It's LibRary! There's an R in there! (Read 694 times)

Our very good friends are forever mispronouncing things.  If there is a word he just can't get, he makes up something even stupider.  Like Cabernet Sauvignon.  He can't say the second word, so he calls it Cabernet Serve-it-young.  Wine stewards everywhere are so impressed.

She will mispronounce someone's name forever.  Mr. and Mrs. Byrum.  No, their name is Bryan.  Bry-an.  You really should make an effort to get your friends' names right.  She also throws the extraneous 'r' into words, like warsh.

There are dozens more.

 

Rediculus was an ancient Roman divinity.

 

Isn't it also a spell taught at Hogwarts?

The one that used to drive me nuts as a Star Wars-loving kid was when others would refer to Luke Skywalker and "Dark Vader."  Haven't really heard much of that one since, though.

One of my little jokes with my beginning band students is to pretend like I can't pronounce "Good King Wenceslas" when we're getting it ready for the concert.  Every day I make up a new butchery of the last part of "Wenceslas..." "Wencesterslas," "Wenceslaw," "Wencenterslilly..." more and more off-base up until the concert, and pretend I think I'm saying it correctly every day.

Believe it or not, some of them think I really don't know how to say it, and they actually find it pretty funny.

I also notice that people mispronounce Wes-con-sin and Or-e-gahn.

The Wesconsin thing always gets me.  I've had people in MI mock how I pronounce my own home state...while they ridiculously say Wes-CAHHHN-sin.  It sounds harsh.

Speaking of Darth Vader, when I was a little little kid, I was one of the goofuses who called the Twilight Zone dude Rod Sterling.  Lo siento mucho.

Also, folks, the paint is not Sherman Williams.

One that makes me nuts is when  folks use "whenever" instead of "when."   As in "Whenever I went to the store, I bought eggs" meant to express that she bought eggs yesterday when she went to the store.  Everyone seems to use that here in MO, while I didn't hear it much back in Ill-i-noise.

I'll admit I have my share of mis-pronounciations.

I still say Ni-Caaa-se-O not Ni-CAH-See-o for the little town in Marin County, Nicasio Same with Tomales  (I choose AAAA RAAAAther than AHHHH.)

I waRsh mah hands in the CRICK.

If you are in Salinas the third week of July you go to the Ro-DAY-o not Ro-DEE-o.

Some of other peoples that bug me...

• The Panniers that you put your stuff in on a pack horse are not to be referred to as a Pan-YARD.
• Our president is not named "Obambo" as a woman I work with asserts.
• Them mountains on the East side of Jackson ain't grow vent, they are Gros Ventre (Grow VANT)
• MosCOW is in Russia.  MosCOE is in Northern Idaho.
Wanna tell someone ain't an Idaho native?  They visit Boy-SEE, folks grew up in Boi-ZEE.

 

There is for me, but not for most people I know.  But I grew up as the daughter of a professional voice so I do say wHat.  not wut.

I'm not even sure how to say wHat.  But, I have heard people say Hwat rather than the common wut.