Words you've unknowingly mispronounced.
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"Plethora" is the one word that comes to mind. The first time I read it, I assumed it was pronounced pleth-oruh.
Didn't ever use the word, but I eventually heard someone correct someone else (Thank you, Rescue Me).
Didn't ever use the word, but I eventually heard someone correct someone else (Thank you, Rescue Me).
Colonel.
I don't care if you have to say it "kur-nel", it's fucking stupid not to have written it like that in the first place.
A friend of mine always says "For all intensive purposes" (instead of "For all intents and purposes"), which makes me laugh every time. I still didn't tell him he's doing it wrong.
[sub]I'm so evil.
But it's just so hilarious[/sub]
I don't care if you have to say it "kur-nel", it's fucking stupid not to have written it like that in the first place.
A friend of mine always says "For all intensive purposes" (instead of "For all intents and purposes"), which makes me laugh every time. I still didn't tell him he's doing it wrong.
[sub]I'm so evil.
But it's just so hilarious
[/sub]
Salmon as Sal-mon when it's supposed to be Sa-mon. I still pronounce the L, why? Because I feel like it!
Violet
I use to think it was 'Vai-oh-let', but now I know it's 'vee-oh-lay".
I also noticed alot of people can't pronounced Karaoke and Kamikaze. xD
I use to think it was 'Vai-oh-let', but now I know it's 'vee-oh-lay".
I also noticed alot of people can't pronounced Karaoke and Kamikaze. xD
Router. I Americanise that one a lot, which annoys me just as much as people saying 'alu-minum' rather than 'alu-min-ium'. Really. As Biffy Clyro aptly put it: There's an I next to the U and M.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/En-uk-violet.ogg
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/violet
Looks to me like you were pronouncing it correctly in the first place, unless you're speaking in French:Asuka Soryu said:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/En-uk-violet.ogg
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/violet
My brother has recently started calling me out on my pronunciation of the word "theater". I put a light internal "r" in it, almost like "theerter", and my brother pronounces it "theeter" and I insist that both are acceptable. Though my friend who is a thespian insists that my pronunciation is correct.
Also on a side-note I had a differential equations professor from Texas who pronounced Integer as "In-TEE-gur", but I think he was just being funny.
Also on a side-note I had a differential equations professor from Texas who pronounced Integer as "In-TEE-gur", but I think he was just being funny.
Not sure what the hell you're talking about. I took Japanese and I've always... ALWAYS heard it the first way. So... ya.Daystar Clarion said:
OT: I purposely mispronounce words for the hell of it. Remember Zap Branigans Guacamole? You bet you do.
If I don't know that I mispronounced it, how could I list it?
I try to learn how to pronounce any word before saying it aloud. But that's just me.
Yay post 700 :s
I try to learn how to pronounce any word before saying it aloud. But that's just me.
Yay post 700 :s
I always thought the word "several" reffered to something that numbered at least "seven". Turns out it just means "Meh, yeah more than three".
Also, Barts teachers name is Krabapple? I've been callin' her Krandle!
Also, Barts teachers name is Krabapple? I've been callin' her Krandle!
For the longest time I had a huge problem with the word queue. I always pronounced everything until someone asked me what the hell I was saying. Now I pronounce it right, but for a good long while it was glaringly wrong.
Just so you know "Am-ah-teh-rah-su" isn't necessarily wrong, how you pronounce it is up to you, it's just that most people choose not to pronounce the "u" (in fact Japanese words never end in the letter "s", they always end in a vowel or in the letter "n").Daystar Clarion said:
OT: My brother and I pronounce "mischievous" differently. I say "miss-cha-vis" while he says "miss-chee-vee-us".
Actually, both pronunciations would be correct (regional dialect. It's like pronouncing "Desu" as "desu" rather than "des." Both are correct, but "des" is generally heard more often), but you got your syllables wrong.Daystar Clarion said:
あまてらす
a-ma-te-ra-su
In Japanese, it's generally understood that any of the '-u' endings (aside from a double vowel ending) is usually what's called a "whispered vowel." The sound's still made, but it's soft enough to where it's barely audible. The exception being their 't' kana. Quite simply, there is no 'tu.' It's 'tsu.' So, what they end words with (this usually applies to borrowed words) 'to' if they want a whispered vowel.Dango said:
There are other exceptions as well. For instance, their conjugation for a past-tense polite verb is -mashita, generally pronounced "-mashta." Again, this is an exception, not the rule.