Words you mispronounce that make you you're an idiot.

[CUG]

http://www.primermagazine.com/2008/l...youre-an-idiot

OFTEN *
Incorrect pronunciation: off – ten
Correct pronunciation: off – en

[AE92_TreunoSC]

FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES

*

Incorrect pronunciation: “for all intensive purposes”
*

Correct pronunciation: “for all intents and purposes”


aaaaaah crap I feel really dumb now

[Jeremiah]

That's fine and Dandy but what about Thread titles that make you look like an idiot?

[CUG]

Originally posted by Jeremiah
That's fine and Dandy but what about Thread titles that make you look like an idiot?

I'm glad you caught that, because I couldn't finish the title without telling you that you're an idiot, idiot.

[CUG]

You can even ask a Mod, I edited it to that from proper.


SUPPOSEDLY is not SUPPOSABLY.

[Boat]

damn intents and purposes and often are my bad ones

[CUG]

Originally posted by Boat
damn intents and purposes and often are my bad ones

I've never heard "intensive purposes" before.. ever. Often, I usually say quickly so you don't hear the T, but if I'm emphasizing it, it's there.

I met someone from louisiana who calls mayonnaise "MO-NAYISS" and "MO-NAZZ". That shit's funny.

[97'Scort]

Nguyen.

Sometimes I screw up the accenting syllable on words I'm unsure of.

[van]

Originally posted by 97'Scort
Nguyen.

Sometimes I screw up the accenting syllable on words I'm unsure of.

People pronounce that so many different ways lol. I hear most often Nguyen pronounced as Nah-Win whereas because I'm Vietnamese I'll pronounce it Nguh-win.

[broken_legs]

NUCLEAR *
Incorrect pronunciation: new-Q-Lar
Correct pronunciation: new-clee-ar

[stealth1313]

I purposely screw up my words all the time. Like alright
.., proper punctuation - all right
improper - aight

[TomcoPDR]

I find that the "incorrect" way would be how Americans would speak...

Like you know those Chevrolet Silverado trucks have a "Z -71" off road model... well, I was working with some Americans, they say Z like "Zee-seventy-one", while we say it like "Zed-seventy-one"

Not sure if that made sense

[EvolizePhoto]

A buddy of mine drives me up the wall when he says this incorrectly 10 times in like 15 minutes.

Across

He pronounces it "Acrossed"

It's supposed to be "Across"

[JordanAndrew]

Originally posted by TomcoPDR
I find that the "incorrect" way would be how Americans would speak...

Like you know those Chevrolet Silverado trucks have a "Z -71" off road model... well, I was working with some Americans, they say Z like "Zee-seventy-one", while we say it like "Zed-seventy-one"

Not sure if that made sense

I totally get what you mean.

Same with 350Z

Americans will probably read this as three-fifty-Zee and most if not all canadians will read this as three-fifty-zed.

[Supa Dexta]

GF hates that I say ''acrost''

As in I drove all the way acrost town. I know its not right, its just the way it comes out..

[frozenrice]

Asphalt

People say ASH-PHALT all the time, but it's supposed to be ASS-PHALT.

[Mibz]

off-ten and off-en are -both- perfectly acceptable since that's how the language evolved. Christ, half the pronunciations we use today weren't acceptable 10 years ago but they became so popular that they had to be adopted officially.

[AndyL]

Originally posted by CUG

SUPPOSEDLY is not SUPPOSABLY.

You were listening to that 'merican on rutherford weren't ya?

[The_Rural_Juror]

Correct: REAL-TOR
Incorrect: REAL-LA-TOR

Correct: PED-DO-FILE
Incorrect (Unless you are a Brit): PEE-DO-FILE

[911fever]

@ the anger in this thread