# Share your favorite mispronunciations that you have heard **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 19, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273 "2012-10-19T20:55:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/1 "2012-10-19T20:55:09Z")
I was listening to a woman telling a story about how a house had been firebombed. With a very serious look on her face, she told of how the perpetrator used a Mazel tov cocktail. I was highly amused. mmm ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/2 "2012-10-19T20:56:41Z")
Innundate, with the accent on the second syllAble. Pseudo, pronounced suede-o. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/3 "2012-10-19T20:58:35Z")
A very intelligent friend of mine pronounced New Hampshire as “new ham-sphere” (I guess it hadn’t come up in conversation much previously). I thought that was a very evocative mental image. ---
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/4 "2012-10-19T21:03:53Z")
In a short-lived TV show about Irish Travelers, Minnie Driver mispronounces “comeuppance” to sound like come - a - PONCE. Because she’s Minnie Driver and everything she does is amazing, her delivery as a character trying to impress by using a big word is absolutely hilarious. Ever since, we’ve said come-a-PONCE in our house, I’m sure people who overhear us are mortified that we’re so clueless. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/5 "2012-10-19T21:21:28Z")
I know many people who take their pain to, and swear by, their CHOIR- practor. not sure if he leads them in singing, or what… ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/6 "2012-10-19T21:26:13Z")
A favorite of mine, that I REFUSE to change is posthumously. Evidently, the CORRECT way is “PAHST-yuh-muss-lee” But I always say it “post-HEW-muss-lee”. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/7 "2012-10-19T22:07:40Z")
I have eczema, and my mother suggested it might be being affected by demodex mites. Or, according to her, ‘durex mites’. This went on for weeks; unsurprisingly, I couldn’t find any good info on durex mites. ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/8 "2012-10-19T22:20:37Z")
Loughborough, Leicestershire (luvbrah (or luvburra), lester-shuh to the locals), pronounced as ‘looga-buh-rooga, lie-cess-ter-shyer’. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/9 "2012-10-19T22:28:53Z")
Neucular. As in Neucular power. ---
**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/10 "2012-10-19T22:29:47Z")
Bob Dylan: heard “die-lan” s/b “dill-un” (and they “corrected” me) bistro: heard “bie-stroh” s/b “bee-stro” or “bih-stro” ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2012, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/11 "2012-10-19T22:33:14Z")
Awry. 'nuff said. I still doubt my ability to say it correctly the first attempt, so I just don’t say it. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Mann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@Rich\_Mann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Mann)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/12 "2012-10-20T00:50:20Z")
I knew a woman from Alabama who pronounced ‘appointment’ and ‘apartment’ the same way; aperntment. She was a real estate agent. Giggle. Different woman said ‘pleasure’ and ‘pressure’ the same; prezyure. Another favorite is 'height_h_. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/13 "2012-10-20T04:50:04Z")
I had a Polish math professor who pronounced “reservoir” like “reserve were”. So whenever I think about Quentin Tarantino’s film, it’s always Reserve Were Dogs to me. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/14 "2012-10-20T05:27:50Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Neucular. As in Neucular power. This is electricity generated by burning methane from goose droppings. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/15 "2012-10-20T09:03:37Z")
Back in the 60s, when the Cuyahoga River was notorious for its filthy pollution (including fires), with god-knows-what floating downstream . . . a local politician went on and on about the “derbies” in the river. ---
**Author:** ![Dublin11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dublin11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dublin11)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/16 "2012-10-20T10:47:16Z")
My boss was describing - in some gory detail - her daughter’s claim for surgical negligence “The surgeon cut her sphinx to muscle. So she needed emergency surgery to repair her sphinx” ---
**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:** [October 20, 2012, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/17 "2012-10-20T12:39:24Z")
I still have a problem saying disrepancy for discrepancy. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/18 "2012-10-20T13:01:04Z")
> [@Kal](#): > > Loughborough, Leicestershire (luvbrah (or luvburra), lester-shuh to the locals), pronounced as ‘looga-buh-rooga, lie-cess-ter-shyer’. Oh wow… I don’t think I’ll ever be able to call it anything else but ‘Looga-buh-rooga’ now. I might even have to go there just to ask for directions. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/19 "2012-10-20T17:45:54Z")
> [@Dublin11](#): > > My boss was describing - in some gory detail - her daughter’s claim for surgical negligence > “The surgeon cut her sphinx to muscle. So she needed emergency surgery to repair her sphinx” My wife knew someone who always pronounced that “splincter.” ---
**Author:** ![Herbal\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ab992/32.png) [@Herbal\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Herbal_Lady)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273/20 "2012-10-20T18:08:14Z")
Once had a neighbor who needed his chimley cleaned every Fall. How do you get chimley out of chimney? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-favorite-mispronunciations-that-you-have-heard/638273.md?page=2)