Pronunciations that irk you

[MonkeyV]

Is there any word that your hear people pronouncing funny all the time that just annoys the hell out of you?

For me, it's Nevada. Anybody who doesn't live here seems to pronounce it like a Brit (Nevauda?)

What pronunciations annoy you?

[Irrelephant]

At 11/29/08 01:04 PM, MonkeyV wrote: Is there any word that your hear people pronouncing funny all the time that just annoys the hell out of you?

For me, it's Nevada. Anybody who doesn't live here seems to pronounce it like a Brit (Nevauda?)

What pronunciations annoy you?

I know exactly what you mean. They give Nevada the "ah" sound. It pisses me off.

[xports]

Anybody that says "Jersey" with a northern accent. It's JERSEY not JOISIE!

[reviewer-general]

The pronunciation of "pronunciation".

People make the "un" into an "oun". Bothers me.

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[TightRope]

How is it pronounced, Nuh-vah-duh?

[MonkeyV]

At 11/29/08 01:06 PM, TightRope wrote: How is it pronounced, Nuh-vah-duh?

A as in "at"

[Irrelephant]

At 11/29/08 01:06 PM, TightRope wrote: How is it pronounced, Nuh-vah-duh?

Neh
vad(rhymes with add)
uh

[jack231]

i'm sorry,but neh-veh-duh just sounds retarded.

[MonkeyV]

At 11/29/08 01:10 PM, jack231 wrote: i'm sorry,but neh-veh-duh just sounds retarded.

What? Nobody pronounces it like that.

*sobs*

[TheSilverGuitar]

"Door."

I keep wanting to call it "Duur."

[TightRope]

At 11/29/08 01:08 PM, Headshot777 wrote:

At 11/29/08 01:06 PM, TightRope wrote: How is it pronounced, Nuh-vah-duh?

Neh
vad(rhymes with add)
uh

Oh fuck that, Neh-vadd-uh just sounds stupid! NUH-VAH-DUH FOR LIFE!

[Jackotrades]

At 11/29/08 01:13 PM, TheSilverGuitar wrote: "Door."

I keep wanting to call it "Duur."

same here....I believe its due to my Boston accent....though im not from boston nor havent been there....

for the LAST TIME im not from boston!

[Kyothine]

At 11/29/08 01:13 PM, TheSilverGuitar wrote: "Door."

I keep wanting to call it "Duur."

I lol'd.

For me, I find it annoying when someone pronounces something like "Pay-per" as "Pay-pa" ON PURPOSE. I can understand if you have an accent, but a couple of girls at my school make it sound like "Pay-PA", in an annoying prissy tone. I can't describe it.

[CefyJr]

There is this one person on the schoolannouncements that always pronounces "library" as "Lie-berry."

[gamerpeepinpa]

Nucleus. People keep pronouncing it as "New-kyoo-lus"

Either that, or drawing. People tend to an an extra L after the W.

[El-Duego]

"ne-va-da"

[Noobivore]

when people say wash like "warsh"
there is no fucking R

[Elder]

Harro.

[gamerpeepinpa]

Oh, and Lancaster. People tend to accentuate the second syllable. It's "Lang-kis-ter," not "Lank-ASS-ter."

[thejuicer123]

Colorado. People always say (Colorohdoh), it's (ColorADo) ffs!

[lebhockey7]

Worcester, Mass = Wooster.
I HATE IT :D

[Lambinvoker]

What annoys me the most is self rightious people that think whatever the way they pronounce something is the "correct" way. Everyone speaks differently for a reason: it's called dialect. Try going anywhere else beyond your hometown and listen for a little while.

[InsertFunnyUserName]

When my dad pronounces words like human and humidity without the h.

So, it's like uman.

[Sensationalism]

I can't think of the word I wanted to say right now. I 'll try to think of something else.
Okay, Oregon. It's like only people FROM Oregon pronounce it correctly.

[tigerkitty]

At 11/29/08 01:43 PM, Noobivore wrote: when people say wash like "warsh"
there is no fucking R

That's the one I was going to say... drives me nuts.

Also, people saying ruff (like rough) instead of roof.

[CptBonbon]

Most english spellings and pronunciation that the Americans have corrupted...

its aluMINIUM!!! MINIUM!! NOT ALUMINUM, ALUMINIUM!!!!

[tigerkitty]

At 11/29/08 03:27 PM, CptBonbon wrote: Most english spellings and pronunciation that the Americans have corrupted...

its aluMINIUM!!! MINIUM!! NOT ALUMINUM, ALUMINIUM!!!!

Technically, in America, it's aluminum according to the American Chemical Association.

And get off your damn high horse about having some sort of unblemished language just because you're British. English is a composite language with so many influences and variations that it just make you sound beyond absurd when you claim that Americans have corrupted it in some way.

[HolyTomato]

I hate it when people say Pee-can for pecan...it just gets under my skin

[CptBonbon]

At 11/29/08 03:36 PM, tigerkitty wrote:

At 11/29/08 03:27 PM, CptBonbon wrote: Most english spellings and pronunciation that the Americans have corrupted...

its aluMINIUM!!! MINIUM!! NOT ALUMINUM, ALUMINIUM!!!!

Technically, in America, it's aluminum according to the American Chemical Association.

And get off your damn high horse about having some sort of unblemished language just because you're British. English is a composite language with so many influences and variations that it just make you sound beyond absurd when you claim that Americans have corrupted it in some way.

But, but... I I wasnt on m high horse, I wouldnt have such an awesome view of American faggotry...

The english language has been relatively unchanged for a long time, and it is, granted, a mesh of many influences, but it stablalised into quens english a long time ago, and also, that was at the begining of the language. America took our language (with them as colonials) and inhabited America with it (and other Euro languages, but English was easily the most dominant.) Then, for no apparent reason, changed it...

Phospherous, Aluminium, colour and grey.That is correct english. American english has no reason for existance...

[ZpLiNtEh]

At 11/29/08 03:44 PM, Twilight95 wrote: Aluminum.

I hate it when people say "I can't say it right! See, 'UH LUM I NUM'."

Rather easy: Uh-Loo-Mee-Num.

?

That's how you yanks say it?

That's odd.

We say it "al-yoo-min-ee-um"

Sounds right in an english accent, whereas the american version sounds downright weird, guess it's the same vice versa.