[EveningStar]

I don't agree with all of these.

[clbiel]

Like when “restroom” is pronounced “can”?

[trisham]

I love it. Thank you!

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

I do agree with the author on "irregardless". Drives me crazy to hear that.

I also hate the use of "steep learning curve" to mean just the opposite, but I think fixing that is a hopeless task.

[rlmorel]

Heh, I found two or three I get lazy on!

[Boogieman]

“Alternate pronunciations, however, are a different matter from out-and-out mispronunciations. The latter, no matter how common, are incorrect, either because of the spelling that indicates another pronunciation, or because of what is widely agreed upon to be conventional usage.”

Typical grammar elitist attitude. Grammarians do not get to set the rules of a language, their job is merely to document them. The rules are always in flux, and the general populace are the ones who actually determine the rules.

Therefore, if a large number of people continue to “mispronounce” a word, it will eventually become an accepted alternate pronunciation. Sooner or later the grammarians will be forced to acknowledge it, because they don’t have any other choice once something becomes entrenched in usage.

[Daffynition]

When the outgoing resident says *ta* instead of *to*.

Lazy@ss speech.

Cringeworthy. Goodbye, good riddance to the Lazy@ss residency.

[SouthParkRepublican]

BFL

[Sergio]

I’ve noticed that many folks do not pronounce the second “T” in words with a double “T”. Example: button.

I hear it pronounced but-en rather than but-ton.

[frithguild]

How did nuclear come to be pronounced nook yuh lehr ?

[No_More_Harkin]

Nothing excapes you EveningStar! My walking little LIBARY, thesaurus, encyclopedia, exedra, exedra...
:)

[Organic Panic]

I axe you why?

[frithguild]

And there's a "P" in Clemson

[FrankR]

UHMbrella, or umBRELLA?

INsurance, or inSURance?

[exit82]

Growing up 12 miles west of NYC, it was “worter”, not “wa-ter”.

My mother always said “sangwich” for “sandwich”. We joked about that when I got older, as she was exempt in English in the 8th grade. She would say sangwich on purpose, and I would say “And you were exempt in English?” and laugh.

My mother-in-law would say “lit-ill met-ill bot-ill” for “little metal bottle”. Became a running family joke.

I have said “mun-in-ci-pal” instead of “Mun-is-i-pal” and “chas-sis” for “chas-see”.

Flammable and inflammable really gets me hot under the collar though.

[Tucker39]

I’m not sure what you were saying about those nuts native to Georgia. But I submit that I took Army Basic at Ft. Gordon, and bivouaced under the trees with local guys from Valdosta, etc. They called them
pee-cans; not pee-cahns.

[pa_dweller]

Found a couple of my pet peeves. Especially - athlete – The word has two syllables, not three. Say /ATH-LETE/, not /ath-uh-lete/.

[outofsalt]

Some words are just unpronounceable.

What's this here sauce?

[HandyDandy]

How do YOU say “corpsman”?

[Califreak]

Nooo-cue-lur.

[TalBlack]

It’s strangely disheartening when some OCD anal retentive writes a howto article and you realize you already do all of the things he talks about his way...Geeez.