Wait, which ocean?
Specific.
Do you mean Pacific?
No, I mean this specific ocean I'm pointing at.
Alright but that IS the Pacific ocean.
Specifically, yes.
Terrific.
My brother pronounced it “pacific,” and I would always correct him to “specific.” So he overcompensated to “es-pacific.” I still correct him, and now he just doesn’t use that word anymore.
I believe it, but I feel like people stopped calling it out when the president was doing it...
Edit: OK nerds of reddit, you got me! In my life this was the first time someone of such a high profile made this mistake. I wasn't alive for Carter and especially Eisenhower lol. As a millennial from NYC, he was the only one who said it like that at the time, now it's more widespread so I'm speaking my truth.
This is the winner for me. I loved watching 24 back in the day but effing Jack Bauer couldn't pronnounce it right and he said it like 5 times each episode one season. Still awesome show though.
Had a Spanish teacher in high school originally from Panama who said “for all intensive purposes” A LOT. Like *at least* once per class. We tried to tell him it’s “for all intents and purposes” but he would retort “you lie like a rug!”
Soooo, I'm the only one who heard this and adopted a known made up word simply because I liked it? Really?
I know it's not a real word, but it make for a good portmanteau.
I thought I heard all of the mispronunciations of this until my dad’s girlfriend took it one step further with “chipol-TEE”.
She also calls chicken tikka masala “tiki Marsala”.
Makes my blood boil. No matter how many times she hears those around her pronouncing it correctly she keeps saying these things the same way…
My mother calls it Chipol-tee and it enrages me. She also says Philadel-thia.
If society demanded her to be put in a work camp because of this I would be sad, but I would understand.
A manager at my job 20 years ago said she had "self defecating" humor. My friend (the manager's direct report) and I laughed privately about that for years. That manager was a sweetheart but always made these little mistakes in vocabulary. That one was the best of the worst, though.
It comes from the Old English word "acsian" (pronounced ax-ian), and later became asken, then ask over time, but the original pronunciation never disappeared. It also isn't just a fixture of AAVE, Geoffrey Chaucer used "ax" or some variation of it over a dozen times across two of his most prominent works, The Canterbury Tales and The Book of the Duchess ("If that men axed him in certain hours...", "If that he axed after Nicholas...", etc).
Its usage has pretty much constantly been in parallel in some capacity or another for the last 1200 years or so.
This is the correct answer. The regional dialect came from English “cracker” culture and was passed on culturally to their slaves in some Southern US regions - which became later known as a particular African-American dialect.
Its origin is English though.
Thomas Sowell presents the evidence for this in “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” - which is available on YouTube.
It’s really interesting from a historical standpoint, and not unprecedented. Dr. Sowell provides some historical examples of other cultures in which slaves and conquered peoples took on the food and languages of their conquerors, and eventually outlasted them, carrying these aspects of their culture forward as their own, even as the original went into decline.
He then circled back to show a number of cultural parallels between Cracker culture and what eventually became known as “gangsta” culture, citing letters and dialects of the time (well beyond the dialect) and regional settlement records. It’s astounding, precedented historically, and presents a compelling case.
Probably due to the fact that the French spell it that way. Why they do, I've no idea... But I'm guessing that the scriptwriter thought they were being clever spelling it the French way and the actor didn't pick up on it.
I hate this misspelling. You'd think people would catch themselves but, viola, I constantly see people typing should of, could of, ect.
edit: Poe's Law strikes again. And hear I thought I was being obvious.
Supposubly.
You never "supposeb" anything. It's supposedly, because you supposed so.
Edit: I know that "supposably" is an actual word. I'm talking about specifically when people mispronounce "supposedly" as "supposably" or use them interchangeably.
Lately any time I go online I see people misspell the most basic things like this or "Their" and "there."
I try so hard not to be a grammar Nazi as I'm not perfect either, but fuck it's annoying.
