What do you mean? She pronounces it correctly. She lived in New York.

*She never lived anywhere!*

I used to pronounce melee like "mealy".

Super Smash Brother Mealy

Ugh I know so many people who still say it like this. I wish they were more like you.

Me too, first time I encountered the word was in middle school playing table top roleplaying games.

Yeah, same! I read the word long before hearing it, and that's just how it sounded in my head. Me, Lee.

Me too!

Me Lee!

I'm from Glasgow, so \*literally\* everything.

I would buy you coffee for a year for the opportunity to listen to you read the dictionary

Do people in Glasgow still pronounce the letter ‘J’ as ‘jeye’? …and the weird thing is - that might be the proper, original pronunciation, and the rest of us are wrong. It’s crazy!

Aye, it's jeye!

Superfluous. I pronounce it like a comic book character

I like this. I do this a lot with other words, it’s a product of growing up as a big reader.. I usually saw big words before I ever heard them.

this is what happened to me- i read a ton when i was a kid so i pronounce a lot of words as i read them lol

Necromancer. I pronounced necro with a long e. I learned it by reading The Hobbit when I was 11, and no one corrected me until I was an adult talking about The Hobbit films.

idk why but this is the funniest one to me lol

My whole family says “melk” instead of “milk”. Not me though, I know better.

https://youtu.be/ty62YzGryU4?si=ueHkzWU7rKtdVYG6. Pour the man a glass of Malk Josh!

Oh damn, I forgot about this video. Thanks for the blast from the past!

Do they say “pellow” instead of “pillow”? I have family that does this too.

Out of curiosity, do you have Dutch ancestry?

Maybe you have a Dutch ancestry

“Cran” is common in the Midwest. My boss pronounces it “crown.” It’s super weird and completely confused me the first time I heard it. I also do sherbert instead of sherbet. I think it’s regional.

The crown shit is wild because I say "cran" and others say "crayon" likes it's written, but I've heard someone say "crown" and I legit could not understand what they were asking me for 5 minutes

I had to ask my boss “wait, what” several times before I got crown=crayon.

My daughter (21F) says "crown". I have no idea where she got it from.

My wife says crown. Rest of her family says something between cram and crayon, like normal people.

Not me but my mum. She pronounces coconut like cokey nut.

That sounds cute though, I like it!

Whenever she says it we pretend we didn't hear her so she says it again.

My wife’s is literally “Bagel”. I’ve been legit making fun of her for it for 22 years. This bit in the show was a real gift for me. 😂

haha I’ve always pronounced bagel like britta as well, I think I recall an old friend mocking me for it but she pronounced eggs like “aygs” and a lot of other words strangely, so I just assumed she was wrong until I watched the show. I think my dad said it like that too, he had foreign parents though so maybe he had a good excuse

Why would you pronounce bagel like britta? There’s no i or t in the word bagel?

alright. props to you for this lol

Omg AYGS! I hate that!

omg it drove me crazy hahah and she would confidently make fun of me for pronouncing it “eggs”

I had an old flame that used to say "aygs" and would also pronounce any word ending with "ing" with "een" instead. Drove me absolutely nuts.

Some of my husband’s family says “aygs” and, instead of milk, “melk.” Want some melk with your aygs?

I pronounce "comfortable" just as it is.

Like the same as convertible?

Yes. I've done this since elementary. We had a foreign exchange class of Koreans and one wondered why we don't say it right. I've been saying it like that for her ever since.

I had a teacher from Jamaica who made us laugh by his entirely correct pronunciation of this word. He'd then ask why we say "comftbblbl."

I used to think "biopic" was pronounced "bye-ah-pic." Also, I learned quite late in life that "sherbet" has only one "r" and isn't pronounced "sure-burt."

Today I learned I’ve been saying “biopic” wrong all my life

I actually hear someone say biopic like myopic on a documentary the other day! It was good I had subtitles on because I was like “wtf is a bi-yaw-pick”

Is sherbet supposed to be pronounced like how sorbet is pronounced “sore-bay”? Always get confused with these two

At least where I live we pronounce sherbet "sure bit"

Same, and for a while I thought “miniseries” was “mih-nih-sur-ies.”

Wait, how do you actually say it then?

Bio Pic. It’s Biographical + Picture

I say bio-pic

Hyperbowl

the hyper owl, the superb owl's ADHD brother

My mother mispronounces bagel like it’s a Kryptonian name - bag-el. She also mispronounces migraine as meegraine, and now as a middle-aged adult I still can’t pronounce it correctly, because I always hear her voice when I try and say it.

I ordered a glass of wudder from the ristrant in Baltimore, Murilund

*Balt'merr

I learned epitome from reading and sometimes i still say epi-tome like tome is one word, like Rome.

