Funny Mispronunciations You've Heard

[Sora de Eclaune]

Chell was having a conversation with her grandparents on Skype today and I heard so many funny mispronounced words, so I decided I wanted to see what mispronunciations you guys have heard.

The best of what I've heard today, along with what was actually meant:

• "Ch-yoo-yoo-nib-yoo" (Chuunibyou; context: the contents of Chell's wishlist)
• "Nag-gih-mah" (Negima; context: the contents of Chell's wishlist)
• "Wiggerpedia" (Wikipedia)
• "Erl" (URL)
• "It" (IT, as in tech support)
• "Flappy Disc" (Floppy Disc)
• "Michael Moore" (Macklemore)
• "Adele Dazeem" (Idina Menzel; intentional mispronunciation)

 

[Clarky]

my father in law says "warsh" instead of wash

 

[falconcrest]

how about ustacud (I ustacud play football,but I cant now)

 

[avran89]

A buddy of mine who's English isn't so perfect once used the word "erection" to describe the word "reaction" while we was chatting on skype. He linked me a video and said something like "I showed my Sister this video while looking at her erection.". After a long awkward pause of silence we got it all cleared up and it meant to say was "I showed my Sister this video while looking at her reaction". For a moment there I thought I had to reevaluate who I was hanging out with

 

[cracker]

My grandma used to say "lexecuted" instead of electrocuted. There were others that she would say that I can't think of right now.

 

[yuyuyup]

I saw someone read a liquor bottle that said "Russian" and pronounced it "rue-see-in"

 

[DinohScene]

Mate of mine can't pronounce "vehicle", he just says "fee-ricle".
Dunno where he gets that "r" from...

 

[Densetsu]

Imafuku, a train station in Japan: While traveling with my brothers, one of them said "we need to get off at I'm-a fuck you"

Fukuyama, a city in Hiroshima, Japan: I once heard a tourist say "hey, this train goes all the way down to fuck ya mama"

Yo-Yo Ma = I've heard this one pronounced "yo mama"

 

[Ryukouki]

I've heard Asians say lock and towel as rock and tower. Fettucine = fetish-enee. Linguini = ling's weenie.

 

[Sicklyboy]

Oh oh oh I made a comment about this on reddit last night.

I work the electronics department of a large retail chain. I've learned I've been pronouncing a few brand names wrong all of my life.
Belkin = Blinkin
Nikon = Nixon
SanDisk = Scan Disk/ScanDis
Lexar = Lexon
Fuji = Fiji
Vizio = Vision/Veezee
Also that Apple makes the i5.
Clearly I don't know enough to work in this department if I'm still learning these things.

 

[the_randomizer]

Mario = Mare-ee-oh
Pasta = Pass-ta
Mazda = Mazz-da (then again, the origin of Mazda is the Japanese surname "Matsuda/松田")
Capcom = Capcum

 

[CompassNorth]

Atlas - Atlus
Shin Megami Tensai, Shin Me-goo-me tensei, shin me-goo-me tensai - Shin Megami Tensei

I have no idea why it bothers me so much.

 

[nryn99]

I had been mispronouncing ggwp(gee gee double u pee) as gee gee wee pee.

 

[ilman]

I had a friend not very adept in English, so he would pronounce words all latinly, for example:

-Xbox - Hiks-box (which is strange, because he pronounce s the other 'x' properly)
-Windows XP - Vindovs ExPe (he couldn't pronounce 'w')
-water - veighter
-queue - q-ue-ue (as if ue is it's own word)

Too bad he knows English better now.

 

[DarkWork0]

I always think it's funny on How I Met Your Mother when he says ENCYCLOPAYDIA

 

[Nismax]

I knew a kid freshman year in high school who called pussy "Fergina".

 

[weavile001]

I always thought Shin Megami Tensei was pronounced as: Xin Mega-Me Taisen.

 

[pyromaniac123]

It is fried rice, you plick.

 

[Yoni Arousement]

When I was 8 years old, I thought Goemon was pronounced "Go-mon". Yeah, that was way before learning Japanese pronunciation practice.

 

[the_randomizer]

When I was 8 years old, I thought Goemon was pronounced "Go-mon". Yeah, that was way before learning Japanese pronunciation practice.

Same here, over the years, I realized it was pronounced "go-eh-mon" lol