Two words when read out loud my brain mispronounces before my mouth get it right:
hyperbole ‘hyper bowl’
epitome “epi tome”
Awry = aw-ree
bee uh you tea full, because that’s how I learned to spell it correctly
For me, 4 lbs. becomes 4 ulbs
There’s a regional car-sales aggregator in my neck of the woods called “Car Avenue.” You see their website on the plate frame on a fair number of vehicles around here.
But the way the words run together in the site name, I like mentally hearing it as “Cara Venue.”
It’s nonsense and a dumb little amusement, but the brain bored in traffic will take what it can get.
I agree; the creator of the GIF file is wrong about the way he claims it should be pronounced, I don’t care if he named it!
In a similar vein, I’ve heard that the creator of the JSON file says it should be pronounced ‘JAY-son’, like the first name Jason, but I can’t not pronounce it ‘jay-SAHN’.
Two come right to mind:
(1) If I see a group of cattle I inevitably say “beeves”
(2) My Dad did this to all of his kids: he would say ocean as O-shen, two distinct syllables, emphasis on the “O.” I will always say ocean properly in company. But if I’m alone it’s O-shen.
Yo-zuh-mite
Hah! You beat me to the punch. For me though it’s YOSE-mite ( with a hard “s” )
Nearly the same as you for the word vegetable: “Vetch-table”
I’ll be damned. Me too. Although I’ve found a couple of sites that give “ob-FEW-skate” as the correct pronunciation, so maybe it’s a matter of dialect.
That is actually very close to the original Anglo-Saxon pronunciation. Apparently, that was part of the joke in Holy Grail when the French taunter referred to Arthur & Co. as “Ka-NIG-its”, because originally it was the English calling the Normans that.
Giuliani = Ghoul-eee-any
For me it’s “Yo, Semite.”
And therapist = “The rapist”, thanks to that old SNL Celerity Jeopardy sketch.
Hyperbole = “Hyper Bowl”, which sounds like it’s even bigger than the Super Bowl.
I like to call the store Target “TAR-ghee”, as if it were a French word.
hors d’oeuvre=whore devor. People switch the v-r. From Wikipedia:
hors d’oeuvre (/ɔːr ˈdɜːrv(rə)/ or DURV(-rə) ; French: hors-d’œuvre [ɔʁ dœvʁ]
Wow, some even double the r in English, or dervres? You can see the French don’t. Brett Favre’s name—announcers pronounce it Farve. I wonder if it’s correct or if people with names like that get tired of correcting people.
Shelly Fabares…not Fabray?
cooperate=coop erate. If you do it again do you recoop erate?
calliope=cally ope
Also from Wikipedia: Outside Italy, mascarpone is sometimes mispronounced “ma r scapone”, even by food professionals.
I used to like to do that to needle this girl I knew. She was a RW Francophobe very much in the thrall of the whole bash-the-French / “freedom fries” mold.
Cathedral, fiery are the two that come to mind but I have a long list. Back in elementary school, I kept pronouncing words wrong so I was coached in phonetics (this is pre- Hooked on Phonics). It didn’t help and, for a bit, screwed me up further. A huge part of my problem was that I took to reading like a hummingbird to nectar and was reading words I had yet to hear and not asking for help in sounding them out. But another part of the problem was not so obvious at the time because it wasn’t common knowledge and nobody knew to look for it. I was dyslexic.
If I’m confronted by something along the lines of He lead the police on a merry chase, my brain insists on earworming me with He LEED the police on a merry chase. This causes pain in my brain, and I feel obliged to politely ask the perpetrator to please stop doing that.
Well. Perhaps the word “politely” is not exactly descriptive of the manner in which I present my request. The presentation of the request remains non-negotiable.
Funny. It looks more like Sanskrit.
I’ve often had fun with the names of prescription medications, such TRAY-Zod 1, and Few-roe-SEM-i-dee.
Yes, that too!
I agree. Target once had an in-store brand called Miss Targè.
Try: Tarzhey
Not me. I pronounce it the way Steve Martin does in My Blue Heaven - all 4 syllables.