100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English

[OneBlueSky]

"what was it you aksed me?"

"damn, he's going nucular!"

and other gems . . . which ones are Bush guilty of? . . . :)

http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/mispron.html

[gyopsy]

1. They forgot "mature" !!

It's pronounced ma-tour, not ma-chure. And that's a fact most people forget. It's not on the site.

[OneBlueSky]

2. maybe it's #101? . . . n/t

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[kiahzero]

3. According to Dictionary.com...

It's ma-tyoor, which is what most people say.

[TheMightyFavog]

4. A really common one around here that really gets on nerves.

Ex-scape.


IT'S PRONOUNCES ES-CAPE, YOU MORANS!

THE FIRST SYLLABLE IS ES, NOT EX!

[Twenty3]

7. right up there with this one...

Ex-cetera

[Spider Jerusalem]

5. Interesting thing re mispronunciation of "ask"...

apparently that form actually comes from an Anglo-Saxon word, "acsian" meaning to ask, and is not a corruption of the English word "ask". Or so I learned when reading about the Geordie dialect (Northumberland, Tyneside, Wearside and Sunderland, in the northeast of England). So it's possible that those dialectal virations which preserve this "aks/axe" for "ask" are in actuality preserving some earlier forms of the language that have mostly died out in the present time.

[pippin]

6. Nuclear

Amazing the number of people who say " new-ki-ler."