The Mispronunciations Thread

[6Foot2]

Following on from these contributions:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5QFox8itY4

 

FTPFY (Fixed That Pronunciation for You)

Start a new thread re mispronounciations perhaps?

In Amusing things overheard in school

 

I have started this thread.

 

[DalekSec]

Bath is pronounced 'Baff' FYI

[RichCowell]

Not in schools, but I've been meaning to search to see if anyone's commented before about pronunciations of EduGeek... it always makes me laugh when I hear people say it oddly...

I remember at a Lancs Techies meeting that @Dos_Box used to be involved with years ago, someone pronounced it EeDooGeek... then at BETT last month I heard someone say it as E.D.U. Geek!

 

I didn't correct either, just laughed quietly to myself!

[witch]

Hmm

Still read "Quay" wrongly - and I live 3 miles from Poole Quay!

Archi-pel-ago was always Ar-chip-el-A-go when I was younger

Chloe was Chole

Penelope was Pen-e-lope

I'm sure there are more

 

I know someone who talks about a Pavola rather than a Pavlova

An old friend of my mum's used to go on holiday to Gwynedd in Wales, and it didn't matter HOW many times my mum, whose name was Gywneth, told her how to pronounce it, she just didn't get it

[Seb1780]

Can't have this thread without this Ronnie Barker - Mispronunciation Sketch

 

Edited February 8, 2017 by elsiegee40
Embedded YouTube link

[3s-gtech]

Nvidia. They even used to have the game splash screens pronounce it - envid-E-a. Obviously not a real word, but I've heard:

 

nevid-E-a

envidina

enveena

and variations thereof. Maybe just stick to 'GeForce' or buy an AMD card instead.

[unixman_again]

Anybody here know IPA? (It's not a beer BTW.) Pronunciations are almost impossible to articulate without IPA.

[RichCowell]

Anybody here know IPA? (It's not a beer BTW.) Pronunciations are almost impossible to articulate without IPA.

 

It's something I've always fancied learning... Not got round to it yet though...

[howartp]

Anybody here know IPA? (It's not a beer BTW.) Pronunciations are almost impossible to articulate without IPA.

 

I always thought that was the Alpha, Bravo, Charlie... alphabet - but it appears that's the NATO phonetic alphabet which is different. :S

 

I know that one, but I don't know the IPA linked above.

[korifugi]

One that I always find pronounced wrong (being a tabletop roleplayer... no, not that kind - stop sniggering at the back) is "Chitin".

 

The group I'm with spent an absolute age pronouncing it "Chi-tin", rather than the correct "Kai-tin". I notice other roleplayers have a tendency to go with the phonetic pronunciation.

[Garacesh]

My housemate refers to epitome as 'eppy-tome' instead of 'e-pit-o-me'. Similarly, hyperbole is 'hyper-bowl'.

 

@witch Admittedly I still read Quay as 'kway', but it does always register milliseconds afterwards that it's 'key'

@korifugi Yeah, as an ex-nids player I always read it as 'chi-tin'. Don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce it any other way.

[6Foot2]

As a child, my cousin would mispronounce many words. The ones I recall now are:

 

Jovish (Joseph, my younger brother)

Lapping bang (Elastic band)

 

There are many others. If I recall more I will post then in this thread.

 

This was not a speech impediment, nor a play on the words. She really thought that she was pronouncing them correctly.

[DJ-1701]

How to you pronouce Reading? Is it Reading or Reading?

 

Seriously though heard Cirencester pronouced Sir-en-stir in stead of, the correct, Ci-ren-ces-ter.

[sted]

its quite funny hearing Americans(and probably others but thats the ones that stick out) try to pronounce Worcestershire sauce

[DJ-1701]

its quite funny hearing Americans(and probably others but thats the ones that stick out) try to pronounce Worcestershire sauce

... or Edinburgh (as Eding-borrow)???!!!!

[LeMarchand]

... or Edinburgh (as Eding-borrow)???!!!!

 

 

...or solder. They don't seem to notice the "l".

[korifugi]

its quite funny hearing Americans(and probably others but thats the ones that stick out) try to pronounce Worcestershire sauce

 

Leicestershire & Loughborough

 

I've heard Americans pronounce them as Lie-cess-ter-shire & Loo-gah-ba-roo-gah respectively.

[DJ-1701]

Leicestershire & Loughborough

 

I've heard Americans pronounce them as Lie-cess-ter-shire & Loo-gah-ba-roo-gah respectively.

 

Lord help them when it comes to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll.

[6Foot2]

Lord help them when it comes to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlll.

Obligatory: Liam Dutton pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch correctly:

 

[DJ-1701]

Obligatory: Liam Dutton pronouncing Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch correctly:

 

 

Apparently it's called Llanfair P.G. for short on the trains.

[zebulunn]

Leicestershire & LoughboroughI've heard Americans pronounce them as Lie-cess-ter-shire & Loo-gah-ba-roo-gah respectively.

Luffbra innit!

 

When I was younger I used to enjoy watching the 'Grand pricks' on a Sunday until my parents told me otherwise.

[DJ-1701]

When I was younger I used to enjoy watching the 'Grand pricks' on a Sunday until my parents told me otherwise.

 

Aren't they on Amazon Prime now?

[6Foot2]

Luffbra innit!

 

When I was younger I used to enjoy watching the 'Grand pricks' on a Sunday until my parents told me otherwise.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn5kPnTsR1I

[localzuk]

I still can't read Yosemite without reading it as yose-mite.

[Scifigirl]

Leicestershire & Loughborough

 

I've heard Americans pronounce them as Lie-cess-ter-shire & Loo-gah-ba-roo-gah respectively.

 

If its Americans try Houston.....