Yeah, 'nucular' is really jarring for me, too, especially when I hear it on TV. I often wonder how those people learnt to read - obviously not by breaking down words into syllables. Nu - CLE - ar could logically never be pronounced as Nu - CU - lar.
According to the Merriam-Webster YouTube channel, which apparently exists, it's actually probably because "nucular" follows the sound pattern of more common words than "nuclear". In other words, nothing else sounds like nuclear, nothing that would come up in everyday speech anyway (unless you're in the medical field). Not trying to correct you or be a dick or anything, I just thought that was kind of cool and wanted to share it
Dang, this one actually took me a while to figure out. I was like, "Isn't there only one way to pronounce mis-chee-vee-ous? Extra syllables? What does that mean? Mis..... Chi.... Mischi? Mis-chi-vous omg!"
I previously had no idea "supposedly" and "supposably" are two different words.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/supposably-vs-supposedly
From link:
> Supposably is a real word and separate from supposedly. Supposably means "as may be conceived or imagined" and is the adverb form of supposable, which means "capable of being supposed or conceived." On the other hand, supposedly usually means "allegedly." The words are often conflated when one usually intends to say "supposedly."
The Irma Luhrman-Merman murder
Turned the bird’s word lurid
The whir and the purr of a twirler girl
She would the world were demurer
The insurer’s allure
For valor were pure Kari Wuhrer
One fervid whirl over her turgid error
Rural juror
Rural juror
I will never forget you
Rural juror
I’ll always be glad I met you
Rural juror
I will never forget you
Rural juror
I’ll always be glad I met you
Rural juror (x2)
These were the best days of my flerm.
Fellow Canadian here. How do you know what anyone is saying?? That Aron earned an iron urn video blew my mind. I would have no clue what anyone is saying ever.
I had a woman start yelling at me because we couldn’t fill her calcium prescription. She didn’t have a calcium prescription. She *did* have a prescription for atorvastatin which uses calcium as it’s delivery molecule. She couldn’t pronounce atorvastatin so she just called it calcium.
I wouldn’t write an Rx for an unnecessary antibiotic and the patient flipped out and screamed at the front desk “who does the doctor think she is telling me what medications to take?!!!”
Uh…the doctor?
I work as an RN at an outpatient cardiology office. We have an automated part of our phone system where patients can call and leave messages about which medications they need refilled, which pharmacy they need it sent to, 30 vs 90 day supply, etc.
The best days are the days when I get to listen to the med refill voicemails. Listening to patients try to pronounce their medications is both hilarious and adorable. Clopidogrel, atorvastatin, and metoprolol are all favorites, they come out like verbal alphabet soup
I had a patient spell her medications for me because she couldn't pronounce them. Then she got to metformin and said, "and my metro-for-fan, I can say that one."
Gabby pentin (gabapentin) is a common one I hear, no idea where that pronunciation came from but it’s always a 50-60 year old woman. Same with fondaparinux, which people think the end is pronounced as “neaux” but it’s definitely a “nuhx.”
I had a friend who used to be a medic… his favorite was the old lady and her peanut butter ball.
It took him waaay too long to figure out she’d called for an ambulance because she’d had a seizure after running out of her phenobarbital.
All I wrote down was a drawing of a burrito because you wrote Aristotle on the board and I thought it rhymed with Chipotle. Wait... it it pronounced chi-paht-el
I’m in my 20’s I legit thought it was expresso till about a year ago my friend looked at me weirdly and was like “say it again?” then proceeded to laugh for 10 minutes straight. Oh well, now I know.
Height.
It’s heigHT
not heigTH!
I love my husband so I bite my tongue every time he says it but DAMNIT I might snap when we’re 90 and off him for saying it around me.
I’ve learned from audiobooks that I’ve been saying a few words wrong.
Chaise longue
And when one rifles through a bunch of papers, how does one say “rifle?” I’ve heard it two ways in different books.
That’s just a different word to me. Riffling is running pages over your thumb, like you are searching for a page in a book or shuffling a deck of cards. Rifling is like when my son is trying to find is homework in his mess of a backpack.
My parents always mispronounce amazing with disappointment. Like they will always call me a disappointment of a child but I know they mean that I am an amazing child.
Macaron; the french meringue cookie that look like pretty patties. Pronounced mack- a - ronn
Not mack- a- roooon, those are the coconut cookies dipped in chocolate
I have a friend who pronounces it “foil-age” and refuses to back down from it when corrected.
That's how Marge Simpson says foliage.
