# Amusing mispronunciations **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 11, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870 "2003-10-11T18:06:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![spogga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@spogga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spogga)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/21 "2003-10-12T06:53:09Z")
My next door neighbour is called Flanders and one day I called his wife Mrs Flandereses ---
**Author:** ![Latch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/22 "2003-10-12T10:52:02Z")
In Australia, “Dulux” (a brand of paint) pronounced “Jewlux”. There’s some other examples of this pronounciation (Du = Jew) that annoys me, but I can’t recall them offhand. ---
**Author:** ![Latch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f475e1/32.png) [@Latch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Latch)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/23 "2003-10-12T10:54:17Z")
that is… **is** pronounced… ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/24 "2003-10-12T11:00:20Z")
Jeetyet? No, ju. Common parlance in this section of the world. ---
**Author:** ![Bluesman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@Bluesman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bluesman)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/25 "2003-10-12T11:15:16Z")
**EX** presso… ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/26 "2003-10-12T11:56:04Z")
I worked with the champion! He could mispronounce anything and had his own vocabulary of butchered words. It was hard to keep a straight face around him. In an effort to compile a few of his botchings, a buddy and I constructed a sentence he might have uttered: “I want you to do a simular graft of that fomula that shows the analyzation of those fractures, unless it’s a mute point.” (Fractures were his version of fractals.) Another buddy substituted the word “cultured” for “kosher.” ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/27 "2003-10-12T13:24:22Z")
I know a guy who says “chimbley” for “chimney”, never heard that one before. Also, fah-gee-ah-tahs for fajitas. Unfortunately, I _have_ heard that one a lot. I have a cow-irker who thinks monotonous means complicated and difficult (but there’s at least a volume’s worth of her misuse of the language). I had a geology for non-science majors professor who always said “pacific gravity” for “specific gravity”. Maybe the whole Ahnold thing is an example of Pacific anti-gravity? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/28 "2003-10-12T13:43:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by if6was9 \* > \*\*Local PA hick thing… > > You’uns guys. “You’uns guys going to the party?” \*\* I know what you mean. And I get strange looks when I use y’all as my second-person plural choice without a Southern accent. But y’all is still better than that You’uns (or is more like Younz)? ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/29 "2003-10-12T14:10:39Z")
A rant, actually, but… I don’t care if it’s regional or national or European or Earth based but: People that pronounce “Aunt” — “Ont” … as in **ONT** ario. Oh, aren’t we proper…“Ont” June is on the patio…having tea… talking with the Count of Westbury… Grrr… It’s ANT, like the bug. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/30 "2003-10-12T16:59:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by roxx222 \* > \*\*Lloyd Robertson on CTV news here in Canada pronounces the “d” in Wednesday. Everyone I know pronounces it “wensday”, with two syllables, but good ol’ Lloyd always says “weDnesday”, with three. > > Have any of you ever heard anyone else say it this way? Is it an acceptable pronunciation? \*\* My grandma’s a Brit, and she pronounces the D as well, so it comes out “Wed-nes-day”. It doesn’t sound as stupid as it looks though. And FTR, she pronounces aluminum as “aluminum” not “al-u-min-ee-um”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dinoboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dinoboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinoboy)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/31 "2003-10-12T17:47:55Z")
I am amused when someone adds a suffix to the preposition ‘Across’, giving us: ‘Acrossed’ Or an ‘S’ to the word ‘Anyway’ - This word has no plural so ‘Anyways’ is NOT a word! The following are usually local (but still incorrect): ‘Measure’ pronounced ‘May-sure’ ‘Wash’ pronounced ‘Warsh’ ‘Creek’ pronounced ‘Krick’ ‘Missouri’ pronounced ‘Missur-ah’ ‘Illinois’ pronounced ‘Illinois’ 🙂 Anyways, you git the idee-er… ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/32 "2003-10-12T17:51:15Z")
I’ve worked a lot for a job superintendent who always say “colyum” instead of “column”. Oh, and about that “Aunt” vs “Ont” thing. I used to think it was snobby too till I heard Lamont Sanford say it. ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/33 "2003-10-12T17:53:29Z")
I’ve worked a lot for a job superintendent who always says “colyum” instead of “column”. Oh, and about that “Aunt” vs “Ont” thing. I used to think it was snobby too till I heard Lamont Sanford say it. ---
**Author:** ![hermann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b487fb/32.png) [@hermann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hermann)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/34 "2003-10-12T17:55:10Z")
oops…sorry. Tried to edit, but hit stop too late. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/35 "2003-10-12T18:00:35Z")
QUOTE]\*Originally posted by Rasa \* \*\*My grandma’s a Brit, and she pronounces the D as well, so it comes out “Wed-nes-day” [/quote] \*\* my 4th grade teacher told us to say it like that, so we could spell it! I can’t pronounce vulnerable.I don’t KNOW why. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/36 "2003-10-12T18:03:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by quiltguy154 \* > \*\*Jeetyet? No, ju. Common parlance in this section of the world. \*\* 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/37 "2003-10-12T18:04:44Z")
It’s really funny to hear Easterners use the ont version of aunt as they break from cockney to town and country: “Youse guys should visit your ont.” ---
**Author:** ![Wumpus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8c91f0/32.png) [@Wumpus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wumpus)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/38 "2003-10-12T18:58:00Z")
Jy-ros for gyros. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/39 "2003-10-12T19:26:53Z")
From my husban’s grandmother: Asper-reeen = asprin Mansass = mayonaise From SIL: Vermosa = mamosa Angoraphobia= agoraphobia Mwaaaave = mauve From husband: Tar-pol-lee-un = tarpaulin ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 12, 2003, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870/40 "2003-10-12T19:37:12Z")
Sorry to be the annoying OP everyone but I was kind of looking for the types where the speaker has used another perfectly valid word in place of the word he/she means. Not words that sound wrong because of people’s accents. Connery is the last Name of Sean. But still, the replies are amusing. And can anyone post what the mistake was that was made early in the book by the troll in Monstrous Regiment? Thanks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-mispronunciations/206870.md?page=3)