Why Can't People Pronounce These Properly?

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Go on & flush 'em out, yarb. That'll show them.

Is "shaguar" OK? 'Cause I LOVE saying shaguar! Yeah baby!

My boss is forever asking me to "flush out" certain points in reports etc. Flesh! I scream silently. Flesh out!

These things use to get on my nerves; now I just live widdem.

My 7th-grade English teacher, Miss Dibert, always used to say certainy instead of certainly. I never understood where that came from.

1. fillum (for film)
2. using "ink" in words that should end in "ing", e.g. "anythink"

My experience of "guesstimate", however, is that it's used knowingly and deliberately as a semi-humorous device, not out of ignorance or carelessness.

How about liberry? or crown? (crayon)

How about "surpress" for suppress and "bolth" for both?

I never pronunce any fink properly. I'm from a Straya. I'm a Philip Stein.

Reading this list is like running into bobbed wire.

How about "suprise"?

I-ern-ically, I think I-ron doesn't quite cut it, though you can probably sell the name to Apple.

Terribly sorry to disappoint, pomegranate... I say "i-earn." Also "ex-chell-sees" is actually the Latin pronunciation, which I only hear (and say) in Christmas carols. But I can see how any other pronunciation would grate on one's nerves.

Tell me that I am not wrong in my pronunciation of iron as it is spelled. People all around me say "iern" and insist they are correct! Also, how do you pronounce "excelsis"?

Great list, c_b!

In Baltimore, we say: "seeya downy ocean hun" when we're planning a rendezvous in Ocean City.

C-b, this list is awful! I mean wonderful! I mean awful!

Oh, how about "ornt juice"? I used to think it was kind of cute. That wore off.

Only if you stop saying sez. ;->

Off kahilter annoys me.

Stop saying rigamarole. It gives me hives.

Pretty please. ;)

What about kerfuffle vs. kerfluffle? Personally I like the first but hate the latter, and yet more people seem to use the version with the extraneous "l". Why, God, why??

*shakes tiny fists*

Yeah! Rigmarole doesn't have enough syllables to be appropriate.

Me too, arby! I like rigamarole better. It sounds more like what it is.

However, the rest of this list makes me itchy. ;-)

I secretly like sammich. I know it's wrong, but it's just so cute. And I'm still not convinced that rigamarole is even wrong. Rigmarole sounds wronger to me.

What about "sammich" for "sandwich"? My friend once interrupted a conversation to praise me for saying this properly. Now I can't stop noticing that everyone else pronounces it wrong. I've never heard "sangwich", though.

Ohhhh, yuck! That's a good one!

as in "i'm not suppose to"

Saaay, I like that, skipvia! Flustered and frustrated at the same time. :-)

Flustrated?

I don't call it Pearl Harbor Day, I call it December 7th. And for some reason I can't bring myself to say "9/11" either, I say "September 11th."

I don't know about Freedom Day, Patriot Day, whatever. It was a monumentally sucky day. No amount of happy adjectives is going to make me forget what it felt like to watch that stuff happening, so I'd just as soon call it "September 11th" and hope that other people understand. If I'm lucky enough to live for decades and decades, and I'm one of the last people who's old enough to remember that feeling, I'll just have to trust that the following generations will try to understand.

Just like I try to understand how December 7th felt.

Anyway... wow! These comments really went off on a tangent!

I'm glad folks are likin' on this list. It still makes me feel itchy and allergic to read it!

With all due respect, 9/11 should be called "Freedom Day."

In no small part because Patriot Day is already taken, and taken seriously in Maine and Massachusetts.

Agreed, uselessness. But I wonder whether it'll just take more historical distance from the actual event(s) for that to happen. When did Pearl Harbor Day start being called Pearl Harbor Day? Anyone know?

It'd be hard to assign 9/11 a name like that, though, since the attacks happened in three separate places. Still, I too can't bring myself to call it Patriot Day.

Likewise, I suppose, when people refer to the emergency number as "nine-eleven." Although to be honest I think my beef is the whole thing about calling the day 9/11 instead of something with more meaning. Apparently the day has been designated as Patriot Day, but I find that name unbearably jingoistic and can't bring myself to say it.

I just 'favorited' this list because it creeps me out so much! I'm not sure what that says about me.

Not sure if you can work this in...but how about when people say "nine-one-one" instead of "nine-eleven" for September 11th? That one really drives me crazy.

I love this list... I know it's wrong, but I find some of these have a certain "charm"... (But then, I'm a fan of Spoonerisms, Yogiisms, & Farberisms, too...)

You're a brave Wordie, chained_bear.

Thanks for all the "great" additions. I can add words to this only a few at a time, and can't read the list more than once a week or it gives me hives.

grevious, liberry book, should of, incent, nuptuals, she was prostate on the couch, chaise lounge, 'you've got another thing coming', mash potatoes, mute point, acrost

Old Timer's disease, anacronym

My mother hates jewelry pronounced that way, but the british spelling is jewellery and the word jewel is pronounced jool, so jewl-ery.

feb-u-ary, jew-lery, could care less?

This whole list gives me the heebie jeebies (which, interestingly enough, ninjawords doesn't recognize).

I'm racking my brain trying to think of the myriad mistakes freshmen composition students make. Updates forthcoming with the newest batch of papers.

Abraxas, I'm glad you mentioned that--I was wondering for a few days why you hated the word axe so much (I think it's kind of cool, if it's not being used in place of ask). Now I get it.

I'm with you on everything except rigamarole. I am, however, going to change the spelling in my Rubbies list from axe to aks.

I think a huge part of my soul just died.

(But while I'm here, how about 'fith' (for fifth) and 'probly'?)

sangwich

You know, so many more people have added "rigamarole" to their lists than "rigmarole"... It makes me cry.

Don't forget "excape"! :oP

Thankfully, I've never actually heard anyone say "jagwire," so I'm going to pretend it never happens. Eeeeeyew...

AAAAAAAAAAGH!! This list makes my skin crawl!

Aaaargh!

My boss says this all the time.

How about "jagwire" for jaguar?