I cannot say "habit" right most of the time, and yesterday I could not say subscription. I talk faster than my brain allows me to most of the time. And there is always the classic, "go left here" as I point right...
Misled - apparently it's pronounced 'myzeld', not 'miss-led'. Thankfully my boss was not too embarrassed to point that out to me. In front of my workmates.
I also hate when American people say things like "If I had a British accent, I would never shut up." Usually, they are talking about English accents, but if it was a British accent, it would be a weird hybrid of English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Good luck coming up with that. C:
Loved this video. Worst mispronunciation of my life: In the 4th grade, I had a book review on Harry Potter, I never had a friend named Ginny before and therefore did not know it was short for Virginia, and that it does not start with the sound 'guh' XP
This isn't mine, but it's my friends. In her Language Arts class they had a packet with the word stingy in it. No one knew how to pronounce it except for her. They thought it was stingy like you get stung by something.
The worst however is the sheer amount of people who say "your" instead of "you're". If people cannot understand basic grammar, they should not be on the internet.
The only one I didn't know both the proper pronunciation and spelling on was Edinburgh. I love words, so I don't often pronounce them wrong since I spend a lot of time with a dictionary.
Two that I often hear that drive me insane are "drowneded" and "thy" when the speaker means "my." You do not "drowned," you are not "drowneding," and in the past tense you need add "-ed" only once to "drown." As for Old English, I love it-- when it's properly executed.
For the first 18 years of my life I said "trood" instead of "trod". I didn't know I was wrong until someone corrected me at College. Apparently "trood" isn't even a word.
You're not supposed to prononounce the 't' in 'often'. I am incapable of doing this. Oh yeah! New and improved. If it's new, nothing could have preceded it, but if it's also improved, what did you improve upon?
i was crying over my earthscience homework cuz i didn't know wat a THERMOmeter was... then i had an epiphany and realized it was a fucking therMOMeter
I am not sure who did the 'couldn't care less' and 'hold the fort' but David Mitchell have something very very similar. Almost exactly the same, in fact
I pronounced "ecstatic" as "estastic" until I was fourteen. And I still can't break the habit of pronouncing "pronunciation" as "pronounciation". Living in a country you didn't grow up in and learning the majority of one's vocabulary from books is not good for the ability to speak aloud and be understood.
The official name of the UK is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." And not all countries on the island of Great Britain are autonomous; Scotland and Wales have their devolved governments, but England does not.
I got purple and orange mixed up as colors when i was young and wasn't corrected until middle school, also there is a trend of saying purposly instead of purposefully, and it drives me mad. The pronunciation of the word aunt as ant is also another pet peeve of mine.
for some reason, a few years back, i couldn't figure out the word "parody". i said the weirdest things, both as pronunciations of the word and ways to get around it by explaining what i mean in really lengthy babbles.
Here are some phrase that ALWAYS said wrong. Nip is in the BUD not BUTT. Lip-SYNC not sing. Seriously people always say lip sing its SYNC. I told my friend that and she said, "You're wrong. It is sing. I would know." We looked it up and she felt stupid.
Arborvitae. There was an "Arborvitae Road" when I was navigating and I pronounced it as [are-bore-vi (short I)-tay]. One of the most embarrassing moments of my life.
I cannot recall the word I mispronounced (evidently I am good at erasing embarrassing memories) but I had used it in essays and never heard it out loud before. I said the word incorrectly and was corrected by the people I was speaking to. Luckily I was overseas so I said "Oh, that's how we pronounce it in Australia."
Has Hank been watching David Mitchell's Soapbox? Because I just watched the Baby Name video Hank did, and it's pretty similar to David's baby name video. As is this one to the "Dear America" and "Spelling Standards" videos. I like it.
I spent an entire week telling everyone I was applying for the environmental writing & rhetoric minor. Too bad nobody corrected me by telling me it was pronounced "RHE-tor-ric" rather than "rhe-TOR-ic". My adviser literally laughed in my face. D:
@halfpintstuff Well, the whole point of this video is correcting mistakes, so I thought it would be appropriate to post it here, in case they still read comments on old videos. I in no way meant it as an insult, I just wanted to help...
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@mickycarcar I see I never knew that about octopus. I mean that it's becoming much more complicated to understand American English because we change one word against the grammar rules we come that and we keep doing it until the rules stop applying to anything.
