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Posted: 4/24/2007 4:36:03 AM | This one isn't a mispronunciation and I'm beginning to wonder...maybe we SHOULD change it becuase they really don't have anything to do with butter anyhow.
How about instead of butterfly we call them flutterbys because...well...that is kinda what they do right? | |
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| Funny mispronunciations that you have heard.........
Posted: 4/24/2007 11:47:43 AM | | When my daughter was three years old she kept singing, "I am a pizza. I am a shopping mall." She wanted me to buy her this tape but I had never heard of this song. She kept getting more and more frustrated until finally someone told me about Charlotte Diamond and her song, "I Am A Pizza." Charlotte sings part of the song in English and some of the lyrics are, "onions and mushrooms" which when translated into French became, "oignons et champignons" which sounded just like I am a shopping mall to a three year old's ears. That song has stayed in my brain for the last eighteen years because it was such a big deal to my daughter. | |
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Posted: 4/24/2007 11:55:59 AM |
I just remembered one, my daughter used to come to me complaining that she was having a "gross fart" (keep in mind that she can't pronounce her r's yet). She had pains in her legs but not her tummy so I had no clue what she was talking about at first... until it hit me that she was trying to say "growth spurt".
That's too cute!!  | |
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Posted: 4/26/2007 9:54:56 AM | When my oldest daughter was 2 and had a drippy nose, she came to me and asked for a "clean nose". What she meant was a Kleenex, which is what we called tissues in our house. Pretty smart for 2!
We lived in Santa Barbara and on misty, foggy mornings all of the local frogs would be croaking like crazy in the cool air. One morning when I asked my girls what the weather was like outside, they told me "Mommy, it's froggy out this morning". They thought that "foggy" was really called "froggy." Kids are so darn cute! | |
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Posted: 4/28/2007 7:32:18 PM |
That's too cute!!
I still giggle every time I remember it. She did something in the kitchen that day to set me off, and it triggered that memory. She'll be really embarassed when I start telling her junior high friends about it.
I know one guy who mispronounces poutine. I asked what he wanted at a local take-out restaurant, and he replied with pootenay. That set off a laughing fit that lasted for an hour. | |
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Posted: 4/29/2007 9:30:45 AM | My son when he was little used to say things a little backwards...
Like hotdog would be ...........Dothog............
grasshoppers were...Hoppergrasses..........to this day we still call them
that!  mthr | |
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Tigi
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Joined: 1/4/2007
Msg: 35 | |
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| Funny mispronunciations that you have heard.........
Posted: 4/29/2007 5:46:52 PM |
Well my story takes place in the heart of Alabama, at dinner time, in an old roadside Cafe and it involved a cute young southern blonde waitress. { Probably in her early 20's. }
A couple of middle aged California engineers, done for the day, having just completed a field survey during the heat of the day; wanted a cool glass of wine before partaking of dinner.
California Engineers: Hi Ya Beautiful, you have a Wine List.
Cute Alabama Waitress: Nope, we don't have a wine list, but we have wine.
California Engineers: OK Babe, what kind of wine do you have ?
Cute Alabama Waitress: We have Red wine, White wine and some Rosey wine.
California Engineers: (chuckling) OK what brands of White wine do you have.
Cute Alabama Waitress: Darn, I don't know let me check guys.
Cute Alabama Waitress: (Returns with a big smile on her face & says) We got Shibless 
California Engineers: ( politely curtail laughter & say) OK, lets have a couple glasses of that there Shibless you got Honey. 
Foot note to the above story: We had a Cat Fish dinner there, that was probably the best cat fish either one of us have ever eaten.  
We left the cute young honey blond Alabama waitress probably one of the largest tips she had ever gotten up to that point, in her young career !  | |
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Posted: 4/29/2007 6:42:08 PM | The one I like was by some furriners, from Utah. I live in Oregon which is if course Oregone to them, Willamette Valley aka Will a met to them but the one that got me roaring was when we went down the Umpqua (ump kwa) river they came up with Um puka. I know they are mostly Indian names but gee don't they have Indians in Utah to translate for them????  | |
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Genrae
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Joined: 11/10/2006
Msg: 38 | |
| Funny mispronunciations that you have heard.........
Posted: 4/29/2007 10:26:53 PM | Sandwich>Samich
Motorcycle>Mo-mycle
Street>Screet
Business>Bidness
Pregnant>Pergnat
Spaghetti>Bessghetti
Ask>Axe
Ambulance>Emalines
Little nephew used to pronounce Peach as b*t**
As a little kid, I couldn’t pronounce “F’s” so foot was pronounced Shoot. My family will never let that die.
My nephew thought Growing pains meant that he had a pain in his groin
My nephew asked my mom where honey came from. My mom told him that bees make honey. He said, “I hope they wash their hands first.” | |
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Posted: 4/30/2007 6:12:16 PM | This one from above:
just had a brain fart at the time
I always thought the expression was "farc", slangy short form of infarction.
Definition of infarction: Localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply
A lot of people seem to say brain fart instead of brain farc. Who knew? Maybe brain fart is a legitimate expression. Sounds good! | |
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Posted: 5/13/2007 1:22:30 AM | Some of my favorite Bunkerisms (from Archie Bunker, "All in the Family"):
infilterated
mortifried
que seroo seroo
social minudities
judasprudence
the Pope Diamond
UFO-CIA (for AFL-CIO)
veryclose veins | |
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Posted: 5/13/2007 11:26:33 AM | My lil sis used to say ty-per-writer for typewriter... and, of course, pas-ghetti...
A friends' mother, whose first language was not English, used to call deadlines "deathlines"...
Alright, need to start the wrong lyrics thread... | |
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Posted: 5/13/2007 2:18:28 PM | "Case and point". I imagine a business-person in a dunce cap.
If you say something general and then want to add a specific example, even better if it's current affairs, it's
"Case IN point: [example]"
It's even funnier in text. | |
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Posted: 5/14/2007 4:39:18 AM | I used to say paul nailish instead of nail polish, efalant instead of elephant and tefalone instead of telephone ... okay sometimes they still slip out 
and anyway spoonerisms are absitively posolutely funny 
had a friend that couldn't say vinegar it'd come out something like vig nen ar
others I've heard
cimanen - cinnamon
sorta speak - so to speak
w ho re - horror
walla - voila (French)
ascared - scared
should of - should have
di nint - didn't
torlet - toilet
worsh - wash
nip it in the butt - nip it in the bud
wuff - wolf
spaded - spayed
I'm sure there are more but uhh wow how'd it get to be quarter to four in the morning? 'k' g'night  | |
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Posted: 9/1/2007 5:27:17 PM | When my brother was younger, he couldn't say Rice Krispie Squares, it always came out as miss miss me squares, or cigarettes he pronounced as sea-sea-skarettes, myself when I was younger I had trouble with my r's, so anyone name Robert I would always say Lobert instead..
ahh... good times way back when | |
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Posted: 9/1/2007 5:57:00 PM | My ex used to say (seriously ) Philadelthia and Reeding
Pa cities...of course Philadelphia and Reading...........
Many Monopoly fans probably say Reeding, but its pronounced "Redding"
Oh, in GA people are always "fiddin" to go somewhere...........instead of "fixin" to go ......so they slang the slang...................lol
I remember living in LA, where they "make groceries" too, now that one used to get me. | |
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