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Posted: 4/19/2007 3:07:25 PM | I once had a GF many years ago who pronounced sandwich as a "Sand Wedge"... and Cauliflower as "Collie flower".
I guess my great nephew. Nieces young son pronounces Ziper as Yipper... real funny when he says it. Yi! Perr!!!
I heard a couple today that made me smile.
I was at the dentist and the receptionist said that her mother in law would go into a fancy coffee shop and order a " Crappachino".....
And if someone had a weight problem... they were " Overbeast"
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Posted: 4/19/2007 4:58:49 PM | Had a friend (no really I did! ) that ate brefkist not breakfast.
Another person, it was ambloobiance, not ambulance.
Funniest one from a kid I ever heard was my youngest daughter...the red fireplug that they use during a fire?
A Fire De-Hydrant...yeah...we'll just "dry" out the fire... | |
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Posted: 4/19/2007 8:30:57 PM | I am an English teacher and recently my class held a "Travel Fair" where they had to use all the language expressions and vocabulary associated with travel. One group did a bang-up job with a presentation about Bali. Their information was very detailed and they put a LOT of effort into their presentation. What had me LMAO was in their list of things to do in Bali, snorkeling, beaches, etc. and visiting "hysterical" instead of historical temples. I was the one left hysterical!!!
This one reason why, over the course of my teaching career, I have introduced the notion of Manglish as a new language - p0eple learning English and screwing it up plenty in the process!!!
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Posted: 4/21/2007 1:11:16 PM | | My daughter was entering pre school, I went to a meet n greet with other parents and the teachers. The one teacher kept calling the manilla folders..........vanilla folders. Another teacher was talking about not dispensing any sort of medication to the children except throat "lozengers". Really hard to keep a straight face. | |
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mak68
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Joined: 4/14/2007
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| Funny mispronunciations that you have heard.........
Posted: 4/21/2007 2:11:10 PM | I used to think it was "for all intensive purposes". It's actually "for all intents and purposes".
I used to have a niece who pronounced it scapetti instead of spaghetti.
I think one could find a lot of this type of thing when trying to understand certain songs. Some lyrics in songs really get mangled. | |
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Posted: 4/21/2007 3:25:02 PM |
I used to think it was "for all intensive purposes". It's actually "for all intents and purposes".
i though it was "For all intensive purposes"
well wadda you know you learn something new everyday :D | |
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Posted: 4/21/2007 5:28:15 PM | | A lot of people around here say 'gar-b itch' for garbage...drives me nuts. Axe, instead of ask is another one that kinda gets to me. "I have to go axe my mom?" "Why, what did she ever do to you?" | |
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Posted: 4/21/2007 11:33:19 PM | Well I had given my daughter some fruit c0cktail. When she finished it she came up to me and asked, "Can I have more c0ck fruit please."
I was very quick to correct her on that one!....LOL
Of course she also mixed up bathtub to tub bath, and toothbrush to brush tooth. Those were cute....LOL
Oh and by the way I said brefkist till I was 18....LOL | |
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Posted: 4/22/2007 7:08:11 AM | I LOVE this thread! Nothing to do with dating and that is a cool break!
I have a few mispronounciations to offer.
When I was little that song Home Home On the Range was where the Cantelopes roamed for me! ANd copy cats were coffee cats! TG my parents had a sense of humour and let it go! O and spagetti was pisgetti! I have heard many kids say that!
The one that really drives me whacky with adults and professionals is
Premise vs premises! Cops, firefighters, even politicians ( who are OFTEN lawyers)
call someones home or property a premise! The thief was on the premise before any one could stop him! Yikes! its premises and yet since one person has used premise that way publically a while ago THEY ALL use it like its correct! Just watch!... the Dictionary will adapt accordingly! Premise is a concept or notion often used in legal arguments!
p.s not a lawyer ... just like words and the proper command of them!  | |
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Posted: 4/22/2007 8:29:23 AM | Wow, you have no idea how many I've heard... but then again, I come from a part of the world with it's own English dialect and dictionary to boot.
I've heard people pronounce Edgar as Eggder...roof as "ruff", spoon as "spun" and other vowel mess ups.
