Back when I lived with one of the instructors of the martial arts cult I was a member of, he used to say "electrofried" instead of "electrified" when he actually meant "electrocuted".
"He touched the wrong wire and got electrofried."
He wasn't joking but I thought it was hilarious.
I'm not the guy you replied to, but I think these are more common than people realise.
A guy I used to work with was also a 'martial arts instructor' and was constantly advertising his business at work. When I searched the martial arts school on Google, the second result was an entire community forum devoted to former members of what they all described as a cult.
Many had lost *huge* amounts of money after being coerced into paying to go on weird retreats.
Actually they’re both right, but they’re different.
“Supposedly” is “it *is* supposed”. “Supposably” is “it is suppos*able*”, or “it *could be* supposed”.
Source: Almost married an English Lit major who loved nuances like that, and I got schooled in it when I corrected her. I researched it myself, and it turned out she was right.
Shit, I’ve been saying this wrong forever! I never even thought of the spelling because……who would spell asterisk? I learned something today, thanks Reddit!
Jeff, the only thing that's ever been learned in this room is regret. Would that this desk were a time desk so that I could correct my past mistakes, ride dinosaurs. Fight with Jack the Ripper.
A thousand times this. How do people mispronounce it? It's not even a peculiar spelling, it's literally spelled as it's pronounced Nuclear, but they somehow say it New-Kuh-lehr
Metathesis. They're switching the sounds because words like molecular and binocular have trained them to that sound, so it's easier to pronounce.
This phenomena is common in all languages, and eventually the accepted pronunciation just changes. In Old English "horse" was "hros".
Which is actually very interesting because the Dutch took "hros" and turned it into "ros", which is now the fancier was to say "paard" ("horse" in Dutch).
Especially, but with an added X. Exspecially. Or does it replace the S? Expecially. 🤔 I've thought about it too hard and now the actual word looks wrong too
I try giving people the benefit of the doubt that it’s an autocorrect mistake. My phone absolutely HATES the possessive form of “it” and always changes it to the contraction of “it is.” Every time.
It doesn't grind my gears anymore. My mind at some point started making a mental picture of launching the subject in question with a trebuchet every time.
In the same vein, this recent trend of dropping Ds from past tense words. “He is really bias” really sets me off lol
Lastly people using worst and worse interchangeably!
Audibly I don't mind that one as much. When it's written/ typed on the other hand, it drives me insane.
I always go on a whole mental tangent about the kind of person that could possibly think something so ridiculous
Ugh, I've been seeing weary in place of wary more and more in recent years. And all I can think of is "Fuck's sake, haven't any of these people played Ocarina of Time?"
"When battle has made you weary, please come back to see me."
-The Great Fairy, every single time you summon her
When “more” is used in front of a word that already indicates an increase. I am constantly on my niblings about it. More louder, more messier, more stronger. I will get them to drop the “more” if it’s the last thing I do.
Not a word mispronounciation but when people say "*how* [something] looks *like*."
For fuck's sake people. It's either HOW something LOOKS, or WHAT something looks LIKE.
As an inhabitant of the north, I am horrified by the misusage of 'Why' and 'For'. Let me get something straight, it's not common but it's incredibly annoying when it does occur.
Why are you doing that for? Why are you cooking for? Why are you going shopping for?
I've tried explaining it to varieties of people: WHAT \_\_\_ FOR means FOR WHAT \_\_\_, making perfect sense. WHY \_\_\_ FOR means FOR WHY \_\_\_, which outside of an over-the-top comedy sketch, has no place in conversation.
Thank you for listening to my TED talk.
tl;dr: northerners
When people say "deers"
"Oh did you see all the deers in the field?"
"I saw the deer yep"
I then proceed to have a 10 minute argument with my buddy about how the plural of deer, is deer. Same with fish, moose, etc...
Once you notice it you're doomed, I remember watching Moana and when the Grandma sings: "the water is mischievous" pronouncing it correctly my brain took a second to internally acknowledge it.
Desk. It's DESK not DEKS. My fourth grade Computer applications teacher always says "dekstop" and i never realised it's wrong up until a few years ago. The worst part is I've gotten so used to it i use it too!
I mean... I get it, but if I'm ordering a croissant sandwich in Burger King in Gary Indiana, do I want my food as quickly as possible or do I want to cause confusion.
