Words that are fun to pronounce incorrectly:

"Pacifically" is standard Hull pronunciation.

Favourite Hullism = "wan-yuns" for onions.

Oranges (norn jez)

Sandwiches (sang i jes)

Banana when we rhyme it with Hannah.

Joel is "Joe-Hell"

Dunnes (dune `ays)

incredible thread

Ulrika Jonsson (ul reek ka ka ka ka jon son)

Butternut Squash ( squtter nut bosh)

Pinot Grigio (pee not gree gee oh)

Stodge Arschmann.

Orang Utan (or ange oo tange)

Pinot Grigio (pee not gree gee oh)

-- I know, right?, Sunday, January 20, 2008 1:27 PM

ok this one

though i prefer just stretching the "gree" ad absurdum

pee-not GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEgeeoh

I like to keep it nice and staccato

fambly (maybe Grandaddy ruined this one)
sprots

Also I could listen to Northern Irish (oh, s'pose Norn Irn's another one. and s'pose, if you like) people say "however" all night because "highever" totally sounds like the best Boards of Canada track that only 23 people were allowed to hear the tape of (I still have some delusions of using it myself but I can't make music so they are pretty much just delusions)

I like saying Norn Irn Tuhlvision, is funny because of how crap Norn Irn Tuhlvision is.

Wilderness (hoo ill dee ness)

and Nuc-u-lur, obv

Pronounce Chuck Palahniuk as "Chuke" and eventually your dumber friends will follow suit.

haha

I've also been know to pronounce dude's last name as "Pu-law-nye-uk"

I used to say Pal a h nee uk but apparantly its Paula Nick

so i hear

antique (auntie Q)

Misled (My zuld)

antique (anti-quay)

Isn't there a US state where they have a lot of (French?) city names that are all pronounced incorrectly? I liked a lot of those (think I read about it somewhere, can't remember now)

There's that old "Australians think 'Loughbourough Junction' is called 'Looga Barooga Junction'" urban myth.

Saxamaphone
Tramampoline

StanM: Louisiana?

http://www.populationstatistic.com/images/dave_letterman.jpg

"I been HIP-mo-tized."

ARGH FUCK

http://www.populationstatistic.com/images/dave_letterman.jpg

Doable = DWA-bl.

Roxy: I think it was even in an ILX thread and not just one state in particular - one I just remembered is Versailles (Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, etcetera) (and they're probably all pronounced Ver Sales and not like the French "vursai")

gour-met

DuBois, Pennsylvania is pronounced doo-boys. WTF.

Haha, Dubois, Idaho is too!

Answer to title question: ALL OF THEM.

OTM!

'cool, i loved the third act dee-newey-ment'
'thats not how its pronounced!'

I know, right?

French Fur tappers apparently forgot that naming everything after fucking trees would lead to a legacy of nationwide French-butchering. (I think it is charming!)

Fajita, so it sounds like 'vagina'

Haha, Dubois, Idaho is too!

is there any Dubois in America that's pronounced Franche-ily?

see also WY, WI

Des Moines

syllable (si-LAH-bul)

More importantly, did French Fur Trappers name any cities after French words not meaning "the trees"? Boise and Dubois in one fucking state...

There's that old "Australians think 'Loughbourough Junction' is called 'Looga Barooga Junction'" urban myth.

-- chap, Monday, 21 January 2008 02:06 (7 hours ago) Bookmark Link

They'd say 'luff-oh.' Intellect comes a distant second to truncating words they can't pronounce.

lasagne: la-zadg-knee

Fujiya Miyagi: fooijji and mi ijjy
though that was more out of laziness

The writer pronounced his name something like duh BOYZ as well.

"Fra-gee-lay. That must be Italian."

Kansas ("can-saw")
Arkansas ("ar-can-sass")

Doing ("doyng")

Grand prix ("grand pricks"). Hee hee hee.

