A coworker consistently pronounces "recipient" as "reciprient."

[Orrex]

Honestly, I don't know how long I can go on like this.

[liberal N proud]

1. There is always one

All you can do is chuckle to yourself about the little quirks.

I have worked with some who would twist the English language and I have had some that worked for me that twisted it. You just roll with it and keep it to yourself. It's not worth getting in a hassle over.

Back when such things were accepted, but not acceptable, we would keep a dictionary on a coworker who created so many new words and twisted others. It was a private little thing one person kept and was only shared among 3 people.

[oswaldactedalone]

5. That type of situation

makes me very flustrated.

[MrScorpio]

2. Sounds like you're dealing with some kind of deviated prevert

It's a good thing that you found out about his or her preversion, because they're probably organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.

[oswaldactedalone]

4. The genius of Stanley Kubrick

predicting the future like that now that we have a presidential candidate interested in using nukes.

[femmocrat]

6. I had a co-worker who always said "supposably" --

a fellow teacher, a person with a master's degree! I guess no one every corrected her and she didn't realize she was saying it.

[geardaddy]

21. I had a co-worker who always said "irregardless"

It drove me up a tree!

[IcyPeas]

26. a guy in my office says this all the time too.....

I thought he was doing it because it was some cool new thing to pronounce it this way..... But...

so then we looked it up. It actually is a word. however most people are using it incorrectly and saying supposably when they mean supposedly.

Supposedly is an adverb that means “according to what is accepted or believed to be true; seemingly, purportedly.”

supposably means “conceivably.”


http://blog.dictionary.com/supposedly-vs-supposably/

[KMOD]

7. That would drive me crazy.

I'd probably go nucular on them.

[Orrex]

8. Online, of course, I'm charismatic and am in full command of the facts

Less so in real life. As such, I'm typically very accommodating when it comes to quirks of speech, misspellings or the like. This guy, however, is an incessant know-it-all and a proud Trump supporter, so I'm less inclined to smile and nod when he messes up on something so simple.

[KMOD]

9. Oh, I hear ya,

I have a brother-in-law who is like that as well.

And yes, online there is nobody better than you, Orrex.

[madamesilverspurs]

25. Congratulate him

for being such a spectacular "sexual intellect". Let him figure out that you've just called him a fucking know-it-all.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

10. Sounds like my wife.

Always talking about something being "ludacrist". Says people are "knowledged" rather than knowledgeable.
Orders sandwiches on "see ya botta" bread, rather than ciabatta, despite being reminded of the proper pronunciation, repeatedly, by the server and myself. Orders "fah JITE ahs", when she'd like a fajita. Too many other to list...

[geardaddy]

22. Does she like "jah-LA-pennos" on her "fa JITE ahs?"

[Iggo]

11. Sure he's not trolling you?

I say "auspicious" instead of "suspicious" all the time, just to watch people roll their eyes.

[Orrex]

13. That's a fair question, but that's not quite his MO

He also mispronounces other common words with sufficient consistency that he's either not doing it on purpose, or he's a world-class performance artist.

[mentalsolstice]

12. I had a coworker who always said the "American with Disability Act"

We worked for our state's protection and advocacy system. We used to smugly joke behind his back that the American with a Disability was coming soon to a state, city or town near you and that's why a law was passed requiring all kinds of accommodations so that s/he could get around. He also used to always talk about artistic kids needing special education. It took us awhile to figure he may be referring to autistic children....although he may have really misunderstood that artistic had special needs. He otherwise didn't have any discernible speech impediment.

[PassingFair]

14. Unless you're Englush is perfect....

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You're point is mute...

[Orrex]

15. LOL. It could be a lot perfecter

But I don't generally mispronounce common words, so it jumps out at me when he does it.

[milestogo]

16. Does he have problems with his prostrate gland too?

[Orrex]

17. Hold on--I'll check.

[no_hypocrisy]

18. "Of-ten" makes me grind my teeth.

[geardaddy]

23. +1

That and "Real-a-tor" and "Eye-talian" and "ESS-state" for "estate"

[madamesilverspurs]

24. Expeshully

if they're wearing "joolery".

[Skittles]

28. that one is a pet peeve of mine

WHY DO PEOPLE SAY JOO-LER-Y - it is a RIDICULOUS mispronunciation

[3catwoman3]

29. My husband of 34 years says of-ten also, and it...

...annoys me greatly but I leave it alone because I doubt it would change.

He also says "stint" when talking about the medical device "stent." As a health professional, that drives me bats, and I have corrected that several times, apparently to no avail.

[Coventina]

19. Beware of "agreeance"!!!

[Codeine]

40. Gawd I hate that one. nt

[hamsterjill]

20. Oh, I feel your pain!!!

I work with someone who constantly says things are "ironical".

[malthaussen]

36. "ironical" is actually a word, though.

Archaic, and of fuzzy usage. So the question would be if your co-worker is being consciously ironical, or is just ignorant.

-- Mal

[hamsterjill]

37. I know.

Isn't it ironic?????? LOL LOL

This co-worker is many things. Could be either.

[Skittles]

27. I HAVE NO IDEAL

that's what I hear

[herding cats]

30. My coworker says idear.

I catch myself involuntarily blinking every time he says that word. The first time I was so confused is actually said, "excuse me" to them.

[TeamPooka]

32. I hate "idear." Really ticks me off. I'm like where did you ever see an R in that word?

[herding cats]

33. Right?

It makes no phonetic sense!

[Skittles]

34. I bet he says AWFICE too, instead of OFFICE

there's no freaking 'W' in that word!

it occurs to me that most accents are caused by people unable to pronounce 'O' correctly - I've noticed in the east, a hard O is pronounced OO, so ROAD sounds like ROOD.....in the north, O is pronounced like A - so CON MAN becomes CAN MAN and down south, the word FOR sounds like FAR

I'm was a GI brat so I picked up my dialect from all over

[underahedgerow]

31. I had a relative that used the word 'prenick'. Can you guess what that means?

Granted she was only functioning with one lit bulb out of the 12 pack.

[mrmpa]

42. I cannot figure that out....what is it? eom

[underahedgerow]

45. Pregnant!

Granted she's developmentally challenged, and sadly, she's had several children. But whatever. She still speaks in glowing terms about being 'prenick'. That was 20 years ago.... ah well.

[malthaussen]

35. Bet they say "nukuler," too.

I've heard that constantly. You're lucky.

-- Mal

[GoneOffShore]

38. How about prostrate for prostate?

And my favorite Philadelphia pronunciation - Confortable for comfortable.

[Enrique]

39. file a complaint with HR

tell them, I cannot work under these condidtions

[pinboy3niner]

43. Bet they won't get back to him 'til Febyooary. nt

[Codeine]

41. If a lifetime of Dungeons and Dragons has taught me anything

it's that you should kill them and take their stuff.

[Orrex]

44. Way ahead of you!

[Thor_MN]

46. I have a coworker that calls internet pics with captions "Mems"

Not meme with a long e, but mem with a short e...

[NanceGreggs]

47. I knew a bookkeeper ...

... who was always talking about filing her company's taxes based on the end of their "physical year".

Also worked with a court reporter whose transcripts always had witnesses saying, in answer to how long something had been going on, that it had been going on since "time in a memorial".

[Skittles]

48. SHOULD-ENT instead of shouldn't

kind of defeats the purpose of a contraction