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@nana87: Oh that's hilarious!! I feel like grandma's can get away with anything though!! LOL
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I can't pronounce aluminium - i always switch it to sound like a-lu-nuh-mum - like flip the M and N around.. it's embarrassing and i just skip saying it whenever i can!! I really prefer the english pronunciation Al-u-min-e-um
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my husband ordered a quesa-dill-a once. Lol
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@MrsBrewer: haha my MIL says "par-mi-san" and it bothers me, even though maybe it's correct?
@lawbee11: those drive me nuts!
My parents say like, everything 'wrong' but it's their Boston accents so I barely even notice. Things like "pizzer" (pizza), "the both a ya's" (the both of you), "draw" (drawer), "bag-el" (for bagel, instead of bay-gul)etc, etc
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@sorrycharlie: I was with my brother when he ordered tor-till-a soup.
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@sorrycharlie: OMG. quesa-dilla reminded me of someone else I know.
Vegebles instead of vegetables
min instead of men
malk instead of milkhaha I could go forever.
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"Pitcher" instead of "Picture" and "I could care less"
@TemperanceBrennan: I'm originally from Wisconsin and now live in California, most of my accent is becoming undetectable but I cannot for the life of me pronounce "bag" and it's rhymes "correctly". Oh, and the word "Wisconsin", it's a cruel joke how the name of the state I'm from contains the "con" which I cannot say like the rest of the country. Too ingrained I guess
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@Ms.Badger: well, now I'm really curious! How do you pronounce Wisconsin?
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@.twist.: That "O" in con always comes out more like "ah", kind of like Wis-cahn-son (however, never Wes-con-sin, that how east coasters like to pronounce it)
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I think its regional, but when people add an R into words where there isn't one... Namely 'wash'. warsh isn't a word, and Warshington is not the state north of Oregon (which itself is NOT pronounced Ori-gone)
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Supposably - supposedly
Elemna- eleven
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@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Ditto on "supposably." My mom says it and it drives me up the wall.
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@Ms.Badger: Thanks! So interesting, I can almost hear it.
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"Axe" you a question irritates me... and most things my coworker says...
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I used to get "axe" for ask a lot at my old job. The popular one where I live is Choir-practitor for Chiropractor. It makes me cringe and giggle at the same time.
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Oh, and this is less cringe-worthy and more of an observation, but I'm from Michigan in a city that borders Detroit, and it's usually obvious that someone isn't familiar with the city based on their pronunciation of it. Non-locals have a tendency to say DEE-troit, and locals say Di-troit.
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@Ms.Badger: My Wisconsin friends think I sound southern, my Missouri friends think I sound northern!
Regarding the Wisconsin pronunciation, it seems like a lot of people up here pronounce it with a g instead of a c like
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My mom says frajitas no matter how many times I correct her. There's something else too but I can't remember it!
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I hate it when people say pacific instead of specific. Ugh.
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My husband uses "in lieu of" to mean "in honor of" rather than "instead of." He claims it's "in honor of" because it's what they write in obituaries - "In lieu of flowers, please...." I'm like "yeah, but they're offering an alternative to sending flowers, not asking you to make a donation in honor of the flowers!" It makes me crazy.
I loved living in Philly, but hated the way they spoke. Wooder for water, "going down the shore" for going to the beach. ACK. There were many others but those were the ones that killed me.
Like many others have said: expresso, axe, liberry, febuary (I pronounce the first r), elementry...
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@Ms.Badger: ......at the risk of sounding stupid, how else are we supposed to pronounce Wisconsin?? Doesn't everyone say it like that with the "cahn" sound??
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Oh, I've thought of another one....! Breakfusses as the plural of breakfast. Like: "I got the kids dressed then made their breakfusses"
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@littlebug: down the shore is also a Jerseyism. I also think it's funny if geographically they are traveling north or just east, but it's still "down the shore".
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I didn't read the entire thread so this may have been mentioned already, but... it's realtor. Not relator.
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Prolly bothers me a lot.
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Dear Lord! This thread is amazing! We know someone who says friendses instead of friend's. Chi-pol-tee and ex-presso are my two that come to mind right away. Cringe!
My husband jokes that he's going to open a roadside espresso stand and call it "Espress expresso".
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@Ms.Badger: Gah! Pitcher!!!
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UGHH Wisconsin. I'm from the Chicago burbs, and went to school in Wisconsin, DH is from WI, etc. His whole family (and seemingly all of SE Wisconsin) pronounce bag, lag, tag, rag, sag, gag etc as "bay-g" "lay-g" "tay-g" "ray-g" "say-g." I love them dearly but it drives me crazy.
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@ElbieKay: OMG, that one makes me want to gouge my eyes out!
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@littlejoy: hahaha so clever of him.
@avivoca: Prolly bothers me a lot also!
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Berfday - Birthday
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I don't know if this counts but I HATE IT when people use the word "literally" wrong. Like I heard someone say "I literally laughed my butt off"- really? you LITERALLY laughed your butt off??
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@MrsBrewer: It's really hard to describe to those of us that it's second nature to, but if I pronounce "con" like in convict my tongue is more forward in my mouth and the back of the tongue just taps the back roof of my mouth, when I pronounce the "cahn" in Wisconsin my tongue is farther back and the back of my tongue contacts the back roof of my mouth for much longer. It seems subtle but it definitely stands out to people not from areas of the midwest.
@smocks: Don't judge us, I seriously cannot to anything about this, I know that I should say "a" as in apple but I am incapable of doing it (plus, Chicogoans have pretty similar accents)
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Not a mispronunciation, but I cannot cannot cannot stand it when someone uses "seen" instead of "saw" as in: "I seen her go to the store"
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@smocks: LOL!!! that's how I pronounce Bag!!! too funny!!! I know that it really bugs people that aren't from WI!
@Ms.Badger: That is seriously the perfect explanation. I get it now, I guess we do pronounce WI differently that other people!
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@Ellie: I feel the same way. You seen nothing. You SAW something. lol.
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@MrsBrewer: Awesome, I'm glad you found it helpful because I was thinking that it was long and very specific!
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I hate when people say "bolth" instead of "both." Where does that L come from?!
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@Ms.Badger: Haha I know. At least you recognize it, half of my in laws can't even tell the difference when I point it out.
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My MIL puts clothes in the "wrash" not the wash. There is NO R!
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