As long as we are doing pronunciations:

[Anonymous]

Drawer: drow-wer or droor

[Anonymous]

NeanderTHal or neendertoll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just assume people don't read. They can barely spell so it's no wonder they can't pronounce words correctly. We have a literacy problem, it's not all just dialects and accents the folksy people want us to believe.

Reading doesn’t mean that you can pronounce words correctly. I often know a lot about a subject from a lifetime of reading but then seem like a total ignoramus because I mispronounce key words while having a discussion in person. It just means that I read more than I talk.

[Anonymous]

Betta fish. Bet-tuh. Not bay-tuh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Betta fish. Bet-tuh. Not bay-tuh.

Nah, it’s bay-tuh in the Mid-Atlantic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drawer: drow-wer or droor

Moveable shelf with door cover

[Anonymous]

Drawr
Neandertal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drawer: drow-wer or droor

The most annoying pronunciation of this is draw

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Betta fish. Bet-tuh. Not bay-tuh.

Nah, it’s bay-tuh in the Mid-Atlantic.

No. It isn't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just assume people don't read. They can barely spell so it's no wonder they can't pronounce words correctly. We have a literacy problem, it's not all just dialects and accents the folksy people want us to believe.

Quite the opposite actually. I was always told to never judge someone who mispronounces a word because it means they in fact read it first.