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Words you mispronounced for ages (pg. 3)
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| SYSTEM-J |
| Used to mispronounce "albeit" as "Al-beat" for a long time. Took me a while to realise it was just a contraction of "All be it". Also used to pronounce "banal" as "Bay-nall". |
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| Sykonee |
I mispronounce a lot of things, but usually for the lawlz.
I blame Bugs Bunny. |
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| knowhope |
Fresh immigrant from the airport, i got picked up by my aunt and cousins. I oddly somehow got to asked them which country is it, using various hand techniques and blah-bering.
They reply: 'Canada'.
I said: Cauh - Nahh - Lah (Roll the the 'L')
Funny thing is, i kept repeating it and they kept trying correct me. I got it correctly after a few days or weeks, i forgot. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by knowhope
Fresh immigrant from the airport, i got picked up by my aunt and cousins. I oddly somehow got to asked them which country is it, using various hand techniques and blah-bering.
They reply: 'Canada'.
I said: Cauh - Nahh - Lah (Roll the the 'L')
Funny thing is, i kept repeating it and they kept trying correct me. I got it correctly after a few days or weeks, i forgot. |
Still haven't quite figured English out, eh? |
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| Lira |
"Albeit" confused the hell out of me for a while as well, because I had never heard anyone say that. It's quite difficult for us foreigners to "guess" the pronunciation of some words in English and sometimes they sound nothing like we imagine. I still say "hyperball" for "hyperbole" when I'm distracted... and I once puzzled an American professor trying to say "upon" as "you-pon"... he had no idea what I was talking about :D
Oh, and I keep mispronouncing Arbiter's name (I say ar-BUY-ter").
| quote: | Originally posted by Unique2701
I used to pronounce Lira as Lyra. |
Haha, funnily enough, people always misspell my forename (Marcos instead of Marcus... they sound the same in Portuguese), but they hardly ever get my surname wrong :p
| 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: |
Coup de tart? :p
| quote: | Originally posted by Tasty Onions
In college I cringed at hearing "desk-art" for "Descartes." And that was from a philosophy major... |
I always took these names to be shibboleths that distinguished philosophy majors from the rest of the population. However, I've heard philosophers mispronouncing Peirce's name ("Pierce" instead of "Purse") quite a few times, for example, so I take nothing for granted any more. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| Every word I ever heard or spoke, except the one. |
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| Banora |
| quote: | Originally posted by Redd
I've never pronounced anything wrong. |
Impossible, you're Norwegian.
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| Redd |
Norwegian sounds like singing? Fine.
Are second and third languages in this? Because OK I might have mispronounced a couple of french words now and then. And I mispronounce german all the time, but that's because I don't know it. |
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| DJ Shibby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Redd
Norwegian sounds like singing? Fine.
Are second and third languages in this? Because OK I might have mispronounced a couple of french words now and then. And I mispronounce german all the time, but that's because I don't know it. |
Come again?
I like you. |
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| Redd |
| quote: | Originally posted by clay
i spell wrong on purpose to make others feel better about them selfs. |
it's working, yeah! |
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| nekholm |
| I thought "once and for all" was something like "one sent for all", cause I had only heard it on TV, never seen it written. This was when I was younger though. |
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