeah, but English keyboards don't have all those glyphs. By the time I finish fishing the right ones in the Character Map the gin will have evaporated from my glass. Faster to use quotation marks and normal letters.

I would say that this is a problem unique to English speaking people, everyone should be familiar with setting up multiple languages on a keyboard, problem is I can't find an IPA layout for the keyboard on my iPad so I guess Apple thinks it's more important for people to be able to use 50 keys worth of Emoji's instead of typing phonetically.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

Perhaps I’m a Luddite, but people who use decimate when they mean devastate really annoy me. “The town was decimated by a tornado? Oh that’s a relief! Only 10%. That’s better than it being devastated.”
Completely decimated is even more annoying.