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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?
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we used to have this thing called "platinum membership" where i worked for VIPs and a coworker who wasnt from the US always called it "platinium" because of how people outside the US add the extra letter to alumnium i guess. why do people insist on adding extra syllables to words that already exist. like what the gently caress was wrong with aluminum
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Sep 18, 2016 14:51
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irregardless
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Sep 18, 2016 14:56
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Enfield posted:all my friends died sorry you can't participate in this thread then
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Sep 18, 2016 15:01
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i have one friend that is really proud to know that in many cases you are supposed to say "<other person> and I went to go do something" instead of "<other person> and me" when you're the subject of a sentence. but he blindly applies it across the board because he isnt as smart about grammar as he thinks so he'll say things like "that cake is for <other person> and I" and then argue when i say it's wrong native english speaker btw. british actually which makes it even richer.
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Sep 18, 2016 15:19
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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.
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Sep 18, 2016 16:52
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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
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Sep 18, 2016 16:53
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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?
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Sep 18, 2016 17:00
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i'd spend uh hour wycha. wyd do.
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Sep 18, 2016 17:01
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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  - 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
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Sep 18, 2016 17:09
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BirryJoru posted:hour with no silent h lol waht
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Sep 19, 2016 01:14
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this kid i went to school with used to say "vackum" instead of vacuum
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Sep 19, 2016 02:59
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my dad thinks kanye west is kane west
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Sep 19, 2016 03:05
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Frankenstyle posted:Are you sure it's not on purpose? I do the same thing because it annoys people who think of a DJ as a performer and not as just the monkey in charge of the stereo. unfortunately yes i am fairly sure because i know this person well and he doesnt do the deadpan irony thing it's just not part of his repertoire. i think he really truyl believes that one valid option is dead mau five
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Sep 19, 2016 03:05
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