What words do you (or someone you know) say incorrectly...?

[Ketlane]

I was on a First Aid course years back which offered sustificates....

[DalekSec]

My tech says 'pacific' instead of 'specific' and it drives me bonkers, if that counts?

 

PTSD intensifies

[LukeRowberry]

An ex colleague used to pronounce the auto build names from sccm as min-int instead of mini-nt

[free780]

Kerberos I struggle with comes out as Kerbros. I also end up typing folder, fodler. Microsoft also gets typed as Microsft . SQL is it Squeel? Or Seek Queen ?

[sigma]

I was on a First Aid course years back which offered sustificates....

 

My paternal grandparents used to say that!

[3s-gtech]

Kerberos I struggle with comes out as Kerbros. I also end up typing folder, fodler. Microsoft also gets typed as Microsft . SQL is it Squeel? Or Seek Queen ?

 

administartor

 

Best reason to not use that account? Screw security - it’s because it’s a **** to type.

 

Still hear people calling SQL ‘sequel’. I get it, I guess, but…it make you sound very, very old!

[smurfomatic]

administartor

 

Best reason to not use that account? Screw security - it’s because it’s a **** to type.

 

Still hear people calling SQL ‘sequel’. I get it, I guess, but…it make you sound very, very old!

 

On many occasions, typing the word "account" too quickly has resulted in the o and the second c changing places - and often that's set off the swear filter!

[GrumbleDook]

Having to deal with both slypexia and roticity, I have done some fun ones over the years. Having had a very broad scouse accent as a kid hasn't helped either.

 

As a young and innocent child, on a camping trip in Yorkshire, we were short of pegs to hold onto the ropes. I was given a few quid and sent to the camp shop.

 

In I trot, wait my turn and eventually get to the front of the queue. I struggle to understand the deep, Yorkshire voice of the bloke serving and eventually I manage to ask for the tent pegs.

In a high pitched scouse accent that comes out as "Tenpex" ... and after some discussion behind the counter I am passed ... a box of Tampax. Being too embarrassed I go back to the tent and explain to my Mum .... and she and my older brother roll around on the floor laughing. In years to come, my eldest brother (a different one) was my best man ... and in the wedding speech he mentions this ... and so the laughing continued.

 

I also say spare and spur the same, and avoid many words that have a strong r in them ... A team needs to gain a high position in the table, rather than saying they need to improve their rank ... as I am sure you can guess the problem!

[Koldov]

As a young and innocent child, on a camping trip in Yorkshire, we were short of pegs to hold onto the ropes. I was given a few quid and sent to the camp shop.

 

In I trot, wait my turn and eventually get to the front of the queue. I struggle to understand the deep, Yorkshire voice of the bloke serving and eventually I manage to ask for the tent pegs.

In a high pitched scouse accent that comes out as "Tenpex" ... and after some discussion behind the counter I am passed ... a box of Tampax. Being too embarrassed I go back to the tent and explain to my Mum .... and she and my older brother roll around on the floor laughing. In years to come, my eldest brother (a different one) was my best man ... and in the wedding speech he mentions this ... and so the laughing continued.

 

I was almost waiting for a 'Four Candles/Fork Handles' type story there...

 

Not so much a pronunciation error from the OH last night, but a 'you know when you can't think of the right word, but say what's in your head anyway' wrong word moment....

 

On thinking that someone who is well read, she said they were very 'literal'.... in her defence she knew it was 'wrong' but couldn't come up with a better word (I can't think of one either, 'literate' meaning you can read/write, or 'literary' which is 'of literature') so I'll stick with 'well read'.

 

Then later on, there was something else but I forget what it was, as it descended into a 'you're picking on me' argument....

[MartinT]

Cars

 

Aussies who call it Subah-ru instead of Subaru

 

An ex gf who used to say Marcedes instead of Mercedes

 

And, of course, Americans who have coups instead of coupes.

[Koldov]

Cars

 

Aussies who call it Subah-ru instead of Subaru

 

An ex gf who used to say Marcedes instead of Mercedes

 

And, of course, Americans who have coups instead of coupes.

 

Who really knows though... how long have we been saying Hyundai and Ikea 'incorrectly'...

[Jawloms]

Who really knows though... how long have we been saying Hyundai and Ikea 'incorrectly'...

 

And apparently "Shkoda".......

[LeMarchand]

Not so much a mispronunciation (it is a %$£^* to get the correct number of "R"s an "T"s when spelling, though) but whenever I'm dealing with Amazon's Java implementation I get this playing:

 

[elsiegee40]

 

Still hear people calling SQL ‘sequel’. I get it, I guess, but…it make you sound very, very old!

 

I’m old. I never called it sequel even when I was coding it to access DB2 on mainframe … now that bit does make me sound old

[3s-gtech]

Give over; you're still a young, dynamic rebel what with your TokTiks and whatnot.

[dmj]

I’m old. I never called it sequel even when I was coding it to access DB2 on mainframe … now that bit does make me sound old

 

That's the one thing that really gets on my tits is pronouncing SQL as 'sequel'.

Mysequel, postgresequel?? Idiots.

[MartinT]

Umm, I still call it sequel.

 

It's what I was taught to call it and it has stuck.

 

I'm old, forgive me.

[Norphy]

Me too. Calling it Ess Que Ell just sounds stupid to me.

[hardtailstar]

Being dyslexic i say quite a lot wrong....

 

Same but I also like to add in words to solidify getting things wrong.

 

I also have a very slight stutter so sometimes nothing makes sense!

[Roberto]

It’s “sequel” to me when spoken, sorry.

[Andrew_C]

Hmmm... Not "Squirrel"?

[southhamster]

Hmmm... Not "Squirrel"?

A German friend found the word "squirrel" almost impossible to say, (don't know what she made of SQL)..

The German squirrel word - eichhornchen has a nice ring to it.

[LeMarchand]

A German friend found the word "squirrel" almost impossible to say, (don't know what she made of SQL)..

The German squirrel word - eichhornchen has a nice ring to it.

 

Which reminds me of a German friend back when I used to smoke. While we were musing about creating a sitcom based around our lives we decided his catchphrase would be his offer of a cigarette because his accent, which softened the "a" sound, made it sound like something else when he said, "Want a fag?"

[Garacesh]

I used to think it was pronounced "School" when I'd only ever seen it written (15-18 year old)

 

Since I started working in IT, it's always been Sequel

 

Now, the debate about SCSI.. Is it 'Scuzzy' as most folks call it, or 'Sexy' as it was intended?

[Jawloms]

I used to think it was pronounced "School" when I'd only ever seen it written (15-18 year old)

 

Since I started working in IT, it's always been Sequel

 

Now, the debate about SCSI.. Is it 'Scuzzy' as most folks call it, or 'Sexy' as it was intended?

 

I assume we're not getting in to the whole "GIF" thing.........