#mispronunciation

[mouthtapedguy]

I once said "colonel" like "co-lo-nel" and the silence was deafening

[unbfacts]

Hyperforeignism is when speakers mispronounce foreign words by applying incorrect patterns, often overcomplicating them. Examples include saying "habanero" as "habañero," "coup de grâce" with an exaggerated French accent, and "Beijing" with a "zh" sound instead of a "j."

[lilianaart]

Head canon

Gilan pronounces food names wrong to mess with Jenny. Jalapeño, Gnocchi, Bruschetta, and his favorite? Worcestershire

Gilan: can you pass the tor-till-ah

Jenny: (murderous) Can you pass the k-nif-ee

[asterthesun]

On my wall I have scotch tape that says "moony toast" and my brother was in my room and he read it out loud but said "moany toast"

I died laughing.

I think we are all dyslexic.

[rollforfocus]

When you’ve lived in the same small town speaking Gidal your whole life…Common can be hard.

[sweeneytodd11]

not how you pronounce that || the owl house animatic

This is so eda

[bookishbrigitta]

So, I'm kind of a "fake fan" of Rebels (haven't seen much of the show) and just learned that Chava, the old lady Lasat spiritual leader/yente, pronounces her name with a hard "Ch" as in "Cha-cha slide."

WHAT IS THIS SHIT???

[giftofgabber]

I mispronounced Mike Ross as “My Cross”

[norastarfall]

My little sister having her own accent (because i talked to her in a British accent growing up then stopped suddenly) is very funny. We were talking about bands and she meant to say Insane Clown Posse. In front of our mother, she proceeded to say very loudly "Insane Clown Pussy"

I fell laughing very loudly

[karizard-ao3]

I feel like Eren would say quasont instead of croissant 😭 and say quickie instead of quiche 😭

Eren is a moron of the highest order, so I 100% agree. I think quasont he would maybe do just because he thinks it's funny, but he cannot wrap his head around the correct pronunciation of quiche. I saw a Twiyor fan comic where Yor asks Twilight if he wants a quickie and he almost has a stroke until he realizes she meant "quiche" and I feel like that's Eren exactly.

"Hey, Mikasa! Want to have a quickie tonight? I want to do something about those eggs." (He is referring to all the eggs about to expire in his refrigerator. Mikasa assumes he means something very different.)

After the quickie misunderstanding, he might start to call it a "queetch". When people correct him, he says, "Use your fucking eyes to look at how it's spelled. There's no fucking way that's pronounced 'keesh'."

[deathmetalunicorn1]

Question for all of you!!

Do you have a word, that no matter how hard you say it in your head and practice, can never say correctly on the first try and you have to say it slowly like you're sounding it out to be able to say the correct word? Because it's really annoying that I can't say 'preliminary' without adding in extra 'n' 'm' or 'l' s!

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, what word gives you headaches?

[chamomile-teas]

I’VE BEEN PRONOUNCING SPEARMINT WRONG MY ENTIRE LIFE APPARENTLY

i thought it was spelled spearamint and so Ive been saying spear-ah-mint for 19 YEARS and no one ever corrected me until this year 😭

[what-marsha-eats]

[lady-hibiscus]

every time my white friends talk about steven he they always say the first one. my asian friend with this last name pronounces it the second. i need to know what people think.

[leesielou]

My husband made this meme after we watched bake off tonight. He speaks a fair bit of French, and we were talking about the English butchering a lot of the French pastry names. We think they do it on purpose to make the French cranky. 😅

[rollforfocus]

In which Common is still hard for Xelas. Check out more like the RFF skirt and the Ygin tumbler at TTRPGswag.com/pages/rollforfocus