Words you pronounced wrong for a long time (or others do)

[daryn]

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Gnocchi (no-key) - thought it was no-chee; this might fall under the catagory of rio grand vs rio gran-day, but there is no real way to englishize gnocchi. also, if no-key is wrong, someone elighten me, since i just learned this.

edit: wikipedia confirms boro and eld are right, i was missing the NYO...

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it's more like nyocki (long o)

[Dominic]

versus. I'd always pronounce it "verse," because you always see it abbreviated as "vs."

[wadea]

Familiar is not Fur-mil-iar.

Suposedly is not Su-pos-a-bly.

Nuclear is not Nu-cu-lar.

I actually don't care about people who say sherbet (sherbeRt) and chipotle (chi-pole-tay) wrong. It's like so many people mispronounce it that if you keep caring, you'll go mad. Plus, it really takes too much effort and sounds stupid to say chipotle correctly. And it makes you sound like a pronunciation snob.

[daryn]

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Bruschetta: Most people prounounce it bru-SHetta, but in fact it should be bru-SKetta.


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Actually, both of these are acceptable

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not in italian baby

[mistermuni]

barbara wire (barbed wire)

coh loh nell (colonel)

whore (hour) - didn't take long for my mom to correct me after i exclaimed "two whore parking" in public

is land (island)

[schundler]

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I've met many people who can't seem to pronounce "Massachusetts". I think they're being lazy. It's not that hard.

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for the longest time I've pronounced it "Taxachusetts". Woops.

[Georgia Avenue]

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Bruschetta: Most people prounounce it bru-SHetta, but in fact it should be bru-SKetta.


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Actually, both of these are acceptable

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not in italian baby

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I feel like this needs its own thread, unless it's been discussed here already. If there is a standard, but incorrect pronunciation of a non-english word, is it better to pronounce the word in the American fashion (bru-SHetta)
or try to say it "properly" like an native speaker? Cuz I bet if I ordered bru-SKetta around a lot of my friends they'd think I was a douchebag. However they are idiots.

And does it change depending on the setting--it's ok to try and roll your Rs in a mexican restaurant in mexico but at chi-chis you should probably just say torTIya...???

[Daniel Magix]

ogle

I have heard this word pronounced as:

Oh-gle
Ooogle
Oggle

I still don't know which is correct.

[PITTM]

when i was v young ultimate was ULTI MINT

rj

[daryn]

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Bruschetta: Most people prounounce it bru-SHetta, but in fact it should be bru-SKetta.


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Actually, both of these are acceptable

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not in italian baby

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I feel like this needs its own thread, unless it's been discussed here already. If there is a standard, but incorrect pronunciation of a non-english word, is it better to pronounce the word in the American fashion (bru-SHetta)
or try to say it "properly" like an native speaker? Cuz I bet if I ordered bru-SKetta around a lot of my friends they'd think I was a douchebag. However they are idiots.

And does it change depending on the setting--it's ok to try and roll your Rs in a mexican restaurant in mexico but at chi-chis you should probably just say torTIya...???

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why are we saying pizza like PEET-SA?