One word you can not pronounce correctly

[Hillbilly Deluxe]

It either makes me roll my eyes or makes me laugh when people say these:


Wal-marks
Krogerzzz
Aldizzz
Lie Berry
Ideal, Ideals (for idea)
Supposeblee
Wersher (for washing machine) (Ohio/Michigan/Western NY)

 

[tyman]

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.

Bobby Sue Anne, go get me a can of erl off the shalf

 

[97prizm]

Caricature.

Was your mother British? They pronounce aluminum and schedule funny.

And garage. I have a heck.of a time with the British broadcaster that provides commentary on the Weathertech series. Garage doesn't and shouldn't rhyme with carriage.

 

[64bawagon]

Up here everyone adds an S at the ends of store and product names. Meijer is Meijers, Kroger is Krogers, Subway is Subways and on and ons.

 

[Pablo]

Up here everyone adds an S at the ends of store and product names. Meijer is Meijers, Kroger is Krogers, Subway is Subways and on and ons.

Why do folks do this? Kinda old timey like

 

[wpod]

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

My daughter prounounces Dachsund , Wiener dog.

 

[wpod]

Why do folks do this? Kinda old timey like

Walmart , Walmart's belongs to Walmart. I tried.

 

[Pablo]

Like my grandpa said "Monkeywards"

 

[Just a civilian pilot]

Mobile 1.

Keep pronouncing it Mobil 1.

 

[wpod]

Like my grandpa said "Monkeywards"

I did the same , most everyone did.

 

[GSCJR]

Pirates of the....

Care-a-bee-an
Carib-eean

My phone plan does not have unlimited....

Dat-ah
Day-ta

 

[fantastic]

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.

I always said Molee ba denem or if you can pull it off better with Molee but denem.

 

[k1xv]

A lot of people think a "Cummins diesel" is a "Cummings diesel".

They both spell and say it wrong.

 

[fsdork]

It's interesting that this thread began with OP's introspection, and quickly evolved into external criticism.

I'm perfect and can't think of anything I mispronounce, but that's not the point.

 

[walterjay]

I used to always say Bawltimore. Took me years to say Baltimore

 

[Toy4x4]

Off the top of my head: Marlboro used to tongue tie me.

 

[k1xv]

A lot of people cannot pronounce the Massachusetts city, Worcester. Its pronounced locally as "Wuster". Not "Wooster" or "Wor-chester".

And in New Jersey, Newark is "new-ark". Some just say "Nork".

 

[SevenBizzos]

Rural

Just can't do it. Even when I slow down.

 

[Claud]

I been on this earth close to four decades and one word I still can not pronounce correctly is ignorance. I try to sound it out and speak it slowly but I always screw it up. My mother couldn’t pronounce Aluminum correctly.

No American can pronounce aluminium properly, or spell it correctly either!

 

[Finklejag]

She puts a D in there somewhere.