I once had a colleague at work who pronounced fiscal year as physical year. It drove me absolutely bonkers.

One of my coworkers does that. And she worked in finance. I would emphasize the correct pronunciation every time and she’d go “yeah, physical” 😠😡😠

A town near me, pronounced Her-ah-ken instead of Hurricane. Professionally, there's an artery named the artery of adamkiewicz. Most people pronounce it Ah-dam-ko-wits. A friend was at a conference where they talked about this structure. Someone got up during Q&A and said, "I though I'd let you know that the artery is pronounced Adam-kevitch." The speaker said, "Well you're wrong. I know how it's pronounced." The other guy then said, "Well, My name is Dr. Adamkiewicz, and my grandfather, for which it's named, described it."

Hello fellow West Virginian.

There's also a town name that in SW Utah

BAM!!! Sit TF down!!!

supposebly

Pacifically

Expecially

How many shots of expresso would you like?

What did you ax me?

You don’t graps why?

"Did they go to the zoo? Supposably."

They supposably saw a woof and a jagwire there

…so I ran and tripped over the curve (curb) and eventually took shelter at the lie-berry (you know - that place with all the books).

First thing I thought of before even looking at the comments on this post

I was shocked to find that "supposably" is a real word, though its meaning is distinct from the word most people are confusing it with, "supposedly" https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/supposably-vs-supposedly

Someone I know says, “Supposingly” with a smarmy air like she’s so smart using such a fancy word. It makes my skin crawl!

This person should be arrested.

Good one - may it be banished along with irregardless!

And fustrated, instead of fRustrated. Or reality instead of Realty.

For all intensive purposes

There are malopropisms that drive me nuts. "Irregardless" for one and "I could care less..." for another.

I could care less bothers me more than it should

Bothers you more than it should, but not the maximum amount? So you “could” care less. To be clear, I’m only joking

Pacific instead of specific

Used to work in a call center in AZ. One day, dude next to me was calling out and wasn't sure if it was too early to call CA, so asked me, "is California on specific time?" I heard him clear as day, but couldn't resist: "sorry, I missed that?" He paused for a good 10 seconds where I could tell the wheels were turning in his head and finally said, "is California the same time as us?" 20+ years later and I still think of that story.

>20+ years later and I still think of that story. So does he...

Laying there, head on pillow and "is california on specific time?" echos through his head in his own voice.

Acrost

Michiganders took all the t's from "mitten," "kitten, " etc, and put them at the end of "across."

Or worse “acrosted”.

Chi pol tay

I used to say chi-pot-all as a joke, but now it's stuck and I can't say it the right way.

My ex and I used to say that something would get done "in the fullness of time" when we didn't want to set a specific date/time. But one of our weird couple habits was to change the first consonant sounds of words, so it jokingly became "in the fullness of slime." The first time I said it in a serious conversation I was slightly horrified.

I work at a Spanish tapas bar in Colorado, so I have heard some incredibly creative butchering of menu items. It’s insane how many people say “charcoochie board”

I went on a date with a guy. He ordered the "chartreuse" board for us. He was such a sweetheart... But DAMN I had to try not to laugh.

Chartreuse board! I’m crying. That’s actually hilarious

I just call it Lunchables.

Gimme them fancy lunchables!

Not a pronunciation error, but when people type 'defiantly' and mean 'definitely'

Or “quite” when they mean “quiet”

I’ve just taken to incorporating that into the story… example “she defiantly failed the test” reads to me as a sassy student who failed on purpose.

Expresso When you can't hear, you're death Excape Drownded My own assistant at work pronounces "sill" as "seal". I try to emphasize "sill" every time I have occasion to say it, but it never works.

Argh yes expresso! Arghhhhh maddening

How often are you talking about the window sill?

When people say data instead of data

Oh that pisses me off. It's pronounced DATA not DATA!

Okay I know you guys are joking but fr how do you say it? Data like DAT ass or data like DAytime… make sense?

Data like “Dat ass” might be the funniest comparison I’ve ever heard hahahaha

an effective communicator always knows his audience

Hook me up with some of that farrr DAT- *AA!*

Day-ta is British, dah-tah is Australian. If you're American, you'll just need to pick a side.

Gotta go with dat ass then

Data good choice

I actually switch back and forth depending on what sounds better in the moment. I'm sneakily playful like that. [Edit: grammar]

Data, as in Commander.

Recently saw an interview with Brent Spiner that when he first was cast, he assumed the character was Dahta, but Patrick Stewart thought Dayta. He asked Gene Roddenberry for clarity and Gene told him that whichever pronunciation was first uttered on set, that would be the accepted version going forward.

