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.

I can't pronounce ruwal. Much harder than rural!

(Sorry, don't know why that came out twice)

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason I can Saturday just fine by itself. Try to say Saturday Night Live, and it won't come out. It wants to be Sataday. I drive myself crazy. My friend cannot for the life of her say the word "rural" and she monitors a grant that has that word in it! She drives herself crazy! Some words just become the bane of your existence!

How does she say rural?

It desperately wants to come "ruwal." It's so funny!

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Anonymous wrote:For some reason I can Saturday just fine by itself. Try to say Saturday Night Live, and it won't come out. It wants to be Sataday. I drive myself crazy. My friend cannot for the life of her say the word "rural" and she monitors a grant that has that word in it! She drives herself crazy! Some words just become the bane of your existence!

How does she say rural?

It desperately wants to come "ruwal." It's so funny!

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.

My DH and his family are from Long Island. They always throw "r"s at the end of words that end in "a". Pamelar Anderson, Alexandriar, Virginiar. It is so funny.

He is will frequently massacre random words. Often, I ask him to repeat it and crack up laughing.

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...

My MIL (from NY) has been known to say "underwears" (pronounced unda-wayas). And she loves to buy sweatshirts from Ombercrombie and Finch. And watch movies at Lo-Wees (Loews) theatres. Like the PP, there is also an S on Victoria's Secrets. And she loves the sweat-ahs at Talberts.

Anonymous wrote:For some reason I can Saturday just fine by itself. Try to say Saturday Night Live, and it won't come out. It wants to be Sataday. I drive myself crazy. My friend cannot for the life of her say the word "rural" and she monitors a grant that has that word in it! She drives herself crazy! Some words just become the bane of your existence!

How does she say rural?

For some reason I can Saturday just fine by itself. Try to say Saturday Night Live, and it won't come out. It wants to be Sataday. I drive myself crazy. My friend cannot for the life of her say the word "rural" and she monitors a grant that has that word in it! She drives herself crazy! Some words just become the bane of your existence!

Anonymous wrote:My mom says chipotle (either the restaurant or the pepper, doesn't matter) as chi-POLL-tea. Drives me batty.

Yes, lots of people do this and I HATE it. My biggest pet peeve is eXpresso though. ARRGGHH!!!

Also, everyone mispronounces bruschetta as brushetta. It is so common that I don't really mind unless it is a waiter at a restaurant that serves it!!! Clearly not an authentic Italian place!

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).

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend who adds an s to everything, the top three being Barnes and Nobles, Victorias Secrets, and Silver Springs, MD. It drives me insane

Must be my sister. She does this all the time and every time I try to correct her, by saying nicely she sounds like an idiot, it never sinks in. Really, you've lived in SS for over 20 years and you are to lazy to say it properly. Ugh, big pet peeve of mine. I have to admit that I cannot pronounce ethnicity properly unless I pause to think about it. It wants to come out eth n ticity. However I'm aware of it so I do my best to avoid saying it or to pause and say it properly.

Anonymous wrote:My FIL says, "just give the baby a pepsifire when she's crying!" in a strong german accent. Haha.

I love this, because at first I thought FIL was recommending some kind of energy soda (Pepsi Fire!) for a baby...