Words or Phrases that People Make Fun of You For - Page 2

Miriverite · #16 08-10-2010, 08:55 AM

As an inside joke, my friends and I also used to say "di-lem-na" (pronouncing the n), and now I can't get rid of the habit =(

I also have a tendency to spell things the British way (practise, colour, encyclopaedia) even though I was born and raised in Texas and have never been out of the USA. My friends make fun of me for that, teehee.

txpacer · #17 08-10-2010, 09:17 AM

"Geez and crackers!" I thought that this was a fairly common saying, just not in my circle of friends, I guess.

Then, of course, there are things like "holy carp," "shiznitzel," and "flim flammin'."

Alumiyum · #18 08-10-2010, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Miriverite

As an inside joke, my friends and I also used to say "di-lem-na" (pronouncing the n), and now I can't get rid of the habit =(

I also have a tendency to spell things the British way (practise, colour, encyclopaedia) even though I was born and raised in Texas and have never been out of the USA. My friends make fun of me for that, teehee.

I have the same spelling issue. My mom says it's because she had me reading "classic literature" as a child. I suspect it's Harry Potter.

angels&angles · #19 08-10-2010, 10:22 AM

Apparently I pronounce my E's wrong. I think it's a midwestern thing, but in college (in the south) all my friends (from the northeast) would make me say, over and over,
pen, ten, many, friend.

I say pin, tin, mini, frind

Apparently this is wrong. I can't hear it. I remember very distinctly growing up, someone would ask for a pen, you'd have to ask them to clarify whether they wanted to write something or stick something.

I also say irregardless. I know it's not a word, but my friends and I started saying it after watching Mean Girls too many times. I didn't realize people thought it was a real word. I always say it in the Gretchen Weiners voice.

preciousjeni · #20 08-10-2010, 11:12 AM

My coworkers make fun of me a lot or at least ask me to repeat what I've said. I'm from Georgia, but I trained myself out of a heavy southern accent when I was in high school.

I still have hints of an accent that are pronounced up here in New York. Some of the things I say are:

Fixin to (meaning "About to")
I reckon (meaning "I figure" or "I suppose")
I like to have (meaning "I almost")

I also drop my Ts like a couple people have mentioned. The worst is my hometown "Atlanta" which comes out as "alana" when I say it.

One of the people in my office says "Know what I'm saying" ALL THE TIME. It's to the point that people count how many times she says it and announce it to those of us in the know. It's so bad that people have begun to call her "The Gnome Saying."

cheerfulgreek · #21 08-10-2010, 11:25 AM

Hmm, well I can't think of any words I use that people make fun of me about. However, people do make fun of the way I laugh. Everyone who hears me laugh, says even if what I'm laughing at or about isn't funny, they still laugh because they always say my laughter is contagious.

That's the only thing I can think of.

AOEforme · #22 08-10-2010, 11:43 AM

Ummm.... I'm from Wisconsin. Down here, people make fun of me constantly.

It could be worse. I'm from by Milwaukee, so it's not terrible. But my future in-laws are from Sheboygan (read: She-BOY-gan, oh ya der), and my accent intensifies strongly when I'm there.

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also, what most people call water fountains i call bubblers. that confuses people a lot.

That's the correct name. Water fountains are what homeless people drink out of.

ree-Xi · #23 08-10-2010, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Miriverite

As an inside joke, my friends and I also used to say "di-lem-na" (pronouncing the n), and now I can't get rid of the habit =(

I also have a tendency to spell things the British way (practise, colour, encyclopaedia) even though I was born and raised in Texas and have never been out of the USA. My friends make fun of me for that, teehee.

I do this too with some words (colour, glamour, favour), but almost always catch myself because everything has spell-check now. I didn't even think it was from all the classic literature I've read, from Chaucer (12th century) to Shakespeare (17th century), to great Irish poets (19th century). Spend an entire semester immersed in Middle English (Chaucer), where even the professor spoke in Middle English, and that will mess you up.

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I grew up in RI and my mom was from Boston and my dad was from Cranston which is one of the worst places for the Rhode Island accent.

Now I go to college in FL so I get teased all the time for things like clicker (remote), bubbler (water fountain), carriage (shopping cart).

I also get teased becasue I say "room" funny. My friends say I sound like I'm saying 'rum'.

I also learned quickly that jimmies to people are not chocolate sprinkles. Oops.

And of course, wicked.

I too say clicker (lived in CT most of my life), wicked and bubbler (picked that up living in MA for 10 years).

And yes, a lot of people from RI say "room" oddly, the "oom" as "uuhm". Same thing with "roof", they say "ruuhf".

pshsx1 · #24 08-10-2010, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by jennyj87

Now I go to college in FL so I get teased all the time for things like clicker (remote), bubbler (water fountain), carriage (shopping cart).

I also get teased becasue I say "room" funny. My friends say I sound like I'm saying 'rum'.

lol my roommates and I last year all called the remote something different. We all also grew up in different parts of Michigan.

My roomie from Tawas says "remo/remote," my roomie from Ortonville says "clicker," my roommate from Bay City says "buttons," and I (from Detroit) say "turner."

Also, my friend from RI said ruff and rum. Funny. :P

AnotherKD · #25 08-10-2010, 04:59 PM

Being from the Midwest myself, I've met someone and after about 3 minutes, they ask me if I'm from Cleveland. Well, I am, actually. Close enough. And I have NO IDEA what it is about the way I speak that could pin it. Saying "pop" not withstanding.

Ggirl617 · #26 08-10-2010, 06:08 PM

People make fun of me for the way I say the words button, cotton, etc. I say but-ton, cot-ton, etc

PrettyBoy · #27 08-10-2010, 08:23 PM

Joker. I tend to use that word more often than not.

nittanygirl · #28 08-10-2010, 08:32 PM

i'm guilty of the 'dude' thing unfortunately... :-(

I say "pop" at school & get crap for it so I switch mentally to say "soda" then I say 'soda' at home and people are like wtf???

that's another thing... I say "like" in half of my sentences. My boss gets on me for that allllllll the time. It's a regular conversation for them to chastise how much we say it. Which it really does sound terrible, but you can't help how you grew up talking always without thinking about how to say things properly

nittanygirl · #29 08-10-2010, 08:34 PM

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Also, my friend from RI said ruff and rum. Funny. :P

just saw this... I had a roommate from Boston who I LOVED to tease.

"I'll meet you back at the rum" (as in our dorm room)
The movie "The Departed" became depahhted. haha

and of course random others like "draw" and "cah"

Also she called a water fountain a Bubbla & her comforter a "puff"

pshsx1 · #30 08-10-2010, 08:43 PM

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Originally Posted by nittanygirl

just saw this... I had a roommate from Boston who I LOVED to tease.

"I'll meet you back at the rum" (as in our dorm room)
The movie "The Departed" became depahhted. haha

and of course random others like "draw" and "cah"

Also she called a water fountain a Bubbla & her comforter a "puff"

lol! One of my Brothers is from Boston and we make fun of him by saying "pahk the cahh in the Hahvad yahd" (park the car in the Harvard yard).

I make fun of my friends from part of Michigan who say "melk," "pellow," and "BAG-el" (milk, pillow, bagle).