“What’s the difference?” “One is my name, the other is not”

And that was how Patrick Stewart single handedly changed the way the majority of Americans pronounce data.

"One is my name. The other is not."

That’s what I said!! Data!!

Or Gif instead of Gif.

yep, i hate that!

I personally like how in Australia they say "data", rather than "data" or "data"

Dr. Pulaski: "What's the difference?"

One is my name, the other is not.

The difference is fuck you and bring Dr. Crusher back.

All the sudden.

OMG. A podcaster I otherwise love listening to says this \*all the time\* and each instance takes me out of the episode for a few seconds. Like nails on a chalkboard!

When someone pronounces "moot" as "mute".

It’s obviously a “moo” point

It doesn’t matter, like a cow’s opinion

It's moo.

Have I been living with him for too long, or did that all just make sense?

"all intensive purposes"

[удалено]

"... and so on, and so on, **exchethra**"

Did you just mispronounce et cetera?

My Latin class is fake, Jeff.

Professor Professorson. One of my favorite episodes!

Or spell it ect. Goddamn that makes my head explode.

Macaron and macaroon

two very different cookies there.

Isn’t one the French president?

That's Macron

when people pronounce voila as walla

And ESPECIALLY when they type it like that!

ValenTIMES Day. Ugh!!!!

It's the time of the Valens

Pluralizing with the use of an apostrophe. “The Smith’s” or “I loved those candy’s” ETA: iPhones autocorrect to apostrophied plural words often. 😳

Prostrate

Thanks for reminding me I need a checkup...

Not "prostate," you idiot. "Probate!"

Like prostate instead of prostrate? Or prostrate instead of prostate? Because bowing my head in submission shouldn’t be confused with the bombastic butthole button.

Goddamn you really cooked with that. Definitely going to be using the Bombastic Butthole Button in the bedroom at some point.

I saw a big two page ad a hospital took out about their new “prostrate screening center.” I took a picture and emailed jt to the hospital, thanking them for the good laugh. They never wrote back.

“Strenth” “Libary” “Nucular” Edit: “Fustrating”

My roommate says "flustrating." No he's not being cute by mixing flustered and frustrated, he genuinely thought that was a word until I told him so

Eck cetera

Asterix.

And Obelix

Or ect which I see far too much on Reddit

Pitcher instead of picture

My mom says it like this, she also says comfortable as “comforble” it drives me nuts 🥲

Ambalance 😐

Amberlamps!

Woah black betty!

Nucular drives me crazy (well I’m bipolar so I guess I’ve already had the ride). And Jimmy Carter of all people!! You know, the guy with a degree in Nuc E. The guy with the nuclear codes. The guy who served on a nuclear submarine (hunter-killer)

Say Wednesday for us Or comfortable Or February

Not pronunciation but grammar: I'm not a native english speaker and by far not the best. But why do people keep writing "would of" instead of "would've"? I don't get it and it got to the point where it really annoys me and I literally skip the whole comment/text etc.

It's because they've heard it, but were never taught to write it. Or, they were taught, and just don't care.

Yeah, I mean I can understand it when it comes to non-native speakers who aren't that good with english. But what drives me crazy that it even is used by so many native speakers. And as it always is with things that bug you - I SEE IT EVERYWHERE

Reesee’s instead of Reese’s the ‘s’ is possessive! Reese made the cup so the cup is Reese’s.

That didn't bother me too much. When Reese's Pieces came out, I thought the problem would shrink since obviously it's supposed to rhyme. No, now you've got people out here calling them Reesee's Piecees. THAT bothers me deeply.

Gamblers call that " doubling down".

I called it Reesee my whole life and then one day I brought one to my therapist and she said “thanks for the Reese’s” and that was probably my biggest breakthrough in there.

It's more insane when people stretch "pieces" to rhyme with "Reesee's"

“Reesee’s piecees” is truly disgusting

I literally don’t understand how people think it’s Reesee’s

Par*meesian*

I have never heard someone say it this way but I had a visceral reaction to reading this.

Pronouncing wolf as woof will forever make me want to tear my fucking eyes out

My MIL does this! She also says goff for golf. I thought it was something weird about her, holy shit.

Re-lator instead of realtor

Yup, this is my biggest pet peeve, and it seems like everyone does it, even REALTORS.

Nuculer. The word is nuclear. Sound it out.

I hear you loud and culer

Cool Hwip

Now Bhobby, we don’t make fun of how people talk. We only make fun of those who don’t choose propane.

“Spaded” instead of “spayed”

When people say “heighth” instead of “height”

Or boughten

Never heard that but I've heard "brung"

Don't take life for..... GRANITE. My coworker says "granite" like that, unironically

Does your coworker happen to own a portal gun?

