Word pronunciations that irk or perturb you?

[JasonEvans]

I'm bothered by irk and perturb.

[Bluedog]

Even worse when they spell it wrong.

FIFY

Yikes...mea culpa. I do know how to spell it, not sure how that happened.

[DukieInKansas]

Yikes...mea culpa. I do know how to spell it, not sure how that happened.

Darn you, auto correct!

[sagegrouse]

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."

[Section 15]

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

[ClemmonsDevil]

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.

[duke74]

These all made me laugh. Especially ecpeshally.

How about “set” vs sit.

But what really makes my skin crawl is bad grammar..And what I find the most grating is the use of “I” as an object. As in “that was a lot of fun for Frank and I.” My most irritating memory was a thank you note I received from a Princeton grad... “thank you for attending Sam and I’s wedding”

“On behalf of my wife and myself...”. Yikes.

[CrazyNotCrazie]

“On behalf of my wife and myself...”. Yikes.

Allow myself to introduce myself.

[DukieInKansas]

Allow myself to introduce myself.

[CrazyNotCrazie]

Allow myself to introduce myself.

[budwom]

I'm bothered by irk and perturb.

they really aggravate me.

[OldPhiKap]

I'm bothered by irk and perturb.

they really aggravate me.

I hate synonyms.

[bundabergdevil]

I hate synonyms.

I hate when people pronounce synonyms like cinnamon.

[ClemmonsDevil]

I hate when people pronounce synonyms like cinnamon.

Confused and looking up synonym pronunciation...

[gumbomoop]

re-la-tor instead of re-al-tor

[budwom]

re-la-tor instead of re-al-tor

I never figured out where that came from, but it sure is prevalent...

[ClemmonsDevil]

Orientate drives me crazy(er).

[Stray Gator]

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.

[tommy]

I can’t stand when people conversate with words that aren’t words.

[ClemmonsDevil]

I can’t stand when people conversate with words that aren’t words.

I don't trust people who won't use the word "embiggen". It really is a perfectly cromulent word.