Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,

[Anonymous]

One that annoys me no end is Eggzit.
It's EX-it.
The traffic woman on WTOP in the early morning says,
"Noith bound" (north bound), 14th shtreet bridge, and my favorite Eggzit.
My mom also likes to put s's on the ends of alot of words.
Maybe an Indiana thing?

[Anonymous]

It's "a lot" not "alot."

[Anonymous]

Excuse me 19:43. Don't be such an ass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excuse me 19:43. Don't be such an ass.

No, no, she's right!

[Anonymous]

Ambalance instead of ambulance. I think it's a Baltimore thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from the deep south and have no accent. Unfortunately, I do have mispronunciation tells and worse, I can't force myself to pronounce some things the right way so I avoid some words:

nuclear (I can't even HEAR the difference, it's that bad)
doesn't (I miss a syllable)
cement (there are two ways to say it and i"m not sure which is correct. I say C-mint so that must be wrong...it's sehMINT?)

I'm sure there are others...

You're funny. You say you're from the Deep South and have "no accent," but "cement" has two short e's in it... no short i's. It's MENT, not MINT. The short e sound, you know? Like ELEPHANT or EGGS. I lived in Georgia for awhile and it seemed people were incapable of saying the short e sound. "Do you have a pin, hon?" Do you want something to sew with or something to write with? Yeesh.

Around here, don't you love it when people say MURland instead of Maryland? I'm from upstate NY, about to go on vacation up there, and can't wait to jump off the "dack" (dock) into the lake. Afterward I'll drink a "Popsi."

I do! I also love it when they say 'Bawl-more' instead of Baltimore.

PP who says "Vaginia" really cracked me up. Hilarious!

Bawlmore is the way they say it there that is how you tell a native baltimoron

[Anonymous]

my entire family says "safeways." my MIL calls harris teeter "teety twitt" (and she seriously believes that's it's name).

[Anonymous]

My boss calls Chick Fil A "Chick a Flick." She's not kidding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my entire family says "safeways." my MIL calls harris teeter "teety twitt" (and she seriously believes that's it's name).

She can't read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excuse me 19:43. Don't be such an ass.

Um, this is a thread about words people mess up! Don't dish it out if you can't take it.

[Anonymous]

I axed you a question!!

[Anonymous]

An old boyfriend's mom used to call a serrated knife a "surrogated knife."

And my mom pronounces "period" as if it ends in T - it drives me crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Excuse me 19:43. Don't be such an ass.

What? 19:43 is correct.

[Anonymous]

For lawyers:
- people who say appellee as though an apple were in court
- declaratory judgment with dec-a-la-tory

[Anonymous]

Mines.

I.HATE.THIS. It makes the person sounds like a completely uneducated idiot. It took me forever to realize that they apparently think/learned that this was correct because it is the opposite of yours, which, of course, does actually end in an s.