One word you can not pronounce correctly

[thastinger]

"parfait"...always ends up with an L in it

 

[walterjay]

My father always called a sink a zinc.

And President Kennedy always called Cuba Cuber.

 

[RitcheyRch]

Those little hot dog dogs that kinda sounds like Datsun. I can’t spell it either.

Just call them a wiener dog. We have one.

https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/dachshund/

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

Alkylated Naphthalene
^ Alkylated. No "n" in there, like alkynated?

Also.. Jaguar. For me, it's how Pink Floyd say it when he says "He loved to drive in his Jaguar. So welcome to the machine.."

 

[Leo99]

For me it's "serendipitous" - but I'm German, so I got some leeway there.

I hear that Germans have a lot of trouble pronouncing "squirrel".

 

[Leo99]

Those little hot dog dogs that kinda sounds like Datsun. I can’t spell it either.

A friend of mine has one and pronounces it Dash-hound. I don't think that's correct.

 

[Kira]

1) Molybdenum disulfide came up. A soft edged person corrected me. "It's MOLLY-BENDUM", he said with authority stupidly.

2) My dad couldn't pronounce Tom Seaver (Mets pitcher). It came out "Seavers" every time. Those errors (no pun) are different, more misspeaking than mispronunciation.

3) A guy from long ago who wouldn't correct "LYE-Berry" for 'library' bothered me after a while.

 

[Barkleymut]

Family member (who is a car guy) calls Michelin - Mitch Lynn

 

[RitcheyRch]

A friend of mine has one and pronounces it Dash-hound. I don't think that's correct.

daak·snd

 

[Slow Car Sport Mode]

People from Boston don't say "Law" they say "Lar." As in "Lar Enforcement" or "Lawr Enforcement." At least on the South Shore they do...

And then there's the word Homage. I, like most I know, pronounce the H and say Homage. Then a Bruce Willis movie comes out about 14 years ago and I sometimes wonder if it is in fact pronounced with just the O, the H being silent.

And then of course.. how do you pronounce Gstaad, as in Gstaad, Saanen, Switzerland

 

[Kira]

^^Reminds me of....
When I lived in Connecticut, a "drawer" was pronounced "draw".
In fact, the Sears & Roebuck ads for tool chests said "...3 draw chest" IN PRINT.

 

[michaelluscher]

It's a German word for Dual Clutch transmission (Porsche PDK)
Sometimes it's an accent/regional issue
I'll take a CAWFEE and a glass of WAUUDER
Difficult on the hard of hearing, almost impossible for those who are new to the English language

Anyone from Baltimore around here?
Aaron earned an iron urn

 

[Jim K]

"Cheap" . I can not go to a store and pronounce cheap.

 

[mattwithcats]

Crinimal…

 

[Pablo]

I have tackled a few languages, and many nouns forgotten. Mandarin, Spanish, Brasil Portuguese, Italian, a little Japanese, high school German, etc

But something about Hawaiian words. I mean wahine, aloha, mahalo all flow really easy but......then let's add some time references to our greeting, just for example.

Aloha kakahiaka: Pronounced a-lo-ha kah-kah-hee-yah-kah
Aloha awakea: Pronounced a-loh-ha av-ah-kay-ah
Aloha 'auinalā: Pronounced a-loh-ha ah-wee-na-lah
Aloha ahiahi: Pronounced a-loh-ha a-hee-yah-hee

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Our dad never did pronounce "column" correctly despite being told how it was pronounced many,many times. Col yoom it was.

 

[tyman]

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"Wash your sister sauce"

 

[tyman]

My mother's word was "Chipotle" like the pepper and restaurant. She always said, "chi-pol-tay."



I miss that

 

[Hillbilly Deluxe]

I was raised it the South.

The word is Oil.

No one raised in the South (uhh, Atlanta and similar places where 60%+ of the area is comprised of folks that "moved down here" is not made up of Southerners) can properly pronounce the word Oil.

 

[PF52]

An amazing number of folks cannot pronounce "nuclear",

They say "noo-Q-larr" Its "new-klee-arr"

Including Jimmy Carter.... Thus proving one doesn't have to pronounce it correctly to get a nuclear submarine named after themself.