Stuff that is mispronounced

[Polley]

Makes them all sound like idiots, but there you go.

I thought it was their accent! (Don't hurt me.)

On topic, I remember an old friend of mine that moved away... always referred to the M2 Browning as the "point fifty-cal."

[Niblick]

"Orientate" is a staple of land nav courses throughout the military.

Could you please be more pacific?

Maybe not a mispronounciation but here it goes anyway. Some lady on CNN this morning was describing the weapon used in the most recent university shooting as a 45mm pistol. She also said that it left a "gaping wound" in some girls arm. Well I'd say so. I would have posted this in that other, awesome, 60 page thread but some d-bag got it locked.

[UndeadInfidel]

"Orientate" is a staple of land nav courses throughout the military.

Could you please be more pacific?

Maybe not a mispronounciation but here it goes anyway. Some lady on CNN this morning was describing the weapon used in the most recent university shooting as a 45mm pistol. She also said that it left a "gaping wound" in some girls arm. Well I'd say so. I would have posted this in that other, awesome, 60 page thread but some d-bag got it locked.

What? You've never taken a land nav course?

[Niblick]

"Orientate" is a staple of land nav courses throughout the military.

Could you please be more pacific?

Maybe not a mispronounciation but here it goes anyway. Some lady on CNN this morning was describing the weapon used in the most recent university shooting as a 45mm pistol. She also said that it left a "gaping wound" in some girls arm. Well I'd say so. I would have posted this in that other, awesome, 60 page thread but some d-bag got it locked.

What? You've never taken a land nav course?

Only like seven hundred. I was mispronouncing specific.

[majorhavoc]

"Orientate" is a staple of land nav courses throughout the military.

Could you please be more pacific?

Maybe not a mispronounciation but here it goes anyway. Some lady on CNN this morning was describing the weapon used in the most recent university shooting as a 45mm pistol. She also said that it left a "gaping wound" in some girls arm. Well I'd say so. I would have posted this in that other, awesome, 60 page thread but some d-bag got it locked.

What? You've never taken a land nav course?

Only like seven hundred. I was mispronouncing specific.

I thought you were asking him to be less militaristic.

[UndeadInfidel]

"Orientate" is a staple of land nav courses throughout the military.

Could you please be more pacific?

Maybe not a mispronounciation but here it goes anyway. Some lady on CNN this morning was describing the weapon used in the most recent university shooting as a 45mm pistol. She also said that it left a "gaping wound" in some girls arm. Well I'd say so. I would have posted this in that other, awesome, 60 page thread but some d-bag got it locked.

What? You've never taken a land nav course?

Only like seven hundred. I was mispronouncing specific.

Damn I didn't even catch that. Got me.

[painiac]

I always liked being told to orientate my map. Every time it was said I faced to the East. I wanted to correct people but by the time I was able to do it, the point was already mute. Part of the problem might be that the instructor was suffering from arthuritis or maybe altzimers disease. Sometimes, I wanted to aks them if they had ever served in the artic, because cold weather can alter the way people do bidness. One time, an instructor looked me in the eye and said, “Cannidate, dis is how you skretch.” I couldn’t do that kind of skretch because of my carpool tunnel syndrome, and when I tried, it made my pupils dialate. My friend tried the skretch and he drownd before he could excape. I wanted to perform the Heineken remover, but for all intensive purposes, there was really no way to interpretate what was wrong with him. It was sad, expecially since he had already had a fedral job lined up. regardless, a prescription from nucular medicine could not have saved him. Supposably, it was an axident caused because he had taken things for granite. I wanted to do my upmost to get the story right, and the verbiage proper.

You son of a bitch! You made something pop in my brain in the second sentence.

[0122358]

ok then how the hell DO you say cache?...ive always thought it was cachay...or somthing...

[BigDaddyTX]

ok then how the hell DO you say cache?...ive always thought it was cachay...or somthing...

cash

[Confucius]

ok then how the hell DO you say cache?...ive always thought it was cachay...or somthing...

I've always said cash.

[Towanda]

Cache is pronounced "cash."

Cachet is pronounced "cashay."

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[0122358]

Cache is pronounced "cash."

Cachet is pronounced "cashay."

Sent via messenger owl.

so its kinda like riccochet is pronounced rikkoshay?

[MasterBaynton]

I'm so flustrated with all of this! You are either flustered or frustrated, or both; but you are definitely not "flustrated".

[MasterBaynton]

Supposably.

[Drop Dead Zed]

I have been guilty of pronouncing Bianchi "Bee-ahn-chee" instead of "Bee-ahn-kee."

I shiver a little when I hear hearth as "hurth."

The term "Eggcorn" was coined for a mistaken pronunciation (but near homophone) where the mistake was due to a false etymology of the original term.

ie: "eggcorn" for acorn because it looks like an egg and it is a seed like a kernel of corn. "For all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes" is another.

They are not true malapropisms because the false term has a certain kind of sense or logic behind it.

[Mr. E. Monkey]

Defiantly vs definitely. (I think in most cases it's a spell-check issue, but it's still amusing at times.)

[kbilly84]

Defiantly vs definitely. (I think in most cases it's a spell-check issue, but it's still amusing at times.)

"Definately" pisses me off. I knew a guy in college who refused to spell it right.

[Towanda]

Pundit vs pundint
Recur vs reoccur
Ordinance vs ordnance: each one is a word, but they have very different meanings.
Tenant vs tenet: see above

[Mr. E. Monkey]

Defiantly vs definitely. (I think in most cases it's a spell-check issue, but it's still amusing at times.)

"Definately" pisses me off. I knew a guy in college who refused to spell it right.

I agree, but I have to admit that for a second, my fingers tried to type it that way. I think that's probably where spell-check turns it into defiantly...I could be wrong, though.

[jeffrey]

keeping track of daylight savings time is one of my favorite past times

(hint: daylight saving time / favorite pass times)

[brizower]

How has nobody mentioned nucular? Nuclear... new-clear. If you say nucular you immediately sound stupid.

I've always heard Vltor as vel-tore. Didn't know that wasn't correct.

So is it pronounced Sig Sour?, because that's what I've always heard. I've known people to say Sig Saw-yer too.

OT,
Porsche - Por-shuh
REfridgerator or FRIDGE for short. Not fridgerator.

[foghern]

One word.... pecan

[Polley]

How has nobody mentioned nucular? Nuclear... new-clear. If you say nucular you immediately sound stupid.

I've always heard Vltor as vel-tore. Didn't know that wasn't correct.

So is it pronounced Sig Sour?, because that's what I've always heard. I've known people to say Sig Saw-yer too.

OT,
Porsche - Por-shuh
REfridgerator or FRIDGE for short. Not fridgerator.

I've always pronounced "SIG SAUER" as "Sig Sa-er" (kind of like "sour" in a fake British accent, I guess) where the "r" is barely pronounced.

[fixinto]

I remember the saiga pronunciation being tossed around earlier and about 3 days ago a buddy of mine was over and he saw the saiga booklet in my garage and asked me when I got a sayguh <--- his pronunciation and since he moved over here from russia when he was in his teens I'm going with that as the proper way to say it.