I find many of these mildly annoying. Hopefully you will find it mildly entertaining.
1. Caribbean - is it Cur-IB-ean or Cari-BEE-an? The jury is still out for me.
2. Measure - please do not say MAY-zure.
3. Frustrated - please note the first letter R. There is no FUSS-trated. No such thing.
4. Penalize - I want to giggle when I hear PEE-nalize.
5. Coupon - this one is usually a hot topic for debate. My opinion? There is no letter Q in this word. It's COO-pon.
6. Human - in the last decade there has suddenly developed a trend to say YOU-man. Huh? Most annoying.
7. Sandwich - this one is my husband's pet peeve. He doesn't like to hear SAM-wich.
I bring this up because I'd be curious what other examples you would add to the list! (or am I the only one that is bugged by this stuff?) Please contribute in the comments...
5 comments:
1. i've actually caught myself saying both
5. guilty, but don't worry, every time i do, jason makes fun of me. hey, it's my mom's fault.
other ones: tray-sure, woof (wolf), goff (golf)... the last two are ones i grew up pronouncing wrong and in high school all my friends made fun of me so i've made a conscious effort to change my ways. ha ha.
My sixth grade teacher used to say: "pacfic" for specific (drove me nuts!!!), and "axed" instead of asked. Don't even get me started on the New England accent where the letter "r" is almost non-existant. Pah-c ya Cah in Hahvad Yahd = Park your car in Harvard Yard (I'm sure you've heard that one, right?). Lobstah, Chowdah, etc. Funny thing is people know I'm not a local because, as I was informed, I speak "American".
This is so funny! Jake and I always get a kick discussing this kind of thing. The one word I struggle with is "crayon". For some reason I have always pronounced it "crown." When I was teaching 2nd grade and asked the class to take our their "crowns" they actually laughed at me and said, "Take out our what?" With Jake's help, I have been trying to fix my pronunciation--cray-on. I still struggle. But Jake grew up with his family pronouncing "cougar" more like "cugar." Don't even get me started on the "Utah accent" problems! :)
I think I'd have to agree with you on all counts! Especially Human and Coupon. Human has become one of my pet peeves lately too. Can't stand when people decide to drop the H as though it never had a sound to it to begin with.
I have so many of these, I can't fit them all here. I'll start with NUCLEAR, not nuke-u-lar. A person makes him/herself sound so uneducated with that one!
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