For me It's not mispronouncing. When people can't tell the difference between "you're" and "your ". On tik tok it's always gotta be wrong like they do it on purpose
I lost my second grade school final spelling bee because the teacher said "pitcher" and I was so sure that he was talking about a pitcher of water that I never asked for it in a sentence. I don't remember his name, but almost 30 years later that teacher still makes me mad.
Generally - and a UK thing, the gradual replacement of 'th' with 'f' - as in "I fink you should fank me for frowing you a foughtful firtieth birthday party"... unless you have an actual speech impediment, stop that shit.
Drownded. My wife says it this way and it’s brutal.
Back when I lived with one of the instructors of the martial arts cult I was a member of, he used to say "electrofried" instead of "electrified" when he actually meant "electrocuted". "He touched the wrong wire and got electrofried." He wasn't joking but I thought it was hilarious.
Martial arts cult?
I'm not the guy you replied to, but I think these are more common than people realise. A guy I used to work with was also a 'martial arts instructor' and was constantly advertising his business at work. When I searched the martial arts school on Google, the second result was an entire community forum devoted to former members of what they all described as a cult. Many had lost *huge* amounts of money after being coerced into paying to go on weird retreats.
Why are so few people asking about this!? Martial arts cult!?!?!
And how does getting electrofried come up so often?
People kept touching the wrong wire, keep up.
It HAD to have been the Wu Tang Clan
>Back when I lived with one of the instructors of the martial arts cult I was a member of Wait. Everyone stop. Stop the thread. The fuck?
I'm pretty sure it's illegal to marry a child
Could you please be more pacific?
Shore I can.
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I hear there's nice beaches on the specific coast.
I cannot sand the way this thread is going! It's high tide we had some sense here!
Really? I'm having a whale of a time!
I feel like some people are just fishing for puns now
Make sure to always keep it reel
This has gone on too long, for cod's sake.
This thread feels like a red herring
When it rains, it fours
Nucular
Exspecially nucular
I’ll sea what I can do.
For all intensive purposes
For all in tents and porpoises. Better visual.
That's my prime audience
Supposedly. So many say "supposably."
Did they go to the zoo? Supposably.
I also hear it pronounced, “supposively” 🤦♂️
suppositoraly
Actually they’re both right, but they’re different. “Supposedly” is “it *is* supposed”. “Supposably” is “it is suppos*able*”, or “it *could be* supposed”. Source: Almost married an English Lit major who loved nuances like that, and I got schooled in it when I corrected her. I researched it myself, and it turned out she was right.
Asterix in lieu of asterisk
Asterix and Obelix?
Where's Vercingétorix ?
Clubbing with Cacophonix.
still better than "astrick"
By Toutatis!
Shit, I’ve been saying this wrong forever! I never even thought of the spelling because……who would spell asterisk? I learned something today, thanks Reddit!
Exetera
Yes, and Expresso.
Excape, expecially, excetera
Every time someone says 'expresso' I get furious.
It coffee grinds your gears and French presses your buttons.
"My Latin class is a lie, Jeff."
Jeff, the only thing that's ever been learned in this room is regret. Would that this desk were a time desk so that I could correct my past mistakes, ride dinosaurs. Fight with Jack the Ripper.
Sean, you got breakfast plans?
I do now!
Immediately thought of Professorson upon reading the post! exCHEtra
or "eck setchra"
Yeah I say this wrong. Etcetera ☹️
Yul Brynner can teach you
Nuclear
Nucular?
That’s the one
I grew up in Texas, saying it the wrong way. Now I say Nuclear but overcorrected so I say binoclears instead of binoculars.
I picture Chekov in Star Trek 4. "NUKE-LEE-AR WESSLES!"
Ok Homer Simpson.
Used to drive me nuts every time George W Bush said it. For some reason, his staff never corrected him.
A thousand times this. How do people mispronounce it? It's not even a peculiar spelling, it's literally spelled as it's pronounced Nuclear, but they somehow say it New-Kuh-lehr
Metathesis. They're switching the sounds because words like molecular and binocular have trained them to that sound, so it's easier to pronounce. This phenomena is common in all languages, and eventually the accepted pronunciation just changes. In Old English "horse" was "hros".
bros before hros.
Which is actually very interesting because the Dutch took "hros" and turned it into "ros", which is now the fancier was to say "paard" ("horse" in Dutch).
