Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,

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Anonymous wrote:I have a hard time pronouncing the "th" sound, so unless I am being really careful, my "threes" always come out as "tree".

Does that make proposing threesomes awkward?

I have the same issue and I just started proposing orgies instead.

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06/30/2011 17:31

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My husband has been known to call Dave & Buster's, Bert & Ernie's mistakenly.

My Aunt used to call Bepto Bappaw the Bizzels as a child.

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06/30/2011 17:33

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Anonymous wrote:My husband has been known to call Dave & Buster's, Bert & Ernie's mistakenly.

My Aunt used to call Bepto Bappaw the Bizzels as a child.

I do not know any of those B words.

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06/30/2011 17:45

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Nordstroms.

This drives me crazy and I see it a lot on this board. The store is called Nordstrom.

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06/30/2011 18:27

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Anonymous wrote:

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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...

This is all good.

Cement doesn't have any "mint" in it at all. The ment part is pronounced ment. And the stress is on the MENT.

Ah, but in the deep south it might be "mint" instead of "ment." After all, I know someone who was taught down there that pin and pen are homonyms.

Teacher here, can't help but correct that - They're homophones, not homonyms. Homonyns are spelled the same, but have different meanings.

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06/30/2011 18:28

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zumbamama wrote:My grandmother says "bich" instead of "beach." She'd say to us when we were kids, "Ok, who wants to go to the bich?"

I had a Russian friend who couldn't understand the difference between bitches and beaches. We'd have to ask if he was talking about the one with the sand or not...

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06/30/2011 18:49

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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."

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06/30/2011 19:04

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My former English department head (high school) used to refer to me as the EYEtalian.

She had a PhD.

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06/30/2011 19:15

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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."