Mispronunciations that hurt your ears...

Welcome to my epilepsy world. This absolutely makes me want to have a seizure especially when it’s medical personnel saying it.

delila

My neighbor goes on and on about her peonies, but she pronounces them "pee-AH-nees." Now DH says it that way just to bug me!

I know someone got handslapped for pointing out adding an s to a business name, but it drives me batty. NordstromS, PikeS Place Market, HaggenS, Nope, nope, nope. No extra s.

amblet see???

my STBX MIL always called it "kindy-garden".

"ja-lap-an-o" peppers - ugh.

i listened to a podcast once and the guy said "architecture" maybe 90 times and pronounced "arch-a-texture". but maybe i am wrong - lol - totally worked my last nerve but was REALLY interested in the content so cringed my way through it.

Yes brekkie is breakfast & a cuppa is a cup of tea. Good job!

Some have already been mentioned. I’ll add:
Excetera for et cetera
Sherbert for Sherbet
Aiggs for eggs

Shortening words is beginning to annoy me as well. If someone asks me what my favorite app is I’m not sure if they’re referring to foods or phones.

My MIL butchers a lot of words. mannaise (mayonnaise), relitor (realtor), extracise (exercise). And i especially hate tall instead of towel. She once asked her sister how the chlamydia was going. She meant the climbing flower. Sigh.

Vulnerable

My ex pronounced it von-der-able, not sure where that d came from in his brain.

My DH pronounces it von-er-able. Still drives me nuts.

That cracked me up! So cute. Seems fun.

How often does the calvary/cavalry mix-up occur?😄 Those just seem like words that don't get used very often.

One of my word peeves is jewLERy instead of jewelry.

That reminds me of the time I was buying my mum some potted flowers. I saw some ranunculus that were really pretty, so I said to the woman "I'll take the ranunculus please." But I pronounced it some weird way (I had no idea!!) like ran-un-COOL-us. She got a bit snooty and said "The ran-UNC-you-lus." I've never forgotten how to pronounce them after that! 

My sister has so many that I don’t even want to list them.  And you cannot convince her she is saying the wrong word or using a phrase that isn’t correct.

When my niece was little and learning to spell, she told me how surprised she was at the spelling of the words “dress” and “tree” because she had always heard them as “jress” and “chree” so that was how she said them and was going to spell them.  She had such a cute little singsong voice and I never heard her say jress or chree.  They do sound the same when you say them quickly, I guess. It makes me wonder if a number of people that are mispronouncing words don’t often read and don’t see the word in print to understand how it should be pronounced.

The sister that mispronounces so many words jumps on me when I say the word “often” because I say “off ten” and she swears it should be “off en” and that the “t” is supposed to be silent like the “b” in thumb.     She also uses “being that” instead of “because” when she wants to sound educated.  She had me proof a letter for her once and she continually used “being that” and wouldn’t correct it because it sounded “classier” in her mind.  I gave up.

Y’all are just a bunch of Bogans (I’m kidding!) What exactly is a Bogan? From what I’ve seen online they’re a mix of Rednecks and British Chavers. 

Although I think the peas would be clutching their pearls so hard over the liberal use of the C word they wouldn’t even notice. 

I don’t really care if people shorten words and don’t judge, but where I live nobody does it unless they’re trying to be cutesy or cool. Like middle aged women trying to sound like hipster kids. Or like an American tourist mimicking Aussies if they visited. Really annoying and not genuine.