Then we drop h's on words that start with the letter and add them to those with none. Ambulance is "Ham blance", towns in our province like Holyrood and Avondale become 'Olyrood and "H' avondale". We've also adopted our own definitions for words like "clit" (hair tangles)
I've heard it all... but for some reason I have a mental block when it comes to saying bacon and eggs. It always comes out achin and begs... always. It's a running joke between my friends and I. | |
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Posted: 4/22/2007 10:12:31 AM | How bout chimley for chimney, escavator for excavator, siddors or sithors for scissors, dis dat and da odder ting, and more than I care to post right now.
Some words are actually incorportated into "proper" English, like irregardless. Sorry, but that word is an oxymoron. Another one is "At this point in time"....think about it, people! | |
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Posted: 4/22/2007 1:20:21 PM | I can't remember where this is from, probably a tv show...
The woman was saying with an accent something to the effect of "The most important thing in a marriage is happiness"
where happiness was pronounced with an emphasis on the second syllable making it sound like " a penis" | |
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Joined: 7/13/2004
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| Funny mispronunciations that you have heard.........
Posted: 4/22/2007 1:35:03 PM | dated a girl that called Alzheimer’s ..old timers. and thought that was how it was pronuonced.
my lil bro called the Acoustic guitar... the ah-cue-stick guitar
new a guy that called theChimney -the chimley, and santa comes down the chimley
new another guy that called his dog.. a GOG.. and chewbaca from star wars shoe bacca. | |
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Posted: 4/22/2007 3:34:30 PM | My sister, who used to call island is land when reading to me when I was little, was watching the news early one morning. She wandered down the stairs with a confused look on her face, and asked me if I knew what an auto spy was. I told her no, of course and asked what she was talking about. She told me that there had been a banner along the bottom of the tv screen about a body that had been found, and the authorities were performing an auto spy. Took me a while to figure out she meant AUTOPSY!
By the way, I am the BLONDE in my family, and she was about 44 years old when this happened! She hates it when I tease her about this, she's not dumb at all, just had a brain fart at the time. | |
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Posted: 4/22/2007 9:10:53 PM | When I was younger(about 4-5) my brother (8-9)would always have his friends come over to hear me say one word repeatedly.
Firef*ck I couldn't say firetruck at all. I had trouble with the "r" sound till about 7and work it out finally.
Has anyone else heard that one? | |
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Posted: 4/23/2007 5:25:53 AM | myzelled instead of misled.
adam ant (1980s new romantic) instead of adamant.
alot of americans say ''edinberg'' instead of edinburgh (burrur).
my daughter used to say ''terpital'' instead of terminal.
''doe-ve' instead of dove.
now,who's going to start a thread on mis heard lyrics? | |
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Posted: 4/23/2007 8:01:41 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". | |
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Posted: 4/23/2007 6:39:16 PM | not really a mispronounciation but one time at work we had a sexual harrasment seminar and the woman was talking about how you shouldnt judge peope baed on thier sex, creed, or if they are an alien and this guy got a crazy look on his face and goes, AN ALIEN???? lol
I still say sew when I mean thread lol | |
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Posted: 4/23/2007 9:34:01 PM |
When I was younger(about 4-5) my brother (8-9)would always have his friends come over to hear me say one word repeatedly.
Firef*ck I couldn't say firetruck at all.
Heard that one a lot, here is one very similar:
When my daughter was in 5th grade she loved the word "funky" One day she told my son to tell me I looked funky....well he said it to her, once she heard it come out of his mouth she realized it wasn't a word he should say. But of course he thought she was the one saying a bad word so he ran down and told me "Sissy said 'f*ck me'." We had to call her down to clear up the situation. Since we knew it was a word that my son might hear at school, he was in kindergarten, we had to explain to his teacher why he might say someone said a bad word when they hadn't....lol | |
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Posted: 4/24/2007 2:00:20 AM | Skeling-ton - skeleton
Nu-cu-lur - Nuclear
Ambly-ance - Ambulance
Drac-lee-a - Dracula
Chimb-ley - Chimney
Yeah, no ones ever said all those things in the same sentence, they could be more a regional thing, and they're probably more annying than funny! But still. | |
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