Also, i have a teacher who says, "I’m sorrell (sorry), and then things like “i will see you tomorroll.” “bring in your test now. no ecceptions.”. She has a daughter named shelby. her last name is ashley, so Mrs ashley will be talking about her daughter and say, “my daughter, shebby ashwey…”
Ned Flanders wouldn’t stand a chance in this thread.
Okely dokely
A cow-orker says “supposably”. Drives me batty. He’s from the same region as I am, so a dialect difference explanation is BS.
What about when people pronounce picture “pitcher”? (That one bugs me to no end. I’m surprised no-one’s mentioned it yet.) Is it such a bad thing to insist on the correct pronounciation of a word so as not to confuse it with another word?
“Hey, can you pass me that pitcher of Kool-aid?”
“Hey, can you hand me that pitcher of the kids?”
Context helps. I mean, you don’t get confused between the words ‘sail’ and ‘sale’, right?
Eye grue completely. We shoulder min no words in language.
WARSH as in “Oh no my gremlin is dirty. I guess its time to WARSH the car” It is like taking a file, putting it between my teeth, biting down and pulling it out.
kambuckta, sundog66, and Zoe:
Have you not noticed that this is the Pit? This is where people come to post about shit that irritates them. Now, sometimes it’s really BIG stuff that makes people really, really mad, like war, prejudice, murder and the like. Other times it’s tiny little irritating things like the co-worker who laughs like a hyena, someone’s relative’s unapologetic flatulence, or even people who speak in ways we dislike. Although I appreciate your educating all of us about the fact that there are differing dialects out there, (Who knew!) could you superior types please let us mere mortals have our fun sharing our pointless bitching?
There! Now I’ve bitched about their bitching about our bitching!
Hey! Don’t mock our accent. 
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And your bitching about them bitching about your bitching made me laugh so hard my hubby woke up.
My mom does that occasionally for some weird reason, and we tease the heck out of her, especially (arggh PUH lease not e[bx]pecially) since she’s not from a region for which that is a common pronunciation.
And especially since she drilled into us (since we were little) appropriate grammar and pronunciation.
If people in our family mispronounce a word, (and we’re not from a state that has any type of accent, so if we screw up, it’s not dialect, or an “accent” that we can blame), we catch hell for it from the others.
And yeah, laughing about the bitching, about the bitching about the bitching, and so on.
If someone has a dialect or strong accent it’s one thing, that doesn’t bother me, but when it’s a person who is obviously well-educated, and it’s almost as if they are purposely mispronouncing, or using a particular word in an incorrect way that it gives me that “fingernails on a chockboard” feeling.
I should probably point out that I spend a lot of time around dipshits who would just say “gimme the pitcher” or even more commonly, “gimme the… umm… thing.” Context is a luxury here.
I know I’ve ranted about that here somewhere before.
Oh, I just remembered. Another speech pattern that bugs me. Pronouncing “exit” with a voiced X.
Egg zit!?!?
Did you say “chockboard” on porpoise?
I’ve heard twice in the past couple of weeks people on HGTV shows - where they should know the term - pronounce “faux” as “fox” or “folks.” As in, “Here is a great [fox] finish paint technique.” I can’t understand why they didn’t cut, correct the person, and reshoot. It’s not like the shows were live.
That interests me.
Mostly everything else on here is a dialect or speech pattern I’ve heard in real life or on the telly. But exit?
Never heard anyone pronounce it any way apart from egg zit.
Enlighten me - how do you pronounce it?
Eck-sit.
Dialect is one thing. Doesn’t bother me in the least.
Enunciation is another. Bugs me a bit, but I’m over it.
Pronunciation is something completely different. If you don’t know how to pronounce a word, use a sinnamyn*, for crying out loud!
Communication is something we use in our everyday lives. If we can’t communicate clearly, we can’t properly be understood. This goes for both verbal and written communication. Someone who cannot pronounce words correctly comes across as being uneducated, or just plain stupid.
Sure, we should accept natural language drift to a degree, but dammit, we have to draw the line somewhere! If we don’t, where’s it going to end? We can take it to an extreme, and fe rull qif gykkord hip nu bleg**
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yes, I know. It’s a joke
pronounced "it will end up looking like this"
***which actually means “shut your pie-holes. Words have specific pronunciations and spellings, so use them properly.”[/sub]
You’re really going to hate English in 3000