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Ever heard someone pronouncing a word wrong and it really getting to you..?
You know - Keeenya instead of Kenya, for example.
You know - Keeenya instead of Kenya, for example.
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Only one thing - a couple of my teachers at primary school used to pronounce "breakfast" as written, rather than in the proper "brekfst" way."Paul Hanson, you should give Gibraltar back to the Spanish" - Paiktis, dramatically over-estimating my influence in diplomatic circles.
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When people say "scone" as if it rhymes with cone. Instead of rhyming with gone.www.my-piano.blogspotComment
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I prefer the American pronounciation of the word "controversy" over the British pronounciation.Comment
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Just the entire American use of the word "irregardless".
What the F*** is up with that? Why "ir-"? It already means "without regard to".
Also when English speakers pronounce the word "mucho" in Spanish as "moocho".
Grrrrrr. And it's not even ny first language.
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I remember something funny that happened during the 1994 World Cup, in the USA. One of the Brazilian players was Aldair. In order to learn how to pronounce his name, some reporters were being instructed to pronounce it as "all the year", and I could not stop laughing when I heard about it...
I watched you fall. I think I pushed.Comment
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Soloralism. I can't even pronounce that word in English (it's no problem in Finnish, though, but there are no Finnish soloralists.. and probably only one or two Finns who even know about the whole "religion")This is Shireroth, and Giant Squid will brutally murder me if I ever remove this link from my signature | In the end it won't be love that saves us, it will be mathematics | So many people have this concept of God the Avenger. I see God as the ultimate sense of humor -- SlowwHandComment
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Pronouncing 'lingerie' as 'londjeray'; assume and presume as 'A-shoom' and 'pruhshoom'.
Nuptial as 'nupchual'. 'Moo-lonn Rouge' instead of 'Moulin'. I believe there is a secret conspiracy among a clique of Australian broadcasters to drive French expatriates to the brink of madness, by deliberately mispronouncing all French terms whenever possible...Vive la liberte. Noor Inayat Khan, Dachau.
...patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Edith Cavell, 1915Comment
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Often as "off ten".
hors d'oeuvre as "whores dover". Fer Crissakes, if you can't pronounce the word, then just call them "snacks."<p style="font-size:1024px">HTML is disabled in signatures
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The way the English pronounce aluminum.
The way people from the south pronounce aunt its not "ant"When one is someone, why should one want to be something?
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Celtic!!
Gawd! Drives me nuts! They weren't "selts", they were "KELTS"!!Comment
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We do it right not youOriginally posted by ThePantaloonDog
The way the English pronounce aluminum.
The way people from the south pronounce aunt its not "ant"
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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KELTS damnit!!
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Mute point, rather than moot point.Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi Wan's apprentice.Comment
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I dislike it when people with the Pennsylvania accent pronounce "restaurant" as "res-Trint".
For people who pay attention to CHicago sports radio, Mike Ditka, Don Shula, Dave Wannstedt all say it like that and I HATE IT.... AHHHH!!!
I also hate it when people say "Cair- i - be- an" instead of "Ca-rib-e-an" -- CarribeanTo us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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