I'm bothered by irk and perturb.
Why are you wasting time here when you could be wasting it by listening to the latest episode of the DBR Podcast?
I have owned two cars that took me a year to learn to pronounce correctly:
A 1971 Audi, which I persisted in pronouncing "AWE-dee," instead of the correct, "rhymes with Howdy."
And my first (of many) Acura -- a 1988 Legend, which I pronounced "ah-CURE-ah," instead of "ACK-u-rah."
Sage Grouse
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'When I got on the bus for my first road game at Duke, I saw that every player was carrying textbooks or laptops. I coached in the SEC for 25 years, and I had never seen that before, not even once.' - David Cutcliffe to Duke alumni in Washington, DC, June 2013
If you are from the Boston area, you observe the conservation of "r" rule in your pronunciation, which states that if you remove an r from one word, you have to add it to an adjacent word. For example, "granola bar" is properly pronounced as "granoler bah."
Also, if you are from the Cape, you can always tell when someone is from "away" when they ask directions to the town of Eastham by pronouncing as if it is one word, when everyone knows it is two - i.e. "East Ham."
Section 15
Maybe not worthy of its own thread so posting here, but I loathe that the threads don't automatically go to the "last page" until you get to 6 Pages worth of posts. I want to say something incredibly inane and useless right freaking now and I hate having to scroll to the last page manually. And I mispronounced all of this.
re-la-tor instead of re-al-tor
Orientate drives me crazy(er).
One that towers above all others in my book: "axe" (or the past tense "axed") instead of "ask" (or the past tense "asked"). Like fingernails on a blackboard.
I can’t stand when people conversate with words that aren’t words.