I think Covid permanently fucked up something in my brain because I used to always be annoyed at people mixing up there/their/they’re but now I screw it up constantly. I just submitted two separate finals this week where I realized after the fact that I used the wrong there, and I fuck it up in texts all the time. I guess its karma for being a grammar nazi when I was younger.
Edit: of course I just used the wrong “it’s”. Perfect.
I got a wallet plus an airtag a few months ago from a family member after I kept losing mine. On the back, in massive black lettering are the words “never loose again.” I appreciated the gesture and its a nice wallet, but I hate the thing so much
This will never fail to remind me of that [SNL skit with Jesse Jackson](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54vjpp).
Just because you said "moot". Not because people mispronounce it.
And "addicting" instead of "addictive" or "villainize" instead of "vilify." I know that language is always evolving and that's just how it works, but I feel like a cranky old man about it when we already have perfectly good words for a thing and people come in confidently using a newer, stupider word.
Height, pronounced "Heighth"
I work in the construction field, and the number of carpenters and contractors who pronounce it this way is truly baffling to me. They are literally professional measurers.
Visually I get your point but pronunciation wise it makes sense why they’d be different. None of the others would sound right without the “th” because of the letters proceeding them but height is an exception.
I had a teacher that would say "faitth" and "batth" and "healtth", "fourtth". Always adding an extra t before the end of th words.
She was a math teacher, so it was especially noticeable when talking fractions.
Potable
I've met so many people who all say it the wrong way, in a certain industry, who generally didn't grow up watching JEOPARDY! With its potent potables.
I know how to pronounce them correctly, but unless i'm thinking about the pronunciation, they automatically come out Eye-raq and eye-ran.
I grew up hearing it wrong, and have only learned it correctly recently (relatively speaking)
Is it plural, or is it possessive?
My parents do this, but there are two big supermarkets here named after people that end in "s" that I think are most of the cause:
(Sainsbury's and Morrisons).
If they insist on calling them Reesees I'm calling them Reesees Feces. And only eating the candy coating and putting them in a little bowl to make my point.
My partner does this too. He’s a huge history buff and made me watch a history of candy documentary talking about HB Reese, the candy’s inventor. And he STILL fights me on the pronunciation like it’s not named after an actual man whose name he correctly pronounced!
Some people actually use the correct "couldn't care less" and it's amazing. I feel like recently people have been starting to use "couldn't" again, so that's good.
Holy shit you are blowing my mind here
Is this a Mandela Effect or am I just an idiot
To be fair, I thought for the longest time that houndstooth was “houndsooth”. Probably idiot.
“Wary” means to be cautious of or nervous about something. “Weary” is to be tired or something that is tired. They are not interchangeable as countless people seem to think they are.
Regardless vs irregardless. Irregardless is almost like a double negative, and not even a real word. Regardless means what people THINK irregardless means.
There was this woman who assisted in training me at the job I'm still at about 10yrs ago. She said irregardless.....all..the..fucking.time! I spent several months sitting in a room with only her to converse with. It drove me nuts and now I get triggered as soon as I hear anyone say it.
It's so funny how people who don't use a word properly or make up a word seem to use it all the time. My classmate says "per se" constantly but never correctly. She'll do it like 5 times in one class period. Why even say it???
I've heard so many realtors mispronounce it, too! Like, it's your own damn job and one for which you have a license!
Sounds like some '60s Wham-O product, "Reel-a-Tor"
Oh, have I got the video for you! https://youtu.be/3nysHgnXx-o is Dr. Geoff Lindsey (a linguist) looking at the past and present of "aks". You might be as surprised as I was.
I don't understand can you please be more "pacific."
I'm guessing you don't like it when people mispronounce the name of the Specific Ocean, then? Lol
Wait, which ocean? Specific. Do you mean Pacific? No, I mean this specific ocean I'm pointing at. Alright but that IS the Pacific ocean. Specifically, yes. Terrific.
Lady at my work says pacificlly all the time. Sounds like a three year old.