/childish.

coincidence - co-ink-ee-dink

misled (MY-zild)

AAARGH Andy Partridge did that and had me stumped for about three years.

mildewed (mild-WED)
don't get to say that too often, however

Didgeridoo (Dijery-DOO)

Not pronunciation as such but the nearest Chinese takeaway has a menu offering "musfrooms" and this is a pretty cool word that I have adopted

but then I like to call sprouts "sprots" so I am apparently well on the way to being my granny, with cutesy pet names for every possible component of a meal

RADD-iator (it radiates Rad-ness, clearly)

my dad, who speaks english as a second-language, but rather well as he learned it as a boy, pronounces radiator with the emphasis on the third syllable which i like to do to imitate him for a laugh.

ou est la radiateur?

other laugh at my dad for being a johnny foreigner classics: "stomach" pronounced STOmack rather than STUmack.

oh and my favourite "adjacent" "AH-jah-cent"

RADD-iator (it radiates Rad-ness, clearly)

This is the correct pronounciation for many natives of Baltimore, Maryland.

This is consideredthe correct pronounciation for by many natives of Baltimore, Maryland.

Considering mutation of "didgeridoo" into Digitiser(idoo)-esque "didja-me-do", which would be ace if I were 15 and if I knew anyone who knows what the hell Digitiser was, moc-moc-a-moc

(ace for about five minutes when delirious with boredom in the slow and painful latter half of a double maths lesson, I mean)

linden village, rotten student's cider, always pronounced as if it were classy french beverage lon-don vee-yage

a-deer-un-dack

we got a couple of those chairs on our porch

faj-eat-a

RADD-iator (it radiates Rad-ness, clearly)

This is the correct pronounciation for many natives of Baltimore, Maryland.

― Dynamic Leia Dress (kingkongvsgodzilla), Friday, October 30, 2009 9:40 AM (32 minutes ago)

was wondering about this because my landlord said it like that and i thought maybe he hadn't ever heard anyone say it out loud haha

I actually learned that pronounciation from my former housemate in NYC - she's from Brooklyn, but I think she got that pronounciation from her (Kentucky born) father. I just like saying it that way. I like the way it sounds.

Overheard this exchange between a few ppl making fun of their friend's various mangled pronunciations:

"Haha wait, how do I say it?"
"'Heel-a-copter'"
"Oh hey I do don't I. Wait, how do you say it????"

hyperbole

so the other day I went to the local deli and pointed at the falafels and said "a fuhlaffle please" and the reply was "oh, a falla-fell?" and I thought maybe I had pronounced it wrong forever, but still it is totally fun to say like that, so I just thought of that and thought maybe it should go here

except wikipedia and the OED say I'm right, and the other version is not fun to say, so, deli checkout girl, you are needlessly missing out on fun, FUN i say

Another word I enjoy pronouncing correctly is KUMQUAT. Give it a whirl!

would get needlessly snappy at a deli assistant that incorrectly corrected me like that, tbh.

Pretentious-moi has been "corrected" before by a barman - an aussie barman no less - for saying mo-ET instead of mo-ay.

gay rage

St Michael's Mount, in Marrazzzzzion.

"Oh you mean Marajahn?"

Do I?

(xpost to ledge)
Whoa, I have learnt something. Freddie Mercury you have misled me. Possibly you have misle-d me too (I too misread it that way for many years as a kid, re post near end of previous revival)

He sings Moh-ay dunne?

imitoot, exorktly.

once got corrected on my pronunciation of mocha, fuck that bitch. Additionally, dictionary says that I was RIGHT to say moe-kah not maw-kah.

what are y'all talking about re. misled? OH RIGHT NOW I SEE. :o)

Mizzled.

allegory (uh-LEG-o-ree)

RADD-iator (it radiates Rad-ness, clearly)

for 20 years I've just assumed Kwame was stretching for something to rhyme with "gladiator," but maybe he had an excuse

telephone

teh-leh-peh-ho-knee