How do you (mis)pronounce some words

[ricstew]

mishcheevious, mischievous..........H.......aitch ( and a quote I found somewhere for something else )...."Well the letter is prounced differently in different places and in Australia we would spell it Hayche (or something like that), with the H sound, not Aich."

[Kerro]

Aluminum instead of Aluminium gets my goat

[la lumiere]

Ok...these are not really pronunciation issues... more grammar related..

...irregardless
...refer back
...ATM machine
...for free
...compliment when complement is meant

[CherylB]

There are a few strange souls who pronounce duvet - duvv-ett - and say that any other way of pronouncing it is pretentious.

Hehe! Tar-shjay (Target)!!!

(and that's very hard to represent without a phonetic alphabet!)

[ricktas]

Anarctic, rather than antartic

ViG-net not Vin-yet for Vignette

[ricktas]

Or even better:

[Mat]

Shal we mention the kiwi's?

[jjnic]

It's a long list but at the top of mine is stomIck instead of stomAch

jj

[PH005]

Shal we mention the kiwi's?

Only if you can spell "shall" correctly.

[Kym]

Kiwi? For our bro's from UnZid

Milburn - capital of Victoria
Peck - to fill a suitcase
Pissed aside - chemical which kills insects
Pigs - for hanging out washing with
Pump - to act as agent for prostitute
Pug - large animal with a curly tail
Nin tin dough - computer game
Munner stroney - soup
Min - male of the species
Mess Kara - eye makeup
McKennock - person who fixes cars
Mere - Mayor
Leather - foam produced from soap
Lift - departed
Kiri Pecker - famous Australian businessman
Kittle crusps - potato chips
Ken's - Cairns
Jumbo - pet name for someone called Jim
Jungle Bills - Christmas carol
Inner me - enemy
Guess - vapour
Fush - marine creatures
Fitter cheney - type of pasta
Ever cardeau - avocado
Fear hear - blonde
Ear - mix of nitrogen and oxygen
Ear roebucks - exercise at the gym
Duffy cult - not easy
Amejen - visualise
Day old chuck - very young poultry
Bug hut - popular recording
Bun button - been bitten by insect
Beard - a place to sleep
Sucks Peck - Half a dozen beers
Ear New Zulland - an extinct airline
Beers - large savage animals found in U.S. forests
Veerjun - mythical New Zealand maiden
One Doze - well known computer program
Brudge - structure spanning a stream
Sex - one less than sivven
Tin - one more than nine
Iggs Ecktly - Precisely
Earplane - large flying machine
Beggage Chucken - place to leave your suitcase at the earport
Sivven Sucks Sivven - large Boeing aircraft
Sivven Four Sivven - larger Boeing aircraft
Cuds - children
Pits - domestic animals
Cuttin - baby cat
Munce - usually served on toast

[PH005]

One that really gripes me is when people say O for the numeral zero.

[PH005]

Just you wait till the Bloodesloe Kym. Then we'll see who has the last laugh.

[Kym]

Just you wait till the Bloodesloe Kym. Then we'll see who has the last laugh.

What do you speak of? A new AFL team?

[PH005]

What do you speak of? A new AFL team?

Yes. Allblacks Flog Losers .

[James T]

Shal we mention the kiwi's?

Only if you can spell "shall" correctly.

Mention the Kiwi's what?

/I'm with ameerat42 on the apostrophes.

[ving]

Anarctic, rather than antartic

ViG-net not Vin-yet for Vignette

Ving yet?

[bobt]

I'm a little old fashioned and originally a Pom, so I am keen on people using the English rather than US versions - such as Castle (not cassel) and Nude should rhyme with Lewd (which is quite appropriate I guess).

I agree ewith Rick that people who can't pronounce Vignette should have their cameras confiscated!

[ving]

btw... vin-yet

[Bennymiata]

Americans call the car Camaro as Com-air-o.
What we call a Celica, they call it a silly-car

And Pontiac.
Pimps Or Niggers Think It's A Cadillac! (sorry if I offended anyone there with using the N word, but it doesn't have the same connotation here as it does in the US).

I had to go to the States on business last year, just after the Hey Hey it's Saturday debarcle with the 4 guys dressed in Black Face, and I was questioned on it a few times about how can we allow this to go on air etc.
After explaining that they were only re-doing a sketch they did 20 years ago, they still thought it was very rude and undermining of equal opportunities etc., until I told them that 3 of the guys were actually very dark skinned.
Americans just don't get our self-effacing humour I'm afraid.

[I @ M]

I know this thread is about mispronunciation of words in the English language but seeing as how it has examples of grammar I will ask who out there uses "revert back" or "try and" --- they are my pet hates.