I've been mispronouncing trivet all this time!

[Deleted]

What words were you mispronouncing?

A couple of others for me: niche, Klee as in Paul Klee. 

[icedcoffee]

When I was little I thought it was Booger King. My mom thought it was cute so she never corrected me.   (wilted)

[W.T.Faulkner]

My dad is such a cornball and still intentionally mispronounces words the way I used to. Restaurant = restaround, for example. I'm 28, dad, ffs. lol

[winecat]

Jun 5, 2017 11:40:14 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

My dad is such a cornball and still intentionally mispronounces words the way I used to. Restaurant = restaround, for example. I'm 28, dad, ffs. lol

I was obsessed with Albertson's as a toddler and would scream "Albaburns" whenever I saw the sign.  Decades later it's still "Albaburns."  

I can't do the gif as "jiff" pronunciation.  

[Deleted]

Jun 5, 2017 11:38:57 GMT -5 icedcoffee said:

When I was little I thought it was Booger King. My mom thought it was cute so she never corrected me.   (wilted)

My Mom said " Thorndike Bars" instead of " Klondike Bars" for YEARS. 

I didn't even realize it until my cousin pointed it out to me when I was like 10. 

[nicanmatt]

My niece used to call presents presidents. She's 16 and we still call them that!!

I used to mispronounce feta. DH changed the homepage on my web browser to a clip of the word being said as a prank. LOL

[lucybrown]

Jun 5, 2017 11:40:14 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

My dad is such a cornball and still intentionally mispronounces words the way I used to. Restaurant = restaround, for example. I'm 28, dad, ffs. lol

We do this and it drives DD crazy.   She called restaurants "restabits" for awhile and we still call them that.  Her eyes are going to roll right out of her head.  I imagine when she's 28, we'll still be doing it and she'll be saying, ffs.  LOL. 

[litebright]

I didn't realize until a few days ago that Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) pronounces her last name "ga-dot" and not the French way.

[Deleted]

Jun 5, 2017 11:50:03 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

Does trivet rhyme with rivet? Because that's how I've heard it and said it.

Trivet like rivet. I was saying, triv-ay.  Like an idiot. 

[RoxMonster]

Most of my life I mispronounced mischievous. Even now, I have to stop and think before I say it because I am so used to pronouncing it incorrectly.

Additionally, I have always said "ornery" as it looks. But everyone I know who has said it pronounces it "awn-ry." Is this just a regional thing or do other people say it that way? Maybe I have said it wrong this whole time?

[noradog]

Jun 5, 2017 11:57:04 GMT -5 RoxMonster said:

Most of my life I mispronounced mischievous. Even now, I have to stop and think before I say it because I am so used to pronouncing it incorrectly.

Additionally, I have always said "ornery" as it looks. But everyone I know who has said it pronounces it "awn-ry." Is this just a regional thing or do other people say it that way? Maybe I have said it wrong this whole time?

I think ornery / awnry is regional. 

[winecat]

Jun 5, 2017 11:52:59 GMT -5 lucybrown said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:44:29 GMT -5 winecat said:

I was obsessed with Albertson's as a toddler and would scream "Albaburns" whenever I saw the sign.  Decades later it's still "Albaburns."  

I can't do the gif as "jiff" pronunciation.  

Wait...is it gif with a hard "g" or jiff?    I've always pronounced this wrong and my techie friend told me it's a hard G.  Now I'm wondering if she takes pleasure in my mispronunciation.

I don't know now.  lol  I've had several people tell me that it's supposed to be jiff because that's how the creator wanted it pronounced but there seems to be a backlash.  howtoreallypronouncegif.com/

[alexis]

One of my siblings called oatmeal goatmeal once. We thought it was him hilarious and called it that for years until one of the youngest thought that's actually what it was called and we decided to stop.

I have trouble saying rhetoric. It's a word I only saw in writing but never heard, so I had a way to pronounce it my head that was incorrect. I've had a lot of terrible unlearning the incorrect way. I really have to think about how it is pronounced before saying it.

[lolalolalola]

Jun 5, 2017 11:44:29 GMT -5 winecat said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:40:14 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

My dad is such a cornball and still intentionally mispronounces words the way I used to. Restaurant = restaround, for example. I'm 28, dad, ffs. lol

I was obsessed with Albertson's as a toddler and would scream "Albaburns" whenever I saw the sign.  Decades later it's still "Albaburns."  

I can't do the gif as "jiff" pronunciation.  

I still call them "hamgurbers" even though my kid is 9. I think it's hilarious.

[MixedBerryJam]

My oldest brother had a pretty severe speech issue and we affectionately picked up a lot of his over the years but the one that carries on even today is instead of saying "excuse me" we say "goose me" and then proceed to wait for a goose from someone nearby. I really was in my teens before I realized what I was saying though.

