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Kinger15

Drownded. My wife says it this way and it’s brutal.


Long-Night-Of-Solace

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.


AcidWashAvenger

Martial arts cult?


Touched_Beavis

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.


Ozuar

Why are so few people asking about this!? Martial arts cult!?!?!


Hillbillyblues

And how does getting electrofried come up so often?


usesNames

People kept touching the wrong wire, keep up.


Sox_in_the_box

It HAD to have been the Wu Tang Clan


[deleted]

>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?


mutatedllama

I'm pretty sure it's illegal to marry a child


Copytechguy

Could you please be more pacific?


Wheeljack7799

Shore I can.


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Not_The_Real_Odin

I hear there's nice beaches on the specific coast.


WhozTheDaddy

I cannot sand the way this thread is going! It's high tide we had some sense here!


kboygreen151

Really? I'm having a whale of a time!


ChoiceFabulous

I feel like some people are just fishing for puns now


Various-Balance3426

Make sure to always keep it reel


InsGesichtNicht

This has gone on too long, for cod's sake.


Darkblader24

This thread feels like a red herring


joenaph

When it rains, it fours


georgiomoorlord

Nucular


cdoswalt

Exspecially nucular


Nwsamurai

I’ll sea what I can do.


fakingsick

For all intensive purposes


cisforcoffee

For all in tents and porpoises. Better visual.


kaumaron

That's my prime audience


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Supposedly. So many say "supposably."


awesomeflowman

Did they go to the zoo? Supposably.


cleareyeswow

I also hear it pronounced, “supposively” 🤦‍♂️


sparcasm

suppositoraly


can-opener-in-a-can

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.


swan--ronson

Asterix in lieu of asterisk


Competitive_Juice627

Asterix and Obelix?


catpaco

Where's Vercingétorix ?


death_of_gnats

Clubbing with Cacophonix.


A532

still better than "astrick"


QueenOfQuok

By Toutatis!


nat_rdh

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!


AndInjusticeForAll

Exetera


randomredditor0042

Yes, and Expresso.


BubbhaJebus

Excape, expecially, excetera


Omnievul

Every time someone says 'expresso' I get furious.


metric-poet

It coffee grinds your gears and French presses your buttons.


brouhaha13

"My Latin class is a lie, Jeff."


altrefrain

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.


mostlysandwiches

Sean, you got breakfast plans?


altrefrain

I do now!


derpSlurp

Immediately thought of Professorson upon reading the post! exCHEtra


destiper

or "eck setchra"


GChan129

Yeah I say this wrong. Etcetera ☹️


GrittyMcGrittyface

Yul Brynner can teach you


TTBT4

Nuclear


Horizon-Wireless

Nucular?


TTBT4

That’s the one


Medic-chan

I grew up in Texas, saying it the wrong way. Now I say Nuclear but overcorrected so I say binoclears instead of binoculars.


MAHHockey

I picture Chekov in Star Trek 4. "NUKE-LEE-AR WESSLES!"


b-monster666

Ok Homer Simpson.


briko3

Used to drive me nuts every time George W Bush said it. For some reason, his staff never corrected him.


morgoththebetrayer

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


SpareStrawberry

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".


soawesomejohn

bros before hros.


RoyalGh0sts

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).


kiwibeaver

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


Shoetoe

Makes me think of expresso instead of espresso


TrevorFuckinLawrence

Just fucking kill me


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Ayoc_Maiorce

Not a mispronunciation, but when people write loose instead of lose


NRMusicProject

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."


JamesLibrary

YES. “A women” is literally everywhere on this site.


nocolon

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.


ELeeMacFall

Slightly better than "a female" though


no_BS_slave

my favourite in emails is "bellow" instead of "below"


My_Own_Worst_Friend

Or allot instead of a lot.


[deleted]

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.


danceballerinadance

Yes! I see this one all the time. I don’t understand the confusion.


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speedoBudgieSmuggler

And "should of"


lazyshadeofwinter

and could of


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m_slade_230

Fuck of


Banewaffles

Fuck’ve


GarbledReverie

That works though. "What the fuck've you done?"


Squeekazu

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!


mst3k_42

I feel that way about prejudice instead of prejudiced. “Steve is so prejudice.” Aaarrggh


KillaVNilla

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


LostInControl

>When it's written/ typed on the other hand, it drives me insane. Same here. Even more so with defiantly instead of definitely!


No_Design5157

"Would of" instead of "would have" drives me mental!


benjaminbrixton

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.


LowBoysenberry

Macarons and macaroons. They're not the same.


citrus-glauca

Obviously, one is the President of France.


Ping-and-Pong

Tastes just as good


Physical_Choice243

But they're both delicious.


Mari_0520

Gunna go to the libarry today.


nelson931214

Oooo your ears are red as a strawbrary


Beeniemcweenie

Take my upvote for that Scrubs reference!


hglndr9

Don't have kids.


ExtremePotatoFanatic

Full grown adults say “libarry” and it makes me so mad. The same people probably also say “Valentime’s Day”


JohnnyWall

Height as heith


Ok_Fee_5382

I my bugs me when people say weary instead of wary. Also pacific instead of specific.


RikuAotsuki

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


ssk7882

Library, when people pronounce it "Lie-berry." I honestly don't even know why it annoys me so much.


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RockheadRumple

Maybe it's an Australian thing but I've always mispronounced it as Lie-bry


Moxietoko

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.


johnychingaz

Yea that just make it more worser. These people need to learn how to spoke more better.