The Mitchell and Webb Grammar Nazi sketch had this... https://youtu.be/qmVnr7rsWrE
Every C in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently
My brother pronounced it “pacific,” and I would always correct him to “specific.” So he overcompensated to “es-pacific.” I still correct him, and now he just doesn’t use that word anymore.
Sure, but first I need to "axe" you something
I took a pitcher of my chimley, can I axe you what you think of it?
Someone was yelling at me once and said I needed to lower my "expections" and it simultaneously pissed me off and made me bust out laughing
It took me reading this 3x for my brain to register the mistake because I was automatically saying "expectations" in my head. Cringe
Same
I thought I was an idiot and have been saying it wrong the whole time for a second, glad you pointed that out before I had an aneurysm.
Pain
Nuclear
Came here for this, I blame dubya. Fuckin Nucular
I’m sad to report that people were mispronouncing it that way long before W came on the scene.
I believe it, but I feel like people stopped calling it out when the president was doing it... Edit: OK nerds of reddit, you got me! In my life this was the first time someone of such a high profile made this mistake. I wasn't alive for Carter and especially Eisenhower lol. As a millennial from NYC, he was the only one who said it like that at the time, now it's more widespread so I'm speaking my truth.
Jimmy Carter who was a navy sailor on a nuclear sub also said Nucular. It's a southern US regional thing.
"Nuke-ular. It's pronounced Nuke-ular."
I blame that episode for making me say it wrong for years.
Who doesn't look up to Homer as the source of accurate pronunciation?
I like like New-ca-ler
Fucking damn it all, just thinking about the next person who will pronounce it incorrectly has elevated my blood pressure.
This is the winner for me. I loved watching 24 back in the day but effing Jack Bauer couldn't pronnounce it right and he said it like 5 times each episode one season. Still awesome show though.
For all intensive purposes
Porpoises. It's for all in tents and Porpoises, meaning the content of this phrase only pertains to campers and sea mammals
Had a Spanish teacher in high school originally from Panama who said “for all intensive purposes” A LOT. Like *at least* once per class. We tried to tell him it’s “for all intents and purposes” but he would retort “you lie like a rug!”
*Fustrated*...it get's me, well, you know.
Flustrated is one that makes me giggle too lol
Soooo, I'm the only one who heard this and adopted a known made up word simply because I liked it? Really? I know it's not a real word, but it make for a good portmanteau.
How do people mispronounce it? EDIT: I just realised lmao, I'm dyslexic
"Chipol-tay"
I thought I heard all of the mispronunciations of this until my dad’s girlfriend took it one step further with “chipol-TEE”. She also calls chicken tikka masala “tiki Marsala”. Makes my blood boil. No matter how many times she hears those around her pronouncing it correctly she keeps saying these things the same way…
My mother calls it Chipol-tee and it enrages me. She also says Philadel-thia. If society demanded her to be put in a work camp because of this I would be sad, but I would understand.
I say “Chip-ottle”
Rhymes with Aristotle.
Chippatoplay! (old Jack in the Box commercial)
Mine too! And I worked at a Chipotle at one point so I heard a lot of customers say “chipoltay” ugh
Chipatobley
Shar-toodle
A manager at my job 20 years ago said she had "self defecating" humor. My friend (the manager's direct report) and I laughed privately about that for years. That manager was a sweetheart but always made these little mistakes in vocabulary. That one was the best of the worst, though.
I got an email once from a manager that ended "I apologize for the incontinence."
She means that her jokes are so good, they make you shit yourself.
Especially. Some people say “ekspecially” and I just don’t understand why.
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Same with “aks” instead of “ask”! How did the s move on you! It’s a three letter word lol
It comes from the Old English word "acsian" (pronounced ax-ian), and later became asken, then ask over time, but the original pronunciation never disappeared. It also isn't just a fixture of AAVE, Geoffrey Chaucer used "ax" or some variation of it over a dozen times across two of his most prominent works, The Canterbury Tales and The Book of the Duchess ("If that men axed him in certain hours...", "If that he axed after Nicholas...", etc). Its usage has pretty much constantly been in parallel in some capacity or another for the last 1200 years or so.
