USC - What English Word does your SO mispronounce most often?

[TBoneTX 45,288]

jews. i'm supposed to give baby boy some jews in his drinking cup.

We'll have to passover that this week, oy man.

[NickD 202]

Wife says she will never say cheat sheet in public, comes out as cheap sh!t. LOL.

[thongd4me 69]

Funny listening to her describing the occasional fights between her co-workers.

She always says "agreement" when she means "argument"

[K and T 0]

My wife pronounces Syracuse as sigh-rah-cuse

[TigerTeddyBear 26]

Connecticut. The way she says it makes me feel like i am being tazered.

[thongd4me 69]

Connecticut. The way she says it makes me feel like i am being tazered.

My Brit friend pronounces it "Kon-Ékt-Y-Kut"

[TigerTeddyBear 26]

At least your friend has the correct number of syllables.

[thongd4me 69]

At least your friend has the correct number of syllables.

Also with the right number of syllables from him: "Tak-Ton-Ic Parkway"

[thongd4me 69]

The latest one on this list is "invenshyon" which indicates that she is trying to say "evaluation."

She got a very good evaluation at one of her part-time jobs recently; everybody there likes her.

I know she could be a manager very quickly but the one thing holding her back is she is

uncomfortable with handling US coins & currency. As a teacher of Thai she never needed

that skill (making change, etc.) and in order to be a manager she has to be able to also work

as a cashier. Most people pay with plastic but she has to be able to handle change for cash

quickly and correctly when that need arises.

She also is not yet so confident to be able to answer any question that customers

may ask her quickly and impatiently. That will improve with time.

She also found out recently that lots of the people they are hiring are getting paid a dollar

less than she is. Apparently they were impressed by her work history & maturity.

Edited May 12, 2011 by thongd4me

[Messybrownhair 251]

[thongd4me 69]

Must be good; I'll listen when I get home.

I think you must know this one:

[TBoneTX 45,288]

"I bought you cheap."

= I went to the supermarket and bought chips for you.

"Did he went eggship?"

= Was his reaction akin to the intestinal excrement of apes?

"Baby beau meet! We nit gnu shits on the bet."

= Baby vomited; we need new sheets on the bed.

[Pupsik 4]

frisky = frisbee (i love when she asks to play frisky though, so cute)

hum borger = hamburger

vever = weather

free = three

there are a bunch but she is always getting better. i think its cute so i dont want her to lose the accent completely.

[Pooky 3,784]

My wife pronounces Syracuse as sigh-rah-cuse

Hate to say it (not really ) but your wife pronounces the word closer to the original Ancient Greek for the city of the same name on the island of Sicily.

As opposed to Chelmsford, which the other half (the USC) pronounced as Kelmsford, until corrected by the woman who lived in our SatNav

[thongd4me 69]

The following is a treatise on the English language sent to me by my friend, the retired Harvard lawyer:

I think a retired English teacher was bored. THIS IS GREAT!

Read all the way to the end................. This took a lot of work to put together! You think English is easy??

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture..

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert..

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear..

19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant, nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France . Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig..

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ?

You lovers of the English language might enjoy this ..

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?

We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be dressed UP is special. A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP! To be knowledgeable about the proper uses of UP, look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized dictionary, it takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty definitions. If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearingUP.

When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.

When it doesn't rain for awhile, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, so........it is time to shut UP! Now it's UP to you what you do with this email.

Edited August 7, 2011 by thongd4me