I Always Say SherBERT

59 Comments on I Always Say SherBERT

1. I always say made with dairy Ice Cream but I’ll eat SherBERT in an emergency.

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2. You probably stay “tomato,” also.

   😉

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3. Bostonians are excused from this conversation.

   So is Archie Bunker.

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4. Penelope doesn’t rhyme with envelope.
   Silly Greeks.

   mortem tyrannis
   izlamo delenda est …

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5. I’m originally from Ohio and it’s sherBERT there too.

   My older relatives would add an R, “ she moved to Seattle WARshington…” I didn’t pick that one up.

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6. Wilfred Brimley taught me how to say ‘diabeetus’.

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7. At one point in life I said “melk” and my friend broke out laughing at me. She says it’s milk, not melk. I said that’s what I said, didn’t even realize I was saying it wrong until I caught myself saying it wrong later on.

   Then there’s ruff instead of roof. Apparently that’s a Chicago/midwest thing, but I caught that early and always said roof.

   One that annoys me when people say exit. It’s not eggzit. There are no eggs in exit. Same applies for similar words like eggzpect and eggzactly.

   Then you got all the hipsters who say tezzla. No, it’s tesla, just the way it’s spelled.

   But the ones that really annoy privileged fragile people are all the pronouns not only am I expected to say, but also pronounce properly. I haven’t fallen for it yet and say He/Him and She/Her as the only options. Heads explode.

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8. For “orthoepy” I used to say or-THOW-eppy.

   On purpose. Not one person ever got it.
   But then, I find humor in some mighty odd places.

   Today I find that the formerly mispronunciations of both orthoepy and cacoepy are listed in dictionaries as acceptable. They originally were OR-tho-eppy and CA-co-eppy only.

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9. Could never figger out if “pronuncing” was spoken with long u or short u.

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10. Aluminum.

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11. ‘Metallic’ was always MaTELLic until I saw Metallica.

    Probably from Mattel toys.

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12. I always say “arthuritis”& “hy-eena” for hernia, but I began doing that on purpose to mess with people. The one that always drives me nuts is when people say “laxadaisical”.

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13. Two words I always used to mispronounce are banal and mesquite. My husband laughed at me enough to force me to get it right.

    I get really annoyed when I hear people say “mute” point, nu-cu-lar, and Nev-AH-da.

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14. Democrat = ee-vill.

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15. President Trump taught me how to say the word,”Vagina”. Boy, did I have it wrong?

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16. Not sure if there are rules for trade names.
    Majority of people say fentanawl for fentanyl.

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17. Vuh-Chyna!

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18. I’ve pronounced “ASSHOLE” for Biden and “FAGGOT” for 0bama for years. I just can’t seem to stop…

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19. Chimera, simulacrum, anemone, enmity come to mind, and I consider myself something of a student of the language. Humility is not a strong point of mine but these, among some others, have assisted me in at least brushing by it. Screw them, a proper language would have them pronounced my way.

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20. As a child, I knew what an hors d’oeuvre was and would pronounce it right, but wondered what a whore’s devore was when I read the term in a story.

    Then a day came where I heard it pronounced as it was read on a sign. DOH!

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21. It s’Herbert.

    Captain James T.
    Kirk

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22. And yes, Uncle Al, I had to look yours up… but I guessed the second one right.

23. riverlife_callie: I say Nev-a-da (a as in cat) because I used to live in a city in Marin County named Novato and if if someone said Nev-ah-da we had to listen to determine whether the subject was our city of residence or the state where Las Vegas was located.

    One word that I know I pronounce wrong is “brought.” I used to hate it when people would says “I went to the store and brought a loaf of bread” so I overcorrect3d and used “bought” when I really should have used “brought.”

    While I can’t think of any off hand, there are some words I can’t seem to pronounce correctly to save my life.

    In my senior year in college I had a class taught by a professor I had met a few months ago at the school radio station. When he was taking roll, he got to my name and said “Ooh, say Sacramento.” While many people would say “Sacamenna” he loved how I hit every consonant in the name. I did not OVER enunciate them, but you definitely heard every-single-one.

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24. The king of ALL mispronounced words is…..WORCESTERSHIRE….

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25. The Three Stooges for the win; shoiboit.

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26. At first I thought it was fuck joe biden and then I learned it is lets go brandon.

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27. @willysgoatgruff — Here’s a chicken-and-egg question:

    Is Worcestershire mispronounced or misspelled?

    There are a number of English proper names that fall into that category:

    St. John is pronounced SINN-jinn,
    Cholmondeley is pronounced CHUM-ley,
    and the actor whose full name is Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes pronounces the short version RAFE FINES.

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28. Taxation – theft

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29. @willy
    Especially if you live in Worcester County Maryland:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMNnf2QVemE
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30. Growing up in CA wine country, I often heard CORK SOAKER mispronounced!

