Folks can't speak worth a....

[AKA2D '91]

I'm sure we all have come across those who cannot pronounce words. Here it just seems as if some words are really meant to sound a certain way.

For instance:

shrimp is pronounced as swimp
street-screet
specific-pacific
sink-zink
voice-verce
oil-earl
milk-mirk

what the freak?
LMAO

What have you heard?

[SoTrue1920]

My mother, bless her country heart, says Kenturky for Kentucky.

[novella000]

question = kurshtun
window = windah
wash = wursh
cellular phone = celica fome
digital phone = digikul fome
hair = hure
purse = puwse

ROFLMAO

[PenguinTrax]

I hate it when...

Ask comes out as 'ax'.
It's mashed potatoes, not 'mash'.
It's old fashioned, not old 'fashion'.
2 cent? Please, there is more than one, it's 2 cents.

My other pet peeve? When someone says they 'conversate' or 'were conversating' with someone. You can converse with someone or you can engage in conversation. There is no such word as 'conversate'.

here-----her
strawberry----scrawberry
future----fruture
pickle----prickle
nickle---nurkle
penguin---pigwig.....no lie
sausage---sausish
help---hope.....that's two totally different words, so how is that possible
throat----thoat
cleaned----cleant or clint
search----such
touch---turch
steering wheel----stirring wheel
board---boad
strength---scrength
teeth----teef
Mitsubishi---Missabishi
Mississippi---Miss-Sippy
Massachusetts---Massa-too-sits
and the newest I've heard.....ANTHRAX-----AMTRACKS

[ClassyLady]

Ambamlamps = Ambulance
Wash = Warsh
Throw = Thow
Toilet = Tullet or Twalet
Bathtub = Bafftuh

My father, as smart as he is, cannot say Colorado to save his life. It comes out more like Cattaratta.

My mother is just as bad. Her favorite car is the Toyota CAM-RAY. I've tried to help her out by telling her that there's no second A, but she is convinced that I'm wrong and she's right.

[Special1920]

My mom pronounces Sandwich=sammich. I used to try and correct her, but realized that it's ok to make mistakes. I mispronounce words myself, and I'm a college graduate, so it happens. I always sat Bank taylor instead of bank teller.

[AKAtude]

This is a funny thread. To this day, my mom has a hard time pronouncing:

Hundred - she says "hunjed"
Michigan - she says "Mitchigan"
Gorgeous - she says "gaugeous"

Growing up, I couldn't pronounce:

Strawberry - I said "scrawberry"
Street - I said "skreet"

Eventually, I grew out of it.

[AKA2D '91]

Speaking of sausage:

some people say:
saushi$
soosasasit


I couldn't pronounce anything using 'TH:
In Kindergarten, I had to take speech for it. I can remember my drill with the therapist was..."this, that, these and those". I would say...dis, dat, dese and dose.

I had a gap, I couldn't help it and I still had my "baby teeth".

[Rain Man]

My turn:

hundred--hunnert
fifty--fitty
fixing (as in "fixing to do..")--fittin'
mother--mutter
killed--kilt
mother's house--mamanems (a contraction of "Mama and them's)
all right--a'ight
going to--gonna or gon'
there--der
that--dat
the--da
right--rat
get--git
don't know--dunno
fart--fawd
bathroom--bahfum (my niece when she was a child said it this way and it sounded like she was saying "bad fumes", so maybe she was on to something there).
about--'bout
earth--earf
equipment--equibument (Who are you, Mushmouth?)

nuclear--nu-que-lar (I actually hear US Senators on C-SPAN pronounce it that way. Hey, folx, don't vote on it if you can't pronounce it. I don't want my last few minutes on the planet mired in a syntax discrepency).

Georgia--Jojah
Missouri--Missourah
Ohio--Ahiyah
bowl--ball

OK, more later
RM

Oh, Classy Lady, as far as the toilet pronounciation, in New York it's pronounced TERLET.

[AKA2D '91]

Originally posted by Rain Man
Oh, Classy Lady, as far as the toilet pronounciation, in New York it's pronounced TERLET.

same goes down here.


my late grandmother would say:

fire-faoh
tire-taoh
between-betwixt
in a while- in a reckly


government-gubment

[skeeliteful]

OH MY GOSH!! I'm laughing so hard from these. I just have to add one more. My grandmother, rest her soul, instead of saying "rinse"....it would come out sounding like "wrench".

[MavenofDrec]

Ok for all of you elocution experts out there, I can see ain't none uh y'all ain't eva bin ta 'Bama!
LOL!

[sexybrownmocha]

anthrax being pronounced athrax ( by this country black woman i work with)
momma=mamuh
interest rate= interested rate ?????????
girl=gurl
soda water= sotah watah
saturday=sadaday
God= pronounced Gawd in most southern black churches!!

[aprilzeta]

My grandmother always mixes her v's and w's.
For example...

willage instead of village
wegetable instead of vegetable
wiagra instead of viagra
Villiam instead of William(my grandfather's name)

Once I was in church and heard a minister give his topic. I am still stunned at what he said. His topic was supposed to be, "Will You Be A Witness For My Lord?" but instead he said "Vill You Be A Vitness For My Lord?" At first, I was like WT?, I giggled the entire sermon b/c I could not stop thinking about what he said his topic was.

I have heard this also...
Conshemplating instead of Contemplating

this may be off topic a little, but I heard this old woman (at a bridal shower) call a brassiere(bra for short)---->she said, "that's a purty gitty gatcher and bloomers." It took all I had not to laugh in her face.