things your friends say incorrectly

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Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

in NYC, don't know anyone who says "yearo", gyro got a hard g. It sounds like "jai-row". Even old rear end greek fuckers at diners say it like that. I count you as a friend OP so yeah one of my friends says gyro like a pretentious cockdick

but it's funny because everyone here calls big rear end sammlers "heroes" and i'm almost positive this is some weird borrowing of gyro pronounced like it is far from the shores of America. So sometimes we pronounce gyro like a foreigner but only when we're not talking about actual gyros

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:36

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Lord Frankenstyle: Dec 3, 2005; Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

I think almost every girl I know pronounces "Yes" like "Enn-oh". I don't get it.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:37

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

you motherfuckers a hard g is like gay not genesis jfc

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:39

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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

"Lemme axe you this" (coworker)

Joke's on you, the "axe" pronunciation is valid and even predates "ask".

The ones that make me twitch are people using "less" in place of "fewer", and "chai tea".

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:44

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Blue Train posted:

you motherfuckers a hard g is like gay not genesis jfc

wait so gif has a hard g

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:47

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Blue Train posted:

you motherfuckers a hard g is like gay not genesis jfc

it's harder to say Genesis than it is to say gay so I think youre confuzzled friend

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:48

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

Gatekeeper posted:

wait so gif has a hard g

if you say it properly and not the way they say it's meant to be said yes

the "real" way is like the peanut butter but gently caress that

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:49

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

Gatekeeper posted:

it's harder to say Genesis than it is to say gay so I think youre confuzzled friend

I'm jay

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:49

crow baby: Oct 20, 2012

I knew a guy who pronounced albeit as "all-bite" just gently caress off

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:51

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

special guest post from probated GBS forums poster "Hector Beerlioz":

Hector Beerlioz PM posted:

I can't post in your thread cause I'm probated, but my friend from Pennsylvania pronounces "wolf" as "woof". It's weird, but he doesn't know he's saying it wrong. Thank you for reading.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:52

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

my dad used to pronounce "water" as "wooter" or "wooder" (this is a very specific southern thing) but we shamed him so hard he eventually stopped

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:53

Maldoror: Oct 5, 2003; by R. Guyovich; Nap Ghost

i know someone who seriously thinks bruschetta is named after a town in Italy called "Brusca" where it was invented

i'm pretty sure they either dreamt this or just had a false memory enter their head at random, in any case, it is impossible to convince them that there is no such Italian town, and that the word bruschetta comes from the central (Roman) Italian word "bruscare" which means to roast over hot coals.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:53

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

thathonkey posted:

special guest post from probated GBS forums poster "Hector Beerlioz":

i do this but it's absolutely intentional
See also:
Woofmen
Werewoofs
Etc

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:54

Falun Bong Refugee: Dec 14, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

My half sister says "sammich" and it drives me loving crazy.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:55

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Maldoror posted:

i know someone who seriously thinks bruschetta is named after a town in Italy called 'Brusca" where it was invented

i'm pretty sure they either dreamt this or just had a false memory enter their head at random, in any case, it is impossible to convince them that there is no such Italian town,and that the word bruschetta comes from the central (Roman) Italian word "bruscare" which means to roast over hot coals.

What does this have to do with pronunciation tho?? I know it's cool to drop your education in our laps like presidential vomit but we're not talking about etymology here

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:56

Dave_Indeed: Feb 22, 2004; by FactsAreUseless

thathonkey posted:

seeing deadmau5 on the front page made me think of a friend of mine who unironically thinks it is supposed to be said as "dead mau five"

another friend used to think A1 sauce was called "AL sauce" we know cause he asked for it once in a restaurant.

we all probably know somebody who pronounces gyro with a hard g like gyroscope.

what are some common things friends or people you know cant pronounce?

All of the local hillbillies at the gas station / bar&gril (lol half bar half gas station fuckin lol) pronounce gyro with a hard G and argued with me when I pronounced it correctly because that's how all of them "always said it".

Another food every smart rear end thinks they're pronouncing right but aren't is "Chorizo".

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:56

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Falun Bong Refugee posted:

My half sister says "sammich" and it drives me loving crazy.

sammich is good, same with sammie

They're played these days tho

I go for sammler, sammelodeon, sometimes I drop a sandusky. Turkish sanduskies are my meal of choice for an example

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:58

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thathonkey posted:

my dad used to pronounce "water" as "wooter" or "wooder" (this is a very specific southern thing) but we shamed him so hard he eventually stopped

Wooder is a very Philadelphia thing.

as in Churry wooder ice

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:58

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Turkish sanduskies can be abbreviated in different ways too, turksams, for example, or my favorite Sammaturk

# ? Sep 18, 2016 16:59

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

Dave_Indeed posted:

Another food every smart rear end thinks they're pronouncing right but aren't is "Chorizo".

huh? how do they pronounce it?

