OK I'll fess it up first. Fall approaches and so does my sense of doom in publicly admiring the scenery which I always call FO LI AGE. Instead of fallage. And this is actually an improvement. For years I called it foil lage.


And one other, I do say Ir regardless. Dammit!


What say you?

"Specific" - It always comes out wierd when I try to say it. =/

Unindated instead of Inundated, it's annoying me just thinking about it.

When talking with Brits I generally switch to Oxford English but have taken to that mispronunciation of "of". Instead of "of course" it comes out like "orf course". And the "my" seems to be a problem, generally sounding like "me". So, Orf course this is me old problem.

I have trouble prouncing words. But not on puprose though. I have a hard time saying them. I even have a hard time saying "Communcation." I don't feel like an idiot when I misprounce something.

"All your base are belong to us"?

Mmm... given the fact that it's not my native language, I'm bound to make mistakes.
Examples? Mmm... dammit...
Oh! Crocodile! Don't get surprised if I sometimes say "crocrodrile"

Uh...I think you were right the first time? I don't think fallage is a word, foliage means leaves.

I've slipped up a few too many times giving biology presentations where the word "organism" keeps popping up if you know what I mean...

LOL I say everything funny as I have a hearing problem so I say it like I hear it.

particular ones:

pacific instead of specific
aminals instead of animals
helter shelter instead of helter skelter

anything that starts with R starts with W in my vocabulary

that can be Weally annoying when one is talking to Wupert about Wubbish or Wediculous Weasons for Welying on Wobots...

BUT... apparently my 'peach inspediment' is quite endearing?

No its foilage but its pronounced Fallage


http://www.yourdictionary.com/foliage







I was saying it correctly? All this time I was saying it correctly and I let some nimrod correct me and so I started saying it wrong????????????????


beats head on desk.

Who decided that the word Lisp was a good word for people with Lisps?

Aluminum and Cinnamon gave me trouble for years.

For me i always had trouble with Motor vehicle branch, it would come out as Moterkaveickle branch! And chimney, it would come our as chimly But i,ve got those words comming out right now! However if i don,t think about the word Esophagus befoe i say it, i still to this day will pronounce it esfagis! But i,m working on getting that one right too!

I have a slight mental processing disorder, so I wind up stuttering more than I'd like, and being super-aware of everything I say, especially when I get angry or embarrassed.

--Jaylemurph

The bedroom in our house where guests sleep, commonly known as the Guest Bed Room...


....it always comes out The Guess Best Room...

As a kid (err still do) i always had trouble with 'abominable' (as in Snowman) Try say that quick three times...

I have fairly good diction (comes from teaching English as a second language for the last few years). However, I do have an upstate NY accent.

I have this speech impediment thing where if im talking really fast ill mumble words together or get them mixed up..so it takes like 3 minutes for me to clearly say a simple sentence..

My mum taught us a trick to say abominable you break it down to a-bomb-in-a-bull, it makes it way easier to say.
I have a lot of trouble with place names, theres a town up north called 'Yepoon', when I say it it comes out sounding like I'm saying 'ya-pooin'. I cant remember how its actually meant to sound now.
Oh and I cant say Distrubution. I used to work in a call centre and distribution was in the company name. Whenever I said good morning quantum distrubution, it would sound really stupid.

For the longest time I used to prnounce Skittles as Skills. I don't know why .

Depends on how much alcohol I've had. You know, Starkle, starkle little twink.

My granny came up from the US in a covered wagon. So, we always tease our mom about saying Califoinia. But, since I was badly tongue tied as a child, I would sit and pronounce words over and over so that I wouldn't be picked on. So, I rarely mispronounce words. But, like RabidCat, if I have alcohol in my system, well....

''phenomenon''.......I used to have a terrible time trying to pronounce that word, even when someone would be sounding it out, they'd have to sound it out reallyyyyy slowwww. Finally I was able to pronounce it, now it's not a problem, just rolls right off the tongue.

I have the worst time with entrepreneur . Good thing it doesn't come up very often!

truethat, at the risk of look really stupid, which doesn't take much effort at all - FOLIAGE is right though, isn't it. I've never heard of fallage.

My mother pronounced (and corrected me for not saying) Pilates as "Pilots" for years until a friend told her that she was wrong.

It was a bit of an "aaaaaah" moment for her.

Personally, I sometimes am guilty of saying subtly sub - ttt - ly! (but mostly when I am trying to make a point)

I used to mispronounce "Monotonous". Also a couple of Pokemon names when I was a kid.

I dont really mis pronounce words, but i can't spell for my life! There should be a spell chceker on UM!

I don't know about a spell "chceker", but there IS a Spell Checker! While you're typing, if you misspell something, a red line will appear under it after you press the space bar.
Just backspace and spell it over again a different way until the red line no longer appears. That's what I do...

You spotted the intentional error then! lol

I dont have the red line that comes under mis-spelt words, wonder why?

Maybe it's a Firefox 2.0 feature... Sorry for misleading you. I thought for sure it was built into UM.

no worries, i use Firefox aswell. I will look into it!

Ohh yeah, I'd forgotten this but another topic I'd posted that my mother used to write to my uncle Brian and call him Brain, she always misspelled it.

