What Words do you pronounce wrong?

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Me:
1.Forza, i pronounce it how it looks like but it actually is fort-za
2.Juaraz- i pronounce it joo-raz when it's like wah-raz.
Because I'm perfect, I never mispronounce words...ever

I am torn on the pronunciation of the band Necrophagist. I say it "Necro-phAH-gist" when its supposedly "Necro-phAY-gist".
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How is Melbourne pronounced? is it like "Mel-bern" or "Mel-born"

MasterMira said: How is Melbourne pronounced? is it like "Mel-bern" or "Mel-born"



Are you serious??

The first one.
I pronounce it like the first one, but them yanks go Mel-born.
I used to pronounce longevity as longetivity; you know, just add in a few more letters
I hate that 99.9% of Australians say Sega "see-gah"... we're the only country in the world who says it like that.

Oh, and my parents... this drives me nuts... the way they say nachos... they say "nat-chos"... as opposed to "nah-chos" xD I dunno if it's just me that thinks that's weird, but lol...

What a strange thread...
Scarcity.

iddqd said: I hate that 99.9% of Australians say Sega "see-gah"... we're the only country in the world who says it like that.
Oh, and my parents... this drives me nuts... the way they say nachos... they say "nat-chos"... as opposed to "nah-chos" xD I dunno if it's just me that thinks that's weird, but lol...
What a strange thread...



hahahahah i say see-gah too!
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MasterMira said:

iddqd said: I hate that 99.9% of Australians say Sega "see-gah"... we're the only country in the world who says it like that.
Oh, and my parents... this drives me nuts... the way they say nachos... they say "nat-chos"... as opposed to "nah-chos" xD I dunno if it's just me that thinks that's weird, but lol...
What a strange thread...


hahahahah i say see-gah too!


Yeah, so do I

iddqd said: I hate that 99.9% of Australians say Sega "see-gah"... we're the only country in the world who says it like that.


No, NZer's tend to pronounce it that way, too.

iddqd said:
Oh, and my parents... this drives me nuts... the way they say nachos... they say "nat-chos"... as opposed to "nah-chos" xD I dunno if it's just me that thinks that's weird, but lol...


Haha, I know a guy who pronounces "tacos" as "tack-ohs", which I find irritating.

Let's see...my old boss used to used to say "expedential", when he meant "exponential".

And my wife still can't speak English properly. She says things like "DAN-ce" and "CHAN-ce", when everyone knows they are pronounced "DAH-nce" and "CHAH-nce". I theorize that this mispronunciation became commonplace as a result of the presence of American soldiers, during WWII.
I was waiting for you to post on here Rainbow. lol @ 'DAH-nce' .

I thought pronouncing Sega, sayga was an American thing and seega was everyone else. Oh well.

There is the occaisional word I get wrong, only coz I'm defective and jumble my words before they reach my mouth/keyboard.

Yeah, I talk to fast for my mind sometimes, or I decide to change a word halfway through already saying one..that's about it though.

iddqd said: I hate that 99.9% of Australians say Sega "see-gah"... we're the only country in the world who says it like that.


Because we are right and the rest of the world is wrong.
Also, what's up with Americans pronouncing 'Adidas' as 'A-dee-des'?
I also hate when people say 'aks' for 'ask'. Damn dyslexia...

SevenII said:
I thought pronouncing Sega, sayga was an American thing and seega was everyone else.



Haven't you ever played a SEGA game? Start up Sonic the Hedgehog and you'll hear "Saayyygaaaahhhh".

dermy said:
Also, what's up with Americans pronouncing 'Adidas' as 'A-dee-des'?


That is how it's pronounced. Adidas gets it's name from the founder of the company, Adi Dassler.

en.wikipedia.org/

Rainbow7 said:
Haven't you ever played a SEGA game? Start up Sonic the Hedgehog and you'll hear "Saayyygaaaahhhh".



But I also used to take that as an American accent.

When I read Sega, I would work it out to see-gah.

EDIT: My cousin used to hear 'Gaayyy baarrr'. It sucks 'coz ever since he mentioned it to me thats all I can hear.
What a waste of a topic.Don't be so damn pedantic.....

SevenII said:
EDIT: My cousin used to hear 'Gaayyy baarrr'. It sucks 'coz ever since he mentioned it to me thats all I can hear.


Hahahahahahahaha! I know that's going to happen to me now!

Another thing that annoys me hugely is how pretentious **** newsreaders mispronounce "negotiate", by saying "nego-SEE-ate".
It seriously annoys the hell out of me. They are only doing it because they think it sounds posh, whereas, in fact, they are unwittingly displaying their ignorance to all and sundry.

Dave_1970 said: What a waste of a topic.Don't be so damn pedantic.....


I'm surprised that someone from Geelong can even spell "pedantic".
(You probably pronounce it, "PEE-dan-TICK".)
I pronounce schedule as "ske-dgool", but my friends pronounces it as "sheh-dgool"...i mean you dont say School as "shool"
fitty cent
Rainbow, pfft... New Zealand isn't a country xD

And where is your wife from? Lol, try going out with a Latin-American chick if you think that's annoying... don't ask... xD

There are a LOT of international people where I live... most of them don't think I'm Australian by the way I look, and that I speak English *properly*... it's really crazy, I guess I'm kind of paranoid when it comes to spelling/speaking... I HATE sounding like an Australian. Most don't realise it, but we're so lazy with words...
I don't know what's going on with the word literally as i say it sometimes but other times i would say Li-tchraly
similarly - i say simile cos my tongue is so lazy

It PISSES me off when people say goldie, instead of goalie in football.

And i HATE when people say arks instead of ask. weirdo's
@idd You dont look Aussie.
 
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