Word pronunciations that piss you off

The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Word pronunciations that piss you off

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

zealot is not zee-lot

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 22:36

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 6, 2024 07:59

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Machai posted:

hmmm you could say they are being...homogenized

ho-mo-gen-ih-zed

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 22:45

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

yeah but zed-bra sounds rad

# ¿ Feb 16, 2017 22:49

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Teikanmi posted:

Ore-gone instead of Orgehn

Like, how do people actually pronounce a loving entire state's name wrong

Everyone who lives there says it that way and everyone will tell you that

Yes, when actors say it that way it's super distracting. Also Spo-kain

# ¿ Feb 17, 2017 06:51

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

theres a will theres moe posted:

But there's already a k in cmyk

what does the y stand for

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 05:29

Adbot: ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ May 6, 2024 07:59

Second Hand Meat Mouth: Sep 12, 2001

Falukorv posted:

Not a pronunciation, but wrong synonym. Attending zoophysiology class right now, and some of my classmates use "epinephrine" because it says so in the course literature (American book).
Well, on this side of the Atlantic it's called f-ing ADRENALINE! And we speak Swedish amongst ourselves, where adrenaline is the accepted everyday use of the word and epinephrine is unheard outside of textbook and American medical dramas, so in Swedish it's even more jarring.
Before this class they would all be calling it adrenaline, but as soon as it's called epinephrine by a book, half of the class switch the terms on a dime.

Both words mean the same thing, but epinephrine is Greek and adrenaline is Latin.

seems like that guy really had the epinephrine running through your veins huh?

# ¿ Mar 8, 2017 01:31

The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Word pronunciations that piss you off