Friday OT #2 - That's Not A Thing
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This reminds me of a Family Guy episode where Peter said, "without further dudes".
When my brother and I heard the f word with an er on the end for the first time, our mom said the curse word was trucker. So for the year or so, when mom and dad weren't around, we'd call each other truckers.
When I was much younger, a friend of mine could not correctly pronounce the name of a ground beef patty between buns. She called it a "ham-uh-nerk." I don't even know how to spell that.
My mother did...
Seemed to be the go-to when referring to the fridge when I lived in Texas.
What really grinds my gears is that everything down here is referred to as a Coke. **** that - you're drinking Dr Pepper, not Coke!
One of the ones that gets me is "nu-cu-ler" instead of nuclear...particularly when it comes from someone who has the codes to blow up the world. Bush made me crazy every time he said the word. Laura Bush got the last laugh on that one though. She was teasing her husband at the Press Association dinner and one of her one-liners was "at least I know how to pronounce nuclear". 'bout fell off my chair!
I've been going back and forth with one guy on what a Coke actually is (he's a "Mountain Dew Coke" guy). When I finally find one of those Coke bottles with his name on it, I'm going to buy it and set it on his desk so that he knows what a Coke really is.
I deliberately mispronounce debris as da-briss because of a waitress at First Avenue Station decades ago. "Let me clear this da-briss from your table." If you correct me you'll get the back story and just shake your head cause you won't "get it". Hey, there are two accepted versions of the "de" part, I'm just trying to add a three option with the "bris."
I mispronounce enough stuff by accident to not get to bent when other people do. Pronouncing Porsche without the ə sound bugs me a little, it's ˈpôrSH(ə). With that said I wish I could do a proper British pronunciation of Jaguar but I can not. Practiced, just cannot.
For some reason as a little kid I could not pronounce aluminum. Think I kept doing alu-nim-mum. Once I heard the British pronounciation I was all in and still use that.
I mispronounce enough stuff by accident to not get to bent when other people do. Pronouncing Porsche without the ə sound bugs me a little, it's ˈpôrSH(ə). With that said I wish I could do a proper British pronunciation of Jaguar but I can not. Practiced, just cannot.
For some reason as a little kid I could not pronounce aluminum. Think I kept doing alu-nim-mum. Once I heard the British pronounciation I was all in and still use that.
Our three-year-old calls it a "han-gu-ber," and we can't find it in us to correct him because it's freaking adorable.
But he's three.
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A Brooklyn friend used to say "lozenger" until I pointed to the package to show there's no R. Also a drawer was a "draw" and a drawing was a "drawring". Fahgeddaboutit.
li-berry (where they have all those books)
A Brooklyn friend used to say "lozenger" until I pointed to the package to show there's no R. Also a drawer was a "draw" and a drawing was a "drawring". Fahgeddaboutit.
li-berry (where they have all those books)
Biggest pet peeve and I've even heard this at airports in other English speaking countries. It's a usage issue and not pronunciation: "Last and final call for flight ..." (and we really mean it, we're not announcing this again. This is totally it. No more announcements)