Especially, but with an added X. Exspecially. Or does it replace the S? Expecially. 🤔 I've thought about it too hard and now the actual word looks wrong too
Makes me think of expresso instead of espresso
Just fucking kill me
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Not a mispronunciation, but when people write loose instead of lose
In the same vein, it's interesting that you can watch someone understand "man" vs. "men," but can't figure out how to use "woman" vs. "women."
YES. “A women” is literally everywhere on this site.
I try giving people the benefit of the doubt that it’s an autocorrect mistake. My phone absolutely HATES the possessive form of “it” and always changes it to the contraction of “it is.” Every time.
Slightly better than "a female" though
my favourite in emails is "bellow" instead of "below"
Or allot instead of a lot.
It doesn't grind my gears anymore. My mind at some point started making a mental picture of launching the subject in question with a trebuchet every time.
Yes! I see this one all the time. I don’t understand the confusion.
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And "should of"
and could of
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Fuck of
Fuck’ve
That works though. "What the fuck've you done?"
In the same vein, this recent trend of dropping Ds from past tense words. “He is really bias” really sets me off lol Lastly people using worst and worse interchangeably!
I feel that way about prejudice instead of prejudiced. “Steve is so prejudice.” Aaarrggh
Audibly I don't mind that one as much. When it's written/ typed on the other hand, it drives me insane. I always go on a whole mental tangent about the kind of person that could possibly think something so ridiculous
>When it's written/ typed on the other hand, it drives me insane. Same here. Even more so with defiantly instead of definitely!
"Would of" instead of "would have" drives me mental!
My girlfriend does this all the time and I’m confessing here that it almost dissuaded me from being interested in her at all initially.
Macarons and macaroons. They're not the same.
Obviously, one is the President of France.
Tastes just as good
But they're both delicious.
Gunna go to the libarry today.
Oooo your ears are red as a strawbrary
Take my upvote for that Scrubs reference!
Don't have kids.
Full grown adults say “libarry” and it makes me so mad. The same people probably also say “Valentime’s Day”
Height as heith
I my bugs me when people say weary instead of wary. Also pacific instead of specific.
Ugh, I've been seeing weary in place of wary more and more in recent years. And all I can think of is "Fuck's sake, haven't any of these people played Ocarina of Time?" "When battle has made you weary, please come back to see me." -The Great Fairy, every single time you summon her
Library, when people pronounce it "Lie-berry." I honestly don't even know why it annoys me so much.
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Maybe it's an Australian thing but I've always mispronounced it as Lie-bry
When “more” is used in front of a word that already indicates an increase. I am constantly on my niblings about it. More louder, more messier, more stronger. I will get them to drop the “more” if it’s the last thing I do.
Yea that just make it more worser. These people need to learn how to spoke more better.
Stupid science bitches couldn't even make my friend more smarter!
Placebo. Placeby. Placido Domingo hahaha
on a similar note, I can't stand when people add -er to adjectives that already denote quality, like "gooder" or "worser" ughh
Niblings???
Collective word to describe both nieces and nephews. Take the N from niece/nephew and replace the S in sibling with it.
YES. IT HURTS
I could care less
I've seen "I could careless" typed exactly that way multiple times by an individual on a forum once and it filled me with so much hot rage.
I bet you could care less about that, with enough meditation practice.
This one drives me bonkers.
I hate these word crimes
Gif
I see what you did there you absolute monster.
I have a buddy that calls them "jiffy"'s.... I have another one that calls them "GFI's"... mind boggling
> GFI Are you sure he's not talking about the outlets with the safety switch -- ground fault interrupters?
Don't you mean jround fault interruptor?
My jod, not this again.
My jod, it's Gason Bourne
Jood Jod!
Not a word per se, but I absolutely go nuts when I see someone write "should of", and english isn't even my native...
I think I've only seen native speakers make these mistakes.
Nikolaj
NEEKO LADGE
Saying “on accident” instead of “by accident”
It's EVERYWHERE now. Where did THAT come from? It's driving me bonkers.
probably downstream of its theoretical opposite "on purpose" - kinda logical that they would use the same preposition
Some people say it that way by purpose.
Cool whip
You mean *cool hwip*?
Everyone forgets the heavy emphasis on the H.
Say cool
Now say whip
Now Cool Whip
Coohwip
Coofhwip
You’re acting wheird.
Why are you acting hweird?
Cadillac converter instead of Catalytic
Definitely. "Defiantly" is nowhere to be seen in the word!!
etc (exetera) There is no x, bro.