[pantsparty]

Jun 5, 2017 11:54:30 GMT -5 @imback said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:50:03 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

Does trivet rhyme with rivet? Because that's how I've heard it and said it.

Trivet like rivet. I was saying, triv-ay.  Like an idiot. 

I only recently discovered I've been pronouncing carafe wrong. I was saying it the same way (cara-fay).

[smock]

Covfefe

[isabel]

I always mispronounce 'gesture.' I don't know why. I pronounce it like the game, Guesstures. I have to think about it every time.

My step-sister pronounces breakfast like "brefkast."

My mom says "oynge" instead of orange.

[rbp]

Debacle 

[bex1973]

Jun 5, 2017 11:54:30 GMT -5 @imback said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:50:03 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

Does trivet rhyme with rivet? Because that's how I've heard it and said it.

Trivet like rivet. I was saying, triv-ay.  Like an idiot. 

Awww, you just wanted it to sound fancy!

[NandaB]

Jun 5, 2017 11:48:37 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:38:57 GMT -5 icedcoffee said:

When I was little I thought it was Booger King. My mom thought it was cute so she never corrected me.   (wilted)

My Mom said " Thorndike Bars" instead of " Klondike Bars" for YEARS. 

I didn't even realize it until my cousin pointed it out to me when I was like 10. 

I didn't realize it was flamingo and not chamingo until I was 10. On a field trip to the zoo.

[thebreakfastclub]

As a kid, I used to call it Pizza Hot instead of Pizza Hut. I still call it Pizza Hot in my mind, lol.

My H says "Westren" instead of Western. I thought it was just him until I heard a VP at my job do the same thing.

[knx9211]

Jun 5, 2017 11:54:30 GMT -5 @imback said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:50:03 GMT -5 aeg511 said:

Does trivet rhyme with rivet? Because that's how I've heard it and said it.

Trivet like rivet. I was saying, triv-ay.  Like an idiot. 

[knx9211]

Jun 5, 2017 12:23:42 GMT -5 pantsparty said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:54:30 GMT -5 @imback said:

Trivet like rivet. I was saying, triv-ay.  Like an idiot. 

I only recently discovered I've been pronouncing carafe wrong. I was saying it the same way (cara-fay).

Oh no. I was going to give you the cat head pat gif, too, but... Oh no.

[knx9211]

I said a lot of things wrong as a kid, including my own name, but that's because I had a speech impediment, so...

[shauni27]

Jun 5, 2017 11:50:17 GMT -5 lucybrown said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:40:14 GMT -5 W.T.Faulkner said:

My dad is such a cornball and still intentionally mispronounces words the way I used to. Restaurant = restaround, for example. I'm 28, dad, ffs. lol

We do this and it drives DD crazy.   She called restaurants "restabits" for awhile and we still call them that.  Her eyes are going to roll right out of her head.  I imagine when she's 28, we'll still be doing it and she'll be saying, ffs.  LOL. 

Growing up as toddlers my sister and I couldn't say "Love you" so we said lalloo. To this day my parents and sister and I always end calls/emails/texts with lalloo. I love it.

[knx9211]

Jun 5, 2017 12:59:05 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Jun 5, 2017 11:50:17 GMT -5 lucybrown said:

We do this and it drives DD crazy.   She called restaurants "restabits" for awhile and we still call them that.  Her eyes are going to roll right out of her head.  I imagine when she's 28, we'll still be doing it and she'll be saying, ffs.  LOL. 

Growing up as toddlers my sister and I couldn't say "Love you" so we said lalloo. To this day my parents and sister and I always end calls/emails/texts with lalloo. I love it.

I couldn't say my brother's name as a kid (Drew).  So I called him Dew...Bob. Where did the Bob come from? No one knows. I still call him that.

I also apparently used to ask at every restaurant we went to "Do they have dinks of watie (Watt-LongE)?" My dad still does it when we go out to eat and I think it's adorable. It will never annoy me.

[elleblue]

I used to pronounce detritus as de-trih-tus instead of de-try-tus. Learning words through reading and never hearing them out loud can be tricky.

[knx9211]

Jun 5, 2017 13:08:14 GMT -5 elleblue said:

I used to pronounce detritus as de-trih-tus instead of de-try-tus.

I don't even know wtf this word means, so you're doing better than I am.

[bex1973]

Jun 5, 2017 13:08:14 GMT -5 elleblue said:

I used to pronounce detritus as de-trih-tus instead of de-try-tus. Learning words through reading and never hearing them out loud can be tricky.

Well you're a head of me - I have never even used that word, let alone mispronounced it...