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Just had a chat with one of the dudes in the office, discussing the increasing amount of mispronunciation we seem to encounter.

Of my "favourites":-

Pecific
- Being a little more exact, but not really "let's be pecific about something..." It's one letter!
Aks
- The seemingly "street" way of asking a question. "can I aks (pronounced "arkse") you a question?" How can you get three letters in such a mess?
Somethink
- nothing pecific, just anythink you can think of.

What mispronunciations get you going?

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

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It's NUCLEAR not NUCULAR Grrrrrr

*stamps feet and snarls

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"Why don't the English learn how to speak" Professor Henry Higgins(Rex Harrison)
My Fair Lady

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W. C. Fields

Mmmmm Thats UNCLEAR?

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W. C. Fields

We'd be here all day if we listed George "Dubya".

I can never tell if when he's talking about "terrists" if he means the good ones or the other?

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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Pedentic; the only people who ever pick up on it are pedantic so I use it all the time on them. Gets them every time.

Why does every like sentence like have to like have the word like in it? Not a mispronunciation but it bugs me just the same!
Also these days everything has to be "upped" instead of increased, I just don't get it!
The one I pick up on at work most frequently is prostrate instead of prostate! Means something totally different!

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Someone I have worked with quite a bit over the past 9 years or so does the "pecific" too - used to drive me dotty but as I don't work as closely to her anymore, I try to ignore it.

The toddler's name is another one - my mum CANNOT get it into her head that it is not starting with "Kee" but with "Quee" - they are 2 totally different sounds but she is convinced, because she was half asleep when she first heard it, that it is "Keeva". And this is the woman who used to go nuts because our gymnastics instructor couldn't get my sister's name right (is pronounced "Sur Ka" but gym ins used to say "Seer sha").

Que?

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A simple dude trying to grow veg.

http://haywayne.blogspot.com/ - Updated 30th November

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It's more a grammar point, but generally the misuse of "of [ov]" instead of "have" ..... and the "ask/ax" one as well....

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"Its not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you" - Bruce Wayne

So many people seem to say these....somethink and nuffink!!!! it's something and nothing and also "these ones" what's a ones??? it should be just these!!!

Drives me mad!!!!

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Or, summink and nuffink! GRRrrrrrrr!

Wish everyone would speak proper like wot I do!

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prostrate...when they mean prostate
I worked with someone who said revelent

I did a computor course at work. One of the other girls was trying to help by saying press 8.box ..can I see 8 no, or 7 or 9....wait for it .....she meant OUT box

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Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful..William Morris

What about Amerkins?
do I need tro tell people what a merkin is?

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

He's about as much use as a merkin, only less atractive!

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Imagination is everything, it is a preview of what is to become.

prostrate cancer don't take it lying down

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

boom boom!!

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Mind you one can have fun with Mallerpropisms Eg
Incontinant & Incompetant.

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Or Spoonerisms we have a chip shop in Loughborough called ................................Fryer Tuck

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Hospical....

And here's one to which really amuses me ( being medical....)

Cervical...... pronounced Serve eye cul ....is the neck area
pronounced Sir vi cl.... is the bits n bobs us wimin have

You would chuckle if you heard the number of male personal injury lawyers who get that wrong when talking about whiplash injuries!!!!

Sanity & Sanitary

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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W. C. Fields

Samwich - it's SANDWICH gggrrrrrrr

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Suzie