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Posted: 9/5/2007 1:27:56 AM | I remember my brother calling me *years* ago to tell me about the movie he saw. He said I should go see it. It was really good. I asked the name of the movie.. He said.. well, it is called 'A Cop Lives Now'.. I said 'HUH?' He said, 'A Cop Lives Now'.. It is a war movie, and has a guy that kind of goes crazy. "Oh. Do you mean 'Apocolypse Now'?"
'Oh' he said, "So *that* is how you say it!"
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Posted: 9/6/2007 12:55:57 PM | Great post.
I hear many mispros and have learned to enjoy them:
Alzt heimer's
breffist (breakfast)
ex said, no-turn-al for nocturnal and thought it was hysterical the way I pronounced it.
Have an on-going fight over 'scones'
the 'e' makes the previous vowel say its name, or so I was taught. So, scooooooones or scons if you want to keep the fight going. (p.s. both are correct).
How about longitude? Lonjitude. No sh*t. check it out. Sister says long-i-tude and the fight is on.
Or, how about espresso and expresso, both of which are also correct, depending on whom you ask (hehe).
My all time favorite was told me by an ole lady. Thank you Marg. Her daughter asked, of the labels on Kraft dressing bottles, "Mom. What are agitated beans?"
Agiter bien. (shake well).
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Posted: 9/6/2007 1:10:12 PM | I moved to MO from Wi and the funniest thing people say here is the word wash. The just laughted the first couple of times I heard them pronounce it, then I asked them how they spelled wash.....I was told "warsh".
LOL
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Posted: 9/7/2007 5:14:29 AM | I love when some folks say.....
Supposevly.... Supposedly
Sangewich- Sandwich
If any of you really want to hear the english language completely and totally destroyed..... come to NY where I live. YIKES its a language all to it own!! lol  | |
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Posted: 9/10/2007 10:03:00 AM | for years ive said winnabagel lol or winnabeggel
when i was about 6 i think sitting playing with a puzzle went to ask my mom a question caught a picture of a cartoon buzzard on tv out of the corner of my eye and asked my mom if she was going to go this puzzard with me.
 my mom was a southern woman it was "war" for "wire"
heck i still to this day its yeller for yellow winder for window piller for pillow
and 50% of the time ill answer the phone yellow. 
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Posted: 3/11/2008 11:09:16 PM | | My ex wife always said Alcapalco, you know that city in Mexico, and always said draw when she was talking about drawers and when I was the cable guy, I hooked up the cable at a house where the child there was besides himself with excitement because the cable came with a moto controlo, he kept saying "where the moto controlo, where the moto controlo." | |
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Posted: 3/12/2008 7:57:10 AM | When my daughter was about 18 months old she had problems in pronouncing the word 'foot.... it always came out as 'fook'.
This was REALLY embarassing when my parents came to stay and she got her foot stuck in the rails of her cot......... she just lay there saying "fook, fook, fook", I've never seen my mother look so shocked!  | |
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Posted: 3/12/2008 8:26:26 AM | | One that really gets me is 'pacific' rather than specific. Had a supervisor once who always used "pacifically" rather than specifically. One day I responded to a question with " ' Atlantically' speaking there is no specific reason for this." Needless to say, I was not very long in that job!! | |
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Posted: 3/12/2008 9:23:45 AM |
Cauliflower as "Collie flower"
Wait...that's not how you pronounce Cauliflower?
As to mispronunciations I find amusing...whenever someone who doesn't know me tries saying my last name. It's only 4 letters long but I think I've heard at least a dozen different pronunciations (no, I'm not making that up). I think by far the best one was, "I'm not even gonna try saying that!"
"Rappelling" is another one; for a long time I thought it was said how it's spelled, but it's actually "repelling."
When someone asks for a "pin" (pen), I have to smile. | |
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Posted: 3/12/2008 5:43:15 PM | My niece used to pronounce "remember" like "beh-NEM-ber".
Also, when she lived up in Nanaimo (she's in Victoria now),
she talked about her little friend who lived across the street from "the 'Nimo".
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A friend of my Mom's also says "chimley", and "cuttle-ry". She used to sell Amway products, among which was these things called 'Scrub Buds', and this lady friend of Mom's called them "Scrub Bubs".
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There are a few I've heard say "chi-POL-tay" instead of "chipotle".
I get rankled to hear "Ca-RIB-bee-an", instead of "CAR-ih-BEE-an".
or
"HAR-assment" rather than "ha-RASS-ment" ..
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"CAR-mel" for "CA-ra-mel".
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.. and it's "wrestle", not "rassle"!
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OH ~ and my #1 pronunciation irritation :
"CUMF-ter-bull" instead of "COM-fort-a-ble"!!!
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Posted: 3/13/2008 10:38:36 AM | My Mom's favorite story was always the day we spent looking for a Thamoggin..
I was maybe four.. and I wanted a _____(1) (She was Cannajin, eh..?)
Then there was the weekend I spent in Ballamur, Merlin.. (2)
Currently I live in Shebvul, south a Nashvul.. (3)
But.. being raised in Bufflo (4) , I *know* how to pronouce Scajacqueda, Cheektowaga, Lackawanna
and Naggra Falls.. (normally you go over Gran Islant to get to the Falls)
Jim
(1) Mouth Organ (Harmonica)
(2) Baltimore, Maryland
(3) Shelbyville, Nashville [both in Tenazzi]
(4) Buffalo NY.. originally French... 'beau fleuve' | |
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Posted: 3/14/2008 8:00:58 PM | I sometimes say things muxed-ip just to see if people are paying attention:
A fig newton of my imagination
evelator
and in our family, although we dooo know the correct words...
samich
sketties
scarios - any kind of canned spagetti things that kids like
and a hammer is always a "marteau" | |
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Posted: 3/14/2008 8:03:45 PM | To messagge number 19---My grandson had the same problem and boy did his mom catch heck with other moms because he said that too. It also took him a while to get that one straight.
My daughter was three and we were driving down the road when all of a sudden she wanted the light heads on!! She was getting very insistant and we were still confused as to what she way saying. It took us a good 15 minutes to figure out she was saying Headlights!! | |
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Posted: 3/15/2008 6:56:59 AM | when my Grandaughter was about three years old, she was constantly singing. Her
favorite at that time was; "Mary had a Yittle Yam, Yittle Yam." It was sooo
cute, and she still has a beautiful singing voice at 13 , and no trouble with her L's.
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Posted: 3/15/2008 8:25:00 AM | | My grandson calls my daughter, "Ne Ne' for some unknown reason and my sister "Uncle Tammy". Kids are the funniest and come up with their own view on the world. there is nothing more innocent or funny. Charlela | |
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