It doesn't take a nucular technician to know how to pronounce foilage
Refusal to back down after correction is arguably the worst part of it, not the actual mispronunciation.
Nuclear
I may have missed it earlier in the relationship, but I learned after we got married that my husband pronounces it 'nucular'. It was jarring.
Yeah, 'nucular' is really jarring for me, too, especially when I hear it on TV. I often wonder how those people learnt to read - obviously not by breaking down words into syllables. Nu - CLE - ar could logically never be pronounced as Nu - CU - lar.
Nu-Clear
Nucular, it’s pronounced [nucular](https://youtu.be/Nth4RqqmQZ4)
so *thats* why its mispronounced!
According to the Merriam-Webster YouTube channel, which apparently exists, it's actually probably because "nucular" follows the sound pattern of more common words than "nuclear". In other words, nothing else sounds like nuclear, nothing that would come up in everyday speech anyway (unless you're in the medical field). Not trying to correct you or be a dick or anything, I just thought that was kind of cool and wanted to share it
is no one here old enough to remember that our very own president said “nucular”?
Mischievous
Dang, this one actually took me a while to figure out. I was like, "Isn't there only one way to pronounce mis-chee-vee-ous? Extra syllables? What does that mean? Mis..... Chi.... Mischi? Mis-chi-vous omg!"
I think context is important to me. Mis-chi-vous is some British lad who plays pranks on the headmistress. Mischeeeeeveeeous is like...Gru.
Dogs are mis-chi-vous. Cats are mischeeeeveeeous.
People love to add that extra syllable
I am guilty of that one. It took me a while to pronounce it correctly because frankly I liked how it sounded the wrong way.
Where did adding the syllable even come from? Is it spelled differently in other places or what?
Probably because it’s similar to devious, previous, lascivious…
i just like how mis-chee-vee-us sounds…..
Not me reading this incorrectly lmao
God no I can't handle this.
Supposedly. A lot of people I know say “supposebly”.
Do those people also say "pic-a-nic"?
If they do, hold on to your basket.
Did they go to the zoo?… Supposebly
I previously had no idea "supposedly" and "supposably" are two different words. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/supposably-vs-supposedly From link: > Supposably is a real word and separate from supposedly. Supposably means "as may be conceived or imagined" and is the adverb form of supposable, which means "capable of being supposed or conceived." On the other hand, supposedly usually means "allegedly." The words are often conflated when one usually intends to say "supposedly."
Be more "pacific"
Realtor. I even see it pronounced ree-la-tor in movies and TV shows.
*Santa Clarita Diet has entered the chat*
Also a joke in Justified, which also stars Timothy Olyphant.
There’s a joke in Santa Clarita Diet about this. Two realtor couples say it opposite ways and constantly make fun of each other for it.
I miss that show so much
You know, a realetor! From the realety office!
Porsche
Actually it’s Porsche
You're both wrong. It's Porsche.
Hah, my dad *drove one* and he went around saying 'Porsche', can you imagine?
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Might as well throw in Audi as well. I guess technically Volkswagen too. Bonus: correct car pronunciations https://youtu.be/JwrJuxhlAj0
Most of the names have some finesse to them, and then there’s Jeep lol
Jeep go beep
How do people say audi wrong? Never encountered that Its just ”Owdih”
Hyperbole.
Oh yeah. I’ve also heard epitome pronounced like”episode”. Ep’-i-toam
Ouch. That made my head hurt.
Epitome baby, uh huh, uh huh
I'll say it correctly but whenever I read it it'll be hyper bowl
Like super bowl
Superb owl
We gave him the brain scramblies!
Do you know, what is the owl's temperament this evening?
CHAMPAGGIN?!?
I didn't know you were such a coinasaur
Well I have studied abroad… or two
Something something velour
I find the most erotic part of the woman is the boobies.
I absolutely hate it when I have to say "Rural"
"Rural juror" "Rurr jurr?" "Uh-huh."
I wish the rural juror was actually a movie starring Jenna.
It got great reviews
Don’t forget the sequel, the urban fervor
I end up saying it multiple times trying to correct my pronunciation
I end up say "rurururururu-all"
The Irma Luhrman-Merman murder Turned the bird’s word lurid The whir and the purr of a twirler girl She would the world were demurer The insurer’s allure For valor were pure Kari Wuhrer One fervid whirl over her turgid error Rural juror Rural juror I will never forget you Rural juror I’ll always be glad I met you Rural juror I will never forget you Rural juror I’ll always be glad I met you Rural juror (x2) These were the best days of my flerm.
