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[Nostremitus]

Pretty much anytime someone British adds an "R" to a word.

ideaR
drawRing

Not just British, some New Yorkers and Pennsylvanians tend to do it too.


I hate when people say "irregardless."

 

[SeanTSC]

I don't even know how this happened or why it's so widespread. How do you look at that word and just slap an extra 'cu' in there?

I don't know. The mangling of the word Nuclear sounds like something some Southerner did and managed to spread over TV somehow.

 

[Forsaken82]

Comparable.

COM-par-able, not com-PAIR-able, people.

I am not gonna lie... I have NEVER heard it pronounced com-PAR-able. Completely sounds wrong to me

Anyways... I cringe when people say Axe instead of Ask.

 

[Nostremitus]

I am not gonna lie... I have NEVER heard it pronounced com-PAR-able. Completely sounds wrong to me

Anyways... I cringe when people say Axe instead of Ask.

I say COM-pera-ble or COM-pra-ble

 

[BrumGB]

When I'm visiting my mothers family abroad they pronounce my name "Ian" as "Eye-Yan" or "Eye-Yon"

It's "ee- yan" goddamit!

 

[Summer Haze]

Yeh, I was going to chime in with something along those lines. For all these people who are nitpicking, never travel the UK as you will scream your head off at the accents and general butchery of our own language.

I'm from Nottingham (pronounced Not-in-um) and if I travel 1hr in almost any direction the accents can be very different to our lazy mumble - e.g. Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, etc..

Haha, you guys drop the g? I never knew that. I'm from Birmingham, we say 'Bir-ming-um' and 'Not-ing-um'.

Pretty much anytime someone British adds an "R" to a word.

ideaR
drawRing

Wut? I'm from England and I've never heard anyone add an R to idea. Which area does this? I've only ever heard it being pronounced as 'eye-dee-a'.

Edit: By "British", did you mean Scotland, Wales and Ireland also?

 

[Ourobolus]

Wut? I'm from England and I've never heard anyone add an R to idea. Which area does this? I've only ever heard it being pronounced as 'eye-dee-a'.

Edit: By "British", did you mean Scotland, Wales and Ireland also?

Sorry, I guess I just mean "English." Not sure if the Scots/Welsh/Irish do it too.
But I've definitely mostly heard it come from English.

EDIT: As examples, Russell Brand or any commentator for the World Cup are big offenders

 

[Hilbert]

I love regional variations/accents! I think they make language more exciting and fun. Surprised to see so many people complaining about what are basically regional or accented differences. Homogenized English language will make things boring.

 

[thoseAREmySHOES]

People who say "melk" when talking about "milk" sound goddamn fools.

 

[Hung Wei Lo]

My PSN name

Kinezo
It's pronounced Key-Neh-Zo, not Keen-ee-zo

 

[Nostremitus]

My PSN name

Kinezo
It's pronounced Key-Neh-Zo, not Keen-ee-zo

Looks like K'-nee-zoh or K-eye-nuh-zo to me but English is my native language and I have a southern accent.

 

[plainr_]

Pretty much anytime someone British adds an "R" to a word.

ideaR
drawRing

It's weird but I find it cute when women pronounce 'saw' with the R at the end.

 

[Kaisersalsek]

Pacifc, rather than specific. You're SERIOUSLY replacing a word for something very small with the LARGEST fucking ocean on Earth???????

fml

 

[Kaisersalsek]

Pretty much anytime someone British adds an "R" to a word.

ideaR
drawRing

ummmm whut?

I'm English and I say idea and draw-ing.

 

[Sinatar]

"Let me axe you a question?"

No... let me axe you, you dumb motherfucker.

 

[Kaisersalsek]

Sorry, I guess I just mean "English." Not sure if the Scots/Welsh/Irish do it too.
But I've definitely mostly heard it come from English.

EDIT: As examples, Russell Brand or any commentator for the World Cup are big offenders

Russell Brand cannot speak English. His accent is abysmal. Please don't attribute anything that comes out of his mouth with anything to do with the rest of us

 

[Kaisersalsek]

Yeh, I was going to chime in with something along those lines. For all these people who are nitpicking, never travel the UK as you will scream your head off at the accents and general butchery of our own language.

I'm from Nottingham (pronounced Not-in-um) and if I travel 1hr in almost any direction the accents can be very different to our lazy mumble - e.g. Birmingham, Sheffield, Leeds, etc..

Nottingham is pronounced Not-ting-hum (with a very soft h). Not Not-in-um. Unless you're really lazy.

I'm from Derbyshire, but spent a while in Nottingham, now live in Leicester. The Leicester accent is god awful.

 

[NerdEyeBlind]

Not really a mispronunciation but its riles me up when people say:

"Can you borrow me five dollars?"

 

[Sinatar]

Not really a mispronunciation but its riles me up when people say:

"Can you borrow me five dollars?"

Ugh, this is usually preceded by 'Hey can I axe you a favour?'

 

[DECK'ARD]

Not really a mispronunciation but its riles me up when people say:

"Can you borrow me five dollars?"

Just reading that makes me twitch.

I always wonder how these things start. There has to be a patient zero who said it first and then it spreads.

 

[LiK]

Often.

