Mispronunciations that hurt your ears...

I need to hear that with my own ears. Who is it?

I knew a woman that sold Silpada for YEARS and was VERY successful and she pronounced it "joo-ery".  Every. Single. Time. 

And all the while making several very basic grammar and spelling errors but presumably that doesn't count  Hilarious 

When your mother tongue( the language you have spoken from the time you started to speak) is different  it's very difficult to get the "foreign to you language" pronunciation correct. Physically, the shape of your mouth/tongue in forming the words in your first language is hard to undo.

I bet if you spoke French/German/ Spanish or any other foreign language they would think the same of you however long you would have lived in a country. I give a pass to anyone that is not a native English speaker. You could say the same for our own language between British and American English.In many cases you pronounce vowels within words differently to us.

I'm English - home counties born and moved to the west country. I pronounce both the 'r's in library, and both in February. I just asked my west country DH and he misses the first 'r' in February but does enunciate library correctly.

I think mostly we speak so quickly that we don't take much notice as long as we make ourselves understood. I'm sure if we listened to ourselves carefully, or a recording of ourselves, we would find that we are all much lazier than we thought.

😂😂😂

I *might* pay to see that.

Did she have a speech impediment?

Can we please stop the pile-on on ScrappinMyLife now. I feel bad for the part I played in the pile-on, and I don't believe she meant to be offensive. I know that I can be a bit judgemental about certain things (like when people say "would of" or "I seen that"). The only difference is that I know that saying certain things on this board can result on these kinds of pile-ons. I've been the recipient of a decent old multi page handslap before and it's not a nice feeling. 

When my son was little, we were driving down the road and we heard, “Hey, look! It’s a gaze-bow!”

I guess we didn’t use it in conversation and he picked it up reading. To this day, we still call gazebos gaze-bows.

I just saw a meme this week that said never make fun of someone who mispronounces a word. It means they learned it by reading rather than speaking.


I often mispronounce words that I picked up reading as oppose to hearing spoken. I've even found a few that I misspoke for years and when I would hear the correct pronunciation in my late 20s and early 30s, I had to ask what it was. This is how I found out that I was saying it wrong.

There are words I cannot say regardless of how hard I try. It's a crayola, because if I say crayon it comes out crown. My kids used to think it hysterical to try and get me to say crayon for their amusement. To say it correctly it takes 3-4x as long as normal conversational speech. Cinnamon took me years to be able to say it correctly, and aluminum stills makes me stumble.

My current pet peeve:

"interesting"

pronounced "INNER---esting"

Can we discuss the current trend of “kinda” in place of “kind of?”

Kinda a big deal or kind of a big deal?

Country kinda girl or kind of girl?

My kinda party or my kind of party?

I see it a ton on T-shirt’s and crafts. It always makes me stop and wonder.

Married friends of my aunt drove out here to California to visit my aunt. Their names were Rex and Ada. Rex kept saying that they stayed at the Ram Ada In, and he did.