Words that we pronounce in an odd way
 

Ever notice that there are words that we pronounce in odd ways.

I am not talking about words that have weird spellings that are not pronounced the way they are spelled like "laugh".

I am talking about words that are spelled and their pronunciation is not queastionable yet we often pronounce them in an odd way.


Here is one. Say it to yourself a few times and listen to how you say it.

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Do you say

only or olny?

In less I am paying really close atteation I say olny.

What do you say?
What words have you observed are like this?

EGG AAAG
MILK MELK
ROUTE AS IN ROUTE 66 OR ROUTE AS IN RHYMES WITH GROUT
IS THIS WHAT YOU MEAN?

WHY AM I YELLING?

OH MY GOD IM ON FIRE.

Milk - Melk is a really good one.

Why are you yelling?


So do you say only or olny?

Olny? That's a first for me. I can't recall ever having hearing olny before.

I can't say Massachusettes. It sounds more like massoftwoshits. And when I say pen (or ten) it sounds more like pin (or tin).

i've never heard olny in my life.

pin and tin is a southern drawl.

i hate when people put the accent in best buy on best instead of buy

or when people put the accent on the IN in insurance instead of on the SUR
inSURance. NOT IN surance.

i hate that for some reason.

i hate when my tivo misses CHiPS

1 word = Oregano

I'm from the UK but this word confuses me so much I can't help but say it with an American accent...

help!

Sure: I say it as Shoo-wuh.

It's weird, and quite frankly confuses me. I think it was a bad habit I picked up from one of my old teachers...

Also I can't help but say 'Skellington' instead of 'Skeleton'. Just 'cause it's more fun to say that way XD

Say the word "both" out loud. A lot of people pronounce it like "bolth".

Same with "stove". A lot of people pronounce it as "stolve".

say l.l. cool j out loud.

i do it three or four times a day

sometimes i scream it on the bus stop

other times i say it quietly to myself and smile sheepishly

You know what I find annoying?

when people pronounce schedule like shedule. As if they would say, hey I will see you at shool tomorrow.

I say "Bra" Like the word brawl.

Same as "draw" I say drawl

You dissing Captain Jean-Luc Picard? Hmph...

people in southern indiana oft say wash as warsh.

i had friend who had a friend who would say far-tar.
translation: fire tower

i have another hoosier friend who sez lots of words funny, like:
code = she means cold, "i have a code."
toad = she means told, "i toad you so!"

my brother says bat-tree for battery. (weird)

i'll be back when i think or more. or will i?

I dont think I have an accent, but my cousins from Baltimore say I pronounce milk "meelk".

I was wondering earlier today, why do british people pronounce aluminum "aluminium"? Or at least the guy I heard anyway..

sometimes when im alone i talk to my freckles.

they dont answer.... but i talk to them

This one's name is steve.

crayon pronounced crown or ornery pronounced onery, both bug me.

It bugs me when, instead of saying "two or Three", people say "a couple three" Wouldn't that mean two sets of three or six total. Maybe I'm just too nit picky

Creek (as in the body of water) = "crick"
One hundred = a hunert
+
my various colloquialisms, such as
rooching (rhymes with Butch), meaning fidgeting. As in; "Will you stop rooching around?"
Brutzing (rhymes with foot), meaning crying or whining. As in; "Ah, quit your brutzing."

Worcester, MA

Gloucestor, MA for that matter

It really bugs me when people pronounce sorry as surry. I don't know what would cause someone to do that

I do that Caz, and I have no idea why..... I think it's from watching Ghostbusters to much, because that's how Dan Aykroyd says sorry.

Worcestershire (sauce). Show me the sadistic bastard who came up with that one!

Nobody has mentioned nuclear (Nookyoolar) yet?

nor how the B-man pronounces terror.

I absolutely HATE when people say Nuh-Tour and Muh-Tour for Nature and Mature. I know people who say one correctly and the other wrong. It makes no sense!

wtf @ you people's ways of saying things.
I've never heard ANY of them said those ways.

Iggles, Stillers, Warsh, Ebensburgh, Giant Iggle, all in a 5 minute conversation

I pronounce Dayton as Day'n

Home Depot. How do you pronounce it? My brother says depot with a short e, as in let or pet. This drives me crazy. I pronounce it with a long e, as in street or keep.

Norfolk
I find it mildly amusing that some people over pronounce the "l" to avoid saying nor-fuck.
I like nor-fuck.
nor-fuck
nor-fuck!
NOR_FUCK!

what's with the silent H in human? Do people say ospital or ouse? Why then is it uman being?

I pronouce th as f, like some people from GB do.
And I'm not from there or anything.
So it's like "So what to you fink?" or "I went on frough wif him".
I think I got it from The Streets.

