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Fri Feb-20-04 02:44 PM
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Favorite Mispronunciations you have heard |
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I sell Broad Band service for a living, and over the last couple of years I've been keeping track when people mangle the word "Broad Band" or mix the term with other words. Here are my favorites:
Broad Ball
Road Band
Broadwidth Band
High Band
Broad Net
Broad Wire
High Speed Band
Broad Brand
Broad Board
Broad Guage
Wide Band
Broad Span
Broad Bait
Broad Line
Broad Land
Bride Brand
Broad Banded
High Runner
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:49 PM
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My last name gets mangled a lot.
It's Whitacre. It's pronounced exactly as it looks. There are no umlauts, silent letters, dipthongs. Wit-uh-ker. (Whit - acre is tolerable to me, although Vince would probably disagree. White-acre is not.)
My maiden name, Rosenzweig, got massacred regularly as well. It's also phoenetic -- Rose -in -swIg (I = eye). But I'd get rahz-in-wig; rosel-white; Ro-ro-um, to hell with it, Stacie.
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:55 PM
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2. "remark on this, whittaker walt" |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 02:57 PM by Richardo
Alan Arkin, The Russians Are Coming
That's what I think of whenever I see your posts, or Whitacre_D_WI's ;-)
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:59 PM
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3. An aquaintance of mine a few years back was telling me the story |
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line of a movie she had seen in which one of the characters got their head "decaffeinated".
That same person (obviously not very bright) was telling me that she was "persuing" a magazine article and came across some useful information...
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Richardo
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Fri Feb-20-04 02:59 PM
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4. A former colleague said "DER-biss" when he meant "debris" |
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...and "fruitation" when he meant "fruition".
And he wasn't trying to be funny. :eyes:
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Fri Feb-20-04 04:39 PM
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23. A friend told me about a farmer who saw a plane crash and said "derbis" |
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on TV. Now I use it all the time for a laugh.
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:16 PM
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newk-ewe-lur (My 5 year old can pronounce that correctly)
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:21 PM
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8. Jimmy Carter also mispronounced "new-kew-lurr" |
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...Fair is fair. Hell, if we even the playing field, we still win.
Or so I hope.
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GoddessOfGuinness
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:34 PM
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13. The difference between Jimmy and *, is |
Tims
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:39 PM
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he knew what it meant. He was trained as a "new-kew-lurr" engineer.
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Jeebo
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:16 PM
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6. How about "subliminable"? |
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"Misunderestimated"? "Grecians"?
C'mon folks, we're all Bush-bashers here, aren't we?
Ron
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Screaming Lord Byron
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:17 PM
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7. My mum proudly annouced to me she had just gotten Breadboard |
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:22 PM
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9. Jalepeno.... Sepulveda |
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Jalepeno - was pronounced Jap-A-leenee :shrug:
Sepulveda was SUH pool vee dah
the jalepeno one was classic.. I had to turn around so the kid working the counter at the place the lady was asking for this wouldn't laugh. It took us both a while to figure out what she was talking about.
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:23 PM
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10. I had a guy try to sell me mild and moldew cleaner one time. |
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:25 PM
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How hard is it to pronounce jewelry! Also, "fith" instead of "fifth". Some people have a bad case of lazy mouth.
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:33 PM
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12. Most people mispronounce "salmon"... |
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...they pronounce it as if it were spelled "sammon". C'mon, folks, there's an "l" in it! I pronounce the "l" and I occasionally hear somebody else do so, too.
Ron
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:44 PM
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17. most words with "alm" |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 03:47 PM by Tims
the "L" is indeed silent, including salmon. Look them up.
almond Psalm palm alms balm calm
Do you pronounce the "T" in often? There are a lot of silent letters in the English language.
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Fri Feb-20-04 08:06 PM
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28. I pronounce the "l" in all those words you mentioned... |
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...and I always have, and I know lots of people if not most do. And besides, the words you listed are not comparable to "salmon" because they all have a different "a" vowel sound. And no, I don't usually pronounce the "t" in "often", although occasionally I do.
Ron
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:39 PM
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lie-berry instead of library just to piss people off (and hear them start to correct me, like they are the great protectors of the English language or something).
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:41 PM
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16. I duck and cover whenever George W. Bush tries to say "nuclear". |
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:45 PM
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18. My father in law called Pensacola Florida PepsiCola Florida and my sister |
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in law uses Phantom instead of fathom...i.e. I cannot phantom what will happen next week when Diane hears about this.... That one drives me nuts because she thinks she is smart. :hi:
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:47 PM
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19. Woman in our office always says 'madyanna' when she leaves for the day |
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we think she's trying to say manana.
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Fri Feb-20-04 03:55 PM
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That's what my older boy called them when he was little.
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Fri Feb-20-04 04:19 PM
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21. Us haoles have a way of mangling Hawaiian place names |
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You just know someone is so new she still has stuff at baggage claim if she refers to Likelike Highway (LEE-kay-LEE-kay), running between Honolulu and Kane'ohe across the Ko'olau range, as "like-like".
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Fri Feb-20-04 04:38 PM
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It's what reprehensor calls that workout thing I do.
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Fri Feb-20-04 04:53 PM
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24. My mother pronounced "tampon" as "tampoon" |
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which made me afraid to use them for years - sounded too much like "harpoon"!
I heard a woman in a Taco Time once trying to order chimichangas: "Gimme a couple of them chimmy changlee things."
It drives me berserk when people say "prostrate" when they mean "prostate."
A woman I used to work was forever using the term "myriad." It was bad enough that she used it for anything that referred to more than two, but she pronounced it "MY RAID." Made me nuts. Look, if you can't pronounce the word, stick to "lots"!
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Fri Feb-20-04 04:57 PM
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25. A college radio announcer I worked with... |
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got all artistic and used the word "facade". But he pronounced it "fuh-KADE".
LOL
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Fri Feb-20-04 05:01 PM
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26. Self-defecating, instead of self-deprecating (humor).. |
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Oh my GOD! When I heard that once, I just could not stop laughing! Man, I cracking up right now, thinking of it!
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Fri Feb-20-04 05:02 PM
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27. Busghetti or Pasketti (for spaghetti) |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-04 05:07 PM by southpaw
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