# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/41 "2005-08-20T01:03:58Z")
> [@Can Handle the Truth](#): > > Extinguished = Distinguished My Brit pronunciation again asks what is supposed to be wrong with this? ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/42 "2005-08-20T01:41:42Z")
Seeping for sleeping (usually when referring to our cat, although sometimes now it shows up with reference to my baby niece). My college buddies used to mispronounce a lot of words. I’m not going to type up what they used to say, but I always kind of enjoyed understanding things that most other people did not. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/43 "2005-08-20T01:47:53Z")
> [@Eureka](#): > > Seeping for sleeping (usually when referring to our cat, although sometimes now it shows up with reference to my baby niece). Interesting - I use sheeping for sleeping with my daughter. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/44 "2005-08-20T01:50:01Z")
> [@amaranta](#): > > I also like saxamaphone and oboemaboe. Trampampoline! ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/45 "2005-08-20T01:51:57Z")
You Sheep with your daughter??!! :eek: 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/46 "2005-08-20T02:06:01Z")
aks for ask prolly for probably stragedy for strategy saxamaphone for saxaphone Tar-jay for Target Jacques Pen-yay for JC Penney muskle for muscle k’nife for knife skissors for scissors sammich for sandwich pasketti for spaghetti fa-jee-ta for fajita bow-ee-muth for behemoth ('cause Steven Reich sounded so cool doing it at the beginning of _Reservoir Dogs_, of course) ant for aunt pa-ta-to for potata Did-nee Whirl for Disney World sup for what’s up I’m like a walking parody of every person I’ve ever seen with poor pronunciation, I guess. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/47 "2005-08-20T02:12:35Z")
Music becomes moosic. ---
**Author:** ![raz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@raz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raz)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/48 "2005-08-20T02:19:19Z")
I used to work at a mexican place and I always pronounced “jalapeno” like “jap-a-leen-yo”. I still do it. I also say “grassy-ass” instead of gracias. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/49 "2005-08-20T02:30:55Z")
> [@SpectBrain](#): > > You Sheep with your daughter??!! :eek: 😃 Mmm…looking at your post count I can deduce that you hide away among the rocks and crevices waiting to strike at some poor defenceless unguarded statement. But, since you ask, yes, sometimes, when my wife’s unavailable. At least she kicks less than she used to. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/50 "2005-08-20T02:45:02Z")
My wife and I read the fashion magazines monthly: Madame wozzel Awl-ooh-ray Glah moor The best of the lot, Jane, is still just plain Jane. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/51 "2005-08-20T02:58:34Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > “Do you like a present?” “I like a pillow.” We do that a lot in my house as well. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/52 "2005-08-20T03:15:01Z")
I go to the store to make a per-CHASE. ---
**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/53 "2005-08-20T03:18:23Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > I go to the store to make a per-CHASE. There’s the standard pronunciation of Hong Kong English - sadly. Despite my best efforts as resident English expert, we still have a purCHASing department. So ugly. ---
**Author:** ![parthenokinesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cc9497/32.png) [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/54 "2005-08-20T03:19:47Z")
As an American, I like to drop the special accented letters that my language does not use. So for example Pâté is both spelled and pronounced pate. Of course, I believe this tendency, even more than our foreign policy, is the reason the rest of the world loves us so much. 3:) ---
**Author:** ![Roma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Roma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roma)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/55 "2005-08-20T03:26:43Z")
Ploodles are cute dogs. Under no circumferences would I want one, though. Quesadillas are case-uh-dillas, thanks to Napolean Dynamite. I think everyone says skissors. I say Tarshjay instead of Target, too. I like making it sound like someplace fancy…got it from my aunt. If anyone pronouned “Aunt” like “Awnt,” though, I would think they’d lost their mind. Putting ‘age’ on the end of words is also fun. “Be careful on the front steps, I had some slippage on the way in.” I’ll think of a lot more—my friends and i have tons of these. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/56 "2005-08-20T03:27:47Z")
20 years ago, my 2 year old niece told her cousin to quit “agdering” her. To this day, we all now use that instead of “aggravate.” Mosquitoes are moe-skweet-ohs. And gnats are guh-nats. ---
**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, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/57 "2005-08-20T03:57:14Z")
Hmm…I was always suspect of high post counts as opposed to low. ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/58 "2005-08-20T04:05:41Z")
Quesadillas are quasi-dillos. Vinegar? Vine. Garrrr! Gazebo? GAZE-bo. I add -atrix or -tech to words (elevatrix, computech, yada de blah). ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/59 "2005-08-20T04:21:35Z")
Tarshjay seem ubiquitous. Have you heard J.C. Penney called “Jacques C’est Penyay” ? Another attempt to make it sound fancier than it is. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800/60 "2005-08-20T04:35:06Z")
I learned to read by 4 and came across words in books long before I ever heard anyone pronounce them, and was usually too lazy to look them up in the dictionary. As a result, I frequently mispronounced them. The only ones that have stuck (partly because I thought my way sounded better when I was a kid, even after I learned the correct pronunciation) are **infrared** and **misled** , which I had figured out were obviously the past participles of **infrare** and **misle**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-enjoy-mispronouncing/317800.md?page=4)