Pronunciation Errors That Drive Me Nuts

Actually, no matter how you pronounce the word "forte," someone is going to say you're wrong. I pronounce it "fort," for the record. Here's an explanation:

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19971114

"I could care less" instead of

"I couldn't care less"

think about it wrote:

"I could care less" instead of

"I couldn't care less"

but what if they are trying to convey that they care a little bit, but not much.

In that case they could care less, but not necessarily much less before they couldn't...

chipolte

kartelite wrote:

Trackster Flipster wrote:

Forte misprounced as "For TEY" with accent on second syllable. Should instead be pronounced as "fort."

Huh?? Why? It's not from French, where the expression is "point fort" for strong point. It's a musical term that came from Italian, you sound like some wannabe know-it-all who doesn't know jack. Why don't you learn a Romance language or music you uncouth hillbilly.

Actually you Piece of sh$t - I speak english / espanol / nederlands / deutsch / mandarin / a bit of cantonese / japanese - italian - french - and you come on here calling me a redneck? I spent my whole life overseas - what are your credentials you POS? I am very curious - What a POS you are

Tout d'abord je parle français couramment, du coup si tu parles français j'attends à ce que tu répondes aussi en français si t'arrives à t'en débrouiller pdv. Marrant que tu parles tellement de langues mais ne sais pas maîtriser ta langue maternelle. Aucun besoin pour moi de me vanter de mes "qualifications" en tant que linguiste (en même temps que je fais les prestations sur les forums mdr)..quel casse-couilles les américains "cosmopolites". Japonais aussi? Ouah attends - faut que je m'en tape de surprise!!!

Pterodactyl Rexing wrote:

Irregardless.

Not really a pronunciation error, more of a common misuse or the prefix irr-. irr- + -less = double negative.

Bugs the heck out of me.

The prefix ir- (in-, im-, il-) can be used intensively instead of for negation. "Inflammable" does not mean that it is not flammable.

preacherman wrote:

libary

realator

Yeah, these are common, too.

Along with nclear/nucular and jewelry/jewlery.

All annoying.

I can't believe no one as mentioned this yet:

People who pronounce pronunciation as pronounciation.

O.K. heres two which you guys are gonna jump on me for but what the heck, i'll give you the correct pronounciations anyway (irregardless)--

1. DOUR....should NOT rhyme with the word sour (as in sweet and sour). Dour should rhyme with the word sewer.

2. ERR...to make an error, ERR does not sound like AIR. ERR is pronounced ER---

Setting aside the battlements/sanctuary type of fort we have one indicating levels of amplitude and one that involves levels of aptitude. An easy way to remember is the amplitudeE one ends in E and the aptitude one... umm...err..

never mind---- file it with niggardly-

no matter the argument for using it, it's not an important or unique enough word to bear the burden of defense

I find it funny and ironic how many grad students working on a Ph.D. refer to their studies as "doctorial" instead of "doctoral."

Pizzaguy wrote:

Hydrochlorothiazide, not MY HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION

Most people just refer to it as "HCTZ" you knuckle head. Also, most people refer to this as their "water pill" not BP med, because most people who use this drug are on another BP med. FYI

Add orientated to the list. It's a word. It means to face east, you know, towards the Orient. It does not mean related to.

Popular (not with me) sports show host in the east refers to soda and idea as "soder" and "ideer". I've also heard him use the phrase "take a different tact."

Also had an administrator ask me if I was "...trying to undermind her program, because ...you have underminded them in the past."

are we talking about native English speakers (heaven forbid)

or others?

let me add: I have ran

run/ran/run.

supposedly and supposeBly.....really?

and FYI....either pronunciation of nuclear is correct.

Most of the complaints are about accents and local dialect.

I am fond of epi-tome....instead of eepitomee or however you spell it for correct pronunciation.

I'm so glad I live in the midwest. GTFO with this hillbilly bumpkin wordslanguage.