 

[sethcheek]

Lol

I live in the Midwest so everyone pronounces "chipotle" as "chee-pol-tay" makes me cringe so hard

Amen.. Given, it's not an English word, so I could see "chih-POH-tul" or something like that, but how do people see that word and decide the "L" should be pronounced before the "T"?

 

[Ourobolus]

ummmm whut?

I'm English and I say idea and draw-ing.

Russell Brand cannot speak English. His accent is abysmal. Please don't attribute anything that comes out of his mouth with anything to do with the rest of us

He's just a prominent one that I can think of off the top of my head.

Regardless, it may just be a regional thing in England, but I'm not making up its existence.

http://dialectblog.com/2011/09/10/intrusive-r/

 

[Nostremitus]

Often.

Yep, the T is silent.

 

[Beyonce Beytwice]

Pokémon.

I hate it when people incorrectly say "Pokeymahn" instead of Pokaymon.

 

[Nostremitus]

Pokémon.

I hate it when people incorrectly say "Pokeymahn" instead of Pokaymon.

Oh, please don't open that can of worms...




Oh, and I love this... I don't know if it's been posted yet.
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/mispron.html

 

[demon]

Pokémon.

I hate it when people incorrectly say "Pokeymahn" instead of Pokaymon.

I pronounce it pokey-mon mainly because it rolls off the tongue easier, and because it's Pokémon and I don't give a shit.

 

[Sinatar]

Pokémon.

I hate it when people incorrectly say "Pokeymahn" instead of Pokaymon.

Pockate Monsters?

 

[SecretMoblin]

Oh, and I love this... I don't know if it's been posted yet.
http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/mispron.html

blech, some of these "corrections" are more obnoxious and annoying than the supposedly offending pronunciations... a lot of these don't even require correcting, as it's just how people talk in normal, rapid speech

"bidness" is amazing and packed with flavor, why anyone would want to do away with it is beyond me

"chomping at the bit" has been fine in educated speech and writing for a long time

"that's his fort-AY" is probably the more common pronunciation now

etc.


Some of these are lots of fun, though! English is great.

 

[Beyonce Beytwice]

Pockate Monsters?

é is pronounced ay.

 

[NeoGiff]

Gur-nade.

It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled! GRE-NADE

 

[Nostremitus]

blech, some of these "corrections" are more obnoxious and annoying than the supposedly offending pronunciations... a lot of these don't even require correcting, as it's just how people talk in normal, rapid speech

"bidness" is amazing and packed with flavor, why anyone would want to do away with it is beyond me

"chomping at the bit" has been fine in educated speech and writing for a long time

"that's his fort-AY" is probably the more common pronunciation now

etc.


Some of these are lots of fun, though! English is great.

I also think that some of them are directly related to the writer being Australian as well.

 

[SecretMoblin]

Good point!

 

[Kaisersalsek]

well, I just heard some republican dude say CHa-sam (instead of chasm) and giyyotine instead of guillotine. sigh.

 

[Kaisersalsek]

oh, and mOnga instead of manga. it's manga. read the frickin' Japanese correctly.

rant over.

 

[Bobs Big Boy]

Warshington. As a Warshingtonian it gets to me a lot.

 

[H2Yo]

Not so much a mispronounciation.

Addicting. The word is addictive. If you use addicting you should be ashamed of yourself.

THIS!

 

[DoubleTap]

His name is Andrew Zimmern. Not Zimmerman.

 

[RytGear]

A friend of mine says Onematop(wee-ah) instead of (Pee-ah)

 

[cwmartin]

well, I just heard some republican dude say CHa-sam (instead of chasm) and giyyotine instead of guillotine. sigh.

Wait... How do I say 'guillotine'?

 

[H2Yo]

Americans spell and pronounce Solder as Sodder.

 

[cwmartin]

ghee-uh-teen?

 

[Kaisersalsek]

Guil-O-tine: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/guillotine_2#


same with chorizo. it's cho-ri-zo. Not Choritho. Unless you're Spanish. God that irritates me.

Edit: this thread seems to have uncovered a deep hatred that I appear to have

 

[decaf]

Niche, there was a thread on this.

TeamNeesh not TeamNitch

.

 

[Rest]

Or Legos.

There's no such goddamn thing as Legos.

One piece is a Lego, a group of them are Legos.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Could care less makes me want to pour bleach into my ears.

 

[Faiz]

Conversate.

No. NO. These nonstandard back-formations need to stop.

Not conversate. It's CONVERSE.

 

[Beyonce Beytwice]

"Aluminum" instead of Aluminium
"Coliseum" instead of Colosseum
"Should of" instead of Should have
"The media is" instead of The media are
"The data shows" instead of The data show

 

[Nostremitus]

"Aluminum" instead of Aluminium
"Coliseum" instead of Colosseum
"Should of" instead of Should have
"The media is" instead of The media are
"The data shows" instead of The data show

You lost me at aluminum. That's not a mispronunciation. That's actually how it's spelled here.

 

[UraMallas]

I'll call it a flashlight when I see it flash, mate. I like a torch to provide a constant beam of light

It's funny you say that because they are flashlights exactly because they can flash. The are on and off 'in a flash', I.e. Flashlight. Torches do, in fact, provide constant light. Flashlights do not. What you have described is a stone light: a constantly flashing light.