Well you gotta admit, the sound of it is really quite atrocious.
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Mispronunciations that annoy you
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Well you gotta admit, the sound of it is really quite atrocious.
itzknickknac
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Sand, Snow, Lego.. I understand those. But..
Deer (singular)
Deer (plural) ... not Deers
I accepted that this is correct, since my 11th grade teacher corrected me. But I don't get why. For the same reasons as snow and sand?
Deer (singular)
Deer (plural) ... not Deers
I accepted that this is correct, since my 11th grade teacher corrected me. But I don't get why. For the same reasons as snow and sand?
Guil-O-tine.. So I've pronounced it correctly as a kid, and everyone who corrected me has been wrong this whole time.. smh
Most of those aren't right or wrong, just the difference between US and UK English. In which case I give both of you an F for ascribing right and wrong to them.
phillipgessert
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'Should of' is not a mispronunciation. In fact it's almost specifically a correct pronunciation. It's more of a misspelling and grammar error.
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"The media is" is most certainly not correct. "media" is a Latin loanword to English and is simply the accusative plural form of "medium". As the plural, it rightly deserves the use of "are" and not "is".
"The etymologically plural form media is often used as a singular to refer to a particular means of communication, as in The Internet is the most exciting new media since television. Many people regard this usage as incorrect, preferring medium in such contexts. People also use media with the definite article as a collective term to refer not to the forms of communication themselves so much as the communities and institutions behind them. In this sense, the media means something like the press. Like other collective nouns, it may take a singular or plural verb depending on the intended meaning. If the point is to emphasize the multifaceted nature of the press, a plural verb may be more appropriate: The media have covered the trial in a variety of formats. Frequently, however, media stands as a singular noun for the aggregate of journalists and broadcasters: The media has not shown much interest in covering the trial. This development of a singular media parallels that of more established words such as data and agenda, which are also Latin plurals that have acquired a singular meaning."
(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000)
(The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, 2000)
megarockexe
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El Monte to "Ehl Monty"
Has the language degraded so far as to not even attempt to pronounce it correctly?
Has the language degraded so far as to not even attempt to pronounce it correctly?
Beyonce Beytwice
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It is "an F".
Colosseum is correct, Coliseum is dumb spelling for idiots. You don't say "colisal" instead of colossal either, do you?
Media and data are plural. One medium, plural media. One datum, plural data.
You don't even get an F but are promptly expelled forever.
Not according to Google
How do you pronounce it then?
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
It's sorta related but I still want to stab every who writes "ok" instead of "okay". This has gotten to the point where even triple A releases spell it ok in the subtitles.
That's how it's supposed to be pronounced.
RandyBobandy
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Peugeot - Anyone who says "pew-joe"
PURR-ZHO!!!!
PURR-ZHO!!!!
Screaming Meat
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Vice-a Versa.
Both are OK according to the Chicago Manual of Style.
Commanche Raisin Toast
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The 'Axe = ask' excuse doesn't fly.
Do you really think someone who utters phrases such as "why you had axed me dat?" are intentionally using it in its original ancient form? Much less it being the only word specifically they choose to use correctly at all?
No. They're mispronouncing it. Period. It's not even up for debate. Ask is both the correct spelling and pronunciation in 2014.
Do you really think someone who utters phrases such as "why you had axed me dat?" are intentionally using it in its original ancient form? Much less it being the only word specifically they choose to use correctly at all?
No. They're mispronouncing it. Period. It's not even up for debate. Ask is both the correct spelling and pronunciation in 2014.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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People who prounounce "Mario" as "Morio". A lot of americans in particular pronounce it like that and it gets right on my tits.
Mult-eye-player as well. Ugh. I've never heard anyone prounced multiple as mult-eye-ple, so why the exception in the shortened word?
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Mult-eye-player as well. Ugh. I've never heard anyone prounced multiple as mult-eye-ple, so why the exception in the shortened word?
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Fahrenheit
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Adam_Roman
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"Eck cetera" annoys me like crazy. It's like nobody's seen it spelled out as "et cetera", only as "etc."
Also, when people pronounce clothes as "close". It has a "th" in it for a reason. I pronounce it the same way as "loathes".
Also, when people pronounce clothes as "close". It has a "th" in it for a reason. I pronounce it the same way as "loathes".
What? I have never heard anyone call it Maury-O here in the states. I use MAHR-EE-O and I have heard MARE-EE-O. The MARE-EE-O version tends to bother me, but I've not once heard Morio.
megarockexe
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It's pronounced like it's supposed to be: Maury-o, to account for state-side English.
HeisenbergLannister
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Mine isn't a mispronunciation, but something that still annoys me.
This new "trend" of typing it as 5$, etc.
Just no, please stop.
This new "trend" of typing it as 5$, etc.
Just no, please stop.
timetokill
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Consider that "Colosseum" and "Coliseum" are pronounced the same way, and you'd realize you're complaining about grammatical issues and spelling differences in a thread meant to be about mispronunciations.
With this in mind, your F has been revoked and you're set to be sterilized for the sake of the future of humanity.
Dreadnought
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When people say Closent instead of Closet, or Secont instead of Second.
Well probably.
Rest
All these years later I still chuckle at what a fucking moron that guy is.
Well, when you consider that it's an intentionally misspelled acronym for all correct, and was originally O.K. or OK, there's no problem with ok. That it's become a word that you can spell okay is really quite novel.
God Dayumm
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that is how you mispronounce "purple doge"
Look! The Pie!
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Disclaimer: generally, I like Americans. However, some of your pronunciations drive me up the freaking wall.
Basil as bay-zil
Mirror as meer
Semi/Multi as sem-eye/mult-eye
Herbs as urbs
Route as rout
Not to mention your mangling of Glasgow...I'm not even Scottish, and it still riles me up.
Basil as bay-zil
Mirror as meer
Semi/Multi as sem-eye/mult-eye
Herbs as urbs
Route as rout
Not to mention your mangling of Glasgow...I'm not even Scottish, and it still riles me up.
BurnOutBrighter
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Some New Zealanders have an awful habit of saying "preformance" instead of "performance".
That's actually the correct way to say it (though more specifically it's ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, with emphasis on the last syllable. "Al-LAD-din" is Americans butchering it and it stuck because it was in a Disney movie.
That's actually the correct way to say it (though more specifically it's ʻAlāʼ ad-Dīn, with emphasis on the last syllable. "Al-LAD-din" is Americans butchering it and it stuck because it was in a Disney movie.
Well it's a french word, so technically it should be pronounced the french way. Which isn't guil-o-tine.
HORRORSHØW
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this's
BurnOutBrighter
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Sorry man, it's "gee-yoh-teen". You wouldn't say "do-VETT" for a duvet.
Irishmantis
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Jesus some of these things you people are correcting still sound the same in my accent haha, we pronounce everything arse ways
Arkos
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This isn't a mispronunciation, it's a misuse, but it drives me so bonkers:
"I'm so over this whole mispronunciation thing"
No. If you are over something, you wouldn't be talking about it. You would be "over" it. The very fact that you are wasting your (and my) time talking about it tells me that you are not, in fact, over it. I fucking hate this colloquialism so bad, I just, I'm just...
I'm over it.
"I'm so over this whole mispronunciation thing"
No. If you are over something, you wouldn't be talking about it. You would be "over" it. The very fact that you are wasting your (and my) time talking about it tells me that you are not, in fact, over it. I fucking hate this colloquialism so bad, I just, I'm just...
I'm over it.
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