Oh yes, and of course Chicken and Dunklings instead of Dumplings. My little sister (who is about to turn 40) again, when she was about 2 or 3.
I intentionally pronounce ‘grandiose’ to rhyme with ‘voice’, after one of our clients did this several times in all seriousness during a briefing.
From RPGs, I often come across the term ‘fletching’, the craft of making arrows and such. Being a doper, you can imagine how I always say it.
I’m afraid this post is going to make some of you ill, and I apologize in advance. It all started with motherhood…
Feet = feeties
Shoes = shoosies
Toes = tosies
He’s 11 now, I really should stop.
Me and my friends started saying “amtracks” instead of “anthrax”. The funny thing is, now “amtracks” sounds more natural than “anthrax” :p. I occasionally say “che-runs” instead of “children”. And I pronounce “wednesday” with three syllables, but only to myself.
Pliget(Pli-Get)…instead of Piglet. My daughter couldn’t say Piglet when she was first learning to talk, so we all learned to say it her way.
I say “gormet” instead of “gourmet”, because I once heard a chef (a chef!!) on a cooking show pronounce it that way and thought it was the funniest thing I’d ever heard.
aw-ree, and I third ep-i-tome, though I only use it when saying something like “the epitome of bad pronounciation.”
Canvas Shoes - Chicken and Dunklings is adorable. The word dumplings will never pass my lips again.
My problem is, there are probably a dozen words that I am can no longer pronounce correctly after all these years of fooling around.
Hello Everyone!
My son when he was little called Spaggetti- Big Kitty and my 6
year old dd once was riding in my moms car and she told my
dd “look at the pompass grass, meg.” to which she replied "gram,
that’s not papa’s ass"
Forgot to say that we do intentionally still say them that way.
Yo’s-might for Yosemite.
Sha-ma-milly for chamomile.
Ig-nant for ignorant.
Probably a few others…
-Tcat
My daughter says ‘poncuter’ instead of computer and its just so cute I cant correct her!
And spaggerly boggerly instead of spaghetti bolognese
Oh, and she used to call Robbie Williams ‘Wobbly Williams’. When she started school her headteacher was called Mr Williams, but she called him ‘Mr Wobbly’!!
For Continuity I use continue-ity.
We’ve dropped ‘com-’ from computer so now it’s just ‘-puter’.
The remote is called ‘flippy’.
Fruit is ‘fru it’.
The cereal ‘Fruit and Fibre’ is pronounced “Fru it 'n Feb bre”.
I pronounce Norfolk ‘Nah fuk’ and get picked on for it, oh well.
It’s not a mispronunciation but we call our Ford Focus ‘Ford Foci’.
lid = lib
gesundheit = kazoomtype
breasts = broobs
bra = brawg
sandwich = sammich
Oh, and about a million others that just won’t come to mind right now. The first four are from when Matthew was just learning to speak.
Japnamese
My friends and I had a stupid routine-when one of us would properly say “I’m impressed!” the rest would chime in with variations such as “I’m o-pressed” ,“I’m sup-pressed”,“I’m re-pressed” etc.I’ve gotten so used to those variations that I almost found myself saying “I’m compressed” to a not-clued-in co-worker when I saw yesterday how well he sharpened my mowerblade.
It seems I must spend most of my free time doing this:
‘Jalopy-nose’, or ‘holy penis’ peppers —Jalapenos
‘far-war’–fire wire
‘tummy-toes’—tomatoes
‘stray breweries’—strawberries
‘muskules’—muscles
‘Sorry-assis’–Psoriasis
‘magenta’—agenda
‘genetic cigarettes’—generic cigarettes
“old-timer’s”—Alzheimer’s
‘cheeries’—cherries
‘cadillacs’—cataracts
etc., etc., etc.
I plural store names that shouldn’t be:
Wal-Marts
KMarts
CVSs
Bilos
Mostly a redneck thing.
Although not incorrect, this pisses off many word nazis.
I prefer to pronounce forte as for-TA rather than FORT. Just sounds better in English IMO.