darkure

In this storry at the Register, they say that one reaon for Infogrames changing their name to Atari is:
I have found myself doing this very thing sometimes. It also happens with other terms. I sometimes call the new Pentium mobile CPU 'Bananas' instead of 'Banias.' I know people who say 'Ath-a-lon' rather than 'Athlon.'

So I was wondering what some of the other common mis-pronounciations?
(You don't have to stick with computers those are just the examples that came to mind.)

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ARTelevision

Nuclear vs Nucular - I don't look down on the great folks who do it. It just makes me wonder where the disconnect between eye, ear, throat, and mind is...

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tbc

people that say PATE-RONIZING instead of PATRONIZING. Yes PAT-RONIZING... PAT, like you would on a small childs head when you are being condescending because they've said something wrong and you know it but you think it was cute.

tbc

Oh and that reminds me, PÂTÉ is PÂTÉ not PATE :P

Ogre840

pong the video game? or pong as in ping pong?

JadziaDax

Paradigm...

I actually heard someone once say "Par - a - dig - em"
I couldn't stop laughing.

mrsandman

People who say "I'm not for sure"...I won't say I hate them.

There is no "k" in especially. (Like: "eKspecially")

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krwlz

irregardless, instead of regardless

crackpot

I used to think "awry" was pronounced aw-ree.
Eventually, I actually found need to use it in conversation and was laughed at. Now I know better.

nefarious

when people say "egzit" instead of exit .. that annoys me ..

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jets

Who understand why Colonel is pronounced KER-NUL????

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vermin

IN-sur-ance instead of in-SUR-ance.
'borrow me some money' instead of 'lend...'
and the most annoying:
when people mispronounce forte as for-tay. Yes, it's french, but it's pronounced 'fort'. Even in france. This does sound goofy in conversation, but at least it's correct.

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Reese

If they are having problems with people calling them infogames.. maybe they should change their name to INFOGAMES! duh...


These are 3 mis-pronounced car names that I heard today from someone who claims to know alot about cars...

Aston Martin pronounced as Austin Martin

Mclaren pronounced Macflaren

Porsche pronounced Porsh

I also think its funny that "mispronunciation" is commonly mispronounced. I do get some words wrong sometimes but hopefully someone will correct me and I won't do it again. I mostly have trouble with mythical and asian names like Suikoden until I hear them properly pronounced

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bundy

haha
when i was selling suits, i heard this cracker.

'can you tell me where the Yves Saint Laurent is?'

or course they pronounced it, 'why-vees saynt loront'

it was against the rules to correct people, so i had to bite my tongue.

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Xixox

I've got a cow-orker that says 'libary'.

Yah, we went to da libary an got some videos cuz they're like free and stuff when you get 'em at da libary.


AAARGH! READ A FUCKING BOOK!

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I hate it when people pronounce "height" as "heigth".

Zotz

harassment......HA-RASS-MENT vs HAIR-ESS-MENT

SexyCat

My grandma pronounces "pancakes" as "pan-e-cakes"...
My mom pronounces "treasure" as "tray-shur" and "measure" as "may-shur"

It just drives me nuts!

Spungfoo

"salt" vs. "sult"

"you all" vs. "yunz" (It's a 'Burgh thing)

"creek" vs. "crik"

oberon

y'all is pretty often mispronounced too

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mrsandman

Once had a friend who had a Porsche, and was corrected when he pronounced it "Porsh"...to which he replied: " I call mine a Porsh, if and when you get one, you can call yours a Porsha."

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Junchbailey

Let me AXE you a question

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NetterButter

more when typed "your" for "you're". UGH people UGH!

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