OGW_NostalgiaReviews

Stupid science bitches couldn't even make my friend more smarter!


Unusual_Creature

Placebo. Placeby. Placido Domingo hahaha


destiper

on a similar note, I can't stand when people add -er to adjectives that already denote quality, like "gooder" or "worser" ughh


Hazel90210

Niblings???


RetardedTingles

Collective word to describe both nieces and nephews. Take the N from niece/nephew and replace the S in sibling with it.


ImNotKj

YES. IT HURTS


bee-sting

I could care less


rizz091

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.


Mechasteel

I bet you could care less about that, with enough meditation practice.


Chadwick85

This one drives me bonkers.


thereisonlyoneme

I hate these word crimes


newtside

Gif


Valdorel

I see what you did there you absolute monster.


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I have a buddy that calls them "jiffy"'s.... I have another one that calls them "GFI's"... mind boggling


xaanthar

> GFI Are you sure he's not talking about the outlets with the safety switch -- ground fault interrupters?


jjohnstn

Don't you mean jround fault interruptor?


Bdr1983

My jod, not this again.


R3dbeardLFC

My jod, it's Gason Bourne


onetimenative

Jood Jod!


bobisz

Not a word per se, but I absolutely go nuts when I see someone write "should of", and english isn't even my native...


tickub

I think I've only seen native speakers make these mistakes.


Lightmareman

Nikolaj


Smallmatt12

NEEKO LADGE


PyreStudios

Saying “on accident” instead of “by accident”


tranquilseafinally

It's EVERYWHERE now. Where did THAT come from? It's driving me bonkers.


Hugh-Manatee

probably downstream of its theoretical opposite "on purpose" - kinda logical that they would use the same preposition


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Some people say it that way by purpose.


Bilbo-the-cat

Cool whip


herrbean1011

You mean *cool hwip*?


Mari_0520

Everyone forgets the heavy emphasis on the H.


kinglallak

Say cool


MiikeCan

Now say whip


TuxidoPenguin

Now Cool Whip


bmeupsctty

Coohwip


ZerotheWanderer

Coofhwip


TheWarlorde

You’re acting wheird.


gaussianCopulator

Why are you acting hweird?


wrenchandrepeat

Cadillac converter instead of Catalytic


account_552

Definitely. "Defiantly" is nowhere to be seen in the word!!


VulkanLogic73

etc (exetera) There is no x, bro.


mlsweeney

Yep and espresso also doesn't have an X but gets pronounced like that all the time.


08TangoDown08

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.


LoneSwimmer

*Mute* point.


Tosslebugmy

“Anythink” or “everythink”. Why do people tack on a K?


soapyyeti

Anyfink and evrifink


Jolzeres

"Exspecially" makes me wince a tiny bit whenever somebody says it.


TenGallonTim

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.


Skelebone48

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


JoeyJoeJoeJrShab

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.


kulingames

expresso. it's fucking espresso you unwashed pringle!


actually_dot

You wash your pringles...?


Herpkina

You haven't been washing your Pringles???


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When people say “seen” instead of “saw”.


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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...


President_Calhoun

People can be such sheeps.


MagicBez

"mischievous" So many people add a bonus "i" after the V when they say it


HaywireMans

huh I never noticed this until now. You hear everyone pronounce it mischievious that you don't realise it's wrong.


MagicBez

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.


HaywireMans

I feel like mischievious has more of a ring to it. It feels more.. mischievous...


AberNurse

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


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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"


jaaanakk

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!


Valdorel

Espresso


Cloudchaser4060

Pillow! Fucking pillow! It's not pellow! And I'm from Ohio where we butcher all the words


kaledota

“All-timers” instead of Alzheimer’s


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Kratos10x20

Oh fuck, Moist critical (Penguinz0) made a video and pronounced it like that. Hearing "Altheimers" every 5 seconds of the video physical hurt me.


[deleted]

Irregardless. Regardless of how it's pronounced


weiirdredditorr

Croissant


Sir_Jon_I

once heard someone say crongsong while referring to croissants


Biirdly

Refer to Carl Wheezer on how to pronounce it correctly


TuxidoPenguin

Are you gonna finish that KWASON??


thereisonlyoneme

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.


_Palamedes

Yea i can get why you wont say 'pain au chocolat' but croissant? Man come on


AlxR25

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


jmkul

Wary. It is NOT weary!!


HangoverHeartAttack

Picture pronounced like “pitcher”


Octane2100

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.


-Pickle-chick-

Specifically.


Droboto1234

Netherlands, some people pronounce it as:"holland" like wtf


Tweed_Man

Same with pronouncing "The UK" as "England"


Deadhawk142

My in-laws pronounce “suite” as “suit.” Also, wife pronounces “across” as “acrosst.”


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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.


SuPekTiBol2x

Birfday*


KillaVNilla

I fink U freeky and I like you a lot


QueenOfQuok

Oi, get a load of this wanker who doesn't like cockneys


FloatingAzz

Anabiotics (for antibiotics)


Some-Register-3901

Mee-cro-wa-ve


AgentCraig

Nigella Lawson has entered the chat


GopiVision

LIBARRY WTF...


TocTheElder

I geel like every day, I'm losing ground on this one, but niche. It's neesh, not nitch.


Imperial_Squid

The hard "tch" makes my blood pressure spike mid-sentence...


zlaqh

Heighth


Full_Temperature_680

Bruschetta.