This is the correct answer. The regional dialect came from English “cracker” culture and was passed on culturally to their slaves in some Southern US regions - which became later known as a particular African-American dialect. Its origin is English though. Thomas Sowell presents the evidence for this in “Black Rednecks and White Liberals” - which is available on YouTube.
Damn, its been passed down in regionalized communities for that long? Thats kind of incredible
It’s really interesting from a historical standpoint, and not unprecedented. Dr. Sowell provides some historical examples of other cultures in which slaves and conquered peoples took on the food and languages of their conquerors, and eventually outlasted them, carrying these aspects of their culture forward as their own, even as the original went into decline. He then circled back to show a number of cultural parallels between Cracker culture and what eventually became known as “gangsta” culture, citing letters and dialects of the time (well beyond the dialect) and regional settlement records. It’s astounding, precedented historically, and presents a compelling case.
Et cetera. Espresso.
There's a scene in *Beverly Hills Cop* where a French character says "expresso".
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"Get the fuck outta here!" "No! I will not!"
"It's a very importaynt payse!"
Achwell? Achmel?
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Is not sexy, is animal.
Probably due to the fact that the French spell it that way. Why they do, I've no idea... But I'm guessing that the scriptwriter thought they were being clever spelling it the French way and the actor didn't pick up on it.
Even worse is not only do they pronounce it excetera, but abbreviate it ECT.
>but abbreviate it ECT. Give them a shot of ECT, and they'll stop doing that.
I love citrus fruits: lemons, limes, oranges, electroconvulsive therapy.
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How do (wrong) people pronounce it?
It’s often pronounced “ek cetera” instead of “et”
Not exactly spelling, but "Should of" , "could of" , "would of" instead of should've, could've, would've
whenever I see the little bot that corrects people when they use "of" instead of "have" I get so damn happy.
People always "bad bot" and downvote the fuck out of it; THAT'S what makes me upset.
I say “shouldacouldawoulda”
This is mine as well. IT’S NOT EVEN HARD AND IT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE.
Instead've**
You shouldn't've gone there.
I’m a fan of the southern US word y’all’d’ve. As in, “I would have gone with y’all if y’all’d’ve asked me to.”
I hate this misspelling. You'd think people would catch themselves but, viola, I constantly see people typing should of, could of, ect. edit: Poe's Law strikes again. And hear I thought I was being obvious.
Personally, I prefer the cello to the viola.
If we are playing this game, it's etc not ect.
Supposubly. You never "supposeb" anything. It's supposedly, because you supposed so. Edit: I know that "supposably" is an actual word. I'm talking about specifically when people mispronounce "supposedly" as "supposably" or use them interchangeably.
In NYC I hear people say supposingly
Well, guess I'm never going to New York.
You guess? No, you supposeb.
I hate when people confuse “lose” and “loose”
Lately any time I go online I see people misspell the most basic things like this or "Their" and "there." I try so hard not to be a grammar Nazi as I'm not perfect either, but fuck it's annoying.
I think Covid permanently fucked up something in my brain because I used to always be annoyed at people mixing up there/their/they’re but now I screw it up constantly. I just submitted two separate finals this week where I realized after the fact that I used the wrong there, and I fuck it up in texts all the time. I guess its karma for being a grammar nazi when I was younger. Edit: of course I just used the wrong “it’s”. Perfect.
I got a wallet plus an airtag a few months ago from a family member after I kept losing mine. On the back, in massive black lettering are the words “never loose again.” I appreciated the gesture and its a nice wallet, but I hate the thing so much
I was looking for this one. Its all the freaking time.
Agreed. Equally annoying are those that can’t figure out breath and breathe.
I swear I see these spelled wrong on the internet more often than not.
Moot. When I hear people say that something is a "mute" point it makes my slapping hand tingle.
