The Picard ManeuverI respect it when I hear someone clearly using a word they've only seen written
DicskaOr… or you read it in the 3 word title of a meme. Doesn’t matter, learned word.
Words go brrrr.
The D QuuuuuillAlso dialects are a thing. The way a lot of words come out of my mouth has been culturally labeled as ignorant. I go out of my way to change my pronunciations at work so I get taken seriously, but I’ve been doing it less now that I’m accepted in that world. Maybe that caps how much farther I can go, but maybe I don’t want to go further if it means continuing to act like people who sound like how I sound are less than
See holler, tow-up.
So you read books but can’t use a dictionary?
Doesn’t mean it isn’t cute/funny when it does happen, though. Just this week my SO pronounced chihuahua as “CHA-HOO-A-HOO-A” so I told them “you know this word, it’s the taco bell dog” lol
I have been pronouncing it like this since my buddy fucked it up in grade school lmao
Thank you for the new method to make my family groan.
That dog died over a decade ago. Do younger kids know what that is?
HamsterRageLes Nessman comes to mind.
modifierAs a homeschooled kid with a big vocabulary I was largely not able to pronounce (more reading than talking), this is a sentiment I wish I’d heard earlier in life.
I’m sorry. I hate that the stereotype that stuck for homeschool kids wasn’t that they’re often very well read and advanced, because that has been my experience encountering them over the years.
In fairness, that stereotype is largely due to capital H Homeschooled kids like me. as in, the subculture as opposed to simply the method of schooling at home.
If you meet someone who was in the subculture, you need to navigate through a few levels of weird damage before our vocabulary is even close to the most notable thing about us.
Opposite for me. Homeschooled kids are weird and dumb generally. I’m sorry I’m weird too. May be my geography because I’m in a super conservative area. The people here who decide to do homeschooling are typically conspiracy theory rednecks.
Mispronounced words by British people are unacceptable though. The Brits need to be stopped!
Ricky RigatoniThey invented the language, the least they could do is spell and pronounce it right.
samus12345They invented it, but then they started dropping r’s while the Colonies kept them.
And their wacky spellings
That’s nothing. I throw up a little in my mouth every time I see “cheque” misspelled, “check”.
The origin behind Aluminum and Aluminium is kinda interesting because the inventor that first refined the element used both pronunciations and iirc I believe I he had even a third pronunciation (“(spectraaluminum.com/aluminum-vs-aluminium.html)[alumium]”)that never caught on.
Kubernetes
I kept saying Ah-zoore instead of Azure for too long
Turns out Nginx is not N-jinx
Haha that’s also the most popular pronunciation of nginx that I’ve heard. I try to casually drop engine-x in conversation, reactions vary from confusion to mind blow.
…or from my word-a-day calendar.
My parents had a dictionary of foreign words and I didn’t always use them correctly
Up until recently, I thought that the US national park was pronounced “yo-semite”, as some sort of ghetto-slang for a Jewish person.
Ahahhahhahahaaha that’s actually amazing
That’s amazing
I thought Yosemite Sam had pretty much taught all English speakers the correct pronunciation. I remember my parents saying their Swedish relatives pronounced it “Yohsmeet.”
I have no idea who that is.
Non-native English speaker, young, or both?
The former. Noggie.
Wassa “Noggie”?
Norwegian
Thank you! Going to call my Brother In-Law that now…
Allegedly, it’s a mildly offensive term, FYI.
That’s what I’m going for!
There was an '80s cop show called Hill Street Blues that had a recurring character named Jesus. All I heard as a kid was “Hey, Zeus” so I thought his actual name was Zeus and everybody just said “hey” to him when addressing him.
Rob T FireflyI love this so much!
You’re not alone, brother.
I say it that way sometimes for fun. I live nearish so sometimes, when visitors hear me say if, they ask if that’s how it’s actually pronounced
RatzChatsuboWait how do you phonetically say this?
TheFlopsterYo - seh - mit - ee
Match!!are you Donald Trump by chance
Jjjjjifff
This feels like my Achilles heel sometimes
Your achills heel?
I keep pronouncing “sweat” like “sweet”, even though people keeps correcting me about it because my stupid brain is stuck with the wrong pronunciation
It doesn’t help that it’s a meme to swap them out. Lol
I thought I was mispronouncing “duodenum” so I changed it, then I heard doctors on youtube saying it the way I thought was wrong. I had gone from right to wrong back to right. lol
Lol, I think I heard this one verbally for the first time from Peter Griffin in an early season of family guy.
GreatAlbatrossYou should never mock someone who pronounces a word strangely: They might be from Reading.
Or Worcestershire.
Was that pronounced like red-ing?
Which by the way is a town name that very often gets mispronounced by people who only read it in books.
Made even more confusing if someone is reading literature at Reading.
e̶t̶t̶y̶b̶l̶a̶t̶a̶n̶t̶Whew don’t get me started about towns called Lebanon in the USA Midwest…