People around philadelphia say "wooder" instead of water...really odd

I usually say ofTen and goverNment. Yes, I say those oddly silent letters. Other things that sound weird...liberry for library, and HERb for hERB, wool for well, purdy for pretty, meer for mirror, raw-in for rotton...

Not me, but people I know:
women - wemen
milk - melk
tooth - toof (and all words end with "th")

Um, so, when the commercials for Best Buy, put on by the company, put the emphasis on Best and not Buy, you cringe? I don't know anyone who says Best BUY. *shrugs*


Nobody mentioned these:

Ernge = Orange

and when people drop letters: stawberry or wuth (for worth).

And just for the record, nu CYOO lar drives me absolutely batshit.

I have a friend who says 'demon' 'deemind'. I have another friend who points that out every time he does.

In the part of the world I live in the word
"ice" often sounds like "ass"

We Pittsburghers have a dialect all our own. :) It would take days to go through everything. There is even merchandise, like books and t-shirts and stuff, with "Pittsburgh-ese" all over it.

Go ahead <b>rhaevyn</b> no lack of time here.

duplicate post sorry

OK, I'm from Boston, so I could make a list of words that we screw up... like the fact that we don't pronounce the letter R, but we add it to some words that don't have it.

drawer = draw
park = paak

yet we add it to words that don't have it

idea = idear

what pisses me off is the people who pronounce towel as tawl

No shit. That's some strange stuff.

omg i have a friend who says "liberry".
i just want to smack her everytime she says that word.
she also says "birfffday".
that makes me want to smack her, too.

Remind me not to mispronounce around bernie.

I say Soul-der instead of Saw-der Soldering gun.

There's one other that I mispronounce but I can't remember it right now...

I have heard people say
sermony instead of ceremony
restaurount (where the roun is pronounced like roun in round) instrad of restaurant.

Because the origins are all screwed up... Read on!

In the case of "aluminum" (as I will spell it because this is, after all, my column), we can pin the whole mess on Sir Humphry Davy, the English chemist who discovered the stuff back in 1807. Indulging in the perversity of which historical figures seem fond, Davy named his discovery not "aluminum," nor even "aluminium," but "alumium," basing the term on the Latin "alumen," meaning "alum," a substance drawn from the same mineral that had been used since ancient times for dyeing hides and the like. This is all a bit confusing, but we can take comfort in the fact that Davy was apparently a bit befuddled too. Around 1812 he decided that the proper name of his discovery was not "alumium," but actually "aluminum." Almost immediately Davy was besieged by other scientists who pointed out that if Davy would just add an "i" to make the term "aluminium," it would fall into line with such other substance names as "sodium" and "calcium" and, in their words, "sound more classical." So Davy named it yet again, this time to "aluminium," and the "ium" form became standard in both the U.S. and Great Britain.

Unfortunately, many people in the U.S. had evidently stopped listening by that point and continued to call the stuff "aluminum," and this spelling became so widespread that it was eventually adopted as the standard in the U.S. "Aluminium," however, is the official spelling used by international chemical societies. One hopes that Sir Humphry Davy, wherever he may be, is at last happy.

then there's gloucester, MA...

i know a few people who say:

bag as beg
or magazine as megazine
or wag as weg, etc.

i hate it when people say dontchoo instead of "dont you".

i say the word "interesting" funny.

This is just a case of my reading ahead in elementary school and not having anyone to tell me how to pronounce a new word, but I have to really concentrate to say "onomatopoeia" correctly. My version is more like "onomatOpia," rhyming with the "autopia" ride as Disneyland, or "utopia."

my dad says random words funny.
regular =reg-uh-lur
field goal =field go
they're a bunch more, but none i cant think of at the moment.

Man, I don't say any of those things. :eek:


I will occasionally say goverNment, though.

has anyone said "vanella" yet? The bugs me. I heard it at work tonight.

The Canadian way of pronouncing the letter A is EH. lol

Have you ever read Harry Potter (but you are not Brittish)

There is a character named Hermione.

After a new books of pronouncing it wrong I finally learnt how to pronounce it becuase the author actually wrote it out phonetically.

I read it as Hermi-own

Apparently the name is pronounced Her-my-o-knee

I have also head someone pronounce it as Hermi One (like Hermi One Kanobi)

I've heard most people pronounce it her-my-knee, which sounds much better than her-my-O-knee. I was thinking, what a stupid way to pronounce the name, when I first read it.

Also, how abour clerks, eh? Who decided that it'd be a great idea to pronounce it as "clarks"?

I just remembered another one: Horrible. (I think) Americans pronounce it like whore-rible. Cracked me up earlier today when a song had a line that went: She's a whore~~ (You can imagine my surprise,) ~rible liar.