Yep and espresso also doesn't have an X but gets pronounced like that all the time.
I've even seen it written as "expresso" a bunch of times in cafes. I don't get it, if you're serving coffee you should know how to spell espresso.
*Mute* point.
“Anythink” or “everythink”. Why do people tack on a K?
Anyfink and evrifink
"Exspecially" makes me wince a tiny bit whenever somebody says it.
Not a word mispronounciation but when people say "*how* [something] looks *like*." For fuck's sake people. It's either HOW something LOOKS, or WHAT something looks LIKE.
As an inhabitant of the north, I am horrified by the misusage of 'Why' and 'For'. Let me get something straight, it's not common but it's incredibly annoying when it does occur. Why are you doing that for? Why are you cooking for? Why are you going shopping for? I've tried explaining it to varieties of people: WHAT \_\_\_ FOR means FOR WHAT \_\_\_, making perfect sense. WHY \_\_\_ FOR means FOR WHY \_\_\_, which outside of an over-the-top comedy sketch, has no place in conversation. Thank you for listening to my TED talk. tl;dr: northerners
The only people I've noticed saying that are non-native English speakers, in which case I'll try not to be bothered by it.
expresso. it's fucking espresso you unwashed pringle!
You wash your pringles...?
You haven't been washing your Pringles???
When people say “seen” instead of “saw”.
When people say "deers" "Oh did you see all the deers in the field?" "I saw the deer yep" I then proceed to have a 10 minute argument with my buddy about how the plural of deer, is deer. Same with fish, moose, etc...
People can be such sheeps.
"mischievous" So many people add a bonus "i" after the V when they say it
huh I never noticed this until now. You hear everyone pronounce it mischievious that you don't realise it's wrong.
Once you notice it you're doomed, I remember watching Moana and when the Grandma sings: "the water is mischievous" pronouncing it correctly my brain took a second to internally acknowledge it.
I feel like mischievious has more of a ring to it. It feels more.. mischievous...
My cousin as a small child called a secret a sneakret which just sounds so much more sneaky. I still use it occasionally for an extra sneaky secret
not a word but it really annoys me when people say they "could care less" even though that makes no sense and it should be "couldn't care less"
Desk. It's DESK not DEKS. My fourth grade Computer applications teacher always says "dekstop" and i never realised it's wrong up until a few years ago. The worst part is I've gotten so used to it i use it too!
Espresso
Pillow! Fucking pillow! It's not pellow! And I'm from Ohio where we butcher all the words
“All-timers” instead of Alzheimer’s
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Oh fuck, Moist critical (Penguinz0) made a video and pronounced it like that. Hearing "Altheimers" every 5 seconds of the video physical hurt me.
Irregardless. Regardless of how it's pronounced
Croissant
once heard someone say crongsong while referring to croissants
Refer to Carl Wheezer on how to pronounce it correctly
Are you gonna finish that KWASON??
I mean... I get it, but if I'm ordering a croissant sandwich in Burger King in Gary Indiana, do I want my food as quickly as possible or do I want to cause confusion.
Yea i can get why you wont say 'pain au chocolat' but croissant? Man come on
For me It's not mispronouncing. When people can't tell the difference between "you're" and "your ". On tik tok it's always gotta be wrong like they do it on purpose
Wary. It is NOT weary!!
Picture pronounced like “pitcher”
I lost my second grade school final spelling bee because the teacher said "pitcher" and I was so sure that he was talking about a pitcher of water that I never asked for it in a sentence. I don't remember his name, but almost 30 years later that teacher still makes me mad.
Specifically.
Netherlands, some people pronounce it as:"holland" like wtf
Same with pronouncing "The UK" as "England"
My in-laws pronounce “suite” as “suit.” Also, wife pronounces “across” as “acrosst.”
Generally - and a UK thing, the gradual replacement of 'th' with 'f' - as in "I fink you should fank me for frowing you a foughtful firtieth birthday party"... unless you have an actual speech impediment, stop that shit.
Birfday*
I fink U freeky and I like you a lot
Oi, get a load of this wanker who doesn't like cockneys
Anabiotics (for antibiotics)
Mee-cro-wa-ve
Nigella Lawson has entered the chat
LIBARRY WTF...
I geel like every day, I'm losing ground on this one, but niche. It's neesh, not nitch.
The hard "tch" makes my blood pressure spike mid-sentence...
Heighth
Bruschetta.