Comments on: 100 most often mispronounced words

By: Grassman

Grassman — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 07:34:26 +0000

Becoming very common to hear politicians and broadcasters saying ‘crate’ when they mean ‘create’. Most young people (that I come across) say ‘the’ as ‘ the’ when I always believed it should be pronounced ‘thee’?
While I’m on my hobby horse, does everything have to have ‘up’ added to the end of nearly every phrase or sentence? ‘Parking up’ ‘Brightening up’ etc?
Finally, why can’t teachers stress to all their pupils (from day one) that the letter h is pronounced ‘aitch’ it even has a word specially set aside to help in this regard (‘aitch’ of course!)
Rant over.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:22:10 +0000

@Tom I thought Worcestershire had like 20 syllables. I never know when to stop "shester" or "shire"-ing. I looked it up on Answers.com that has audio pronunciations and the lady pronounced it "Wooster-sheer". Uranus doesn't leave you with many options. It's a choice between urine-us or your-anus. When the astronomers considered getting rid of planets they should have booted Uranus, not Pluto.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:17:21 +0000

The two words that give me trouble are Worcestershire…I believe it is just two syllables woost-shire…And the planet Uranus…There doesn’t seen to be a single correct pronunciation.

By: Msday

Msday — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:41:09 +0000

There is no such dialect as EBONICS. It is slang. Has anyone ever listened to old speeches from, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King or any other people of color prior to the seventies and eighties? They didn’t use Ebonics. Why should cultural and educational deterioration be rewarded with a language?

By: kenny

kenny — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:25:42 +0000

learn how to talk?
are you kidding me? of course i know how to talk.
are you saying that people in nj or wherever talk improperly, as opposed to say, georgia? or is it vice versa?
people’s pronunciation is based on where they live and who taught them. does anyone really say com-for-tay-bul? i don’t think so. and feb-rue-ah-ry? i’ve never heard of it.

stop being such a nerd.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 04:45:40 +0000

Here are some:
comfterbul instead of comfortable, tempachure instead of temperature, aks instead of ask, dubya instead of double u, Febuwary instead of February.

LEARN HOW TO TALK!!!!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:47:03 +0000

They should have included “jive” versus “jibe” – “i.e. that doesn’t jibe with the facts.” I suppose sailing terminology (like “tack”) is easily mispronounced.

By: George

George — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:33:29 +0000

In the 1960s and through the 1980s, the National Bureau of Standards (now NIST) issued pronounciation guides for the correct pronounciation of metric prefixes. Their guide showed “giga” to be pronounced “jiga”. It was probably through ignorance by the millions buying computers in the 1990s and beyond that the soft “g” turned into a hard “g”.

By: Ken Seehart

Ken Seehart — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 20:19:32 +0000

Dusent anybudy reelise tha da destinchun betwene corect an encorect speling an pronounsiachen id a arbutrary destinchen? avry werd was bin messpeled a sum thyme. is ow lenguagis evolive.

By: tami

tami — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:28:00 +0000

According to the Merriam-WEbster website, both Coo-pon and Q-pon are correct pronounciations for coupon.
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/coupon