Words that are mispronounced that drive you crazy .........

[Thus Spoke Mainer]

My favorite, FORWARD. It's pronounced FOUR-ward. Not FOE-ward.
It used to be only a New York thing. Now it seems it has spread throughout the entire country.
Okay, keep it in New York if you want, but outside of New York, it's FOUR-ward.

 

[Nitt1300]

for all intensive purposes

 

[Cincinnati Kid]

for all intensive purposes

Irregardless, I landed at O’Hara Airport for the game at Soldiers Field.

 

[psuaxe70]

Route. Rhymes with root.
You rout an enemy.

 

[sluggo72]

pen

it rhymes with Ben, it is not said pin. Most of WV does.

 

[NC2017]

My favorite, FORWARD. It's pronounced FOUR-ward. Not FOE-ward.
It used to be only a New York thing. Now it seems it has spread throughout the entire country.
Okay, keep it in New York if you want, but outside of New York, it's FOUR-ward.

What's with people not pronouncing the letter "T" ? Does anyone under the age of 30 pronounce “Putin” or “mitten” correctly???

 

[Shadow99]

Easy one:

Trajectory...

is NOT pronounced "CHajectory"

 

[massimoManca II]

My boss is a very smart guy - CPA with a masters degree... but I CRINGE when he uses “mute point” in front of customers... likewise he uses the term “irreclusive” which is like chomping down on tin-foil ... emails always riddled with grammar cluster-phlox

 

[Nitt1300]

"the lawn needs mowed"

no- it needs to be mowed

 

[The Spin Meister]

Route. Rhymes with root.
You rout an enemy.

How do you pronounce root?

 

[HazletonLion]

I have to ax you a question. (ask)

 

[ClarkstonMark]

my mom pronounces fajita as fraheata - drives me nuts

 

[The Spin Meister]

Axed instead of asked

 

[Elwood Blues]

What's with people not pronouncing the letter "T" ? Does anyone under the age of 30 pronounce “Putin” or “mitten” correctly???

I thought I was the only one who noticed that. Adam Shine, who does Shine on Sports show on Mad Dog, does this all the time. I think it's a NY thing.

 

[Chris92]

1. Creek
2. Wilkes-Barre
3. Lancaster

 

[artsandletters]

Et cetera not ek cetera.
This mispronunciation has reached epidemic proportions.

Then when it should be than.

I could go on forever about the word forte but I will just say that it is not pronounced for-tay, at least properly it is not given what Americans think it means. It involves the Italian and French meanings of forte and it’s respective pronunciations in each language.

 

[LeatherHelmets]

How do you pronounce root?

"Root" rhymes with "Roof"

 

[77 PSU]

Should of, would of and could of for should have, would have and could have

 

[The Spin Meister]

"Root" rhymes with "Roof"

That makes it perfectly clear!

 

[PSU Lion 2000]

Asterisk not aster-ick
Jaguars not Jag-wires

Probably dozens others that I can't think of right now.

 

[PSU Lion 2000]

Route. Rhymes with root.
You rout an enemy.

Funny story. I was working for a primarily U.S. company in Australia a decade ago. I found out from the locals that "root" has a similar local meaning to what "F*ck" means from a sexual connotation. About six months later my company created some saying that used "rooted in..." as a part of the saying. They put out t-shirts, built banners, billboards, etc. intended for global distribution. All of the stuff in Australia was quickly taken down once the Aussies shared with the U.S. marketing people that it's not a good idea to use that word in Australia. Ooops.

 

[ChiTownLion]

Consortium.

Con-sore-tee-um vs con-sore-shum.

Although I have heard that both are acceptable.

 

[hemo]

Jaguar does not have an "i" in it.

 

[JWB389]

Should of, would of and could of for should have, would have and could have

This is my peeve as well. What's worse is when people actually write it incorrectly.

 

[diontechristmas]

Not a mispronunciation, but an improper use.

People constantly saying or writing “I seen” and it drives me nuts.

For example: I seen Joe down at da bar yesterday.

This is especially prevalent with residents in my home area of NEPA among the less educated groups. I understand many grammar mistakes in written form and am willing to forgive, but this one doesn’t even sound right people.

 

[bvillebaron]

Irregardless, I landed at O’Hara Airport for the game at Soldiers Field.

Irregardless doesn’t get mispronounced; it’s just not a word.

 

[BrewLion]

Grant it or granite instead of granted.

 

[Bob78]

I have too many to reasonably list, especially with the misuse of apostrophes in plurals.

But one that I see more and more all the time is 'suppose' instead of 'supposed', or 'use' instead of 'used', and similar. Examples:

That team is suppose to be good this year. incorrect. They are supposed to be good.

You use to be cool, but now you are so anal that you correct grammar mistakes. incorrect. I used to be cool.

I am putting down the keyboard now and backing away, because I know that my fellow board members will fill in nearly all the others for me. And I thank you all for that.

 

[paddoce]

Crayon

How it should be pronounced: cray on
My wife pronounces it: crown

 

[GoGoBanana]

It's like nails on a chalkboard to me when people cannot spell the word losing, and instead use loosing...for example, ohio state is losing to PSU, not ohio state is loosing to PSU! Or, when people cannot use your and you're correctly...

 

[Thus Spoke Mainer]

Axed instead of asked

That's a "cultural" thing. Like a lead-pencil and an ink-pen.

 

[BobPSU92]

Sub, as in a sandwich. Some people mispronounce it hoagie, hero, or grinder.

 

[interrobang]

Route. Rhymes with root.
You rout an enemy.

True if you're a Brit. But in America, either is perfectly acceptable.

 

[PrtLng Lion]

Nuclear pronounced incorrectly as "nook-ya-ler".

 

[MattTX]

pen

it rhymes with Ben, it is not said pin. Most of WV does.

Having grown up in WV, I was surprised to find that I attended "Pin State"

 

[MattTX]

some here will hate this, but my Pennsylvanian parents say "wash" instead as "worsh"

 

[Obliviax]

Sub, as in a sandwich. Some people mispronounce it hoagie, hero, or grinder.

sammich?

how do you pronounce Gyro? Is it like the guidance system or rhyme with "hero" with a "j" in front?

 

[psu_83_drummer]

Growing up in SWPA, my wife would say she took a walk down ere by the crick.

 

[ericstratton-rushchairman]

 

[Connorpozlee]

Crayon

How it should be pronounced: cray on
My wife pronounces it: crown

Never heard that until I moved to Kentucky. One of my daughters had a teacher working on homophones and gave the example of crown and crayon. My head almost exploded. I told her to tell the teacher she was wrong the next day at school. It doesn’t even make sense.