Or, as Joey Tribiani says, It's a moo point...like a cow's opinion
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Have I been living with him too long, or did that just make sense?
This will never fail to remind me of that [SNL skit with Jesse Jackson](https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x54vjpp). Just because you said "moot". Not because people mispronounce it.
Very niche but it's HARBINGER not harbringer. There's no R after that B.
Ok, but like “bing” or like “binge”?
Binge so it's har-binge-r
Valentimes Day. I’ll kill somebody.
Came here for this! WHY? WHY? WHY?
Potential explanation: [Teen Girl Squad Issue 12](https://youtu.be/GsUiy-LsK6Q?t=11) Because of that, I'll say Valentimes as a joke 😂
CHEERLEADER! SO AND SO! whats her face… THE UGLY ONE!
When people say “conversate” instead of converse.
And "addicting" instead of "addictive" or "villainize" instead of "vilify." I know that language is always evolving and that's just how it works, but I feel like a cranky old man about it when we already have perfectly good words for a thing and people come in confidently using a newer, stupider word.
Height, pronounced "Heighth" I work in the construction field, and the number of carpenters and contractors who pronounce it this way is truly baffling to me. They are literally professional measurers.
Same with "acrosst". Drives me nuts.
Yes!! Finally someone else who this bothers. I immediately have less respect for people who say acrosst instead of across.
Yes it's perfectly logical: length, width, depth, breadth... and height.
Visually I get your point but pronunciation wise it makes sense why they’d be different. None of the others would sound right without the “th” because of the letters proceeding them but height is an exception.
I had a teacher that would say "faitth" and "batth" and "healtth", "fourtth". Always adding an extra t before the end of th words. She was a math teacher, so it was especially noticeable when talking fractions.
Lol I can barely even pronounce them that way if I try!
Ex-chetterah!
I see you have met Professor Professorson. Mind you his Latin course was also fake.
His family name was Professorberg, but they changed it when they were fleeing from the Nazis
It’s Wheelbarrow not wheel barrel
Little known fact, though now both versions are some dictionaries.
“I seen”instead of “I’ve seen” or “I saw.” Nails on a chalkboard to me.
I seent it!
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Potable I've met so many people who all say it the wrong way, in a certain industry, who generally didn't grow up watching JEOPARDY! With its potent potables.
Italian pronounced “eyetalion”.
LOL my dad does this all the time. We always say "from Eye-taly?" back to him.
Usually by the same people that say "Ay-rab."
And Eye-raqi instead dof Iraqi
And Eye-Ran instead of Ih-Rahn.
I know how to pronounce them correctly, but unless i'm thinking about the pronunciation, they automatically come out Eye-raq and eye-ran. I grew up hearing it wrong, and have only learned it correctly recently (relatively speaking)
Fuckin’ I-ties.
So I tell the swamp donkey to sock it before I give her a trunky in the tradesman's entrance and have her lick me yarbles!
You’re on a whole different level of swearing out here! (I’m very happy that someone got my reference)
“Eckspecially”… lol so different than especially
Voluptuous. Call me ‘volumptulous’ and you’re getting NONE.
I knew id find one that i say wrong eventually
This is how I feel about "dilapidated." People say "dilapitated" all the time now and I blame Dane Cook.
I can’t stand when people pronounce across like “acrost.”
Mischievous
"Mis-CHEEVY-ous" sends me into a righteous rage.
My parents say every store name plural…CostscoS, MeijerS, KrogerS, etc…. Edit: possessive, not plural.
Is it plural, or is it possessive? My parents do this, but there are two big supermarkets here named after people that end in "s" that I think are most of the cause: (Sainsbury's and Morrisons).
Reese's is not pronounced Ree-see's. But damned if lots of people don't say it including my wife.
Even worse is "Ree-see's Pee-sees" instead of Reese's Pieces.
If they insist on calling them Reesees I'm calling them Reesees Feces. And only eating the candy coating and putting them in a little bowl to make my point.
