what mispronunciation of words irks you?

aks is mine.......instead of ask.  Why can't people get that right and it is quite common, also picked up alot so I don't get why people can't say it correctly. 

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what mispronunciation of words irks you?

Don't know why that post all ended up in a quote box? 😐

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Has anyone mentioned "mispronounciation" yet ?


And a word that I refuse to say the (apparently) correct way is Lego ... I will forever say "Laygo", not "Leggo", and I don't care. Leggo sounds like a tomato product.

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what mispronunciation of words irks you?

pisghetti


 


 


dreckly


 


 


won sum toase ??? just joined the list 😐

TELL ME AND I WILL FORGET, SHOW ME AND I MAY REMEMBER,, INVOLVE ME AND I WILL UNDERSTAND Confucius 450bc
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what mispronunciation of words irks you?

:^O

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what mispronunciation of words irks you?

Straya..... 


 


It is Australia..... 


 


Even worse when it comes from an MP.... 


 


our members of Parliament need to learn how to pronounce the country they live in and represent.... BILL SHORTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


 


I give credit to Gillard as she has made a fine effort to improve her pronunciation of common words.... 

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what mispronunciation of words irks you?

And just about everyone I know says Down - toWn Abbey, and I'm sure I do 


at times, lol  

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My daughter aged 4 always said bsketti and ourbreyes instead of eye brows.


another one I hate is "I seen something" instead of I saw something.


How we murder the English language, if it was taught more thoroughly at home and at school our grammar may improve. 


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what mispronunciation of words irks you?

When people say "Ares" instead of "Ours"

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You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means
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what mispronunciation of words irks you?

yeah nah

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what mispronunciation of words irks you?


yeah nah



 


that always gets me too :^O


 


 

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