Words youve pismonounced

[ozleicester]

What words have you got wrong having only read them?

Hermione = Hermy on
Cirencester = fvck knows
 

[jonthefox]

You've 

[Chiltern Fox]

Lingerie.

 

Pronounced as it sounds as opposed to laungerie. 

[VLC86]

Belvoir drive

[jonthefox]

Binoculars

[Nalis]

13 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

What words have you got wrong having only read them?

Hermione = Hermy on
Cirencester = fvck knows
 

Took me 6 years of getting off at Holborn station to realise you dont pronounce the L....

[ithuriel]

Soulsby and Keith Vaz, often mispronounce their names.

[StanSP]

Cortege 

[Vlad the Fox]

Any jobs list the wife has left me if I have a day of work.

 

Hoover the house = Go down the pub

Mow the lawn = Go down the pub

Walk the dog = Take the dog down the pub

Make dinner = Dinner at the pub 

 

etc…

[davieG]

Being hard of hearing too many to mention but plenty of footballers, brings happiness and laughter to my family though.

[Milo]

8 minutes ago, jonthefox said:

Binoculars

How?!! 

[Tuna]

Aslackby.

Distributor.

Edited 19 September 2022 by Tuna

[jonthefox]

1 minute ago, Milo said:

How?!! 

Easy, I just have trouble saying it.

[Milo]

2 minutes ago, jonthefox said:

Easy, I just have trouble saying it.

Haha - apologies, I didn’t mean how do you mispronounce it, more what is the word that comes out instead? 

[Brainy]

I've always thought the word respite was spelt/pronounced restbite up until about a year ago

[Guest Electric Yetis]

Menzies

Dalziel

[FoxesDeb]

Epitome = epi tome

Misled I used to read as my sld, like aisle?

 

Edited 19 September 2022 by FoxesDeb

[Milo]

Lingerie is a good shout above

 

Also chaise lounge

 

 

 

 

(I’m a nightmare in a brothel) 

[An Away Move]

Macadamia = Macca da mia (like an Italian)

[FoxesDeb]

4 minutes ago, Milo said:

Lingerie is a good shout above

 

Also chaise lounge

 

 

 

 

(I’m a nightmare in a brothel) 

Chaise lounge really winds me up 

[StanSP]

Not me that does it, but it annoys me when people say or even type 'utmost' as 'upmost'.

[Sampson]

As an opposite problem, I never knew until recently that “segway” as in “how the film segways from one scene to the next” is actually spelt “segue” not “segway”?

 

Who decided that? Surely that was a typo when they printed the first dictionary?

[Scotch]

Being Scottish, if you put an R and an L together in a word it enduces a moderately sized stroke. 

Edited 19 September 2022 by Scotch

[Buzzell]

Coincidence I used to struggle with when I was younger.

[spacemunky]

10 minutes ago, buzzer_b said:

Coincidence I used to struggle with when I was younger.

What a coinkydink!

 

For me it's 'antibiotic' that I usually butcher  I either say it as 'aunty-be-yaw-tic' or because someone made fun of how i said it, so i do a more drawn out and way too sharply pronounced 'ann-tie-by-aww-tick!'.