# Words you intentionally mispronounce for humor reasons **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 12, 2013, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122 "2013-02-12T21:36:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/21 "2013-02-12T23:13:17Z")
Merci beaucoup is Murky Buckets. S’il vous plait is Silver Plate. Edited to add: I forgot the other French one. Garcon is Garckon. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/22 "2013-02-12T23:15:41Z")
Byoo Tox (buttocks) ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/23 "2013-02-12T23:16:50Z")
Socrates like Bill and Ted tortilla ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/24 "2013-02-12T23:32:02Z")
Fee-tish. Inside joke with a guy I knew in high school. It just became the default way I pronounce it ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/25 "2013-02-12T23:36:43Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Test-uh-clees. Yup. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/26 "2013-02-12T23:43:51Z")
Foilage for foliage. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/27 "2013-02-12T23:48:53Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > When my youngest sis was still a wee one, she called the EMT’s vehicle an ambalance, and I’ll say that sometimes for giggles. I call it an Ecnalubma, 'cause that’s what’s printed across the front. ETA: Pronounce eck-NAL-yoob-ma. ---
**Author:** ![gerund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@gerund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gerund)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2013, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/28 "2013-02-12T23:56:14Z")
“scissors” ---
**Author:** ![dexter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dc4da7/32.png) [@dexter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dexter)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/29 "2013-02-13T00:12:39Z")
“swauve-aye and de-boner” (suave and debonair) for those of us old enough to remember the Beverly Hillbillies. ---
**Author:** ![harmonicamoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@harmonicamoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/harmonicamoon)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/30 "2013-02-13T00:26:00Z")
Your em-fa-sis is on the wrong sigh-la-bul. ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/31 "2013-02-13T00:30:36Z")
“eeeeeelicious” for delicious. From my nephew, when he was little. “hop-suns” for options, and “ouch-standing” for outstanding. From my son, when he was little. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/32 "2013-02-13T00:31:37Z")
> [@harmonicamoon](#): > > Your em-fa-sis is on the wrong sigh-la-bul. Oh yes, I give the wrong sy-LAH-bulls em-FAH-sis as well. Also people employing hyperbole are “taking a trip to the hyper-bowl.” ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/33 "2013-02-13T01:47:41Z")
We really shouldn’t do it, but we have borrowed our 3YO granddaughter’s mispronunciations: figgins = fingers mungas = animals, especially stuffed ones that accompany you to bed ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/34 "2013-02-13T01:54:17Z")
“Chipoodle” for Chipotle. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/35 "2013-02-13T02:06:16Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I call it an Ecnalubma, 'cause that’s what’s printed across the front. > > ETA: Pronounce eck-NAL-yoob-ma. I do that to drive my 9 year old nuts. And kin-iffy, (knife). ---
**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:** [February 13, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/36 "2013-02-13T02:34:22Z")
> [@postcards](#): > > My thing is to pronounce ‘mischievous’ as ‘miss-chee-vee-us’ as in “I am devious and mischievous”. > [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Ooh, I like that one. I absolutely hate that one. As with “walla” for _voila_, there are too many people who think that’s the correct pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/37 "2013-02-13T02:37:30Z")
I know plenty of people who earnestly believe there is an i after the v in mischievous. Even my fifth-grade teacher said so. Doesn’t mean they’re right. ---
**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:** [February 13, 2013, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/38 "2013-02-13T02:38:17Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > When my youngest sis was still a wee one, she called the EMT’s vehicle an ambalance, and I’ll say that sometimes for giggles. > [@Leaffan](#): > > I call it an Ecnalubma, 'cause that’s what’s printed across the front. > > ETA: Pronounce eck-NAL-yoob-ma. I pronounce it as if it were an Italian word: ahm-boo-LAHN-chay. The same with _fragile_: fra-GHEE-lay. ---
**Author:** ![moejoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@moejoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejoe)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/39 "2013-02-13T02:40:29Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > “Chipoodle” for Chipotle. This, and also para-dig-um ---
**Author:** ![DummyGladHands](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@DummyGladHands](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DummyGladHands)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-intentionally-mispronounce-for-humor-reasons/650122/40 "2013-02-13T02:47:46Z")
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