<p>I’m curious to know how it is that different people pronounce certain things differently.</p>
<p>…and what “different” pronunciations annoy you (correct or incorrect)?</p>
<p>I know that depending on which teacher I am talking to, their pronunciation of discipline-specific words changes from the mainstream and then there are certain people who choose to pronounce certain words the “odd way” just to stand out.</p>
<p>How do you pronounce words like either, data, whip, where, or vehicle?</p>
<p>Not exactly what you are referring to, as this is a mispronunciation, but I cringe at “nucular” instead of nuclear! It was especially irritating coming from our last President.</p>
<p>My kids cringe at me saying centimeter like “sahntimeter.”</p>
<p>Lol. I ABHOR nuke-you-lur. It’s a very, very disturbing practice. Why is it sahntimeter?</p>
<p>Here we say date-a, eeeether (not I-ther), where is pronounced (like wear), vehicle is pronounced veehacle (not veehickle). I don’t know how else anyone can say whip: w-hip.</p>
<p>Funny, my dd pronounces either as I-ther. The one that surprise me lately was Newfoundland. I have always said Newfinland but around here they say New Found Land. I wonder how they say it in Newfoundland?</p>
<p>The word “often” I promounce “offen.” My DS pronounces it “off-ten” I think it’s because of the British nanny who pretty much raised him until he was six.</p>
<p>Then there was the time, at age 3, he asked for “hawf a bawnawna.” Instead of “half a banana.”</p>
<p>We were watching an episode of Ace of Cakes the other day where they were arguing whether to pronounce the shellfish “ScALlop” or “ScOLlop”.</p>
<p>Here since we are so close to Canada we get different “British versus American” pronounciations all the time, for example “SHedule” as opposed to “SKedule” for schedule</p>
<p>I am not sure how they say Newfoundland in Newfoundland, but when we were there recntly we learned that their dialect is very distinct and different from any other in North America. It is said to have more in common with old english than any other language.</p>
<p>Newfoundland is pronounced with the last syllable stressed the most, as in “New Found Land”, although “found” is “fund”.</p>
<p>As far the English pronunciation of offen and often, (I say the former, by the way), why is there that big joke in “Pirates of Penzance” of "offen and “orphan”? Is it pronounced differently in different parts of England?</p>
<p>In Boston, someone said she had an autistic child and was asked “what field is your child in?” At least, that’s what my son’s non-Bostonian friend reports.</p>
<p>aksed, nucular, catsup, not so much, ya think?, chillax, any use of the word ‘sassy’</p>
<p>Mischievous - Some people pronounce it mis-cheev-ee-us as if it were spelled Mischevious when it should really be pronounced Mis-chuh-vuhs. I think it comes down to a lot of people not really knowing how to spell it or pronounce it. I can remember correcting a teacher of mine in second grade on it. She had no idea she was mispronouncing it so I told her how it was spelled and she ended up agreeing that I was right about it. I’m sure she was thrilled at being corrected on spelling and pronunciation by a second grader.</p>
<p>See [The</a> Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations at Amazon.com.](<a href=“http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Beastly-Mispronunciations-Opinionated/dp/061842315X]The”>http://www.amazon.com/Big-Book-Beastly-Mispronunciations-Opinionated/dp/061842315X)</p>
<p>NB: Elster is an admitted Francophobe.</p>
<p>Glad to know that Elster is a Francophobe. I don’t like the way Americans murder “double entendre” and other French words with his blessings. I really don’t see why they can’t use English words if they’re going to mispronounce French. Now, I know I mispronounce English all the time…:)</p>
<p>Today one of the car talk guys said “pronounciation”, but the second time it came up he said “pronunciation”. (They were discussing aunts and ants.)</p>
<p>A family members says “double entender” when pronouncing “double entendre”. It drives my H nuts.</p>
<p>a French friend of mine pronounced “naked” as you pronounce raked as in raked the leaves. I found it so funny it took me a long time to correct him.</p>
<p>My daughter used to say skabetti for spaghetti and brefkast for breakfast when she was little. I miss that now.</p>
<p>nick- to answer your question, I have NO idea why I pronounce centimeter as “sahntimeter.” I think it comes from an early math teacher maybe? My kids ask me: “why don’t you say dollars and “sahnts”, then?”</p>
<p>I know I pronounce facade incorrectly and I just can’t bring myself to change…it sounds so wrong 
It should be fah-sahd but I say fassayed.</p>
<p>When S1 was little, he pronouced “animals” as “aminals.” I loved it then and I love it now. (Although he did finally learn how to say it correctly.)</p>
<p>H calls it an "ahn"velope, I say envelope. And he grew up in a town where the word creek is pronounced “crick”! We laugh about this.</p>