Things that people pronounce incorrectly that drives you nuts!

[HammerTime]

Does anyone know the proper way to pronounce Moock Road? (a road in Campbell Co.)

I have always said Moock as in clock. I have heard others say Moock as in muck.

 

I say Mock and so do the majority of people I know.

[Colonels_Wear_Blue]

of local interest for me...

 

Walmarks instead of Walmart

Summerset instead of Somerset

Cumberland Lake instead of Lake Cumberland

Babtissed instead of Baptist (btw I'm Methodist)

Obama or Bush instead of President Obama or President Bush

 

 

When we lived in Ohio I quickly learned that Newark Ohio is correctly pronounced Nerk Ahia or they knew you were an outsider.

 

My mom is terrible about adding/subtracting s's at will. Her two worst are Walmarts and Krogers. I had two teachers in high school - Mr. Haders and Mr. Durkee - who she always called Mr. Hader and Mr. Durkees.

[20/20Hindsight]

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I don't know if it is the appropaite word, but it could be the appropriate word.

 

 

Ha! Gotta love when you can correct someone who attempted to correct you.

[Preachit]

Ha! Gotta love when you can correct someone who attempted to correct you.

 

I believe "Got To" or "I Have" or "Hafta" is more correct.

[All Tell]

Pronouncing the silent T in often

 

especially pronounced ecspecially

[20/20Hindsight]

Pronouncing the silent T in often

 

especially pronounced ecspecially

 

Wait...the "t" in often is silent??? News to me!

[The Professor]

Wait...the "t" in often is silent??? News to me!

 

News to me too.

[All Tell]

Wait...the "t" in often is silent??? News to me!

 

The news to me is that both are considered correct.

 

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[ErnestTBass]

A sports one:

Hind Catcher for the Catcher!!

 

Drives me crazy!!

[Jim Schue]

A sports one:

Hind Catcher for the Catcher!!

 

Drives me crazy!!

 

Never heard that one, but always heard "backcatcher" when I was a kid.

[Jim Schue]

Years ago, I used to work at the Best Buy on Houston Road in Florence when it first opened. I was across the street at a restaurant having lunch and overheard an older fellow and his son discussing some things. The older man said, "We need to stop over there at Mee-Jay's and get some milk before heading back."

 

Meijer was what he was talking about.

[Randy Parker]

Mee-Jay's

 

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