mis-pronounced words in your area

[Marshwheeling]

I prolly shoun't eat basketti fer bekfrist.

 

[Backlighting]

Po'lice instead of the proper Po lice'

 

[rwsmith]

When was the last time.......

mis-pronounced? is that kinda like mis-spelled?

Raised in California and moved to Tennessee. Love Tennessee, but there isn't enough bandwidth on this forum to list the mispronunciations in these parts.

When was the last time you 'warshed' your car?

 

[rwsmith]

Charlestonese

faints = fence

lay-men or lay-a-mon = lemon

bay-eh-con

You don't hear these as much anymore now that Chucktown is more cosmopolitan. And they aren't really MISpronuciations, just the way people talk.

Pet peeve - Nu-Q-ler missile I don't have any friends that say that because over the years I've killed all of them.

A friend of mine got peeved from everybody saying that he was from Mass-a-two-shets. Or Mass-a-two-****s.

 

[Warren Sear]

Hot is a legal description indicating that said heater is capable of heating water to 160 F and applicable for commercial use. Now I believe the cut off is 130 F. Stated differently it is a heater that produces hot water...

The manufacturers just call it a gas or electric "water heater". Simple.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Never worried much about other folks' accents. I do note that some people are not aware that the "t" in often is silent, like the "p" in swimming pool.

Just today I heard someone represent a certifying process as accredidation.

 

[G.T. Smith]

see mint
Peace,
Gordon

 

[Cdog]

This photo was taken in November on my drive to work.

It's still there.

 

[BigBoy99]

The ones I hear the most are:

libary instead of library

ambalance instead of ambulance

 

[Wishbone]

A local furniture tv ad has this guy who says "come and get your bedroom suit". Instead of suite.

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

While we're at it, how about this horrible trend, that's been around way, way too long: up talking. Where they end a statement so it sounds like a question. Stop it now.

That show wasn't broadcast on a Canadian network, eh.

 

[4barrel]

Watch u doing today?-- How much is luminum cans branging today?-- I am fixin to change my last name.--We got to stop.

 

[4011]

In Texas all the words are spelt wrong.

 

[bigwheelzip]

We Brooklyn Italians have our own dialect. Stop in for a cup of Kawwfee anywhere in the boroughs and your sure to hear something unusual.

 

[CajunBass]

ambalance instead of ambulance

That's one drives my wife crazy.

So guess how I pronounce it?

 

[wbraswell]

From what I hear, down around where Lee's from, all, awl, and oil are homonyms.

 

[CajunBass]

ambalance instead of ambulance

That one drives my wife crazy.

So guess how I pronounce it?

 

[4barrel]

That's one drives my wife crazy.

So guess how I pronounce it?

I dont feel good-call me one of them Am-bu-lances

 

[amazingflapjack]

I didn't ust to twalk attaway.

 

[jbull380]

Hale - place where bad people go
Akrit - That rifle ain't very akrit.
Warsh - I need to warsh my clothes
Warshington - first president

Just a few from Oklahoma