50 Incorrect Pronunciations That You Should Avoid

Daily Writing Tips ^ | December 2, 2008 | Maeve Maddox

[Charles Martel]

It’d probably be interesting - and a bit sad - to do a study on how the various English accents are changing, or fading out altogether. I suspect that the East End doesn’t sound like that anymore.

[Charles Martel]

Another interesting project is the upcoming Valérian and the City of a Thousand Planet live-action movie. That one is really an enigma to the American audience, being based on a 50-year-old *French* comic book series (and subsequent Japanese anime adaptation). The European-influenced anime projects can be very interesting - and sometimes unintentionally comical.

[Rollee]

Back on the old “PASSWORD” tv game show the password was deer. The celebrity gave the clue “doe”. The contestant answered “knob”

That story reminds me of a recent ”Family Feud episode. Steve Harvey said "name something that goes with pork." The contestant said "cupine."

[TexasTransplant]

No one agrees ... we just deflect and approve or disapprove

[dfwgator]

Whoever wrote this needs to STFU and make me a sammich.

[Arthur McGowan]

She missed a few:

The number “20” does not rhyme with “bunny.”

[Arthur McGowan]

She gives the correct pronunciation of jewelry, but fails to condemn specifically the pronunciation JOOLERY.

[Arthur McGowan]

I’ve been hearing this a lot:

His original approach didn’t work, so he decided to take another TACT.

[Freedom56v2]

Bookmark

[Centaur]

In late, but my cringer is people who write/say ‘would of’ instead of would have for would've.

[Castigar]

The one that gets ME is H-I-L-L-A-R-Y. It’s pronounced Criminal!

[Albion Wilde]

In Philadelphia, masons often pronounce “masonry” as “masonary.” Sort of like the way many Fluffyans pronounce the name of the Acme grocery store: “ACK-a-mee.”

[Albion Wilde]

Wipped cream...or Whipped cream?

Wip creem.

[Albion Wilde]

I warrsh my squarrsh.

That's fine for you; but many natives of Washington, DC pronounce it "Warshington." That's gratingly disrespectful of our first president.

[Albion Wilde]

I think a lot of these are not so much mispronunciations as they are non-standard pronunciations, or regionalisms, or pronunciations based in dialect. I remember “bob-wire” was common where I grew up in southern Illinois.

They forgot to include "duck tape" (duct tape).

[Albion Wilde]

I’ve noticed lately that “pundits” is being pronounced “pundants.”

Trump says that a lot. He also says "phenomena" when he means "phenomenon."

[Albion Wilde]

Michigan ··· mitch-chikan
Buffalo ··· Boo-follow

I heard an European tourist on his cellphone telling someone he was in TUCK-sohn. (Tucson, AZ)

We have a town in Maryland called Havre de Grace that has several longstanding local pronounciations, accompanied by longstanding feuds:

1) HAVE-er-dee-grayce
2) HAVE-ah-dih-grass
3) HARV-dih-grahs
4) HAHV-dih-graw

[Daffynition]

Isle au Haut, Maine

I’ve heard it pronounced, Il da Ho

Linda Greenlaw of *Perfect Storm* fame, lives there.

[Albion Wilde]

Is your wife from the Philadelphia area because "crowns" instead of "crayons" is prominent there. I can attest that it is difficult to stop that one.

As is "shtreet" instead of "street."

[Albion Wilde]

UHMbrella, or umBRELLA?
INsurance, or inSURance?

AM-byoolence, or AM-byoo-LANCE?