will-fancy "rather"

matt-jokerfied "geegaws"

liz-society "cray-zeee"

ypg-brace "muthafuckas"

zizek-preference saying "Trump" sounds like the noise Yoshi makes sticking out his tongue

C. Derrick Varn "kluge"

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
    ·
    2 months ago

    I knew a guy in my IT office that would say "Catch-pa" instead of "Captcha" or whatever. Very consistently and deliberately.

    • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      Ooh, idk why but that reminded me

      Friend's friend's bandmate that always pronounced the music gear brand Ibanez like the last name "Ibañez"

      (To be fair I'm pretty sure that one was at least actually right at some point, but everyone says "eye-buh-nez" instead of"eee-bahn-yez")

  • nothx [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    “Terlit” instead of toilet will stick with me forever.

  • Infamousblt [any]
    ·
    2 months ago

    Every white boomer in America says "chipolte" instead of chipotle and it annoys the shit out of me. Like they don't even use the Americanized version of the word they just straight up say it wrong honk-enraged

    • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      Oh man, so many corny older relatives love saying "tar-zjayyy" for Target like it's funny to pronounce it like it's French for some reason

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        2 months ago

        it's because French is the lingua franca of esoteric angloid douchebaggery.

        Ah ouais. Le Tar-zjay, Le Kro-zjay... c'est magnifique, c'est incroyable. Allons-y, si vous plait.

        my fave is to pronounce Publix as PUBE-licks. that's a crowd pleaser and if you say it front of a parent with their child, it has cascading effects.

      • Infamousblt [any]
        ·
        2 months ago

        THE FRENCH STORE HURR HURR HURR okay mom thanks I hadn't heard that one since yesterday

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
    ·
    2 months ago

    My old store manager would use the word "preface" to mean that he agreed with something. He didn't say it in a weird way, I think he just didn't know what it meant.

    If you said something he liked he'd say "I'd like to preface that statement" and no one ever corrected him

    • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      Knew a guy that thought using "vis à vis" whenever he could made him sound smarter, but he said it with a weird stress on the first syllable and rushed it all together, so everyone referred to him as "Visa-vee" in passing behind his back

      michael-laugh

  • Wake [she/her, they/them]
    ·
    2 months ago

    At he beginning of the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou, the trio of main characters find themselves on a railroad handcar being operated by a blind seer. As he's giving them a prophecy, he says the word obstacles like "ob-stack-els". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pukq_XJmM-k

        • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]
          ·
          2 months ago

          I dunno PA is pretty cool. You have the beauty of Appalachia, Pittsburgh the hilly city, Erie in the rust belt, Philly as well, the Northeast Corridor giving good train service to NYC. and quite a bit more. I kinda wanna go sometime to be honest.

          • CarsAndComrades [comrade/them]
            ·
            2 months ago

            Yeah I don't know why I said that, I know many lovely people who live in PA. Maybe I shouldn't be be posting while drinking.

  • LanyrdSkynrd [comrade/them, any]
    ·
    2 months ago

    I watched a police interrogation video years ago where a Canadian cop said "garage" like garr-aaaj, and it's stuck with me since.

    Also the way Trump says "china" sounds like the second syllable to vagina to me.

  • Crowtee_Robot [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    Mike Nelson of MST3K and Rifftrax pronounces prequel "pree-KWELL" with a strong stress on the second "e".

    I can't not notice it every time he says it.