# Pronunciacions that make you seethe with anger! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978 "2008-03-27T22:06:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/1 "2008-03-27T22:06:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/2 "2008-03-27T22:13:38Z")
Heard it again today: “I pacifically asked her” . Oh really? as opposed to atlantically asked her? ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/3 "2008-03-27T22:16:08Z")
“The point is mute.” ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/4 "2008-03-27T22:16:30Z")
[QUOTE=wring] Heard it again today: “I pacifically asked her” . Oh really? as opposed to atlantically asked her? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/5 "2008-03-27T22:17:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/6 "2008-03-27T22:24:23Z")
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. > **[Definition of MAYN'T](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mayn't)** > > may not… See the full definition ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/7 "2008-03-27T22:25:59Z")
Can I _axe_ y’all a question? ---
**Author:** ![Pazu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pazu/32/15522_2.png) [@Pazu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pazu)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/8 "2008-03-27T22:27:16Z")
“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. ---
**Author:** ![Guestimate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Guestimate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guestimate)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/9 "2008-03-27T22:29:30Z")
What about misspellings that make you nawseus? ---
**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/10 "2008-03-27T22:29:36Z")
“anyways” ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/11 "2008-03-27T22:34:03Z")
How about the person that said they were on their way to take their math testes? ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/12 "2008-03-27T22:44:20Z")
“With all do respect.” ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/13 "2008-03-27T22:45:18Z")
Nucular. Nuculus (said by a PhD. no less!). ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/14 "2008-03-27T22:45:46Z")
[QUOTE=wring] Heard it again today: “I pacifically asked her” . Oh really? as opposed to atlantically asked her? [/QUOTE] How about as opposed to “I martially asked her.” ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/15 "2008-03-27T22:48:55Z")
[QUOTE=Pazu] “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. [/QUOTE] 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.) ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/16 "2008-03-27T22:50:59Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Drake] How about as opposed to “I martially asked her.” [/QUOTE] Huh. I always hear it as “Pacific ally” vs. “pacive cly” ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/17 "2008-03-27T22:55:26Z")
[QUOTE=Vox Imperatoris] 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. [/QUOTE] 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? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/18 "2008-03-27T22:58:10Z")
[QUOTE=Vlad/Igor] Nucular. Nuculus (said by a PhD. no less!). [/QUOTE] George Bush is _not_ a PhD. 😃 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. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/19 "2008-03-27T23:07:10Z")
[QUOTE=Guestimate] What about misspellings that make you nawseus? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/20 "2008-03-27T23:09:07Z")
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. - for Hazel. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978.md?page=2)