Simple words you mispronounce

[bruce1530]

Chic Murray (scots comedian, now sadly deceased) tells a story of a childhood friend who was called “Gooey”.

His name was actually “Guy”, but his parents had never heard the name pronounced, they only saw it in a book....

 

[Tim Hall]

Cavalcade pronounced success

 

[MikeG]

For the benefit of my kids: Schedule starts with a "sh" sound, not a "sk" sound. "Harrassment" has the emphasis on the first syllable, not the second. One receives an invitation, not an invite.

 

[Brains]

Mrs Brains can not do '....owl' words

Towel = tauw
Owl = Ow
Ale = Aew
Barrel = Baw-l
Level = Levl

The "Owl on the Towel with the Ale" becomes
"Ow on the tauw with the Aew"

 

[Brains]

Certain areas of Scotland dealing with "Millish of Dollash"

 

[Dave 123]

Down in that Devon part of the in law clan are reet farmer bois.

Jo's parents and Aunt were off to an auction and they all wanted to buy some receptacles to place cut flowers in. Aunt pronounced it "vause " (rhymes with cause) to avoid that Devon trait of pronouncing far to many A's.

Vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase was deemed to be far too vulgar!

 

[damj]

Really funny hearing locals correcting southerners saying new -car -soul instead of Newcastle, haway man gerit right

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

Here’s another one: laboratory

It’s pronounced as laBOra-tree

Why do so many insist on saying LAB-ra-tor-ee?!

 

[ADarkDraconis]

So until I pointed it out to him, my better half thought that 'queued' was pronounced like 'qwayed'. I asked him to repeat himself because he said something was 'in the quay'. I said, 'You mean the 'cue' and he was adamant. I was like 'so the past tense is like Dennis Quaid' and he said yes. I made the online dictionary pronounce it...

To be fair we are Americans and it isn't a common word 'round these parts.

 

[Milzy]

I’ve heard a toddler say something horrible and racist instead of Blackcurrent.

 

[BSOh]

When did our neighboring principality become Wayuls.

This isn't far off a South Walian accent . When the rugby is on this Saturday listen to the crowd "way-uls, way-uls-way-uls"

 

[ADarkDraconis]

I wonder if Americans actually spell it Aluminum as well, will have to check.

We do, I got into a disagreement with my best friend who was from Colchester on the pronunciation of it once. I said jokingly, 'You English always adding unnecessary letters. It's aluminum!" and he replied, "You dumb Americans dropping letters because it is too hard for you to spell things properly! Who do you think discovered aluminium?"

 

[hopless500]

There's a few that my kids came up with when learning to speak and they've stuck in my brain.

Codweb is one and sick-a-moo-tee (despicable me).

Two that really stand out is the inability to say three or free in the right situation and bought or brought.

I wonder if Americans actually spell it Aluminum as well, will have to check.

Damp squib is another one people have trouble with (it's not bloody damp squid!).

Mr Hop was of the damp squid persuasion. Several years ago I asked why he said that... It's how he perceived it to be said by others and he had no idea what a squib was.

 

[MikeG]

So until I pointed it out to him, my better half thought that 'queued' was pronounced like 'qwayed'. .......

Straight off to the flogging tree with him. He won't make that mistake again.

 

[hopless500]

Another one is 'steer rods' instead of 'stair rods' when it's peeing it down