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?

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.

Across...pronounced accrost.

 

Cousin...pronounced cousint.

 

Asked...pronounced axed.

 

Barbed wire...pronounced bob wire.

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.

Nuclear...nucular.

 

Sherbet...sherbert.

axed (asked)

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

Nuclear...nucular.

 

Sherbet...sherbert.

 

Guilty...

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

I've heard people say:

 

Unguns instead of Onions.

Plascit instead of Plastic

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.

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.

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.

Is it French?

 

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

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: