Guillotine Jones, FlâneurFeb 3
If Halloween took place this month instead of in October, no one would criticize those of us who insist on saying "Feboo-ary."
Just sayin'.
#February #October #Halloween #Mispronunciation
River J. HopkinsMay 5, 2024

It blew my mind the first time I hear someone say #SWTOR aloud. Had no idea people were pronouncing it, "SWO-tor." In my head it's always just been more like, "Swuh-TOR," like it would be if it was written as, "SW'TOR."

Anyone else ever mispronounce things in their head because you've never heard it said aloud? 😂

#Reading #Pronunciation #Mispronunciation

Peter ChristensenDec 25, 2023

After reading this story about Nigella Lawson, I think I’m going to start pronouncing it “meecro whavay too. Who’s with me?
#microwave
#NigellaLawson
#mispronunciation

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/25/nigella-lawson-says-she-is-too-self-conscious-to-say-microwave

Nigella Lawson says she is too self-conscious to say ‘microwave’

Clips of chef saying ‘meecro-wah-vay’ were shared widely online. ‘That’s what we call it at home,’ she says

The Guardian
Russ SwanJul 8, 2023
Am on a Northern Rail service, and am convinced the on-train announcements are AI generated. Masculine voice with a reasonable impression of a Yorkshire accent, but it keeps pronouncing place names wrong. ChesterFIELD for example. Bah.
#rail #train #AI #voice #mispronunciation
PatApr 3, 2023

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#mispronunciation #truthbetold

(Image: wikimedia commons, ragesoss, CC-BY-SA-2.0, modified to add speech balloon)

Writes of Way 🛣🚏🗺🧭Feb 15, 2023
Makes me wonder if there are any commonly mispronounced Seattle street names... https://boingboing.net/2023/02/15/watch-people-in-san-francisco-try-to-say-san-francisco-street-names.html #StreetNames #SanFrancisco #Seattle #pronunciation #mispronunciation
Watch people in San Francisco try to say San Francisco street names | Boing Boing

Gough, Palou, Noe. Pronouncing some San Francisco street names correctly isn’t as easy as it seems, as the people interviewed in this video found out. The San Francisco Standard went to the c…

Boing Boing
LordWoolamalooFeb 5, 2023

Watching a short video on a YouTube history channel I like, the presenter just (mis)prounounced "admiralty" as "add-marr-ah-le-eh-tee", just as the great Jon Pertwee's CPO Pertwee used to in the long-running Navy Lark show, and this makes me smile.

#JonPertwee #admiralty #mispronunciation #HMSTroutbridge