Incorrect pronunciation of words

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babochka said:
My 1st grade teacher, Sister Paul, used to announce that we were going to watch a fil…um. Or something like that. More than 40 years later, I can still hear her Irish accent in my head. Thanks to her, I can still understand the heaviest brogue.
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No Irish around where I lived but “fil-lum” was the standard pronunciation. It was quite a while before I saw the word written and learned that film is a one syllable word.

Of course there was also my aunt who pronounced it in French – “Flim”. 😃
 
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The worst word for me isn’t in the lectionary.

Cognac is a tough one to pronounce if you are looker to read it as it doesn’t sound like it looks.
 
Once I corrected a Philipino priest on his pronunciation of Emmaus, as in the road to Emmaus. Well, all previous priests had always said “uh-May-us”. I heard this priest to be saying “a-Mouse”. Of course I don’t care for mice, so I went up after Mass to correct him. He wasn’t upset but he told me I was incorrect. He had researched the pronunciation.

Apparently, the Greek pronunciation is “eh-Mao-oos,” according to my friend.

As I search it up now, I hear both online. Anyhow, it’s worth a try to correct the deacon.
 
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QwertyGirl said:
My mother-in-law used to say “dia-rear”. “Does that baby still have dia-rear?”. LOLOL. It is a great memory for me. (not the “dia-rear”, but the way she said it).
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Umm… do you mean like dyer-rear? How else is it said?
 
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I’m not sure if you guys sing the hymn “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name”, (I love the hymn) - but there’s a line that gets me giggling every stinking time I sing it:

“Let angels prostrate fall, bring forth the royal diadem…”

I grew up singing that in elementary school (Episcopal), and for years sang it - and I mean belted it out - “angels prostate…” My heart was in the right place.
 
One Polish Padre we had was very fond of the hymn “This Day God Gives Me” but each time he sang it the line “Angels of heaven, drive from me always, all that would harm me, stand by me still” was rendered “Angels of heaven, drive from me always, all that would harm me, stand by my still.”

I always had visions of the angels standing there with shotguns, keeping the Revenuers at bay.
 
Just like colonel or Wednesday. Or even answer. The foreigner has a tough time with any word containing “ough” as there are eight ways of pronouncing it.

One radio announcer named Hughes said his name could easily be spelled Huz.
 
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We speak English, however, we pronounce words very differently.

Example. Aluminium, Mazda,

We even spell the same word differently.
 
How do you pronounce Mazda? Maze-da? Just curious as I’ve never heard it pronounced other than Mahz-da.
 
Pattylt said:
How do you pronounce Mazda? Maze-da? Just curious as I’ve never heard it pronounced other than Mahz-da.
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Mazda is advertised on TV and “Mahz-da” is what the announcer calls it.

That’s how you can tell the age of people in America- if they pronounce Pall Mall as “Pell Mell”, they probably got it from the radio or TV announcer when the product was advertised on TV before 1971
 
M az du.
Al u minimum

You guys say al uum in im

Tomato, tomato 😎
 
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Thanks…I’ve never heard the Maz du but I can see that as a pronunciation! I remember hearing Pell Mel! But, I’m old (however, I don’t remember a time before TV! I’m very pre-1971, though.)
 
Then there are New Englanders that can’t even decide on how to pronounce the names of their cities/towns. Bar Harbor and Bah Hahbah, Boston and Bahston, Cape Cod and Cape Caahhd. Don’t get me started on New York!
 
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Met my first New Yorker when I went to Ohio State U. She told me to Make the lights. I looked at her and said Make them what? THEN realized she wanted me to turn them on. I learned several New Yorkisms soon there after. Pizza is pie, jeans are dungarees and the letter R seems to get randomly added to words without them!
 
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Met my first New Yorker when I went to Ohio State U. She told me to Make the lights. I looked at her and said Make them what? THEN realized she wanted me to turn them on. I learned several New Yorkisms soon there after. Pizza is pie, jeans are dungarees and the letter R seems to get randomly added to words without them!
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I used to be a cna who worked in an assisted living home. For my first few months there I also was surprised by some of their vernacular for random items. A couple of the words I remember isMany called the fridge an ice box…and when they said Davenport, they meant couch.
 
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Allie1 said:
I used to be a cna who worked in an assisted living home. For my first few months there I also was surprised by some of their vernacular for random items
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Elderly persons often call ointments “salve”, which is pronounced “sav” (rhymes with have).
 
My friend’s family drove a Volvo when we were growing up. Her dad was from the south. He used to pronounce is “V lva". I can’t put the second letter in because it will probably get me banned. You get the point. And he used to say the first syllable in a very long drawn out fashion. "I’ll be picking you girls up from the movies at 10 PM sharp. I will be in the V***lva. Don’t keep me waiting”.

My face still turns red when I think about it. No wonder I find mispronounced words so funny, even 40 years later.
 
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