Words and phrases that you hate.

[Scooter]

Yeah, I looked it up to support my claim and that's all I see.

@Lily of Denial, how would you pronounce queue the first time you ever saw it and never heard it?

 

[Lily]

Yeah, I looked it up to support my claim and that's all I see.

@Lily of Denial, how would you pronounce queue the first time you ever saw it and never heard it?

I don't know, to be perfectly honest.

I was exposed to English and Spanish from the time I was a baby.

 

[Garraty_47]

I used to mispronounce awry as "aww-ree" until a gal I was dating handed me a clue.

I'd only ever seen it in print and knew exactly what it meant, I'd just never heard it spoken before.

We had a good laugh over it and it still makes me chuckle sometimes.

 

[Lily]

I used to mispronounce awry as "aww-ree" until a gal I was dating handed me a clue.

I'd only ever seen it in print and knew exactly what it meant, I'd just never heard it spoken before.

We had a good laugh over it and it still makes me chuckle sometimes.

Me too!

I don't poke fun at people for mispronouncing things either. Most of the time they learned them by reading them.

 

[Scooter]

I was just wondering. I DO have a history of mispronouncing words. I see how they're spelled through reading but I never heard them spoken.

* ethereal was a word I didn't know how to pronounce until a friend corrected me. I knew the meaning of the word but I didn't know how to say it right.

 

[Garraty_47]

Me too!

I don't poke fun at people for mispronouncing things either. Most of the time they learned them by reading them.

I have to admit though- after that I got more careful about looking up pronunciations as well as definitions when I encountered a new word. Not that I minded being corrected, it was legit a fun experience, but ya never know when the next time could be a lot more embarrassing.

 

[cw_]

I used to mispronounce awry as "aww-ree" until a gal I was dating handed me a clue.

I'd only ever seen it in print and knew exactly what it meant, I'd just never heard it spoken before.

We had a good laugh over it and it still makes me chuckle sometimes.

 

[cw_]

I was just wondering. I DO have a history of mispronouncing words. I see how they're spelled through reading but I never heard them spoken.

* ethereal was a word I didn't know how to pronounce until a friend corrected me. I knew the meaning of the word but I didn't know how to say it right.

Spoken words can be misheard. Ex. Song lyric 'Ghost riders in the sky' was misheard by my daughter when she was a sprout as 'Old spiders in the sky'.

 

[Scooter]

AWRY

@Garraty_47
@Lily of Denial

Me Too! LOL

 

[Scooter]

@cw, don't get me started on misheard song lyrics. (or song lyrics that I made up in my head)

 

[Lily]

@cw, don't get me started on misheard song lyrics. (or song lyrics that I made up in my head)

I think we all have that problem. I know I've wondered about some songs and have sung the silliest shit while driving in the car.

 

[Dracula]

I'm not an etymologist, I've never taken a course in the history of words, and I even had to Google how to spell etymologist, however, I am 93% certain that the phrase "luncheon meat" was invented by Hitler.

I don't like it, I don't like it one bit.

 

[bakerboy]

Free Palestine

 

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