Making fun of people who pronounce words wrong

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• Aliroz

  2016-08-31 22:31:19 edited 2016-08-31 22:32:29

  ...And even when your hope is gone

  move along, move along, just to make it through

  (2015 self)

  Facade, preface, Bowie knife, facetious, coup, corps, fascist, deign.

  
  

  My mistaken pronunciations:
  

  
  

  Facade: First syllable pronounced as the "Fa" from "Fact", the rest pronounced as the, "cade" from, "arcade".

  
  

  Preface: First syllable pronounced as the "Pre" from "preen", the rest pronounced as the word, "face"

  
  

  Bowie Knife: Rhymes with "Howie Strife".

  
  

  Facetious: First syllable pronounced as the word "face", second syllable is pronounced as "tish" like as in "tissue", third syllable pronounced as the word, "us".
  

  
  

  Coup:  Pronounced as "coop", like chicken coop.

  
  

  Corps: Pronounced like the word "corpse".

  
  

  Fascist:  Pronounced to rhyme with "racist".

  
  

  Deign:  Pronounced like, "dine".
• Imipolex G

  2016-08-31 22:34:46

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  I tend to assume this means the person is more of a reader than a talker, and that's fine with me.
  
• Bee

  2016-08-31 22:41:23 edited 2016-08-31 22:41:43

  I've spent far too long in the Midwest to give that kind of benefit of the doubt.  There, chances are they just talk funny.
• Toolsie

  2016-08-31 22:41:58

  ಠ_ಠ

  I can't say "animatronics".
  
  Also couldn't spell it until I looked it up.
• Aliroz

  2016-08-31 22:51:53

  ...And even when your hope is gone

  move along, move along, just to make it through

  (2015 self)

  Also,

  
  

  "tomb", pronounced as though it rhymes with "bomb".

  
  

  "Regurgitate": Both iterations of, "g", are pronounced as a hard "g".

  
  

  "Receipt" pronounced as though it has a non-silent "p", like "reception".
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-08-31 23:08:40

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  The Great Vowel Shift sure was a thing.
  
  That said, if you've ever had to deal with someone who mispronounces a word and then acts like their way is the right way and you're misinformed or in the wrong, you know my pain. Particularly if the pronunciation they are using is counterintuitive in some way.
• Toolsie

  2016-08-31 23:08:54 edited 2016-08-31 23:09:26

  ಠ_ಠ

  If the "gh" in "enough" is pronounced like "f", the "o" in "women" has a short "I" sound and and the "ti" in "nation" is pronunced "sh", then...
  
  "ghoti" is pronounced like "fish"
  
  Welcome to the English language.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-08-31 23:15:22

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  I have seen that, and it's funny, but kind of inaccurate. Final -gh is weird for specific historical reasons, but the fact that it can sound like so many things now is the odder part to me.
  
  Odder still?
  
  "Once."
  
  Think about it.
• Odradek

  2016-08-31 23:16:41

  My dreams exceed my real life

  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-08-31 23:19:10

  Aliroz said:

  Facade, preface, Bowie knife, facetious, coup, corps, fascist, deign.

  fa-CADE
  pre-FACE
  BOW-ee GNAIF
  fa-SEE-tee-uss
  COOP
  CORPS
  FAS-kist
  DAY-gun
  
• Bee

  2016-09-01 00:00:51

  I used to work with a guy who insisted facade was pronounced with a hard K sound.  He didn't believe me when I told him it was supposed to have the French drooling ç.
• Tachyon

  2016-09-01 03:22:45

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  pune
• Tachyon

  2016-09-01 03:23:13

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i think this is mostly a harmless thing to joke about, although you can overdo it
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2016-09-01 03:57:02

  Tachyon said:

  pune

  pew knee