Words you've used incorrectiably

[Catharsis]

I have had cause to correct my pronunciations of albeit (not actually 'all-bait') and more recently repugnant (not really 're-poon-yant').

It is singularly jarring to think that you know a word, and then to discover that you must only have ever seen it written down. Especially as 'albeit' is a word I use quite a lot. (Not sure if I used 'singularly' correctly there.)

 

[cardgame]

all-bait?

I guess I don't have much room to laugh though, since I have said ren-dez-vuss before.

 

[Quackers]

That is a beauty cardgame

I had a problem with my ears when I was growing up so when i heard a new word I may misshear it by the time it got to me. Therefore village became...billage and sausage became scorsage. I was very, very young though like 5-6 fortunately once i sorted out the problem with my ear it fixed those few words i got wrong.

 

[NedimNapoleon]

Inception is commonly misused, because of the movie they think its a dream within a dream within a dream within a dream but it actually means the beginning, as of a project or undertaking.

 

[Mango Elephant]

That is a beauty cardgame

I had a problem with my ears when I was growing up so when i heard a new word I may misshear it by the time it got to me. Therefore village became...billage and sausage became scorsage. I was very, very young though like 5-6 fortunately once i sorted out the problem with my ear it fixed those few words i got wrong.

Where you live everyone speaks funny so I'm sure nobody noticed.

 

[Formaldehyde]

One of my favorite mispronunciations is frequently heard on the Hitler Channels during the Iraq War and Afghan War coverage. They frequently confuse cache ("cash") with cachet ("ca-shay").

 

[NickyJ]

Redneck pronunciation #507,732: "Winders". No, not winders, like winding; wind(as in moving air)+ers. Say "windows", but replace the 'ows' with 'ers'. "Winders 7", for example. "The draft coming from the front winders is annoying."

 

[Quackers]

Where you live everyone speaks funny so I'm sure nobody noticed.

Southern England accents are actually irresistable to foreigners

 

[holy king]

i often call people who were born into perfectly fine marriages bastards.

 

[cardgame]

i often call people who were born into perfectly fine marriages bastards.

Never leave.

 

[Perfection]

I rofled

He did too.

 

[Luckymoose]

One of my favorite mispronunciations is frequently heard on the Hitler Channels during the Iraq War and Afghan War coverage. They frequently confuse cache ("cash") with cachet ("ca-shay").

I think you are confusing cache and cachet.

 

[kochman]

Wow... It never ceases to amaze me.

 

[The_J]

I have had cause to correct my pronunciations of albeit (not actually 'all-bait')

I may not have been misusing the word (at least I think that's what incorrectiably means), but I only learned how to pronounce banal.

Does pronouncing words wrong count?

Because I had to learn from experience that it is not pronounced "Hyperbowl."

I thought banal was pronounced like 'anal' until like, 3 weeks ago. whoops.

...I think I need to go to school again and take some english classes .


More ontopic: For some time nearly everyone here used to describe a snarky comment as sarcastic, and in most cases that was wrong.

Not sure if ontopic: The phrase "Suppose They Gave A War and Nobody Came" is often used in the wrong way. It reads like an anti war slogan, but in fact it isn't, because the next sentence is "Then the war will come to you."

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

My damn brother keeps thinking "sarcastic" means the same as "impolite". He's such a smart fellow sometimes.

 

[Formaldehyde]

I think you are confusing cache and cachet.

Nope. That is obviously what they are doing when they refer to weapons "cachets".

Wow... It never ceases to amaze me.

Still taking that "Kochman challenge"?

 

[kochman]

Formy, don't assume everything I post is about you... it isn't.
And, to prevent the next predictable step, no, I am not elaborating beyond the following: There is humor in this thread due to mispronunciation, etc...

 

[cardgame]

I think you are confusing cache and cachet.

I don't know about cachet, never having read or heard of the word, but cache is most definitely "cash".

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I don't know about cachet, never having read or heard of the word, but cache is most definitely "cash".

You have cachet

 

[Flying Pig]

Reminded me of a dit I heard, from when the Scots Guards were being shown around their new Warrior IFVs:

[In a thick Glaswegian accent, pointing out the small upright blade that goes in front of the top cover's throat to stop injuries from wires stretched across the road]
"An' this here is a bleede, tae stop youse getting decapacitated!"
[Young officer's accent] "Er, decapacitated, Sergeant-Major?"
"Aye sir, chop yer heed off!"

Not to mention the age-old example of rumour control - "There have been allegations brought to my attention about [the CO and the General's wife], and I want the alligators outside my office NOW!".