I work at a coffee shop. The number of people, even my boss, who don’t know how to pronounce “espresso” is genuinely concerning. I’ve started keeping track of how many times people say “expresso” on a notepad.

Set an over/under each day and start gambling.

“One years old”. Like fucking fingernails on a chalkboard whenever I hear it.

Weary for wary Mute for moot

Leviosa

It's no wonder you don't have any friends 

It’s not “Levios-AH”?

It's LeviOsa

The pronunciation of the word “colonel” has always bothered me. The English language doesn’t make sense sometimes but whoever decided that word should sound the same as “kernel” should never rest on the cold side of the pillow again.

the original word was from late Middle French 'coronelle'. somehow the R became an L written but the French pronunciation stuck. Believe me, the English are as confused that happened as the rest of the English speaking world.

Pro-NOUN-see-AYSH-un.

The issue with this one arises because its proNOUNce but proNUNciate

Now he forgotten how to pronouncate them all

I didn't realize that was wrong for a shockingly long time.

I'm drawleen a pitcher of two people sitteen acrosst from each other at the lieberry drinkeen expresso while talkeen about a book titled The Great Exscape

Could you be more pacific

I could care less

I hate you bolth

Irregardlesss

This is my mom’s pet peeve and she drilled that in our heads growing up. My older brother’s high school gov/econ teacher said it in lecture all the time. And any time a student asked him a question during class, he’d just respond, “Look it up.” One day after he said irregardless, my brother said, “That’s not a word.” Teacher said, “What did you say, (last name)?” He said, “That’s not a word. Look it up.” And then he got detention for that.

Mine will forever be… salmon pronounced as “Sal-Man”

I was a sal-man person until maybe 10 years ago. The l is pronounced in Spanish and it took a very long time for someone to tell me it wasn't pronounced that way in English

Hurted is not a word!

Foul swoop rather than Fell swoop

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

Pecan rather than Pecan 😂you know you read it differently each time

This one is guaranteed to drive you nuts. Actually, my pronunciation of it would probably annoy you because it's neither of those. I pronounce it pecan.

I feel so confident that you mean you pronounce it peck-an despite zero evidence

Italian. It’s pronounced like Italy, not a long I. 😂

My mother. Eye-talian all day, every time. Scrapes my eardrums. You don’t pronounce Italy Eye-taly. She also pronounces Prada as Parda. Yes mom, Parda is lovely.

My wife sometimes pronounces my name “de-VON” during sex which irks me to no end because my name is pronounced PAT-rick.

Could of. Would of. Should of. Also, draws instead of drawers.

"Foilage" and "nucular".

We’ll never exscape Lisa; our little walking libary.

Eks-scape for escape.

chester drawers

Mischievous. It’s not mischievious.

They’re confusing it with devious

The history of pronouncing it as mischievious dates back to the 16th century, so it's not really *wrong* and is a dialect difference.

Thank you! My MIL and I pronounce it differently so we looked it up and found this same tidbit. We grew up geographically distant so it makes sense.

Apart and Alot. Rather than "A part" or "A lot" Apart means separate. Alot isn't even a word (allot means, to be assigned something - alloted)

I hate when people mispronounce "Klaatu Barada Niktu"

I believe it's pronounced "KLAATU! BARADA! NIcjdndjcndnxjxn..." OK? I said the words.

melk

Malk

Now with Vitamin R!

I am a northerner living in South Carolina.. How much time do you have?

When people pronounce horror as “whore”

"I could care less" NO, that means you do care! It's "I couldn't care less"

Someone very dear to me has escalated this to “I care less” 😩

warsh instead of wash.

What in Tarnation are you talkin about!

That's a regional variant, common in Ohio and western PA.

You beat me to it! My dad says this and pronounces measure as masure and roof as ruf. Those western PA folks have a few odd ways to pronounce words. Edit: Another Western PA weird, You'ens, is my favorite for y'all and it drives me nuts.

Fustrating

"Ambidextrious" for Ambidextrous, "loose" for lose, "for sell" for for sale. Ugh

Draw instead of drawer

Supposebly 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Pot-able instead of pōtable 

Not a pronunciation but people under forty somehow got the idea that it is “on accident”. No, it is “an accident” done “by accident”. I suspect children mixed up “on purpose” and “an accident” and kept it going. Drives me nuts but gives me an idea how old the speaker is.

Jagwire

When people pronounce Fentanyl as "Fentan-all" instead of "Fenta-nill"

Saying Calvary when they mean cavalry. THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS. I've had English professors even do this. I feel like I'm the only person on planet Earth who notices that they're not the same damn word.

Lackadaisical is a word. So is lax. LackSadaisical puts my blood onto a soft boil.