# Words you mispronounce on purpose for a hunnert, Alex **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 23, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963 "2006-08-23T23:18:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/61 "2006-08-25T14:41:24Z")
We had a friend who was always trying to impress us by describing various meals he’d have at fancy restaurants; always mangling the names of the meals. One of friends said to him, “You’re a regular Bon Vivant”. (except he deliberately pronounced it BON VIE-VANT. It went right over his head; he thanked the guy for the compliment. To this day we still use BON VIE-VANT. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/62 "2006-08-25T15:58:52Z")
[QUOTE=Godfrey Daniels] From my daughter, when she was 3 or 4; ‘elfetent’ for elephant, ‘fat tood’ for cat food. I can’t remember the last time I actually said ‘cat food’. **‘Whasdisheah sauce’ for worcestershire sauce** ; ‘stragedy’ for strategy; ‘bookay’ for bucket (thanks Hyacinth!); libarry; sammich (sammidge, sanguidge); fox pass; axe (‘ask’); axterix (asterisk); sommers (somewhere); excetra, excetra… [/QUOTE] My wife calls it “Whats-this-here” sauce and I have picked it up from her. ::Mr. Burns:: Let them have thier Tar Tar sauce ::Mr Burns:: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/63 "2006-08-25T16:46:18Z")
Every morning, I get up first in our apartment, because I have to make breff-tist for my fambly. And every December I wish people “Merry Crip-muff!” ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/64 "2006-08-26T01:05:20Z")
In South Carolina, we drive pick-em-up trucks and serve horse doovers at parties. Hadios, Amoebas. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/65 "2006-08-26T01:31:56Z")
[QUOTE=dwc1970] I sometimes substitute an “oi” sound for the “er” sound in words like “turn”. I’ll say “toin”. or “Ow! That hoits!” [/QUOTE] When I’m demonstrating something, I often say “Obsoive!” I thought that Whatsdishea was actually a pretty accurate pronunciation of Worcestershire (Og forbid the British actually pronounce more than half of the letters in a proper noun) 😕 . My whole family sometimes says ponsuter instead of computer. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/66 "2006-08-26T03:00:31Z")
[QUOTE=legalsnugs] In South Carolina, we drive pick-em-up trucks and serve **horse doovers** at parties. Hadios, Amoebas. [/QUOTE] See. Ya learn sompin’ every day. We’ums call um **Horse D’Ovaries** ---
**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 26, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/67 "2006-08-26T03:27:10Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > My roomate in college 25 years ago used to say Befkist for Breakfast. I had a camp counselor from Philadelphia who called it _brekfixt._ And according to my mom, the plural is _breakfases._ [QUOTE=dwc1970] A friend of mine calls hamburgers “hanga-burgers.” [/QUOTE] Garrison Keillor called them _hambarugers_ (based on, of all things, some paper he found in a typewriter in an office supply store). I do that myself occasionally. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/68 "2006-08-26T03:31:00Z")
I’m from Pittsburgh. We miss pronounce EVERYTHING. ---
**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 26, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/69 "2006-08-26T03:35:47Z")
[QUOTE=legalsnugs] In South Carolina, we drive pick-em-up trucks and serve horse doovers at parties. Hadios, Amoebas. [/QUOTE] _Mucus Garcias._ I distinctly recall a photograph taken in the 1930s by [John Gutmann](http://www.johngutmann.org/) of an advertising sign for some candy company that took up one entire side of a building. Among various cartoons and novelty flapdoodle was the phrase **EAT HORSE DOOVERS.** ---
**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 26, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/70 "2006-08-26T03:51:46Z")
[Here it is.](http://johngutmann.org/photographs/lang/01.html) ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/71 "2006-08-26T07:54:16Z")
Because I’m mom to a toddler I say EH OH for Hello. (Thank the Teletubbies for that one). Only I do it with other adults and they aren’t amused. Because of Mig I say Chet-ohs instead of Cheetos. I call cheese kwee-soh just to annoy him. I call the computer a cadooda because I once had a student that called it that and I can’t get it out of my head after ten years. Aluminum is aluminiminum. Not sure how that started. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/72 "2006-08-26T18:49:03Z")
“Ronery”, after the Jong-Il. ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/73 "2006-08-26T18:54:42Z")
Refritterator. Futton (rhymes with button.) Croy-sant (thanks Tom and Ray!) ---
**Author:** ![Archergal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2006, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963/74 "2006-08-27T17:59:21Z")
Because french fries are occasionally abbreviated as “fr fr” on some menus, in my family we call them fur-furs. My mom couldn’t remember that and get it right. She called them “free-frees”, so we say that sometimes now too. The Waffle House is (predictably) known as the Awful House chez moi. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-mispronounce-on-purpose-for-a-hunnert-alex/369963.md?page=3)