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:00

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Just spend a hour talking with me. You'll pull your teeth out.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:00

Maldoror: Oct 5, 2003; by R. Guyovich; Nap Ghost

Gatekeeper posted:

What does this have to do with pronunciation tho?? I know it's cool to drop your education in our laps like presidential vomit but we're not talking about etymology here

sorry

this same person thinks robusta coffee is pronounced "row BOOST oh"

for serious

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:00

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

i'd spend uh hour wycha. wyd do.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:01

SilvergunSuperman: Aug 7, 2010

criscodisco posted:

I had a home ec teacher who called parmesan cheese "par-mee-see-on"

Ah yes, "Giada-ing."

gf's mother calls milk "melk" and adds Ts unnecessarily to the end of a bunch of words.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:03

doug fuckey: Jun 7, 2007; hella greenbacks

a guy I know mispronounces all sorts of things but he also thinks its funny to use weird words and hokey phrases but he misremembers them and so he comes out with all these weird adages rife with malapropisms like "well you gotta take that with a pinch of sand" and "don't be such a trilobite" (he means, bewilderingly but fittingly, 'troglodyte')

basically half the things he says have that echo of the real thing, like when a tv show uses a sound-alike instead of the actual song they couldn't afford to get the royalties to

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:05

Kindergarten Camp: Nov 27, 2015

It might be technically right to say "mature" like ma-tour.
But to me, it sounds totally weird unless it's pronounced ma-tchur.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:06

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Maldoror posted:

sorry

this same person thinks robusta coffee is pronounced "row BOOST oh"

for serious

well again to anyone who took Spanish or italians in high school this makes sense, not everyone had your special education (lol get it?) learning latin.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:06

Gatekeeper: Aug 3, 2003; He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.

Zesty Mordant posted:

a guy I know mispronounces all sorts of things but he also thinks its funny to use weird words and hokey phrases but he misremembers them and so he comes out with all these weird adages rife with malapropisms like "well you gotta take that with a pinch of sand" and "don't be such a trilobite" (he means, bewilderingly but fittingly, 'troglodyte')

basically half the things he says have that echo of the real thing, like when a tv show uses a sound-alike instead of the actual song they couldn't afford to get the royalties to

Umm are you from NY?

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:07

Brutal Garcon: Nov 2, 2014

Dave_Indeed posted:

All of the local hillbillies at the gas station / bar&gril (lol half bar half gas station fuckin lol) pronounce gyro with a hard G and argued with me when I pronounced it correctly because that's how all of them "always said it".

Another food every smart rear end thinks they're pronouncing right but aren't is "Chorizo".

What's "right" here? Castilian, Catalan and Portuguese all pronounce that word differently.

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:08

thathonkey: Jul 17, 2012

i have a few for myself from when i was young and dumb(er)

- i used to say ether like tether in ethernet instead of like either
- i used to think the name sean was pronounced phonetically because i had a friend named shawn so i figured it was a different name pronounced seen lol seen "puffy" combs
- dressage :doh:

- inverse: that crt TV line made by sony called wega was actually pronounced vega (at least a salesman at circuit city corrected me one time) so i proudly said that and people never knew what i was talkign about

aside: i'm generally a proponent of pronouncing foreign words as closely as possible to the native way but without trying to overdo an accent that isnt your own if that makes sense but people that say "porsche" with two syllables are lame as gently caress

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:09

gleebster: Dec 16, 2006; Only a howler; Pillbug

Dave_Indeed posted:

All of the local hillbillies at the gas station / bar&gril (lol half bar half gas station fuckin lol) pronounce gyro with a hard G and argued with me when I pronounced it correctly because that's how all of them "always said it".

Another food every smart rear end thinks they're pronouncing right but aren't is "Chorizo".

It's actually pronounced "sausage".

# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:09

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# ? Sep 18, 2016 17:10

Maldoror: Oct 5, 2003; by R. Guyovich; Nap Ghost

ok like check this

if you're going to say a foreign term, you either say the whole thing the correct foreign way, or the whole thing in your own dialect... don't mix the two

so for grand prix, it should be either

"gr/and pricks" (american)

or

"grond pree" (french)

"gr/and pree" (american + french) is wrong!

:hehe: