I will admit I probably pronounced every other word incorrectly

Many of those examples are not specifically American, but simply due to phonemic assimilation or elision, which normally occurs in more or less complex consonant clusters. Try it yourself:

ask vs. aks
The latter comes way easier, because the tounge is almost in the right position for s after k anyway, and the plosive even pushes it forward the last bit.

cavalry vs. calvary
Same here: The first makes you twist your tongue, but if you just move the l to the beginning, you create a shortcut between v and r.








OK, some are plain stupid.

You Americans make me laugh with your mispronunciation. Know what I'm talking aboot? lol

I can't stand it when I hear someone say "supposably" I have to hold myself back from going "SUPPOSEDLY!!" Its just a random pet peeve of mine.

I concur! It is really irritating. I'm a grammar freak, though. But, I still make mistakes too. That's probably why I usually don't say anything.

'Excetera' drives me nuts! So does 'skedule' instead of schedule.

I want to poke my eyes out when I see these common verbal errors in written form.

It's "a lot" easier, not "way" easier (and a lot, is not one word). :D

The one that I have heard most recently that makes my skin crawl is "orientated". No, it's oriented or orientation, not a combination of the two.

Here's a list that's a bit more comprehensive (and perhaps annoying).

Was that an attempt at subliminal messaging in the tags.

Didn't work...

*must upvote*

Damn!

Oh, and how it drives me up the wall! I've heard newscasters say 'orientated' - it makes me so mad!

My Mom pulled this blunder many years ago and we will never let her forget it. The phrase "Talk to the hand" was popular and someone said something to my Mom. She put her hand up and said "Don't talk to the hand". We all just cracked up.

My mom once tried to say "booyeah" but she said "bouillon" instead. She hasn't lived it down yet :D

Things never end well when moms try to use "cool" phrases.

/hijack

thank you suckersklub!

There was another one where someone asked why it is "these data" if data is the plural from Latin, but not "these spaghetti" if spaghetti is the plural from Italian.

In English there can be two types of nouns, count nouns and mass nouns. Some languages, like Korean, do not have this distinction.
Count nouns include words like dogs, boxes, and websites. Other nouns are mass nouns; you would never say "drink these waters" or "I did those homeworks last night."

Spaghetti was assimilated into English as a mass noun, and so saying "these spaghetti" would be like saying "you can sit on those furnitures."


As an aside, if anyone actually read that entire comment, maybe we could exchange numbers, meet up for dinner, something...

It appears some of those are just plain regional. Here in colorado they pronounce Zuni as Zoo-nye instead of Zoo-nee. *cringes*

but, who cares, eventually we'll all just speak text. IMHO.

;)

You really do need to watch context (and trust me, I'm as pedantic as they get with language). To choose one example:

Cavalry == a group of soldiers on horses (or mechanical equivalent),
Calvary == A hill near Jerusalem.

I've heard people saying some of these and it urks me, and I've said some myself.

But the presence of some of the "mispronounciations" on here are just stupid. There is a thing called slang; it's not always a misponounciation. Guesstimate is a prime example of this. Everyone knows it's estimate, unless you're really up in the hills.

Alzheimers is another one, it's a f'ing joke; lighten up. Who most commonly suffers from alzheimers? Old-timers. Wakka wakka.

And a "doggy-dog world"? Has anyone actually heard someone say this outside of making bad animal puns? Or is the source for this a four year old? Where's pasketties on the list???

"Just assume not go..." come one, get off your high horse and open your ears. Are we just talking to fast for you? Maaaaayybeeeee weeeee shoooouuuullllldddd slooooowwwww dooooooowwwnnn sooooo thaaaat youuuuu caaaaaan keeeeeep uuuuuuup.

"may-sure” / “play-sure” / “tray-sure" - what? Are we picking on accents now? Where's drawring?

OK, I'm done. Sorry, this list annoyed me.

I have to agree with donteatpoop. Some of the words on this list just don't belong here. "Guessitmate" is a slang term combining guess and estimate = an educated guess. I learned that in school!
Accents changes from region to region. And language evolves.
This list was annoying.
Really.

When I was little I had neighbors who would say they had to "pick up thier Subscriptions at the Pharmacy" I always got a kick out of it. Then again I'm always "Fixin to do this or Fixin to do that" I could care less if its proper.

As for the list, if languages didn't evolve we would still be going "Ugh Ugh Grunt Grunt Ooga Booga" Who's to say their way should stay the "right" way to say something.

Um, it's irks, not urks.


/me ducks.

I think the world would be a better place if people read the "Dangling and Misplaced Modifiers" section.

(But then again, we wouldn't have so many funny signs that way!)

iz got no clues what you b talkin' 'bout. lolz

=P j/k haha