# Words you enjoy mispronouncing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 19, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800 "2005-08-19T20:45:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/21 "2005-08-19T22:35:41Z")
“stragedy” for strategy, because Boris’ stragedy to catch squirrel and moose was “I stragedy string across doorway, and when squirrel and moose come through, they trip and fall down”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/22 "2005-08-19T22:41:11Z")
My dad, brother and I call worcestershire sauce “wore-chester-shire sauce.” ---
**Author:** ![Katriona](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/katriona/32/113_2.png) [@Katriona](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katriona)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/23 "2005-08-19T22:48:58Z")
I had a Home-Ec teacher who couldn’t be bothered to learn the proper pronounciation of some words - tortilla was tor-till-uh rather than tor-TEE-yah, fajita was fa-JIT-uh rather than fa-hee-ta, etc. DH and I enjoy those kinds of things among ourselves, but we watch ourselves in public. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/24 "2005-08-19T22:48:59Z")
I refer to my daughter as my dafter (shouldn’t the “ght” in daughter be pronounced the same way as the “ght” in laughter?). and besides I think it sounds so swave and deboner. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/25 "2005-08-19T23:16:10Z")
I like to intentionally pronounce “nuclear” as “nuke-you-lar”. Mainly because it seems to really irritate the kind of people I like to irritate. And where’s the pronunciation of “Aunt” rhyming with “Ant” (as opposed to “Awnt”) come from? I prefer it and use it myself, but I have the feeling it’s not “correct” (which doesn’t bother me a bit). Finally, for anybody in the NYC area reading this: local route I-678, that goes by Shea Stadium and runs down to the Belt Parkway, is the VAN [WICK] EXPRESSWAY. You self-righteous WHY-KERS can stuff it! ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/26 "2005-08-19T23:23:33Z")
_“Cuttle-ree”_ Apparently, _cut-le-ree_ is pronounced diffrently. This is the first point I realised I said Suffolk. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/27 "2005-08-19T23:28:18Z")
I say “vo-ca-Bueller-ee” sometimes. My eighth grade English teacher always said it that way. I was the only one who ever laughed, but the rest of that class had no sense of humor. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/28 "2005-08-19T23:33:28Z")
When talking with my husband, I often use silly childhood slang such as “pasketti” for “spaghetti.” I guess my hubby brings out the silly kid in me. I like that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/29 "2005-08-19T23:33:43Z")
> [@Ashes](#): > > Aspergrass AspaRAGus, as in: _The sinful aspaRAGus To iniquity will drag us._ I’m also fond of \*automagic(al(ly)), punkin, sammich, pronounciation, prevert, swaydonym \*(for \*pseudonym), kaniffie \*(for \*knife), piskic \*(for _psychic), mazagreen,_ and _poopcorn_. ---
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/30 "2005-08-19T23:41:45Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > When talking with my husband, I often use silly childhood slang such as “pasketti” for “spaghetti.” I guess my hubby brings out the silly kid in me. I like that. 🙂 Aww, I say that too. That and “topatoes” for potatoes. Muscle= musk-le Knife= k’nife Subaru= boo-ber-sue My sister says “ben” as “bean,” which doesn’t fit in with the rest of her (PNW/midwestern) accent. **Robardin** , I say “Ant” too. Are you midwestern, by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![SusanStoHelit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@SusanStoHelit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SusanStoHelit)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/31 "2005-08-19T23:42:50Z")
Oh, I almost forgot: since I read my first Pratchett, I now say persycology (psychology) ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/32 "2005-08-19T23:44:30Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > AspaRAGus, as in: > _The sinful aspaRAGus > To iniquity will drag us._ > > I’m also fond of \*automagic(al(ly)), punkin, sammich, pronounciation, prevert, swaydonym \*(for \*pseudonym), kaniffie \*(for \*knife), piskic \*(for _psychic), mazagreen,_ and _poopcorn_. For **psychic** I say “physic.” Also: ga-noo (instead of gnu), mazageen, and buffet with the “t” pronounced. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/33 "2005-08-19T23:55:36Z")
> [@SusanStoHelit](#): > > **Robardin** , I say “Ant” too. Are you midwestern, by any chance? Nope; New York City born and raised. That’s why I wondered. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/34 "2005-08-20T00:22:43Z")
Here are a few of my favorites. I try to use the only around those who will see the humor in them. suave=swayve hors d’oeuvres=horse doovers subtle=sub-tul police= PO-leece ---
**Author:** ![Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Can_Handle_the_Truth)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/35 "2005-08-20T00:23:12Z")
Corn-fused = Confused Extinguished = Distinguished Horse doovers = hors d’oeuveres Her-ass-ment = harassment ---
**Author:** ![jimpatro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@jimpatro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimpatro)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/36 "2005-08-20T00:28:25Z")
Stragiddy for strategy as my personal hero Bugs does. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/37 "2005-08-20T00:38:56Z")
> [@OhFace](#): > > I like to say krauten for crouton. I have no idea where I got it from, but I’ve been saying it that way for as long as I can remember. You may have gotten it from the Cosby Show. In one episode, Cliff takres several children to an upscale restaurant. One of the kids in the group pronounces the word as “krauten”. My sister started saying it this way and still continues to use this pronunciation to this day. As for me, I intentionally mangle a lot of French words and say them as one would do if they were English. Such words always pissed me off as a kid since they were never pronounced the way I’d expect. For example, I say the word _buffet_ as “buff-et”. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/38 "2005-08-20T00:45:25Z")
Illinois as “Ill of Noise” Hideki Irabu as “I rob you” or “I hear a Boo” In the right situation New Jersey becomes Joisey ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/39 "2005-08-20T00:51:10Z")
> [@Can Handle the Truth](#): > > Horse doovers = hors d’oeuveres Croys’nts = croissants (à la _Car Talk_) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/40 "2005-08-20T00:57:59Z")
I forgot Targets (as in the store) as TarShjay. Don’t know way but my wife and many friends have all gotten into the same habit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800.md?page=3)