Words youve pismonounced

[Buzzell]

Just now, spacemunky said:

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!'.

Mate my brain would hurt whenever I saw the word  

[FoxesAreBlue]

I’ve been pronouncing “bald” in the same way as you’d say “bold” and got pellets for it recently.

 

I also can pronounce the name of a Nissan Qashqai - always end up stumbling over it and saying something like quash-koi, cash-cow, kumquat etc

[Sampson]

How do people pronounce “tongue”? When growing up in Leicestershire I always pronounced it as “tong” the same as a pair of tongs, but when I moved to the south coast got laughed at as everyone else pronounced it “tung” as in the first half of “tungsten” differently from tongs. I keep telling them it’s an “o” not a “u” in the first syllable but they won’t listen.

 

Never knew if that was just me or it was a a Leicestershire thing.

Edited 19 September 2022 by Sampson

[Captain...]

I used to weirdly struggle with variety. I would say varity.

 

I had a good one in Spain, I was practicing my Spanish and I didn't know the word for blister in Spanish so I asked my Spanish friends. They said ampolla, I slightly mis heard and said: "Mis pies estaban cubierto de pollas." 

 

Which means my feet were covered in dicks.

[Captain...]

2 minutes ago, Sampson said:

How do people pronounce “tongue”? When growing up in Leicestershire I always pronounced it as “tong” the same as a pair of tongs, but when I moved to the south coast got laughed at as everyone else pronounced it “tung” as in the first half of “tungsten” differently from tongs. I keep telling them it’s an “o” not a “u” in the first syllable but they won’t listen.

 

Never knew if that was just me or it was a a Leicestershire thing.

It's a Leicester/Midlands thing I get corrected a lot, even by my missus who is from Leicester.

[StanSP]

18 minutes ago, FoxesAreBlue said:

I’ve been pronouncing “bald” in the same way as you’d say “bold” and got pellets for it recently.

 

I also can pronounce the name of a Nissan Qashqai - always end up stumbling over it and saying something like quash-koi, cash-cow, kumquat etc

How on earth is there another way to say bald or bold  

 

They're the same pronunciation?!

[FoxesDeb]

16 minutes ago, spacemunky said:

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!'.

That reminds me, how may people say ibufen when they mean ibuprofen 

[FoxesAreBlue]

Just now, StanSP said:

How on earth is there another way to say bald or bold  

 

They're the same pronunciation?!

Apparently (according to the Londoners I live amongst)

 

Bald = bauld 

Bold = bold

[FoxesDeb]

1 minute ago, StanSP said:

How on earth is there another way to say bald or bold  

 

They're the same pronunciation?!

No they're not! Balled or bowled are probably the closest similarly pronounced words

[StanSP]

Just now, FoxesDeb said:

No they're not! Balled or bowled are probably the closest similarly pronounced words

I've said 'bald' wrong all my life then  

 

Welcome to the topic, Stan  

[Sampson]

I definitely pronounce bowled, bold and bald all the same as well 

 

Wasn’t the old playground song “hey you over there, what’s it like to have no hair? Is it hot or is it cold, I don’t know cause I’m not bald”?  I thought it always rhymed with cold 

[filthyfox]

In year 9 science class.....

 

Wait for it....

 

Orgasm, meaning to say organism

[Electric Yetis]

41 minutes ago, StanSP said:

I've said 'bald' wrong all my life then  

 

Welcome to the topic, Stan  

Don't worry you're saying it right.

[blabyboy]

37 minutes ago, filthyfox said:

In year 9 science class.....

 

Wait for it....

 

Orgasm, meaning to say organism

My mum used to say that instead of organism... Led to a few interesting Sunday dinner table conversations when talking about the natural world. 😆

[surrifox]

Always struggle with plant names and get mocked for it by the know - all missus 

 

Cotton Easter for Coe Tony Aster ( cotoneaster) 

 

camper Noula for camp annual er (campanula)

 

a bit first world problem though 

 

[1972 Fox]

5 hours ago, Milo said:

How?!! 

Fred Dinenage. Or more specifically relating to this thread, Fred Dine-age!

[ALC Fox]

My big one back in the day was thinking 'misled' was pronounced 'my zulled' instead of 'miss led'.

 

One I still hear among Leicester folk of a certain vintage is 'straight the way' instead of 'straight away'.

[Xen]

19 hours ago, Sampson said:

How do people pronounce “tongue”? When growing up in Leicestershire I always pronounced it as “tong” the same as a pair of tongs, but when I moved to the south coast got laughed at as everyone else pronounced it “tung” as in the first half of “tungsten” differently from tongs. I keep telling them it’s an “o” not a “u” in the first syllable but they won’t listen.

 

Never knew if that was just me or it was a a Leicestershire thing.

I've always pronounced it 'tong'. My other half is a geordie and he's always pronounced it 'tung' and rinsed me for saying it incorrectly (they're hardly ones to talk about speaking proper...).

 

Definitely a Leicester(shire) thing

[PAULCFC]

Par cark.....when i was younger.

[Sampson]

Not a common word but I always say tenant instead of tenet, as in “The basic tenants of something” instead of the “the basic tenets of something”

[Beliall]

23 hours ago, jonthefox said:

Binoculars

 

[LanguedocFox]

Football co-commentators (tbf it’s not usually the main ones) who talk about “Innyacho” when they mean Iheanacho. Hoddle is one, and Upton is another.

[Parafox]

23 hours ago, FoxesDeb said:

That reminds me, how may people say ibufen when they mean ibuprofen 

The pronunciation of some of the medicines the people that I have attended have been "unusual": Parstomol being the stand-out.

 

One man once told us he had "epsilepsy".

 

Also been told a patient was "a diabetical"

 

One time we were called to a police station for a guy in the cells. My crewmate wrote down the location as "the custardy sweet" 

[LanguedocFox]

Oh, and my wife can’t pronounce “specific” - insists on saying “pacific”!

 

 

[Parafox]

23 hours ago, filthyfox said:

In year 9 science class.....

 

Wait for it....

 

Orgasm, meaning to say organism

I think most of us have experienced that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Until you ask my wife.