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31. The bidet gets rid of the bidert…..mainly from the rain on the plain, in Spain…..

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32. Mercantilism, I’ve been pronouncing it Merchantilism.

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33. terlit – aach-ee bunkah

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34. jean stapleton rip

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35. turmeric….often pronounced toomeric. Why?

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36. I have relatives from U.P. Michigan who pronounce some two syllable words as one syllable, like sheriff/sherff, and syrup/surp.

    Wondering if this is unique to them? I am guessing it developed when my grandparents were picking up English, since their parents immigrated from Finland.

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37. I’ve always said Mr President, when I should say Treasonous, commie. Jaggov.

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38. Why isn’t anybody commenting on how the guy got the right answer? He knew the 2 different desserts.
    Pronunciation has to be accurate on Jeopardy.
    I say the guy got hosed!

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39. I heard they used to call it Black Sauce, until one day an old ni66er asked Hey! Whatch dis here sauce?

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40. I say mess-eh-kin. Just to piss them off.

41. The major city in my newly transplanted area is pronounced Press-kit in spite of being spelled Prescott.

    And my old home-state is Or-ah-gun, not Or-ah-gone.

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42. I was told by a native that it’s Lose-e-anna not Louise-e-anna.

    I think a lot of transplants have shut that down.

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43. Huh? Sure butt?

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44. @mr pinko

    Jeopardy has been ruined by snobs and trannies. It used to be fun and educational. Now it just plain sucks. I hate it now.

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45. My ears hurt when I hear someone say eXpecially instead of eSpecially.

    Yes, had a friend who did that. I never corrected her.

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46. I know someone who pronounces celery as salary. She doesn’t hear it no matter how much you go over it. “That’s what I said!” I met her up north where they put an r in wash and don’t hear that either.

    We just giggle when she does things like that now.

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47. I lik i-screem.

48. I invented sherbet.

49. Nucular

50. Let’s call the whole thing off.

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51. There are lots of pacific examples here. Maybe if we all had an expresso we could think of some more.

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52. When I moved south, I realized there were a lot more syllables in most words than I had realized, and I learned to take my time and pronounce every last one of them.

    Oh, and I quit saying ‘a whole nother.’ But I still like sherbert.

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53. “sure bet”

54. People who say nuCUlar instead of nuCLEar annoy me.

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55. Although I was clued in to the proper pronunciation at a fairly young age, to this day I make a conscious choice to mis-pronounce “gourmet” and “bologna” with a more phonetic reading (gore-met, bo-log-na) just to screw with folks. Most can tell what I’m doing, but I get a kick out of the ones who gently try to share the correct verbalization, as if I were a particularly slow child. I just smile at them and suggest that it must be because I’m such an “ig-nor-ram-us”. (Ramming speed!!)

    But the worst I recall was a chat with a former boss of mine (a Brit working in the USA) when I used the word “ethereal”. I had never had a conversation where I needed to SAY that word; it just didn’t come up much. Thus, the pronunciation in my head from reading it in my youthful years came out – “ur-reeth-rial”. Which sounded a lot like “urethra”.

    My boss, with typical dry Brit humor, inquired if I was referring to a urinary issue, or did I mean “ethereal” (he pronounced it correctly).

    I still blush with shame every time I remember that day.

    Crap. Now I gotta pee.

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56. I don’t “warsh” my clothes anymore since I left the Midwest. Now that I live in the Southeast, I “wash” my clothes.
    However. Every regional dialect has its quirky pronunciations . The very southern parts of the Southeast somehow have made the word, “Wow” sound like it has three syllables- “wah-ow-ho”. Go figure.

57. It’s pronounced like it is spelled, and it is not spelled real-a-tor.

    I had an oh so erudite supervisor who worked for me for too many years. He was so dumb as to be dangerous, and was the embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger Effect. He said “mute point” once too often and I corrected him in front of the staff. He made my skin crawl each time he said irregardless. He graduated college in western Kentucky, but his roots were still down in a holler.

58. Please state your answer in the form of a know-it-all pinhead.

59. I was born in Iowa but was replanted in New England as an infant. I’ve heard easterners say “Eye-Oh-Way”. However now I’m in Connecticut. One does not voice the second “c” in that place name. Also, the city of Norwich is a one-syllable word pronounced “Norch” and New Britain is usually pronounced (irritatingly) as “New Bri-hen”. Recently the Quinnipiac University won the NCAA Hockey Championship. This gave those who watched, a chance to hear sports casters from all over the country try to pronounce “Quinnipiac”. That was almost as entertaining as the games; virtually no one got it right. I won’t even try to explain that or other place names like Poquonock or Mashamoquet but you just got it wrong.

    Related maybe but I’m a bit embarrassed how old I was when I realized that there are both “discreet” and “discrete” with two discrete meanings.