100 most mispronounced words in the English Language.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html
Don't you just want to shake your friends when they do this shit?
Duckie

[libertad]

1. I hate when they confuse regimen and regime

and alot of people on TV do it, too.

[IconoclastIlene]

34. dilatation and dilation gets my goose.

[Heyo]

2. Damn man...

We need to surround this place with bob wire....

Heyo

[Heyo]

7. Hehehe

This way, nobody can excape...

(I am amusing myself.... dont mind me)

Heyo

[MissMillie]

3. Coupon and nuclear

for the record, it's COOP-on and New-clee-ur

not Q-pon and New-kewl-ur

[Heyo]

4. Hey.. Im not sure if I agree with one of these...

Chomp at the bit should be right....

I don't get it.. Champ at the bit.. makes no sense

[Papa]

5. They missed one that Im sure alot of DUers get wrong

Republicans.

I usually hear that pronounced as "Mother fucking assholes"

[truthseeker1]

12. LOL! Getting back in chair.....

Hysterical! Thank you for that :-)

[Bronco69]

15. ROFLMAO!!!

:-)

[TXlib]

21. Actually, that IS an acceptable alternate pronunciation.

[Catshrink]

6. Hey, how I talk is my bidness.

and please, stay out of my chester drawers!

[THUNDER HANDS]

8. okay...show me someone who says "Car pool tunnel syndrome"

I think half this stuff is made up. Nobody I've ever seen talks like that.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

14. You don't live in Oklahoma, do you?

Because I've seen all of them.
Duckie

[LynzM]

9. Interesting...

The first one that came to my mind was 'nuclear' as 'nu-cu-lar'... I hate that!

[SendTheGOPPacking]

10. Preventive vs Preventative

isn't even in there.

Preventative is not a word. Preventive is the correct usage.

[ashling]

13. "Preventative" is a noun

a "preventative" is something you take or do as a preventive measure.

[SendTheGOPPacking]

11. My pet peeve is irregardless.

irregardless is not a word. It's "regardless"

[Doctor Pedantic]

16. Forte is my pet peeve

Especially because people think you're mispronouncing it if you say it correctly!


Another one is reprise....second syllable is rhymes with "please," and does not sound like "prize."

[Heyo]

17. irregrdless of that....

suposably you can just tape up that bob wire with some duck tape...

Oh well.. it's a mute point anyways...

Heyo

[SendTheGOPPacking]

24. LOL! I hear ya!

suposably

[truthseeker1]

18. Supposively instead of supposedly

A woman I used to work for said supposively all the time...it used to drive me crazy.

I also can't believe people still say irregardless and reoccur.

Another one....when people use less instead of fewer (or vice versa) - ok, I realize that one is really nitpicky of me :-)

And what about tenative instead of tentative?

[David__77]

19. "Libary" instead of "library."

That one does bother me. But then again, I actually say Fe-bru-ary.

[ashling]

20. you must be from Massatoosetts

[David__77]

26. Nope, California.

I just appreciate the value of each distinct syllable.

[libertad]

27. I'm from CA, too. I've always been teased for saying library and February

properly.

[David__77]

31. Really? Teased for saying it CORRECTLY?

Is this in Bakersfield? Or did you move out of state?

[Westegg]

28. My favorite line in "The Godfather"...

...admittedly an obscure one...is when James Caan sees one of his hired-guns sitting on the steps reading something and he snaps, "Save it for the lie-berry." Perfect and succinct characterization-through-dialogue of a mobster who's probably never read a book in his life.

[ironflange]

22. Here's one they forgot, ironically

Pronunciation, not pernunciation.

[chenGOD]

23. From that:

"Does, "My friend Herb grows 'erbs," sound right to you? This is a US oddity generated by the melting pot (mixed dialects). Initial is always pronounced outside America and should be in all dialects of English."


Clearly the authors have never spent any time in England? The number of dialects where initial 'h' is dropped in England must be in the tens or twenties.

[ashling]

25. Not that I'm the thread monitor or anything,

but I see a lot of things here that are not so much mispronunciations as just plain misusage. Not that that's a good thing.

I can't abide the phrase (which came in vogue with watergate): "At this point in time" its either "at this point," or "at this time." NOT BOTH !!! (however, I guess you could be in an alternate universe - or is it "alternative" universe, whatever- or, one of as many as 10 different dimensions - if you accept string theory . . . I watch altogether too much PBS.)

Also, "enthuse, (verb, transitive)." is just WRONG! However, although not generally acceptable in formal writing - though I just saw it used in Harpers Mag.- it is considered acceptable in some circles.

The problem with the English language is that it changes too damn much. Now, the Romans had a good thing. They spoke Latin, which everyone knows is a "dead" language. So they didn't have to worry about changes. Of course, the Visigoths didn't speak Latin, so there was a kind of little problem there.

I wonder how things would have turned out if the Romans had had nucular weapons instead of Greek Fire (now that's a phrase you don't hear too often anymore) But then, that's a different PBS special.
:nuke:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

29. Can't be accurate..alleged isn't even on there

and I CONSTANTLY hear people say it with three syllables instead of two.

[Terran]

30. Heinekin Remover??

Gad, that's not just a mispronunciation, that's...something else!

One they missed that I hear here *all* the time (Central Missouri): "ideal" instead of "idea".

[Doctor Pedantic]

32. A friend of mine

Has a theory he calls the New England Conservation of Rs -- they drop Rs from some words and then put them back at the end of others.

Thus: "Going to the ba is a good idear."

[DebJ]

33. Will this list be updated after Dubya gets through his massacre of our

language? Nuclear!!!!

[lazarus]

35. death

instead of deaf. Yeah, I heard that a lot in the south.

Also, "mischievious" instead of "mischievous". That one makes my teeth hurt.

Harricane instead of hurricane.

A whole slew of mispronunciations that are an obvious result of people's not really understanding what they're saying, just repeating sounds.

[Kat45]

36. It bugs me when people say 'loose' instead of 'lose'

That's not on the list, but I run into that constantly these days. Or when they say 'I could care less' instead of 'I couldn't care less.'

[phaseolus]

37. "Jaggy-were"

If you're a pretentious twit, that's how you pronounce the name of a British luxury car. If you're *really* pretentious, you might even say "joggy-war", and you're still a twit.

If you're a moron, you probably say "Jag-wire".

[SOteric]

38. "towards" and "anyways" should be toward and anyway

Neither is correctly pluralised.

[lpbk2713]

39. I saw no mention of aunt......... ant or ahnt

I didn't bother to look it up to see what is preferred.

[Canuckistanian]

40. Mis-CHEE-VEE-ous

I cringe like I've just heard nails on a blackboard when I hear that.
:shrug:

[Doctor Pedantic]

41. And don't even get me started

on "heinous." How on earth is that not on the list?

[chefgirl]

42. LOL.....thats mine too

Probably the stupidest way I've heard it said is 'high anus' LOL

-chef-

[NeoConsSuck]

43. MORAN

:)