whats the word you've prounced most incorrectly and been embarrassed about afterwords

[C33]

Originally posted by mxzombie

jigga dat nigga!

[NeverTonightA]

Originally posted by crescentfresh
hehe

We have a joke at work where we say URL as "earl." One time I told someone to go to this "earl" because I was just brain farting and the woman from that point on thought i was crazy.

oh that computer humor, gets me everytime.

[I_was_aborted]

I pronounced gyros wrong for a little while. I had never eaten a gyros until I moved to Chicago. Noone here knows how to actually pronounce it and there are several people who speak with different accents so noone ever said it to me correctly. I lately found out through looking it up that its yeeh-ros. I'm just glad I was never redneck enough to call it a jy-roe.

[2Marlon2Brando]

Originally posted by I_was_aborted
I pronounced gyros wrong for a little while. I had never eaten a gyros until I moved to Chicago. Noone here knows how to actually pronounce it and there are several people who speak with different accents so noone ever said it to me correctly. I lately found out through looking it up that its yeeh-ros. I'm just glad I was never redneck enough to call it a jy-roe.

Everyone here in Texas that I've met calls them jy-roes.

[jenniferkate]

Originally posted by alisonmonster
i hate it when my mom can't pronounce "Alzheimers" when her mother has the diease

half the people i work with call it all-heimers.

my dad and i were talking about irrevocable waivers one day, and i pronounced irrevocable wrong. he laughed at me.

oh and while it's not incorrect, my aunt with her genteel southern accent always giggles at the way i butcher words like coffee or dog.

[vanilla]

Originally posted by jenniferkate


half the people i work with call it all-heimers.

my dad and i were talking about irrevocable waivers one day, and i pronounced irrevocable wrong. he laughed at me.

when i was about 8, i thought it was called "old timers".

[Xteenmachine]

Apparently "Capo" is pronounced "Kay po".

[Toby]

Originally posted by mewl


in my head, i "pronounce" words as they're spelled, even though it's incorrect a lot of the time. i'll think ep-i-tome but it'll come out of my mouth correctly. that's how i learned how to spell, anyway...

did that make any sense whatsoever?

It's called phonics.

[vanilla]

Originally posted by Xteenmachine
Apparently "Capo" is pronounced "Kay po".

this one if funneh

[jenniferkate]

Originally posted by vanilla

when i was about 8, i thought it was called "old timers".

that's cute

[GreenEggsNSpam]

Originally posted by vanilla

when i was about 8, i thought it was called "old timers".

I still call it that. :erm

But I do realize the difference in the 2 words.

[Orenthal James]

Originally posted by Eulogy
I'll have 50 of your chicken fajitas.

5,000.

And a sosauge mcbiscuit

[pastor]

I snicker every time my niece mispronounces a "th" word by sounding out the individual letters when she's reading aloud. Then I smack her on the back side of the head and call her stupid. You ain't so smart now, are ya, ya three-year-old bitch? Whoopie, look at me, I'm three years old and I'm already learning how to read! Oops, I can't pronounce "the" or "that" correctly, and now I'm back to being the fucking dumbass that I've always been.

That's where ambition gets you, folks. You all know it by now; you've lived life. I just hope she knows by the time she's at least five.

[Helena Handbasket]

Apparently when I was little I used to say "crowd" for proud and "boregous" for gorgeous. (My mom said I used to come up to her and go "Mommy... am I boregous??") She thought it would be just so cute to tell that story in front of my boyfriend a few weeks ago, and I still haven't lived it down.

[twice]

postmodernism.

[jaxx]

what a bunch of insecure pussies

[mxzombie]

i've never done it, but it really bothers me when people say "death" instead of "deaf."

[meow]

I used to pronounce Connecticut as Connect-ee-cut.

[Kentaro]

Now that I think of it, most of my mispronunciations have been music related...

I pronounced Le Tigre "Le Tiger" the first time I said it, even though I knew it was wrong.
I thought Siouxsie Sioux was "Sioshie"...
And I didn't know what to make of Iscariot in Pices Iscariot.

I haven't even attempted the Einstürzende in Einstürzende Neubauten. . .

As for everyday words...

Tie-ranny for tyranny. . .

[2Marlon2Brando]

I once heard a girl pronounce facade, "fa-cod".

[-adamson]

Originally posted by pastor
I snicker every time my niece mispronounces a "th" word by sounding out the individual letters when she's reading aloud. Then I smack her on the back side of the head and call her stupid. You ain't so smart now, are ya, ya three-year-old bitch? Whoopie, look at me, I'm three years old and I'm already learning how to read! Oops, I can't pronounce "the" or "that" correctly, and now I'm back to being the fucking dumbass that I've always been.

haha! gee, you're a little tough on her.

when i was in kindergarten, i was the only one who knew how to read (i uthed to be tho thmart :erm ). So, during storytime, the teacher would send me to another part of the classroom to practice reading aloud to myself. i was reading one of those awesome "see dick and jane do this and that books". dick and jane had a friend named nancy, which i would pronounce nan'-kee. i thought, "that's a funny name." then i overheard the teacher reading and i heard her say nancy and i was embarrassed even though nobody could hear me.

i wish you had been there, pastor, to hit me upside the head till i got it right before i embarrassed myself.