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Anonymous wrote:Alot of these are regionalisms or accents so sorry they infuriate you. Go to where they are from so that people can make fun of the way you talk.

oh, Debby, go back to Downersville.

Are you always this big of a drip?

LOL!! haha

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Anonymous wrote:My ex co-worker thought the delivery company UPS was pronounced "ups" (as in up and down), not U.P.S. Weird....

lol. love it!

I call UPS "ups" because it's faster and easier to say than "U-P-S." I suspect that is why your coworker said it this way as well.

Or do you laboriously spell out all acronyms? Do you say "S-C-U-B-A," too?

Anonymous wrote:Visitors to Jamaica who say "Ochos Rios is so nice". I always want to slap them and say it ocho, as in eight. I have the same issue with "silver springs".

Re: Silver Springs. I usually respond that Silver Springs is in Florida. Silver Spring is in Maryland.

And the one that has amused me all my life--my 86 year old Chinese Father who has lived in the US for 64 years, worked for 34 years, yada yada, still cannot say "Dairy Queen" correctly. No matter how many times we've corrected him (and we stopped about 20 years ago), when we were kids, we would stop for a treat at Daily Queen. Love the guy.

Anonymous wrote:My ex co-worker thought the delivery company UPS was pronounced "ups" (as in up and down), not U.P.S. Weird....

lol. love it!

My ex co-worker thought the delivery company UPS was pronounced "ups" (as in up and down), not U.P.S. Weird....

Chip-ol-tee drives me crazy.

My mom also says "renovation hardware" instead of "restoration."

Husband says an-tana instead of antenna and I've never heard this before. It's nuts. I can't explain it.

He also pronounced tony (and in fancy) as tawny the other day. He's quite educated but comes out with some surprises now and then.

I spluttered on a coffee today when one of my friends asked me completely seriously and sincerely "I heard you had to write a faeces" .... WHAT?! He didn't realise he'd mispronounced it. But then I'm often introduced as the pianist (also mispronounced). Gotta love the kiwi accent

My grandfathers were hysterical. One was from Ireland and sounded like Elmer Fudd on the answering machine, in high school I would call on speakerphone so my friends and I could hear it, not really sure if this had to do with being Irish or not, but it was so funny "hewwo, you have weached thwee o one...)
My other grandfather was from Shreveport, LA and everything he said was adorable. "this here is yourn, and is mine"

my father pronounces merlot MURlow. Drives me nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My southern relatives say, 'SaLmon' with the L. (To be fair, I think British English pronounces it this way.)

y.

No we don't!!

But you do pronounce "pasta" in a most unappetizing way.

Yes they do. It aconfuses me how they choose to use the short and long "A".

Lahnce (Lance)
Dahnce (Dance)
Frahnce (France)
Tack-o (taco)

They go to Mack Donald's too. I guess because they don't wish to buy a big mac from some stupid Mick.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these are good, but I don't think you can make fun of non-native English speakers (unless you speak their language flawlessly).

My 9 year old commented to my latino MIL that she doesn't pronounce things correctly and she was very offended and gave him a good five minute lecture on non-native speakers.

My ESL husband regularly corrects my english:
roof - I say ruff
pillow - I say pell-o

You drink a rut (root) beer too, don't cha?

Cha or chew instead of you. Beyonce does this a lot and I couldn't stop focusing on it while I sat in the theater watching "Dream Girls".

When people ax me a question or when people say are house instead of our house.

My dad uses and umber-ella when it starts to rain. He also drinks rut beer down by the crick.

Have you ever heard someone from Baltimore (usually a white person from Hamden or Canton-not a gentrified resident, a real one) tell you that they are

"goin downy ocean"

which means they are going to Ocean City, MD. It is hilarious. DH and I are both Baltimore natives and this never stops cracking us up.

They also sometimes call oysters "arsters"

I hate Butt naked- it's buck naked

My family is Greek. I have a ton of them. I know more will come to me after I hit submit...

My mom is hilarious. Here are some of her finest... She has a HEAVY Greek accent...

Recently, she had a biopsy on her lung. She told my husband (on the phone) that the doctor was going to "seduce" her before the procedure. (She meant to say sedate). My husband had a really hard time keeping it together.

She always tells me to brush my "hairs."

Pizza Hut was "Pizza Haat."

Quiznos is Quinzos.

"Hello" is "Ye-low"

She wanted me to pick up some kitchen towels for her and asked me to go to "Barrel and Crate."

Visitors to Jamaica who say "Ochos Rios is so nice". I always want to slap them and say it ocho, as in eight. I have the same issue with "silver springs".