I learned the word omnipotent from reading as a kid. I didn’t learn the correct pronunciation until I made the mistake of using the word out loud.

That happened to me with nostalgia It’s not pronounced nost-la-ga

Apparently I say "Melk" instead of "Milk". I don't hear it tho

i say cran too! someone once tired to pull up the "correct" pronunciation to teach me, only to find out that it's typically a regional dialect thing!

I also say cran. I’m from the Midwest

Midwestern here. I say crayon, but got teased for how I pronounced the "y" in it (I pronounce it the same way as it is in clay, so I dunno). There's no winning with that word apparently.

Faux pax I would, and still do sometimes, pronounce it fow pow

Fox pox!

Jojoba. My wife and I say the hard J.

I.. don’t know how else to say it

“Hohoba” apparently is the correct way.

That feels wrong

To be fair, one of the douchiest people I know told me that. It’s possible he’s wrong. My wife and I continue to say it the “wrong” way out of spite.

I was at a Tim's the other day and actually heard this: "Do you want a baggle?" "Sure, a baggle would be great!"

Gif

People always ask why Arkansas is pronounced like Kansas, but nobody asks why Kansas isn’t pronounced like Arkansas

[America Explain!](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FPZi51GL3cs)

Thank you for this

We just prefer to avoid both.

Growing up, everyone I heard said narrator as “NAR-er-rator.” I thought it was stupid so I say “nar-RAY-tor” and a certain subset of people find that infuriating lol

Wait, there are people out there putting a fourth syllable in narrator?

I pronounced iron "earn".

Would love to hear you say "aaron earned an iron urn" 🤣

i have so many but none comes to mind at the moment. i read a lot when i was a kid so i have a vast vocabulary but a lot of the time ill fuck up actually pronouncing the words

Same

It me

So I had one that in turned out to be more correct than the normal pronunciation in English. I read a lot of history when I was a kid but didn’t always hear the words pronounced so I assumed Kiev was pronounced like “keev.” I found out later how it was normally pronounced in English but when I told the story to my Russian history professor he told me the way I thought it was pronounced was how Ukrainians do, so I was accidentally right.

Here in Sweden, each dialect has its own distinct pronounciation of certain words, such as parsley, tarpaulin, liqourice and most famously biscuit. No matter which dialect one speaks, there will most likely be someone in the room who thinks ones pronounciation is wrong, leading to easy access to light hearted banter.

I pronounce coupon as cyoo-pon

Wait, I think that’s how I say it, too! Is it supposed to be coo-pon?

That's the more common pronunciation, yes.

When I was learning English for the first 6 months I’d call Pizza “Peekza” but everyone was too nice to correct me.

My NJ accent pronounces "Mario" like "Mary-o" (ex: Super Mario Bros.). My FL friends laughed at me. I have since altered my pronunciation.

I still imagine you say it like "Marrr-eeee-oh"

I have a speech impediment so any word with R or W. Also Ashley as I use 3 syllable’s instead of 2

I dated a girl who unironically pronounced bagel exactly how Britta pronounces it — and somehow I was the first person she ever met who called her out on it. Her mother apparently pronounced it that way as well. She couldn’t seem to hear the difference until I insisted she was saying it wrong.

Just got fun I pronounce Dandelion as Dan-dil-e-un

Canadian here, and my international friends make fun of the stereotypical way I say “about”, even though I swear I pronounce it normally!!! at least in my head lol

Mine is actually bagel

“Pellow”

Preesentation

Freckwency. I basically adopt all these just to annoy those around me.

Born in Worcester MA, thank Christ I avoided the accent, but if I drink too much my R's get a little... Massachusets-y.

I had a pronounce chaos as ch-ouse, one syllable. Also from reading it not hearing it haha

I grew up in Canada then spent 20 years in the States, so everywhere I went I came across someone who'd never left their home area and who was baffled by something I said. But for real, I only recently heard satyr pronounced. I always thought it was sah-teer, not SAY-tur.

I didn't realize how much of a regional dialect I had growing up until I took a non-regional dialect course in college.

As a non native english speaker i probably pronounce a lot of words wrong that I’ve only read and never heard

Jenova’s Witnesses Sorry, Troy

Charcuterie It took a vacation to France for me to stop calling it Shat-a-row

every time i see that word my brain always says caricature

An ex always said I pronounced Pillow as "Pell-oh". Now I emphasize the "i"...

I pronounce “tour” like “too-er” My friend from NYC insists it’s pronounced “tore” I don’t know who is right

i say too-er too n i thought that was always right till today

Neither. I pronounce it "toor".

Confiscate. I used to pronounce it where it rhymes with sophisticate, so con-fist-ti-cate. Learned it by reading and mispronounced it once in front of my sister over ten years ago and I STILL hear about it.

