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

[Garacesh]

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

 

Actually, I think you'll find it's pronounced 'gif'.

[3s-gtech]

Do you like your birthday jift? No wait sorry that’s ridiculous.

[smurfomatic]

The big local argument here is how to pronounce the name of the river Nene. Sensible Northampton folk say Nen (to rhyme with ten) whereas the woolly minded Peterborough inhabitants say Neen (rhymes with spleen)

[LeMarchand]

The big local argument here is how to pronounce the name of the river Nene. Sensible Northampton folk say Nen (to rhyme with ten) whereas the woolly minded Peterborough inhabitants say Neen (rhymes with spleen)

 

No-one says Nehneh as in, "Nehneh nehneh neh, you're both wrong"?

[Norphy]

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?

 

Anyone who pronounces SCSI as "Sexy" needs help. Like, serious, serious help

[LeMarchand]

Anyone who pronounces SCSI as "Sexy" needs help. Like, serious, serious help

 

So Right Said Fred weren't singing about computer cabling? That's shattered my illusions.

[Norphy]

Hmm. According to Wikipedia:

 

Until at least February 1982, ANSI developed the specification as "SASI" and "Shugart Associates System Interface"[7] however, the committee documenting the standard would not allow it to be named after a company. Almost a full day was devoted to agreeing to name the standard "Small Computer System Interface", which Boucher intended to be pronounced "sexy", but ENDL's[8] Dal Allan pronounced the new acronym as "scuzzy" and that stuck.[5]

 

It's still wrong

 

Thinking about it though, I used to work with someone who pronounced it "Scizzy" which is even more wrong

[Andrew_C]

The big local argument here is how to pronounce the name of the river Nene. Sensible Northampton folk say Nen (to rhyme with ten) whereas the woolly minded Peterborough inhabitants say Neen (rhymes with spleen)

 

And Google, when driving around that part of the world, pronounces it Neh Neh - like the hawaian goose...

 

[Ketlane]

Getting into placename pronunciation is a minefield. In the (very) old days when you needed an operator to connect some long distance calls I regularly had difficulty with operators and the Kirkcudbright exchange - the only solution was to deliberately mispronounce it.....

[HarryMonkey]

Scone or Scon ?

[Norphy]

Getting into placename pronunciation is a minefield. In the (very) old days when you needed an operator to connect some long distance calls I regularly had difficulty with operators and the Kirkcudbright exchange - the only solution was to deliberately mispronounce it.....

 

Scottish place names in general seem to be a mine field. Pretty much anything with "Kirk" in isn't what you'd immediately expect it to be. Examples near me: Kirkgunzeon, Kirkbean. Then there's all the places with Norse derived names.

[jthompson]

Plenty of deliberately silly pronunciations in our house, which have now unfortunately stuck.

 

"Loughborough" is now pronounced "Loo-guh-bar-oo-guh".

The breakfast cereal "Balance" is now pronounced "Balancé", as in Beyoncé.

"Melon" is now pronounced "Muh-laan" in a probably-offensive American accent.

Which almost takes me onto the list of things that aren't so much mispronounced as sung ("mango" now gets followed up with "Hey mango, mango Italiano!", for instance).

 

I'm really hoping that these only come out at home, but they're so normalised that I worry we use them in company without realising.

[Accura2k7]

The Wife calls it a Chimley not a Chimney... She aggressively defends her way is correct!

[Sharkman]

"Exack'ly" instead of "Exactly" - admittedly this is me doing it, but it still winds me up every time I catch myself

[StevieM]

The Wife calls it a Chimley not a Chimney... She aggressively defends her way is correct!

My dad always used to say 'Steak and Kidley'.

 

Whenever I pulled him up about it, he would reply, "That's what I said, diddle I?"

 

I don't know which annoyed me more.

 

 

I'd need a whole day for my mum's malapropisms, but here are just a couple of examples:

 

(From back in the early 80s) "Oh, I'd love to get one of those microscope ovens."

 

(While walking past roadworks) "Those dramatic drills don't half make a noise!"

 

TBC...

[AlistairB1983]

My dad always used to say 'Steak and Kidley'.

Mine always used to call them 'Snake & Pigmy', which as a child I was convinced was to try and make me laugh/want to eat them.

 

However, as an adult I've realised it's because it winds my mother up no end!

[GiggleKitteh]

Then there's Cornish place names and the tendency to shorten them.

St Austell becomes Snozzle

Launceston becomes Launsn

etc...

[Garacesh]

Do you like your birthday jift? No wait sorry that’s ridiculous.

 

Allow me to retort:

Giraffe

 

There's a daftly-named town near me called 'Frome'

It's not 'Frome' like 'Rome, it's actually 'Froom', like 'Room'