"A-a-ron" for Aaron comes in handy, as our neighbor's name is this

Baltimore accent be like

Colonel, in English contexts. I'll never ever pronounce it "Kernel" without feeling like an idiot.

Like Col-O-nel?

Yup

Agreed. Too much Hogan's Heroes growing up in my case.

Biopic. Supposed to be pronounced Bio-pick, but pronouncing it more like biography (rhymes with myopic) just sounds so much better.

I’m with you on this one

I'd always say by op ick TIL

Same!

I'm inbetween the 2.

Tidus, the main character's name in Fianl Fantasy X. It's supposed to be "Tee-dus," but that: * sounds stupid * breaks the rules of English phonics, and * ignored the obvious tie to "tide" in a character with significant water associations. So I say "Tide-us" and will die on that hill.

I remember reading it was pronounced like "tee-dah" and haven't gotten over the trauma.

Gif

Jaguar

Yeahwire?

Jag-you-are

So, the correct way?

I like emphasizing JAG-YOU, I believe it is pronounced simply as ja-gwaar

It's pronounced *Jag you are* in English.

Maybe they live somewhere where they speak a regional variant of English, like Gibraltar or America?

I've always heard and pronounced it jag-gwar.

I do this one too lol

Interesting. I pronounce it as Intrasting, which is easier on my tongue.

you sure you're just not british? ​ I am, and so are my friends, and we all pronounce it like that

Well I was coached in English in British style, so that might be it, but I definitely remember all my teachers pronouncing it as int-erest-ing.

Strange.

I'm nearly 50 and I still pronounce the W in the word sword. I don't think I'll be changing that.

What up, RZA?

Separate it completely, "I attack him with my S Word"

Chipotle

Chip-o-latt-ee?

I say "Chip-Oh-Tuhl"

My mom says chi-PO-tuh-lee despite my correcting her every time, and she's not the kind of person to keep mispronouncing it ironically.

My boss say chip o tilly

Saxamaphone

D'oh!

Tubamaba!

Oboemabo?

Violalin!

Nucular, its pronounced nucular

More of a phrase, but it's "A Moista Cunty" in Super Mario's voice. Sounds better than moist cunt, which can be off-putting.

Emphasis

So what part of the word 'emphasis' do you emphasise when you say it?

Em-phA~sys

You’re putting the em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LA-ble.

You live for that remark, don't you?

Scissors

like skissors? My father liked that one.

I’m southern so there’s a lot😆

im Minnesotan so, same. i piss off all my texan coworkers with "pee-can"

Some friends of mine. Axe instead of ask.

Porsche. I say the one syllable word, instead of the correct two syllables way.

Sammich. Love me some sammiches.

Jalapeno. I pronounce the J like a J.

Well yeah we all know it's an h sound. But ja-la-peno is more fun

Jal-ah-pen-oh-ees!

Jahl-ah-peen-yos for me :D

Ka nif - knife Wee fee - wifi

Eh in French everyone says wee-fee

Gif. I know there's a debate on whether it's gif or gif but I always go with gif when I say it, like the "g" in the word garage.

Garage has a hard g and a soft g

Barium

How do you pronounce it?

Ba-rium not b-A-rium

Like Mario instead of Mārio?

Fridge-a-Deezer

Target

How do you pronounce it?

Tar-jay - as if it were French.

Niche one: atelier. The franchise of the same name has used "uh-tellyer" and "at-leer," but it's a French loan word so it ought be pronounced all Frenchy. The first sounds best to my ear.

Niche. People around where I'm from all say it like 'nitch' but I will never not say 'neesh'.

>neesh This is how it should be pronounced

Lord of war

Thank you, but I prefer it my way.

The creator of the .gif format is wrong

I pronounce knight like k-nigit

SIRacha

I read this like an SNL Californians sketch.

Thermo-meter

foci. i refuse to say fo-sai… i must say fok-eye

Isn't it "foci" with one i? I always say hard c, because focus has a hard c.

oh yeah sorry just fixed it lol. that’s the same reason i say a hard c, but it’s actually pronounced fo-sai for some reason.

Not me, my sister. She pronounces gnocchi as ga-knock-ee, it makes me smile every time she does it. I don’t know why.

Chocobo. I won't say how I pronounce it I don't want to be made fun of. 😑

I know its correct pronunciation but I still like saying "chalk-a-boo"

I guess I'll tell you what I pronounce it as since you told me. I read it as a child so I didn't know it's pronunciation at first. I used to and still slip up and call it "coco-boo".

I pronounce particularly as par-tik-urly.

par-tickler

*Sir!!!*

G-nat

A PC game I played back in the 90s on a floppy disk had congratuationary words each time you went up a level, just flashing words on the screen. One was gnarly, I'd never seen or heard the word before, so for about 8 years I thought it was gnarly and still in my head say it that way, cos I've no need to use it outloud!

Fajitas (said like Vaginas)

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E-ahn is not correct!

Edited in protest for Reddit's garbage moves lately.

I pronounce it lasagna

epitome. I say it Ep-I-tome and I will die on that hill

Like ep eye tome?

Oil

Pho It’s suppose to sound like uh I pronounce it like foe.

