Things that people pronounce incorrectly that drives you nuts!

[themayor]

You know what I'm talking about!

 

Two of mine:

 

Rotary cup for rotator cuff.

 

Altimers for Alzheimers.

 

Do you correct people or just let it slide?

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

Joists...the building framing member that supports a floor...pronounced "joistiz".

 

Bollard...the vertical poles that stick up out of the pavement to mark the edge of pavement, etc...pronounced ballard.

 

Chimney...pronounced chimley.

 

Picture...pronounced pitcher.

 

Wash...pronounced worsh.

 

Fire/tire/wire..pronounced far/tar/war.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

Across...pronounced accrost.

 

Cousin...pronounced cousint.

 

Asked...pronounced axed.

 

Barbed wire...pronounced bob wire.

[20/20Hindsight]

Couldn't care less, mistakenly referred to as "could care less".

Diabetes, pronounced as diabeetus, with accent on the last syllable. It's usually only people over 50 who pronounce it incorrectly.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

Nuclear...nucular.

 

Sherbet...sherbert.

[LRCW]

axed (asked)

[UKMustangFan]

Latos (Lay-tos) pronounced (La-tos)

[BleedBlue12]

Nuclear...nucular.

 

Sherbet...sherbert.

 

Guilty...

[PurplePride92]

Wait, sherbert is sherbet? How do you even say that? Is it French?

[halfback20]

I've heard people say:

 

Unguns instead of Onions.

Plascit instead of Plastic

[PurplePride92]

Joists...the building framing member that supports a floor...pronounced "joistiz".

 

Bollard...the vertical poles that stick up out of the pavement to mark the edge of pavement, etc...pronounced ballard.

 

Chimney...pronounced chimley.

 

Picture...pronounced pitcher.

 

Wash...pronounced worsh.

 

Fire/tire/wire..pronounced far/tar/war.

 

 

So bollard should be pronounced like the school in Louisville(ballard)?

 

Never knew that. We've said it wrong here at work for as long as I can remember.

[BleedBlue12]

Wait, sherbert is sherbet? How do you even say that? Is it French?

 

I think it is a French pronunciation: sher-bay

 

I still say sherbert though.

 

So bollard should be pronounced like the school in Louisville(ballard)?

 

Never knew that. We've said it wrong here at work for as long as I can remember.

 

I believe he was saying that people pronounce it ballard, which is incorrect. Bollard is correct.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

So bollard should be pronounced like the school in Louisville(ballard)?

 

Never knew that. We've said it wrong here at work for as long as I can remember.

 

I should have been clearer...I listed the incorrect pronunciations that drive me crazy. It SHOULD be pronounced to rhyme with the word collard as in collard greens.

[UKMustangFan]

Is it French?

 

"We? No, we are not French, we're American, cuz this is America." :lol:

[Watusi]

So bollard should be pronounced like the school in Louisville(ballard)?

 

Never knew that. We've said it wrong here at work for as long as I can remember.

No, he was saying people mispronounce it ballard. I think. :confused: