Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,
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My parents' favorite lunch spot is "Panera's Bread" after which they go shopping at "Best Buys".
Drives me absolutely insane. |
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Doggy-dog world instead of dog-eat-dog world.
Seriously. My friend used to say this. |
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| How you instead of how are you. |
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| valentiMes day. a few highly educated friends from brooklyn say this. not sure why. |
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| Today someone told me a crack on their house was an "eye sore thumb". |
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| My SIL likes to use her "Buff-ette" to store her serving dishes. She also serves Thanksgiving dinner "Buff-ette" style. I often wonder if she plans to invite Warren over for dinner. |
takoma
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For those who cringe at brushetta, how about one panini or two paninis? An alumni?
DW boxles things up. She says she's not mispronouncing bollixes, just using her own word, which she considers an improvement of the other. About "mines", I don't see the problem; for example, when it comes to jobs, you work in yours, some people work in mines. 
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I'm from southern VA and I say a lot of words funny: wooder (water), kyat (cat), hee-uh (here), Nawfuck (Norfolk).
The biggest one that bothers me though is Nags Head. I say Nags HEAD. Emphasis on the head. My DH, from NOVA, says NAGS head. I don't know why he thinks he's right because I basically spent every summer there as a kid and Nags HEAD is how the locals say it. But he will not back down. So we vacation in Duck. |
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| DH and I still giggle every time we pass a Ramada Inn. |
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| Oops, hit post too soon - my college friebd's filt calls it "The Ram-uh-duh" |
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| Good God I can't type today. My friend's family. Sorry! |
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technically if you are spanish speaking "ochos" is correct. |
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"Ideal" instead of "idea" as in "hey, I have a great ideal." Even worse if it's pronounced "idill."
"A whole nother" instead of "another." I also don't get "I could care less." I think it makes more sense to say "I couldn't care less." |
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Twaader Joe's instead of Trader Joe's
mom also says Chip- Polt- Tee |
takoma
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I like "a whole nother", although I would not use it in any formal writing. One Googled reference compared it to abso-fuckin'-lutely, which I also use, but not in a formal situation of course. I would call "a whole nother" playful, rather than ignorant, and I'm sorry it bothers you. Abso-fuckin'-lutely sorry.
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