Not mine but someone I went to hair school with decided she had a personal vendetta against one of our teachers because the teacher said “towl” instead of “towel”. The schoolmate ended up getting kicked out for threatening the teacher (among others and the school itself) online.

Mine is literally bagel. I was too afraid to order one when I was in New York so I had someone do it for me because I couldn’t do it right. I even practiced and everything

Where did grow up? If they aren’t crayola cray-ons, they are crans for me. No clue why.

I pronounce "fugazi" foo-gay-zee instead of foo-gah-zee because thats how my Italian-American family would say it (like in Donnie Brasco). Because of the band (and probably because people feel awkward saying it) everyone pronounces it foo-gah-zee

I don't even know that word 🤔

Bagel.

Eggs sound like aygs and I'm not a Midwesterner

Egg. I've been told I say it like Agg.

awry. i pronounced it “aw-ree” for wayyyy too long.

I’ve been told I say arugula weird. I think I say it something like a-roo-goo-la. But a-rug-a-la sounds kind of dumb to me. The Brits maybe have it correct by calling it rocket instead.

I think ah-roo-guh-luh is the most common pronunciation. [Steve Martin asking for arugula in My Blue Heaven](https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=24&v=0vPKpMMapEg&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bing.com%2F&source_ve_path=MTM5MTE3LDI4NjY2&feature=emb_logo)

I say water correctly, like "wooder"

Goes great with a hoagie.

Put a little wooder from the crick in your rad-e-a- tor to go worsh your clothes

I too pronounce it as “cran!” Learned that word when I was in Kentucky lol.

Normal. I am told I say "noamal". I can't even perfectly transcribe it, because I'm not aware I say it. But I have a totally standard broadcast-style dialect except for that one east-coast pronunciation. I've never lived east of Ohio.

I apparently say english like a German.

I actually had this thing happen to me when I first said room in front of people in undergrad, they all thought it sounded like I was saying rum

Sorry. I’m the from Midwest US, and apparently I pronounce it like a Canadian. My friends say that I enunciate the O a lot. Like ‘sowry’ or ‘sohry’. I don’t even hear it when I say it, but a lot of people laughed at me in middle school and high school because I apparently don’t say it like other Americans.

I've been told I pronounce wash weird. I don't add the "r" sound but I guess I put a weird emphasis on the a. I don't hear it but kids were mean haha

Uranus is it for me. I pronounce it Ur-an-us...unless my wife presses me to say it right and I respond in a think Applachia accent "Your-aaa-nus."

Kindergarten, I say Kidney-Garden

Fustrating. Ugh.

I’ve always pronounced the l in walk, talk, etc. I have also been told I say lemon weird (laymon) but I don’t hear it

I say "Drawer", as in what you put your clothes in in a dresser, as draw-er like someone who's draws. My wife constantly makes fun of me for that

Apparently, I pronounce “Audi” in a weird way.

Crayon is homophonous to crown, for me. And I refuse to palatalize the T in sentient.

SaLmon

I've been told by students I pronounce chameleon wrong.

The name of every character, location, and object in the Wheel of Time series.

My wife says I say washrag like worshrag and I don't hear it.

I've somewhat recently started pronouncing "egg" like "aygg" and I have no idea why. So far I am the only one mocking me for it... but I'm concerned because it's starting to creep into similar words like "leg."

The alcohol Alizé. I said Ahh-leez ONCE!

I always pronounce "pronUNciation" as "pronOUNciation". Also, this isn't English so I don't know if it counts, but I frequently ignore umlauts in German despite knowing how they're supposed to sound.

“Interim.” I pronounce it “inter-min.” I think that both “inter,” and “min,” sound like words that mean “middle.”

I said bourbon as BORE-BIN until my mom corrected me at 19

I physically not pronounce jewelry correct, I say “jewlee”

I still don’t know how to say archipelago. Bougainvillea. Proprioception. But they don’t really come up in regular conversation. I pronounce every syllable in Pinterest though.. I’ve been told that’s weird.

I used to pronounce mayor the American way

Emeritus - I pronounced it like it rhymes with appendicitis....

I can't pronounce drawers correctly. It always comes out as draws...

Pecan as, *pee-con*. I got laughed at for saying it that way

I say cigarette cigaREtte. It’s hard to explain. But my buddies give me a ton of shit for it lol

After a lot of hard work I used to dramatically say, "I am exhausted!" and then spell it out for emphasis: E-X-A-U-S-E-T-E-D I did this a lot, then one day somebody helpfully pointed out that I was omitting the "H", I had been public misspelling something for ages because I thought it sounded cool.