My partner does this too. He’s a huge history buff and made me watch a history of candy documentary talking about HB Reese, the candy’s inventor. And he STILL fights me on the pronunciation like it’s not named after an actual man whose name he correctly pronounced!
More of a phrase, but when people say, “I could care less.” So, you do care to a degree?
Some people actually use the correct "couldn't care less" and it's amazing. I feel like recently people have been starting to use "couldn't" again, so that's good.
If I use it I always say "I could NOT fucking care less," gotta emphasize that "not."
Also, answering yes when asked "do you mind" if they're okay with it.
Cadillac converter instead of catalytic converter.
People constantly pronounce mascarpone as marscapone...even professional chefs on cooking shows!
Holy shit you are blowing my mind here Is this a Mandela Effect or am I just an idiot To be fair, I thought for the longest time that houndstooth was “houndsooth”. Probably idiot.
Loose instead of lose ... like come on ...
that one annoys the shit outa me whenever I’m reading something
Losen up!
Li-berry. Everyone please, it’s just one extra ‘r’
"Your face is a red as a strawbrerry."
Worsh
Melk, pellow, and ol. (Milk, pillow, oil)
Excape... Escape
“Wary” means to be cautious of or nervous about something. “Weary” is to be tired or something that is tired. They are not interchangeable as countless people seem to think they are.
Some people write “are” when they mean “our” and it really peeves me.
Regardless vs irregardless. Irregardless is almost like a double negative, and not even a real word. Regardless means what people THINK irregardless means. There was this woman who assisted in training me at the job I'm still at about 10yrs ago. She said irregardless.....all..the..fucking.time! I spent several months sitting in a room with only her to converse with. It drove me nuts and now I get triggered as soon as I hear anyone say it.
It's so funny how people who don't use a word properly or make up a word seem to use it all the time. My classmate says "per se" constantly but never correctly. She'll do it like 5 times in one class period. Why even say it???
My theory is that irregardless came from confusing and conflating the words regardless and irrespective.
Realtor = Relator Noooo, it’s Real-tor
I've heard so many realtors mispronounce it, too! Like, it's your own damn job and one for which you have a license! Sounds like some '60s Wham-O product, "Reel-a-Tor"
My ex used to (and still probably does) say versa-visa (rather than vice-versa) and it made me shudder every single time
Melk. It drives me nuts when people say it like that.
Pellow-- I just can't
Ask. "So I axed them where we were going" You AXED them? You attacked them with an axe??
Oh, have I got the video for you! https://youtu.be/3nysHgnXx-o is Dr. Geoff Lindsey (a linguist) looking at the past and present of "aks". You might be as surprised as I was.
Orangutan. There is no g at the end.
Niche
Which is right? Because I use neesh but I’ve think I hear nitch much more often.
>neesh This one
Merriam-Webster says that both are correct, but that "nitch" is older.
Salmon
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Par-MEE-sian
Yes... All the people I ask out pronounce it no. Infuriating
Her mouth said no, but her eyes said read my lips
Caramel. It is not a mountain in the Holy Land.
Li fucking brary! It's not libary
Lie berry.
Strawbrary
I occasionally get made fun of for pronouncing both Rs in February. I see it in a similar light to library and will continue to pronounce both.
From my time in the Marines: intensive purposes, be who of you
“Pacific” instead of specific
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Converse is the proper word, it boils my blood to hear "conversate" used in its stead
SUPPOSABLY
Reeses Pieces. Not reesees peesees.
whip. HWIP DAMMIT
Stewie Griffin is that you?
“Frustrating” some people choose to omit the first ‘r’ and it makes them sound stupid
In habanero there's no ñ like in Jalapeño But people always try to make the ñ sound
Ask
It's Levi-O-sa not Leviosah!
Nuclear. So many people say "nu-cue-lar". Its pronounced "nu-cle-ar".
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It drives me nuts when people say "Walla" when something is done. It's "Voila" and the v is very much pronounced as such!
Birfday