trillian

Narragansett - I always say it Nagaransett. But over here it just a street not a town so all is usually forgiven.

And who the hell named Poughkeepsie? I read it for a long time as Pohs-keep-ee instead of poh-kip-see. Pretty embarrasing.

My boyfriend has difficulty with "supposedly"...he says "supposably".

trillian

Viti

This made me realize there I some words I purposely pronounce wrong in casual company. I never say supposed to with my family and friends...I say uhsposed to...even weirder, I got that from the movie The Shining. Like livius will come out when "might could" every once in awhile

Oh, and I drop the G on morning...always have

Monkeybot

Weird... I swear I saw this thread a couple of weeks ago. *shakes head out and goes for more coffee*

Anyway, my sister used to always mispronounce "The Simpsons" as "The Simsims." She's improved a bit, but you can still sort of hear it now.

I also had a friend, years ago, who incorrigibly pronounced "breakfast" as "bref-kist." Every single time.

I had a teacher who had a bit of a peach inspediment which involved him mixing up m's and n's. That was particularly interesting when we got to the war in Vietnam, in which the US was fighting the "Vietmanese" under the command of "General MacManara." It really screwed me up, too; I found myself accidentally saying "Vietmanese" and getting all confused about the right pronunciation of both that and the actual country of Viet-man. And, the first time he started talking about "McManara" it seriously took me about 15 minutes to realize he meant McNamara.

I can't think of any words that I mispronounce. This is not, of course, to say that I never mispronounce anything, I just truly can't think of any right now.

sweep

sim-sims. that's curious. my three year old niece says that monkeybot. how sweet!

mecca777

Well, I'm not a pheasant plucker. I'm a pheasant plucker's son. And I'm only plucking pheasants 'til the pheasant plucker comes.

Repeat ten times, taking a shot of vodka after each repetition. First to ten wins!

lunachick

Heh. My daughter hath a thlight lithp. She thayth "Thimpthimth"

sweep

cute luna!

as a nipper my pronunciation of the word 'uncle' went through two evolutionary steps. first I would say 'nunkie', then it changed to 'nunckle' and finally I rested on 'nonnie'. So it wasn't really an evolution; more an abberation, which my uncle did not like at all. He had to suffer this well into my teens.

My uncle no longer suffers this unbearable fate. my niece has restored his dignity. She calls him blondie, which is way cooler, not that he resembles clint eastwood in any way.

Mageth

Originally posted by lunachick
Oh, and I just remembered that I can't say archipalego.

Then try it as Archipelago.

Here's another one to say three times fast:

She's a little sheet slitter. She slits sheets.

nj_heathens

I find myself trying to figure out where to put my tongue when pronouncing particularly. I don't think I've always had this problem, but it's gotten worse in recent years.

I've never had a problem saying nuclear, but after 2.5 years of the current Resident's insistence (can he be so stupid he really doesn't know?) on saying nukular, I find myself checking to make sure I'm using the correct pronunciation.

Mrs. Heathen

MJones

I love listening to my four year old daughter speak. She watches the Simsims too. A few weeks ago we went to the zoo to see the aminals. We have pictures of them on the pecuter. My wife and I went to see a comedian a while back and bought t-shirts - now we have matching Gagaller shirts.

Dirty Dog