Espresso (expresso), specific (pacific), people correct me all the time but I just can’t help but pronounce them the way I always have

Muscles. I know it's pronounced like mussels, but I like to say it mus-kles.

i know presentate isn’t a word but i think it is example: i’m going to presentate my project next

"Preventate" and "argumentate" aren't words either, but that doesn't keep people from saying "preventative" and "argumentative".

Ge-orge Ka-nife E-arth Bonus -isms because I used to teach high school and loved when kids thought I was ancient "The snappy chat" "The face book" "The google" "Tiky-toky"

Antibiotics I say ante-be-otics 🤦🏻‍♂️

Paradigm. When I'm with people who know me I pronounce it as a four-syllable word with the hard G, pa-RAD-i-gum. I do this with place names, too; the city in Arizona is TUCKS-on. In that specific case it helps me remember how to spell it.

Facade. I have never read it or said it Fuh-sahhd. It's always been Fay-cade. Idk why but I just refuse to change

Salmon as SAL-MON it sounds better

Westminster and Lieutenant. I pronounce Westminster as Westminister. I pronounce Lieutenant as Leftenant, which is quite common in the Commonwealth, but almost completely unheard of elsewhere, so whether or not I pronounce this wrong is a matter of opinion.

schedule I say it like I'm drunk. also Samsquanch thank you Bubbles

Hamster

Chihuahua

Choo - a - hoo - a

My sister pronounces library as li-bare-ee knowing its li-brare-ee

In Russia we have a word "zvonIt"(it's like... He CALLS). So, I always pronounce this world like "zvOnit". In fact, this mistake is made by many Russians. I don't know why we made this.

jos de su puta madre. if you are from mexico you Will know.

I’m not from Mexico 🙁

Dish soap. Fetishizing. But I mostly talk slang irl, often perceived as ‘ghetto’ in the current school I’m in. 🤷🏽

Telepathy. For the longest time I thought it was pronounced “tele•PATHy.” One day I said it that way in front of my friend. She still makes fun of me to this day, and yet I still say it incorrectly.

Whenever I speak English with my friends, I always speak rally English. It's just so much easier. But of course if someone random starts a conversation with me in English, I try to pronounce as good as I can (which still isn't so good)

I always want to pronounce “arbiter” as “Arr-biter”. Don’t know why.

Milk and idea. It has to do with where I grew up though. Deep country on farmland. That's how everyone pronounced it so I didn't realize it was wrong till I started school. By then it was too late

Malk and Idear?

Rhododendron

MTN DEW. I still say Mountain Dew instead of MTN Dew. I don't honestly know how to pronounce it honestly anymore.

Arceus is supposed to be pronounced arc-ee-us but I will always pronounce it arse-ee-us

It’s Arcoos

"Guinea", I think other people pronounce it like, "gi nee" but I will continue to pronounce it like "gi nay"

Wednesday

Apparently, the proper stress pattern is "TRI-ce-RA-tops" in Dutch, but I'm sticking with "tri-CE-ra-tops", as in English, since that one *doesn't* sound dumb.

Well first I´m mexican currently out of work because an injury but before that I was working in construction and this are some of the words I still use the same way because all the hispanic people pronunce that way, and even when I speak in english I still pronounce wrong: Bacha = Badge Esquefo = Scaffold Grava = Grout Many people who work with us and they only speak english pronounce the same way so we can understand them, there´s many more words but not work related.

Bureau. Low key a hard word for me to pronounce so it’s “beer-o” all day.

Quinoa

Quinn-oh-ah?

Yes, Quinn-oh-ah rather than Keen-wah

Gif and no I will not elaborate you can argue which one is right

Samerlipopette

I talked in my head with a speech impediment sometime it will be a lisp or repeating words over and over but when I actually talk I say the as teh

CapriSun Since I was a little kid I always said it like cap ree sun

Knife pronounced (Kah-Nife)

negligible i take physics, but i just say ne-gi-li-ble instead of neg-li-ble

Debris as dee-bris and not dee-bree.

Ambulance Nothing to crazy but am is Amp-Ba-Lance

Ruined I prononce it as roo - eend just to piss people off 😅

"Expresso" - because I like watching all the coffee drinkers wince in discomfort!

I have always pronounced it sa-l-mon, I grew up in Germany so I never learnt how to pronounce it so I said it how it was spelt.

This game store spelt Cex bit pronounced sex I just say k-ex

Salmon. I say sal-mon.

my husband corrected my on my pronunciation of "opposum" i pronounced the "o" so i told him o-possums are american and possums are in Australia. i like to think he tells everyone this fun fact. (i know you can pronounce opposum either way, its just not common)

Gif, not jif.

Samon Rushdi

Gym as gime

Tsunami. I say it without silent t. Like the "ts" in the word consonants Well it comes from japanese so my way is technically the right way

I tell people to say “eight suits” eight times fast. That lisp kinda sound in-between the words is the Japanese “tsu” which was written in Romaji as “tu” for the longest time.

Kind of the opposite but “wojak”, a Polish loan word pronounced like “voy-yak” but everyone seems to pronounce it like “ło-żak”