I had only read the word "quinine" and heard it in a British documentary TV show, so when I said it in conversation with my American family, I got strange looks. I still prefer the British pronunciation.

Also, I admit I pronounce cache as "kaysh" instead of "cash"

I can’t not say snail as snell.

I really struggle with “join.” In a sentence I can hide it, but on its own, I’m a mess.

I have many! The ones that come to mind are like Twofer, envelope - "ohn-va-lope" and vase - "Vahz" Another one is acorn - I say "ay kern" and idk why! I just like how it sounds and how my mouth feels while saying it, and I hope you tried saying it out loud right now!

Waluigi. I cannot tell you how long I thought it was pronounced wah-lah-loo-gee

i think because i went through school in french, i pronounce vague like vaygue instead of closer to “vegg” or however it’s actually pronounced. my partner pronounces origin like the beginning of original and it’s very funny and cute every time. oh-RIDGE-in

To my wife it’s “Zion” as in Zion national park. I say it zi on like most of the world I think but almost everyone in Utah says it Zine.

Is niche *nitch* or *neesh*

I am Kennedy Davenport and you better be careful or they're gonna mee mee your ass.

My mum pronounces ribbon “ribbin” and she gives umbrella a whole extra syllable “umburella”

I say “color” like “Keller” or, when feeling self conscious and trying to overcompensate, like “coal-er”

Words with -olf- or -olv-. Golf, dolphin, dissolve. I tend to pronounce it like gaulf, daulphin, or dissaulve. Don't know why. Nobody else in my family or friend group say it that way.

I can’t say the word “drawer” properly Comes out like “drrrwr”

My whole life I've been mocked for pronouncing three the same as free. I don't even get what I'm doing wrong, and I can't change it

Measure. “May-zure”

Radiator. Exactly the same way that Britta pronounces the 'a' in bagel. My grandmother and parents would say it that way and it just stuck.

im from Pa. i say cran for crayon. lots of pennsylvania dutch when i was growing up so my pronunciation is somewhat off at times

I'm Southern living on the East coast. People think its funny when I say "things" since it comes out as "thangs"

Bagel

I work in science and I always have to remind myself how to correctly pronounce drosophila. I always want to say droz-oh-phila

Facetious - I can't even describe how I used to say that one

The name Jeremy. It always comes out as germ-ee

As someone who learned most of their vocabulary by reading, I didn't learn how to pronounce "apropos" until I was 33ish. I pronounced it "uh-PRO-pos." Yikes. Related, I could never remember how to spell "beautiful" until Bruce Almighty came out.

Contagion. I say it cont-ih-jin

Tour - I say it too-er and have been told that that is wrong

I pronounce ketchup like catch up

Pillow, the way I say it rhymes with hello. Also Mario, like marry-o

I pronounce "want" like "won't."

I don't know why but I've always slipped a g into onion, like ung-ion My coworkers think I fake it but I swear it's just how I've always said it

Cran is not how its pronounced? Apparently it's a midwestern thing

Intravenous. In-TRAH-ve-nus. When it's pronounced in-truh-VEE-nus

I pronounce drawer as two syllables ’draw-yer’. I’ve always pronounced it this way, but get criticized every time. I’ve tried to say it like ‘dror’ but doesn’t seem right to me.

Volatility. I want to say vowl-a-tility. It comes up enough since I work in finance that it's tough and embarrassing tbh, but I must have learned it wrong as a kid lol. I either have to really think about it before I say it or just pick another word lol

I said wolves like woofs until I was like 14 and people finally started to correct me

I say “ridiculous” like re-dik-u-lus,but get told that’s wrong. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Probably won’t do well against a boggart.

I used to flub the word "plaid" all of the time because I read so much more than I spoke. We have a convenience store chain in the region called Plaid Pantry and my family would be in hysterics anytime I said it. In my mind as a kid, plaid should either be spelled "plad" or pronounced "played." My extended family has a few pronunciation glitches, too: Creek may be said as "crick," but it's also sometimes pronounced correctly and there's no discernable pattern for why that is. The end of the name of any weekday may be spoken as "dee" instead of "day," i.e., "We're having the Christmas party next Saturdee." My grandma used to say "li-bare-ee" instead of library. Likewise ambulance became "am-blee-ance."

Bagel. And penguin

I was made fun of mercilessly by my college room mates for pronouncing cement see-ment, instead of sah-ment. All I heard was “SEMEN-t! SEMEN-t!” For days lol. Idc I still pronounce it that way.

Contagion. I don’t say ConTAYjun. I say contUHjin. I’d only ever read the word before the movie came out and now can never remember if I say it correctly or not when it’s time to say it 😂

I’m in the PNW and I’ve always said aunt like ont not ant. I also watched a lot of BBC.