English Words You've Heard Mangled

[Kaisikudo]

Can't think of many instances of this happening where it particularly irritated me. If a friend mispronounces a word, I just tease them for it.

But then, when it comes to obscurely named characters in books or video games, where the name is at no point pronounced out-loud, I'll disagree quite often with people's interpretation of how to pronounce those names xD

(E.G Tidus from FFX. Is it Tye-dus, or Tee-dus?)

 

[Alfador_VII]

Can't think of many instances of this happening where it particularly irritated me. If a friend mispronounces a word, I just tease them for it.

But then, when it comes to obscurely named characters in books or video games, where the name is at no point pronounced out-loud, I'll disagree quite often with people's interpretation of how to pronounce those names xD

(E.G Tidus from FFX. Is it Tye-dus, or Tee-dus?)

I always said Tye-dus, but I think that was given in a later game as Tee-dus.

Mind you sometimes Square do change character names in English, like Aeris is now officially Aerith. Not sure why that happened

 

[Xisin]

I'm actually never bothered by this. It's a natural thing for different places to pronounce things differently. I get more annoyed by people mispronouncing names. (After the are told how to pronounce them, of course.) Though, some are really hard.

 

[Flames66]

When I was little, I pronounced "herb" with a non silent "h".

That is how it's supposed to be pronounced.

OT: I am guilty of pronouncing many words phonetically. There is an area near where I live called St Budeaux pronounced Bue Doe, which I insist on pronouncing Bud aux because that is how it is spelt.

The main pronunciation that pisses me off at the moment is niche. It is pronounced neesh, not nitch.

 

[Evil Raccoon]

In my youth I always said the pokemon move Cut as Kut.
Something much to the dismay to my parents as Kut is Dutch slang for the female reproductive organ.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

When I was little, I pronounced "herb" with a non silent "h".

That is how it's supposed to be pronounced.

Not in the U.S. which is where I live.

 

[CplDustov]

Well seeing as how you took my conversation as inspiration, I may as well participate. XD

Several people I know in Michigan (West Michigan area at least) pronounce the word Picture as Pitcher. They leave out the c and it annoys me for some dumb reason.

I myself have a habit of saying "fer" (fur) instead of for when its in the middle of my sentence. Only in the middle though. I'll say "What's it FOR" but then say stuff like "It's FER work."

Other than that my pronunciation is fairly okay. I won't say its perfect, but its good enough that no one ever comments on it... my grammar and spelling on the other hand XD

That's just natural English. notice that the first A in natural sounds like one but the last one sort of fuses with other sounds and almost disappears? (this is easier when someone else is just speaking without thinking otherwise you end up over analysing. Similarly "of" pronounced alone or emphasised sounds something like "ov" but "middle of the road" would sounds something like "middle've the road" (not exactly of course but my point is the sounds changes

OT: This explains why people have trouble recognising should'VE i.e. "I should haVE done that first" and write "I should of done that first"

 

[siebje]

My boss keeps pronouncing "define" as "divine".

And I keep seeing Native Americans dance around in a circle around a stack of papers every time some new requirements documents have to be divined

*My apologies in advance for the generalization. I seems my brain is slightly racist

 

[Sir Christopher McFarlane]

Can't think of many instances of this happening where it particularly irritated me. If a friend mispronounces a word, I just tease them for it.

But then, when it comes to obscurely named characters in books or video games, where the name is at no point pronounced out-loud, I'll disagree quite often with people's interpretation of how to pronounce those names xD

(E.G Tidus from FFX. Is it Tye-dus, or Tee-dus?)

I think that one is on you. Unless it's an English name, pronouncing "I" as "eye" is bound to be the wrong option.

 

[Andalusa]

I was watching a news segment one morning and there was this kid they were interviewing, I think he was trying to say "definitely" .. He pronounced it "deff-int-lee"
Then one time I was at working, I was filling up the bakery tables in the bread section and two young couples (early twenties) were doing their weekly shop together. One of the women started going about how good our bree-ohs were, and I was wondering what the fuck she was on about until she picked up a packet of brioche.

 

[Launcelot111]

I knew a kid who used to say womb like it rhymes with bomb. Sex ed class was weird.

I also went to Euro Disney once with some French people who made me ride on Spass Montayne three times that day. Them saying that over and over was my favorite part of the day