So how many words do you hear everyday that get mispronounced? I guess some are a regional thing. Others are just ... strange. Who knows how a particular word gets jumbled up in somebody's brain and refuses to come out any way except their special way.
We have a weathercaster that tries her best but sometimes it will be cwoudy in the morning but cwear in the afternoon.
Here are a few more from the internet. Except the last one. I know someone that says the last one.
They said,
They meant...
eubie kanubie
Eukanuba
Ambliance
Ambulance
Pellow
Pillow
poym
poem
catackalysm
cataclysm
reindeernator
radiator
wun lee
only
wooter
water
torlet
toilet
Mochart
Mozart
hyth
height
turst
tourist
tubashoeba
toshiba
4 comments:
One of my pet peeves is the mispronunciation of Realtor, pronounced by some a relator.
I went to speech class for 7 years to avoid Wick instead of Rick and wabbit and wadio. Then Barbara Walters makes millions speaking like that. Go figure.
I wonder why Barbara Walters persisted so long.
Mispronunciations teem in everyday usage. Standards are easy.
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