# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/21 "2008-03-27T23:12:51Z")
[QUOTE=Jackmannii] George Bush is _not_ a PhD. 😃 [/QUOTE] Years ago, I heard an interesting analysis of the “nucular” issue. It suggested that among military brass who work with nuclear materials (warheads and submarines), “nucular” is the default for the radioactive stuff, but “new-clear” is what they say when referring to, for example, a family with a mom and a dad and 2.5 kids (the extra half is growing out of Junior’s shoulder–that’s what comes from working with nucular materials). It suggested that Bush’s nuculars might be a deliberate nod to the military, showing that he’s in the know on such things. I dunno if I buy it, but I thought it was an interesting distinction. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/22 "2008-03-27T23:15:03Z")
Did you hear the Park Rangers shot a woof yesterday? Supposebly it was going through someone’s recycables. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/23 "2008-03-27T23:21:21Z")
**Asterix** is a comic book character, not a typographical mark. ---
**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, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/24 "2008-03-27T23:25:51Z")
[QUOTE=Vox Imperatoris] As in “centimeters,” right? _Why_ would you say that? _Shudder_ [/QUOTE] Right; and damned if I know, but it’s really fucking annoying. > [@jackmannii](#): > > 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. It is truly an astonishing (and disheartening) phenomenon. (Do you ink your centennial nodes red, white, and blue? 😃 ) Most recent example of above: I receive a specimen labeled “glycomma”. OK, what the hell is that supposed to be? But I dutifully dictate it as “glycomma”, get the slides the next day, it’s mature adipose tissue. Oh, of course, it’s a _lipoma_. Now who the hell in the OR doesn’t know what a lipoma is? ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/25 "2008-03-27T23:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] Did you hear the Park Rangers shot a woof yesterday? [/QUOTE] Was it _anomalous_ woof. You know, like the one in [Ladle Rat Rotten Hut?](http://www.justanyone.com/allanguish.html#_Toc505953306) ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/26 "2008-03-27T23:32:50Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] Did you hear the Park Rangers shot a woof yesterday? Supposebly it was going through someone’s recycables. [/QUOTE] That’s ludicroust. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/27 "2008-03-27T23:33:38Z")
[QUOTE=Vox Imperatoris] 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. [/QUOTE] My project manager used to say “pacifically”. It would have been impolitic to correct her, but that grated like fingernails down a blackboard. No offence, 5-4-Fighting, but the word is “pronunciation”, not “pronounciation”. 😛 > [@OP](#): > > Mine is pronouncing “Reese’s,” as in Reese’s Cups, in a way that rhymes with feces. So you hates “Reese’s” to pieces? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/28 "2008-03-27T23:37:28Z")
[QUOTE=HazelNutCoffee] “With all do respect.” [/QUOTE] I always thought “do” and “due” were homophones. How else do you say “due”? “expresso” ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/29 "2008-03-27T23:38:39Z")
_indentify._ Oh, yes, indeed, “the point is mute”. I sat through a very long and incredibly boring meeting during which the chairman, who ought to know better, said that about 10 times. I took out my tiny little gun and blew him away, which certainly enlivened the proceedings. Part of that short paragraph is a lie. I gotta axe youz, is there a thread for something like “flout” used when “flaunt” is meant? Where someone _graduates college_ instead of _graduates from college?_ OTOH, I am the miserable wretch who spelled circumcision incorrectly and may never get over the shame of it. Which is why I didn’t point out the misspelling in the OP. ---
**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, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/30 "2008-03-27T23:39:23Z")
I recall, too, that my grandma used to call her doctor to refill her subscriptions. BUt English was not her native language. A former babysitter was encouraged to eat bananas for her “tassum” levels. ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/31 "2008-03-27T23:39:40Z")
[QUOTE=Vox Imperatoris] It reminds me of “all intensive purposes,” which is somehow becoming amazingly common. [/QUOTE] _shudder_ That’s as daft as “Could care less” One of colleague’s can’t pronounce the “Affinity deals” we do with other companies, he calls them “Infinity Deals” ---
**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, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/32 "2008-03-27T23:41:22Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] No offence, 5-4-Fighting, but the word is “pronunciation”, not “pronounciation”. 😛 [/QUOTE] What’s so bad is that I distinctly knew that. :smack: I’ve been making more and more of those mistakes here lately – God-ear must be catching. ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/33 "2008-03-27T23:46:20Z")
I’d like to take this opportunity to remind everyone that [the guy who played Neo in The Matrix](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000206/) and [the guy who played Superman in the late 1970s-1980s](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001659/) did not have the same last name. And it’s more a spelling thing than a pronunciation thing, but if you don’t know how to correctly spell words in common expressions and write things like: “whoa is me” “it didn’t phase me” “it’s a mute point” “for all intensive purposes” “that greats on my nerves” “gimme a brake” and my favorite, “splitting hares” you suck and should get off the internet. ---
**Author:** ![Dinah\_Steeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@Dinah\_Steeler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinah_Steeler)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/34 "2008-03-27T23:46:36Z")
[QUOTE=essell] _shudder_ That’s as daft as “Could care less” [/QUOTE] That one bugs me to no end too. Also, when someone pronounces Caribbean Cuh-RIB-be-un. It’s Care-uh-BE-un, dammit! :mad: ---
**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, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/35 "2008-03-27T23:49:31Z")
[QUOTE=Morbo] Did you hear the Park Rangers shot a woof yesterday? Supposebly it was going through someone’s recycables. [/QUOTE] Hode on, are you saying they had to put that woof in a hoe in the ground? A girl I used to work with sang “Head Like a Hole,” by Nine Inch Nails like this: “Head like a hoe, black as your soe, I’d rather die than give you controe…” lol This is kind of different, but my friend at work was using the word “gaudy” to describe her jewelry. I thought it was strange that she’d say that about her own stuff, but it turned out that she thought gaudy meant pretty. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/36 "2008-03-27T23:51:56Z")
I have a friend of mine, a fine, otherwise well-spoken woman, who actually uses the word, “supposably.” It sets my teeth on edge. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/37 "2008-03-27T23:54:25Z")
I’m told that my mother’s step-sister used to pronounce the name of the late Richard Widmark" as “Woodmark”, because she just assumed that everyone else was being common and slangy, and that she knew better. But she fell into a river and died, so that’s all right. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![essell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/34f0e0/32.png) [@essell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/essell)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/38 "2008-03-27T23:54:35Z")
[QUOTE=flurb] I have a friend of mine, a fine, otherwise well-spoken woman, who actually uses the word, “supposably.” It sets my teeth on edge. [/QUOTE] A great word. Sounds like something that’s _meant_ to be stuck up one’s ass. ---
**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, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/39 "2008-03-27T23:55:29Z")
irregardless…double negative much? ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978/40 "2008-03-28T00:00:00Z")
[QUOTE=Dinah Steeler] That one bugs me to no end too. Also, when someone pronounces Caribbean Cuh-RIB-be-un. It’s Care-uh-BE-un, dammit! :mad: [/QUOTE] Really? I’ve heard both so often that I thought both were legit. From the Wiki: > [@](#): > > Most dictionaries list both pronunciations as acceptable, but PPP shows a 91-9% preference for (1). The Disneyland ride (and related entertainment offerings) “Pirates of the Caribbean” is pronounced with (1). It is sometimes suggested to use (1) for the noun (as in Pirates of the Caribbean) and (2) for the adjective (a Caribbean island), but there is no etymological reason to support such a distinction. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pronunciacions-that-make-you-seethe-with-anger/442978.md?page=3)