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I cast my vote for the mispronunciation ''ak-tore'' for ''actor'' instead of ''ak-ter''.
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I respectfully disagree, although "ak-tore" is damn annoying in its own right :)
My vote: "nu-kyou-ler" for "nuclear"... do I really need to say who mispronounces
this word on an hourly basis? :-P
A distant second place: "in-DUS-try" (Donald Trump)
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''prolly'' for ''probably''.
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"Ak'chur-ly" for actually
"Har'ASS" for 'harass (Scots never pronounc it that way)
There is a real corker of a mispro which is so common but right now I can't remember
what it is. Post later if it comes to me. Probably the second after I click
on "send".
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Damian, that's funny because it annoys me when harass is pronounced as 'harass.
ak-tore sounds cool to me, nu-kyou-ler, on the other hand is dorky lol
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Ev-er-ee for ''every'' is my vote. Why is there the need for some to lengthen ''every''
into a three-syllable word?
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The way people talk with a question tone at the end of a sentence that's clearly
a statement is so annoying, for example: "We went to the theatre? where we ran into
our neighbours? who have that 7 metre high fence separating our backyards?"
I feel like asking "Are you you sure?" at the end of each question-like statement.
That way of talking is catchy, so I try to make sure that I don't speak like that.
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>>Ev-er-ee for ''every'' <<
LOL, I can't believe some native speakers do it too, my mother always pronounces
it that way, but she can't even speak English :))
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For me, it's TOR-ward for "toward." Do you see an r between o and w? I don't!
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Libary and Febuary for library and february. Ironically, I said them this way
until about third grade along with many of my classmates. Our teachers drilled it
out of us though and now these pronunciations sound uncomfortable to me.
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I don't like the mispronunciation ''libary'' but ''Febuary'' sounds fine to me and
that's how I pronounce it. The first ''r'' in ''February'' is pronounced mainly by
pedants.
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Hmm, Steve, an interesting take but shouldn't we be consistant?
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I like your first name but to me people who say Febuary are in the same boat as people
who say meer for mirror, pitcher for picture, libery for library etc. .They sound
uneducated. But I admit they may not be. To call people pedants for the way they
pronounce is small minded.
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Stever wrote:
<<Ev-er-ee for ''every'' is my vote. Why is there the need for some to lengthen ''every''
into a three-syllable word?>>
Stever I thought it was a "three-syllable word". :-) I have wrongly presumed that
words are pronounced the way they're written.
I pronounced it E-VE-REE.
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"i-deer" for idea. Do you see an 'r' anywhere in that room.
As for the February argument - if I pronounced it "fe-bru-ar-ee" anywhere I have
lived, I'd probably get weird stares.
About "every"... how do you pronounce "very"? Two syllables! Add an "e" at the
beginning. You get THREE syllables. I maintain that if you want to be militant
about people pronouncing it "ev-ree" (which is the only way I can fathom it with
two syllables) you should pronounce "very" as "vree". As for my pronunciation: I
say it with both two and three syllables depending on how fast I am speaking.
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