# Saying it wrong on porpoise **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 18, 2011, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166 "2011-08-18T14:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nixinan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nixinan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nixinan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/41 "2011-08-19T16:13:12Z")
I hate it when people cast nastursiums in my direction! Snausages are also a particular favourite for my nephew for dinner! ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/42 "2011-08-19T16:56:04Z")
College cheese, anyone? I definitely enjoy froggy days. On occasion, they make me very hoppy. The ironing is delicious. Insults hurt my feelers. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![curious11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@curious11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious11)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/43 "2011-08-19T17:03:44Z")
My mom always said idear, and queuepon. I have no idear why. I was told I said busgetti and hangaber when I was much smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/44 "2011-08-19T17:11:32Z")
> [@curious11](#): > > My mom always said idear, and queuepon. Those are dialect pronunciations, perhaps “vulgar” in some ears but not mistakes. I’m pretty sure she didn’t _write_ “idear.” ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/45 "2011-08-19T17:12:45Z")
You can find a whole list of these out on the Interwebs. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/46 "2011-08-19T17:13:19Z")
> [@curious11](#): > > I was told I said busgetti and hangaber when I was much smaller. Yeah, those toddler hangovers are the worst! Actually, I don’t know what “hangaber” was supposed to be but I’m pretty sure it’s not hangover. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/47 "2011-08-19T18:24:12Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I like to give Target the faux-French pronunciation of “Tar-jhay”. Some people around these here parts, pronounce Detroit as “Day-Twah!”. Iddn’t it cute? ---
**Author:** ![Gymnopithys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gymnopithys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gymnopithys)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/48 "2011-08-19T19:29:11Z")
You Merkins speak a funny language. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/49 "2011-08-19T19:59:44Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Yeah, those toddler hangovers are the worst! Actually, I don’t know what “hangaber” was supposed to be but I’m pretty sure it’s not hangover. I’m pretty sure it means 'amburgier ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/50 "2011-08-19T20:53:58Z")
A couple of my favorites, courtesy of Homer Simpson: tramampoline and saxomophone. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/51 "2011-08-20T01:56:03Z")
I don’t know if this counts, but I think hyperbowl sounds better than hyperbole. ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/52 "2011-08-20T03:16:41Z")
I mentally translate “reason for being” as “earth grape.” (You know, from the French phrase: _raisin de terre_.) ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/53 "2011-08-20T05:36:42Z")
We have the best word ever - cannonball. It means cantaloupe, at least in our family, but at the same time, it is hilarious when Little Small is in a restaurant and asks for cannonball. Plus, I’m a jerk, and I switch sounds in words on purpose all the time, such as saying “paftey satrol” instead of safety patrol, or within a word, such as Roclox instead of Clorox. Drives my wife bonkers, it does. Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/54 "2011-08-20T13:25:15Z")
> [@Alan\_Smithee](#): > > I mentally translate “reason for being” as “earth grape.” (You know, from the French phrase: _raisin de terre_.) That reminds me: human beans. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/55 "2011-08-20T13:39:58Z")
Impork. Expork. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/56 "2011-08-20T13:42:49Z")
Chiweewee. More fugly than a humourraid, and not much bigger than a cucaracha. If you want a real dog, get a Dalmanatian. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/57 "2011-08-20T14:12:14Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > If you want a real dog, get a Dalmanatian. ‘Damnation’. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/58 "2011-08-20T14:26:05Z")
Speaking of animals, I can’t help but comment whenever I see one of those cha-hoo-wa-hoo-wa dogs like from the Taco Bell commercials. Also, for the locals, whenever I see signs for Port Huaneme, it comes out as “HWHEY-nuh-may.” ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/59 "2011-08-20T14:33:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘Damnation’. I know. You got the chiweewee. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166/60 "2011-08-20T15:08:11Z")
> [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](#): > > I know. You got the chiweewee. Chi-hoowa-hoowa. I think Chai-Chai Rod-re-gweez had one. I thought of this in another thread: I call woodpeckers ‘pudknockers’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saying-it-wrong-on-porpoise/593166.md?page=4)