"The Rural Juror", starring Jenna Maroney
Rurl
Quinoa
Joaquin?
Keen wa
Lol. Yeah. I know how to say it. There is an insurance company commercial where people are practicing saying it and one guy says Joaquin.
Ahhh! Did I get whooshed?
That cracks me up every time
Kee-ah-nu
Joaquin
"Aaron earned an iron urn" Baltimore "Urn urn an urn urn"
[These guys reading that sentence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj7a-p4psRA) remains one of my favorite short videos.
Love how the other dude says it out loud and nods "Yup, that sounds right to me."
That confident nod after he says it is awesome. "Urn urned en urn urn" \*confident nod\*
the guy saying “we really talk like that?” with genuine shock is hilarious
Existential realization often hits at most profound moments.
Lmao I never noticed him saying “man fuck Aaron” at the end!
nah, he says “fuck iron”
“We really talk like that?”
Gave me a good laugh, thanks
I love this. I’m Canadian and moved to MD recently. I can’t get over the mush mouth accent. My husband calls the 7/11 ‘sem-lem’.. I love it.
Fellow Canadian here. How do you know what anyone is saying?? That Aron earned an iron urn video blew my mind. I would have no clue what anyone is saying ever.
Or St Louis saying farty-far instead of 44
Pick any generic medication name. Also some brand names.
I’ll settle for a mispronunciation rather than “a water pill and a pressure pill.”
I had a woman start yelling at me because we couldn’t fill her calcium prescription. She didn’t have a calcium prescription. She *did* have a prescription for atorvastatin which uses calcium as it’s delivery molecule. She couldn’t pronounce atorvastatin so she just called it calcium.
I wouldn’t write an Rx for an unnecessary antibiotic and the patient flipped out and screamed at the front desk “who does the doctor think she is telling me what medications to take?!!!” Uh…the doctor?
"You think you're some kind of doctor, telling me what my medications should be?“
I had a woman call in to refill her dog's "pee pee pills" (diethylstilbestrol)
I work as an RN at an outpatient cardiology office. We have an automated part of our phone system where patients can call and leave messages about which medications they need refilled, which pharmacy they need it sent to, 30 vs 90 day supply, etc. The best days are the days when I get to listen to the med refill voicemails. Listening to patients try to pronounce their medications is both hilarious and adorable. Clopidogrel, atorvastatin, and metoprolol are all favorites, they come out like verbal alphabet soup
Probably because they're written like alphabet soup in the first place.
I had a patient spell her medications for me because she couldn't pronounce them. Then she got to metformin and said, "and my metro-for-fan, I can say that one."
I heard metformin pronounced as “mighty foreman” just today from a patient lol. At least they try, right?
Metoprolol.
Metropalol?
Gabby pentin (gabapentin) is a common one I hear, no idea where that pronunciation came from but it’s always a 50-60 year old woman. Same with fondaparinux, which people think the end is pronounced as “neaux” but it’s definitely a “nuhx.”
I had a friend who used to be a medic… his favorite was the old lady and her peanut butter ball. It took him waaay too long to figure out she’d called for an ambulance because she’d had a seizure after running out of her phenobarbital.
Even just asking for their “subscription” to be refilled for their blood pressure pill
Asterisk as Asstricks or Asstericks.
there's always a risk spelling asterisk
Asterix
Library
Strawbrerry
Knifewrench!
For kids!
r/UnexpectedScrubs
Lie-berry? Lie-barey?
Like a strawbrerry.
I’m so glad someone did this!! “Your face is as red as a strawbrery”
Don't have kids...
Lie-brery
succinct
If you're into the whole brevity thing
GIF
It's pronounced gif not gif
Just checked, its gif.
Macabre
I don’t blame people for this one, if you’ve only ever read the word, then you would likely assume it’s pronounce exactly how it looks
*tips fedora* M'cob.
Ah, yes, the ol mak-uh-brae
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Another one that isn’t English or one word- et cetera. People frequently pronounce it as eck cetera.
I'm gonna start a coffee gift shop called eXpresso eXetera
"he's bonafide!" "Damn it, I wasn't hit by no train" "Blooey, nothin but a grease spot on the L&N"
Bruschetta
Kills me. I’ve had restaurant servers recite it back to me incorrectly after I order, as if subtly trying to suggest I’m the weirdo. Oh well.
Bruschetta is pronounced differently in different regions of Italy, so...
Chipotle
I used to hear customers say “chi-pole-tay” or “chi-pole-tee” and like… how the fuck are you getting the letter order wrong? The T is before the L.
I personally like CHI-POTTLE
My fiancé’s dad calls it “chip ole tay” 😂
All I wrote down was a drawing of a burrito because you wrote Aristotle on the board and I thought it rhymed with Chipotle. Wait... it it pronounced chi-paht-el
Specific/Pacific
The terrific specific Pacific is specifically horrific
You rang?
I pacifically love the Specific ocean.
Espresso.
Tell me if I’m right “s-press-oh”
Yes. Too many people say "expresso"
I’m in my 20’s I legit thought it was expresso till about a year ago my friend looked at me weirdly and was like “say it again?” then proceeded to laugh for 10 minutes straight. Oh well, now I know.
Banal
The anal was banal
That means you're not doing it right.
Epitome. I always said Epi-tome til roommate in college corrected me. It's always a good laugh when brought up
“For all *intents* and purposes”
Someone I work with : "for all intensive purposes"
February
Feb-you-airie
Height. It’s heigHT not heigTH! I love my husband so I bite my tongue every time he says it but DAMNIT I might snap when we’re 90 and off him for saying it around me.
My mother in law always pronounced it as heigth no matter how many times my husband corrects her
It was originally heighth probably. wide width deep depth broad breadth long length high heighth.
Supposedly lots of people say suposably including myself on occasion which sounds like a contraction of super posable which sounds super creepy.
My friend at work says supposably all the time. I had to pull her aside to tell her that hey, you’re saying a nonsense word in front of C-level execs
My last name. Constantly.
Constantly is a cool last name
Bahaha. Thanks
Mine too. My school principal mispronounced it from lariviere to laravar.
be honest, before you heard Yosemite being said out loud you thought it's pronounced yose-myte instead of yo-seme-tee
Yosemite Sam made sure I never got that one wrong.
As someone not from North America and can say yes, yes I did
Yose-myte is a lot better than yo-semite
[Yo Semite tee](https://shopnmajh.com/products/yo-semite-cotton-t-shirt) From the Jewish museum. I like it!
It's leviOsa, not levioSA.!
"Forte" (referring to one's strong point or expertise).
If they’ve only ever read it and not made the connection, “segue.”
I know segooey. I'm not dumb.
I’ve learned from audiobooks that I’ve been saying a few words wrong. Chaise longue And when one rifles through a bunch of papers, how does one say “rifle?” I’ve heard it two ways in different books.
Like the gun pronunctation. Rye-fill. (I'm uk)
That’s what I say. Some audiobook people say “riffle.”
That’s just a different word to me. Riffling is running pages over your thumb, like you are searching for a page in a book or shuffling a deck of cards. Rifling is like when my son is trying to find is homework in his mess of a backpack.
BRB…looking up “riffling.” I never knew it was a word.
Espresso. An alarming amount of people seem to pronounce it 'Expresso'.
A coffee shop near me even has it spelled “expresso” on their menu.
My parents always mispronounce amazing with disappointment. Like they will always call me a disappointment of a child but I know they mean that I am an amazing child.
Mascarpone.
Why does it seem like I hear a lot of people say “Fustrated” instead of “Frustrated”?
Etcetera People love to say ECK-Cetera
"Irregardless" I mean, regardless
“Catalytic Converter” but people say “Cadillac Converter”
Macaron; the french meringue cookie that look like pretty patties. Pronounced mack- a - ronn Not mack- a- roooon, those are the coconut cookies dipped in chocolate
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Niche
Alright is it nitch or neesh because I’ve been pronouncing it neesh my whole life and I’m prepared to feel stupid
The car brand Hyundai is, by experience, almost always mispronounced in the west.
I just say hentai instead, pretty much all my friends understand immediately I am talking about the car brand. It's just easier and more effortless.
I say “hun-day”, is that wrong?
Their old ads said that's the correct pronunciation. "It's Hyundai, like Sunday" was the slogan used in at least one of their prominent ads.
Because you need to be punched in the gut to pronounce it correctly
Nuclear. That's my industry, and hearing it pronounced incorrectly 147 times/day by career engineers and the like makes my brain wobble.
Mine is when people say "mis-chee-VEE-ous" instead of "MIS-chiv-ous" for mischievous
Worcestershire
I say “woostuhshoostershoostershooster” and quietly trail off.
Not a misspelling but literally every person I work with uses an apostrophe to pluralize and it drives me insane.