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I've always pronounced the word "Southern" to rhyme with howthurn. I know most people say it like "suthurn" instead. I didn't realize that the way I pronounce it is considered weird until recently!

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[-] signalecho@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Visiting a town in Maine, US, spelled "Calais."

Is it the French pronunciation? English but attempting it with "Kuh-lay?"

Oh, no, that's too much. Ka-liss. Like callous. What.

[-] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

There are a million of these throughout the US. I think it's done intentionally as a shibboleth.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Bala-tro, not Ba-lottro.

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 4 days ago

Bona fide. It's latin, you say it Bow-nah Fee-day.

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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 6 points 4 days ago

I pronounce spigot as "spicket" but that's normal where I'm from.

My mom had a couple of weird ones that took me a while to unlearn:

Stipend = "stipp-ind"
Antibiotics = "antee-BEE-otics"

[-] Boiglenoight@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I say anna-bee-otics. My father is a veterinarian, and would abbreviate antibiotics to anna-bees when speaking with techs about prescriptions. This affected how he’d say antibiotics, and I spent so much time with him over the years I picked up the habit.

It’s pronounced quickly, where if I say it properly I spend conscious thought saying an-tie-bye-otics.

[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

sometimes I accidentally pronounce "C'est la Vie" as "sest lah vy" even though I know its "say la vee" just because I read it first and it lives in my head as that first wrong pronunciation. confuses the hell out of people and I have to explain my foolery

[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

Ever since that IT Crowd episode I can't not pronounce pedestal as "pedal stool".

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 3 days ago

Yes but I do this on purpose. Mazda with a flat A like in Aztec. Bag is bayg, measure is maysure. My long Os are longer like Psy saying ope in Gangnam style or like the movie Fargo. Snow is Snew with an Irish accent like Ygritte. There are too many more to recount, about every fourth sentence on average I pronounce a word wrong on purpose, it has become my dialect.

[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

The mountain range on the eastern side of the U.S. is the 'apple-at'chans'. At least nearly everyone from the southern end of them say it that way (source: I'm from there).

'Apple-ay-shuns' is just as strange as saying 'Nor-folk'. Immediate indicator of you're an outsider.

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Since that Bob's burgers episode it's been Tattoo but said "Tuh-too"

[-] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 4 days ago

I tend to say Wensleydale, Tuesleydale and Thursleydale as the days of the week. It started as a thing I said to myself because I found it funny, but occasionally I'll slip and say one of them out loud when I'm tired.

[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Garage.

GraJ

Catch shit for it all the time, but at this point I think it's more like a harmless Easter egg.

My grandma rolls the R in "Three", and it's become a game to get her to say it. She handles it with great humor.

I'm cool to have my own version of that.

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[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

I pronounce azure as “uh jzer” with emphasis on the second syllable and most other people say “aa jzer” with emphasis on the first.

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[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I sometimes like mispronouncing words to point out their sillyness or for fun.

Sometimes a window is called a winddoor. Go and ask someone to open/close the windoor and play it 100% serious straight as you point to it, its great.

Sometimes a knife is pronounced kuh-nife. Sometimes Arkansas is pronounced ar-kan-sas.

I like to have fun every now and again.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You know the famous mage from Forgotten Realms? I pronounce their name "EL-ah-min-ster"

Oh, I also have a terrible Boston accent so I nearly caused an HR incident when talking about "hooked horrors" aka "hookt ho-ahs" or as my coworker heard "hooked whores". Horror is the best word to check for a Boston accent with.

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[-] klemptor@startrek.website 5 points 4 days ago

Baggel and Beggel drive me nuts! Bay-gull or GTFO :)

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[-] Blaster_M@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Laypis

The blue stuff you mine in minecraft.

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