When she went to get me registered when I was born, my name is Sarah Louise, she put me down as Sarah Lousie - the registrar pointed out her mistake. Hehehe yeah, she was a genius with forethought, she got it right first time.

Besides having a Brooklyn accent, and speak at a rapid firing pace, I have trouble pronouncing words with the letter "R" in it...There have been times when I actually had to spell the word out so someone would understand me...

And just what is wrong with an upstate NY accent?

When I was in my early teens, my mum had to point out to me that it wasn't ib's, it was pounds...

It said it weighed 12 lb. *shrugs *

LMFAO!!!!!!!

There's nothing WRONG with it. It's just... intense.

My mom comes from Buffalo. When she pronounces the "a" sound in the world "apple" it sounds like someone's starting up a chain saw.

Using my 500th post to LMFAO....

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I tend to pronounce "pyre" (as in "funeral pyre") as "pryor". I think this happens because I learned the word pyre around the same time the comedian Richard Pryor had his near-fatal freebasing accident and almost burned his face off. I think, "Now what's that word for burning a body?... oh yeah, Pryor".

Amongst my friends, family and co-workers, I'm considered "brainy". I've always prided myself on proper word pronunciation, spelling and usage. It bugs me to no end to hear someone say a word wrong so when I do it, IT DRIVES ME INSANE and I'm incredibly humiliated in my own head.

One word that gets me every time is PARTICULARLY [per-tik-yuh-ler-lee, puh-tik]. The LARLY trips me up. If I'm rambling I actually have to slow down and enunciate it slowly or I will say per-tik-yuh-ler-ler-ly.

Also, I always want to write "alot" instead of "a lot." I know someone who says "for all intensive purposes" instead of "for all intents and purposes."

And, how about this, do you ever read so fast that you read a word you KNOW how to spell and pronounce but you read it so fast you say it wrong in your head? (Does that sentence even make sense?)

Example: Photography - Photo-graphy

My friend used to sing "later on, wikanspire, as we dream by the fire" to the Walking in a Winter Wonderland - she'd sang it that way since she was a little girl

The word specific, the thing is, I say it fine when I'm not thinking about it, but when I know I'm going to use it I think "Pronounce it right dammit!" and that's what screws me up, sometimes I say "pecific" or "pacific" or "Spafisic" it screws me up so bad, I hate it-lol

I once had issues with the word "Conservatory" and kept saying "Con-ser-vay-atry" in my head. I had to ask my friend what the little glass building you have at the back of your house is called - she looked at me wierdly until I explained.

My Mom once made a spectacular slip up when she replaced the word "skunk" with one very similar but with a "p" in it instead of a "K" (Not skump!). We were watching a nature documentary about sea otters and it was discussing how sea otters are rarely predated on by killer whales. They think it's something to do with the fact that sea otters are related to skunks and so may taste a little strange to predators. At this point, my Mom chipped in with the immortal sentence "Oh! I didn't know sea otters taste like s*unk!"

My fiancee cried, I crawled from the room in shame, somehow, my Dad remained straight faced.

When I was a kid my mother occasionally got the hair term "blow dry" mixed up with the term "*******".

There was one evening when we were sitting around the dinner table when my mother noticed that one of my brothers had gone to the barber for a trim. She said, "Oh Paul, that hair cut makes your hair look thicker. Did the barber give you a *******?" The entire family collapsed laughing.

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edited to explain something. The phrase that the censor is deleting is another two word phrase with the word 'blow' as it's first word.

for years I mispronounced the word "Verbiage"

A lot of people say it "Verb-age" but it's actually "ver-bee-age"

My boyfriend mispronounces "foliage" all the time too. He says it as "Foil-age" but it's actually truly pronounced "foh-lee-ij" or "Foh-lege"

I haven't corrected him on it yet in 3 years.. but I cringe inside everytime he says it.

My aunt simply cannot pronounce "Worcestershire Sauce" and to this day, she still calls it "bug juice" LOL.

Ahhh MMW help me out here. I pronounced it as FO LEE AJ is that correct? My friend told me its

Fahl lage.

which reminds me of several Americans I know who pronounce counties over here i.e. Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire as 'Shire' with a capital I. It's pronounced 'sheer' as in sheer stockings, i.e Oxfordsheer. Although it sounds slightly different according to what accent you have obviously!

p.s

Yup that's how I say it.

So how do you pronounce "Worcestershire"? When I was in England people laughed at me for saying "glaw-chest-er-sheer". You kind of slide over the "cest" syllable, right?

Yeah, you were correct.



Worcestershire = Woost-er-sher
Gloucestershire = Glust-er-sher

The last syllable changes from /sher/ to /sheer/ depending on the accent.

Thanks! I've always wondered about that.

I grew up in a small town, main employment was mining. While there was a lot of intelligence there, most residents were relatively ignorant (you could say back country hicks). Many of the words I used were mispronounced, since I had no source of correct pronunciation. Mom was a grade school teacher, but my interests were in science and math, and the two don't mix. So, like you, I'd do the words over and over (according to the dictionary) so I wouldn't be considered a "country hick" when I went out into the big, wide world. It worked, sort of.
Until a couple of good belts of Black Velvet. Or Yukon Jack.