Pronunciacions that make you seethe with anger!

The BBQ Pit
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I don’t mean ones that just annoy you a little, but ones that inspire (the “late”) VC03-style, smashing your keyboard, impaling your monitor, thowing your most prized possesions into a furnace anger.

Mine is pronouncing “Reese’s,” as in Reese’s Cups, in a way that rhymes with feces. :eek:

First of all, it sounds horrible, and second, it shows you have no conception of basic grammar. They’re Reese’s, the candies belonging to Reese, not REE-cies! I don’t know if it’s just done in the South (by idiots), but it needs to be eradicated anywhere it is found.

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Heard it again today: “I pacifically asked her” . Oh really? as opposed to atlantically asked her?

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“The point is mute.”

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I’ve heard this one on the internet, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone exept little children say it.

It reminds me of “all intensive purposes,” which is somehow becoming amazingly common.

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I’ve lived all my life in Southern CA and I’ve heard some people say Reesie’s instead of the proper way. It makes my teeth wiggle, too. Sheesh.

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I’ve always found that the contraction mayn’t, for “may not” gives me a headache. Even hearing it in this link has that effect.

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Can I axe y’all a question?

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“Sontimeters” (by English speakers in the US).

For that matter, pretty much any time this pseudo-French modification occurs (for some reason, it’s very common in the medical community): exenteration pronounced “exonteration”, for instance.

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What about misspellings that make you nawseus?

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“anyways”

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How about the person that said they were on their way to take their math testes?

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“With all do respect.”

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Nucular. Nuculus (said by a PhD. no less!).

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How about as opposed to “I martially asked her.”

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As in “centimeters,” right? Why would you say that? Shudder

And Indygrrl, be glad you don’t live in Alabama. Many people have axed me questions, and I can stand it either. (Which reminds me of this one: saying “EIGH-ther,” if you’re not from a country where you learn to speak all your words like that.)

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Huh. I always hear it as “Pacific ally” vs. “pacive cly”

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It’s funny you bring up VCO3’s name. At first glance I thought it was him.

The Op kind of sounds like it too.

You’re not one of those socks I’ve heard about are you?

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George Bush is not a PhD. :smiley:

An amazing number of supposedly trained medical personnel are illiterate when it comes to the language of their trade.

Thus we have overhead pages at the hospital for “Res-pi-tory Therapy” and people bringing us “centennial” lymph nodes (it’s actually sentinel nodes).

Today I was presented with a specimen from a “fulmint” colitis. That’s fulminant, you idjits.

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Hm, I was gonna say “you mean like “pronunciacion”?” but that’s how you spell it in Spanish. Although the OP doesn’t sound like a non-native English speaker.

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Not pronounciation, per se,* but people who say, “No offense,” when the least they really mean is “No offense intended.” The two-word phrase seems to imply the speaker is stating for you that you won’t be offended.

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