Mispronunciations

Mr Marston · 21-10-2010 02:14AM #1

Anyone ever have any words that you may have read a hundred times, only to find one day in conversation that you have been saying it wrong in your head for years?

Happened me the other day; hyperbole. I thought it was "hyper-bowl". Felt like an idiot when corrected. Another one that happened me. I was in America and I was talking to some chap and I said I'd love to go to "Yoze-might" one day. He said he'd never heard of it but there was another spectacular national park called Yosemite that I should go to. I copped my mistake and decided not to inform him of it.

A friend of mine was trying to say something was the epitome of something. "Epi-tome" he said.

So... anyone else got any examples? Might save me from doing it again.

amacachi · 21-10-2010 02:16AM

"Ask" is pronounced as it's spelled, there's no reason to swap the last two letters when saying it.

old_aussie · 21-10-2010 02:18AM

Never heard of Yozemite, but i have heard of

Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States

recylingbin · 21-10-2010 02:18AM

Mr Marston wrote: »

Happened me the other day; hyperbole.

Er, you were right.

KeithM89_old · 21-10-2010 02:19AM

How hard is it to say 'hospital' right?? its not 'hostible' :mad:

Saila · 21-10-2010 02:21AM

KeithM89 wrote: »

How hard is it to say 'hospital' right?? its not 'hostible' :mad:

it is when your 4 though

abouttobebanned · 21-10-2010 02:21AM

recylingbin wrote: »

Er, you were right.

Hi-per-bo-lay

mojesius · 21-10-2010 02:21AM

I'm always confused about 'issue'. Is it pronounced ish-ue or iss-ue? RTE news presenters say iss-ue, but I'm wondering if that's just for the sake of being pretentious. I say ish-ue, the way you say tissue. Is that roysh?

Saila · 21-10-2010 02:22AM

paging grammer police, come in her.

Neadine · 21-10-2010 02:24AM

Frequently hear people talking and use the word pacific instead of specific, really bugs me. Also have a bit of a pet peeve in relation to bad grammar.

Have occasionally started reading a thread and clicked out because of poor grammar :eek:

Maybe I was an English teacher in a previous life!

Mr Marston · 21-10-2010 02:24AM

old_aussie wrote: »

Never heard of Yozemite, but i have heard of

Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States

Ahh, thinking in phonetics got the better of me.

Fixed.

mikemac · 21-10-2010 02:24AM

vay ick el

Seems fine to me but others do it differently

Ren old instead of Ren o

Solphadeine

recylingbin · 21-10-2010 02:25AM

abouttobebanned wrote: »

Hi-per-bo-lay

Misread.
Thought he was saying hyperbole was incorrect spelling and hyperbowl was correct.

Time for be methinks

abouttobebanned · 21-10-2010 02:26AM

Sweet dreams kiddo

Sardonicat · 21-10-2010 02:29AM

Hang Sangwidge?

Used to pronounce epitome "eppy-tome" as a runnig joke when a teenager. But it became so ingrained I forgot that it was the wrong pronunciation. Left red faced, a few times.

Was at a poetry reading once years ago, full of arty-farty gob****es who pretended to "dig" it all. But their bluff was called when the proprietor of the place hosting the event qouted Wilde's "Ballad of Reading Goal" and no-one copped it. To make matters worse, he pronounced "Reading" as in reading a book.

Hate the way Jo Frost pronounces acceptable "assceptable" "That behaviour is NOT assceptable, onto the naughty step!"

amacachi · 21-10-2010 02:29AM

KeithM89 wrote: »

How hard is it to say 'hospital' right?? its not 'hostible' :mad:

I don't know if you're from Dundalk or just got here recently and it's driving you mad already. :pac:
Another classic in Dundalk is adding a D or a T to the end of "cousin".

Neadine · 21-10-2010 02:32AM

Sardonicat wrote: »

Hate the way Jo Frost pronounces acceptable "assceptable" "That behaviour is NOT assceptable, onto the naughty step!"

Oh, yes. Don't watch it very often but the first time I noticed I sat there for ages after waiting for her to say it again, just to confirm that I wasn't hearing things. Really annoying. How could you get that wrong?

Doc · 21-10-2010 02:35AM

I have heard specifically pronounced Pacificlly quite a few times recently by different people.

KeithM89_old · 21-10-2010 02:36AM

amacachi wrote: »

I don't know if you're from Dundalk or just got here recently and it's driving you mad already. :pac:
Another classic in Dundalk is adding a D or a T to the end of "cousin".

Here since birth (sadly) - i could fill a book with all the stuff you hear in Dundalk
"Watcha awwwn about??" (what are you on about)

"if yiz fall of da wall n break ur leg, dont cuming running 2 me"

Sardonicat · 21-10-2010 02:36AM

Doc wrote: »

I have heard specifically pronounced Pacificlly quite a few times recently by different people.

Can you be more Pacific, Doc?

up for anything · 21-10-2010 02:41AM

Illuminous instead of luminous. For example, she was wearing an illuminous yellow dress. Gah!

Sardonicat · 21-10-2010 02:44AM

Ownded instead of owned.

policarp · 21-10-2010 03:02AM

Malapropisms are mispronounciated...

Esel · 21-10-2010 03:48AM

Neadine wrote: »

Frequently hear people talking and use the word pacific instead of specific, really bugs me.

Doc wrote: »

I have heard specifically pronounced Pacificlly quite a few times recently by different people.

Some people have a problem saying words beginning with 'sp'. It's not a mispronounciation thing really, imo.

Best one is 'peculate' - it's a separate word meaning 'embezzle'....