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Words you mispronounced for ages (pg. 2)
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| nchs09 |
| ing everything. I am from Guatemala. |
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| Unique2701 |
| I used to pronounce Lira as Lyra. |
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| Frenkieee |
I used to pronounce youth as yowth. I guess that has to do with the way 'ou' is pronounced in Dutch.
And miscellaneous was something like miscallenous, with emphasis on the a.
There's probably lots more that I can't think of right now.
For a while I thought I pronounced resources wrong, but that just depends on whether you'd go for the English or the American pronunciation. |
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| Zyklon_Jay |
| When i was i kid i called milk "melk". |
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| netroM |
deviant
pronounced it devi-ant |
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| phyrrus |
-kitten kaboodle instead of kit and kaboodle
-bally-ball instead of volleyball
-"for all intensive purposes" intead of "for all intents and purposes"
still not sure about that last one. my purposes are pretty intense sometimes. |
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| Quazar |
For a long time, I pronounced Zealot as "Zee-lot", back when to me it was a unit in StarCraft and nothing more.
I also used to say "foil-age" instead of "foliage". |
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| Tasty Onions |
When I was little, I pronounced "intriguing" as "in-tri-gyoo-ing." Facepalm.
Used a long "o" sound in pronouncing "mosque" for a while, too.
But I can't think of any recent mispronunciations. I often avoid using French-origin phrases, as I don't know how to pronounce many of them. |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Tasty Onions
I often avoid using French-origin phrases, as I don't know how to pronounce many of them. |
One of my friends should do the same. I fully laughed my ass off one day when he said he administered the "coop-dee-grass" :stongue: |
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| Tasty Onions |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sushipunk
One of my friends should do the same. I fully laughed my ass off one day when he said he administered the "coop-dee-grass" :stongue: |
In college I cringed at hearing "desk-art" for "Descartes." And that was from a philosophy major... |
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| Alex |
| I used to call helicopters "Hop-Copters" |
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