Mispronunciations? Funny!

Poohb was the inspiration for this post.  :o)  Her little girl's word for "masquerade" was "mass parade".  LOL.  I get a giggle out of words that are mispronounced.  :oD

One of my favourites....my EX mother-in-law was a woman who left school in grade six, but felt she was superior to everyone, especially ME.  LOL.  She mispronounced a LOT of words, but the one that made me turn around QUICKLY and hastily TRY to compose myself from falling into a fit of giggles was the following sentence:

She was talking of a new type of food that she had never tasted before. 

"Well, I just had to CURE-MY-OSITY and try it."

*Laffin*

Any other funny words out there?? 

when my son was little he used to call a fly swatter a fly smotter and it was cute when he wanted to smot flies.  He's seven now and its still stuck and he pretends to get mad when we talk about smotting flies :)

As for one that gets on my nerves.  My former inlaws god love em were from the part of the country where they "warsh" things instead of "wash" them and it made me batty lol 

my Nephew used to stay kenfucky tried chicken...

My Daughter called omelets, Hamlets

Laundry Hamper - Laundry Pamper

This came from a woman my mom used to work with...

She once told my mother that at night when she got cold she liked to "pull an african" over her...  (Afghan)

Another time, she said that she was "ear droppin" on someone's conversation (eavesdropping)

Not sure how many people here are from the south, if you're not you probably won't get this.

But when I was probably 4 or 5, I called Brunswick stew 'brawndex stew'. But my parents have thought it was funny ever since. Now my four-year-old calls it that because they say it every time there's any mention of Brunswick stew.

my husband could probably come up with a lot of those coming from me :-)  One I remember I used to mispronounce was "idea", which I was saying as "ID".
That's why I married an American: he can correct me when needed and he also finds me funny because of how I say things sometimes. It's an easy way for me to make my hubby laugh :-)

The other day our delivery guy was saying that his route wasn't very difficult and declared "It's not rocket surgery!"

My son called my inlaws Grandma and Grandpa "Willyworms" when he tried to say "Williams".  It stuck so they will forever be known as Grandma and Grandpa Willyworms.  They even sign cards like that. 

my cousin Kaylee or shall i say "Taylee" .. can't pronounce c's or k's to save her life.. and shes a huge fan of "hello kitty"

so nevertheless.. nothing beats when she says.. HELLO TITTY haha 

And of course.... who can forget the ever famous constant mis-pronounciation of the word nuclear as "nucular" by you-know-who.

My son calls casserole, "cassarola".

Can't stand people who pronounce the word "especially" like "ex-pecially", or espresso "expresso"... there's no "X"!!!. Or nuclear like "nucular" as someone already mentioned. Ugh.

I thought of a couple of other annoying ones.  I live near St Louis MO on the Illinois side of the river and it makes me batty when people pronounce Missouri missouruh and when people pronounce Illinois Illinoise as if it were loud lol. 

My boyfriend always says "percific" instead of "specific". It always used to make me giggle but it's really old now...

And I always remember my dad laughing at me when he was trying to open the back door one day when I was about 5 years old... "daddy, can't you give the door a wank?" as opposed to yank...

Ooh, a whole thread b/c of my daughter!  Heh heh!

It was fun listening to my kids, probably then 3 & 5, arguing about the name of the game "hide ingo seek".

my favorite kid mispronounciation was my son's "holly popper" for helicopter.

My boyfriend's Dutch, so I get to hear, "I have this great id." all the time, instead of idea. He also says Al-you-min-um for aluminum.

My mom says, "warsh" instead of wash, but I do too.

My Grandma used to say, "dy" instead of "day" Sundy, Mondy, Tuesdy..

My daughter used to call popsicles, pop pickles. Too cute!

I hear this one all time...JewelAree instead of jewelry and liberry instead of library.

my grand daughter calls asparagus parrot gus  and kleenex  sneezex