I didn't realize epitome written and epitome said out loud were the same word. I always read it as the way Hank said it's mispronounced so I though they were two different things...
I also still do this but I say oriented and disoriented as orientated and disorientated. I spell them the first way but say them the second way.
When I first read Harry Potter in elementary school, I had head the word anxious, but had never seen it spelled, so when I saw it in the book, I didn't know it. I understood what it meant from the context of the sentences it was in, but thought it was a new word I'd learned. It wasn't until later, when I said it, and then had to write it for my teacher, that I found out they were the same word...... it was embarrassing....
I have a friend who says it pronounces it me-me, I've reminded him like 5 times already but he still says it. I swear he says it that way just to annoy me.
Thank you! I could never grasp why everyone was saying they "could care less." I always thought I was wrong in saying "couldn't," yet I stuck with it because it made more sense... and I was right about being right.
"Use to" instead of "used to" drives me up a wall.
I can't think of a specific embarrassment, but be assured that I've lost count of the times I've Googled these phrases either because I was unsure or had to double check. I'm glad I'm not keeping count.
Another atrocity plaguing human kind - at least in the southern United States is the southern accent. One of the more bothersome aspects (if we exclude the whole "I have no idea what you are saying" problem) of this is the pronunciation of cities ending in "ville". Shelbyville, Loisville, etc. are NOT pronounced Shelbyvull, Loisvull, etc. "Ville" is short for "village". It should be pronounced as such. Do you call a village a "vullage"? I hope not.
My English teacher cannot pronounce omnipotent (om-nee-poh-tent) and he cannot pronounce or spell homeoteleuton. I'm probably missing some more words. And last week a girl said fay-cade. Oh dear.
Also, I speak quite a bit of Spanish because of my Salvadoreno nanny, but I simply cannot master the word 'maestra' (my-eh-strah) (it means female teacher) because of the way I roll my r's. It always comes out sounding my-eh-stuh-rah.
My entire life, up until now, I have pronounced lapel like 'LAY-pell', not 'lah-PELL'. My mother finally told me I was pronouncing it wrong about three days ago. My embarrasment lasts on.
I once had an argument with my Dad at the dinner table (where all discussions take place) about how he said 'pronounciation' rather than 'pronunciation'. I had to get the dictionary out and show him that 'pronounciation' is not a word. His expression was priceless :') Teenage daughter 1, Elder 0.
I used to be a tour guide, and for some reason, when I had a tour group, my mind would be thinking "artisan" and my mouth would say "artesian". If there is anything more embarrassing than finding out you've been mispronouncing a word without knowing it, it must be knowing how to pronounce a word and STILL getting it wrong. In public. With witnesses. I do not miss being a tour guide.
When I was in 1st grade, I read What to Expect When You're Expecting because it was around. The best part of this was when I announced to my class, "Boys have a pen-is" with the first syllable pronounced as the writing implement.
Every day I hear customers call ramen "roman". I just don't understand how they got that. Also, when I was taking a Women's Studies course and started dating someone in the class, I would always call patriarchal as "pay-tree-article". No one corrected me for years, because they thought I was making a joke.
I ALWAYS pronounce Socrates wrong... I say "So-CRAH-teez" instead of "SAW-crah-teez." I have a chronic problem with putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
My English teacher used the Alanis song to "teach" us irony. I told her that it wasn't the proper use of ironic, just what a lot of people seem to think ironic was. She told me I was wrong. When I realized a woman who is an educator actually believed this and wasn't joking, I asked to go to the bathroom and I cried. A lot.
I some times have a problem with talking, so often in fact that i'm beginning to think I have some form of dyslexia, but I solve it by talking in an accent. I have no idea why it works, but it does
I pronounce "adage" with the "g" being a "zh" noise, not because I don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced, but rather because I think the English language should have more "zh" sounds in it and this word is the perfect candidate.
I mispronounce many words since I learn most of my vocabulary from books. I also believe that education is failing. In addition to that, I believe that America's attempts to simplify English is destroying grammar and language laws which will lead to American English becoming a nonsense gibberish language soon enough. It is octopi not octopuses! Stop trying to make a language with so many irregular words have more irregular words! Soon through will be spelled thru as the formal spelling.
@dianan502000 Actually it is octopuses. That -us is not a Latin 2nd declension ending; it comes from the Greek "pous" meaning "foot." The *most* correct plural would be octopodes, following the rules from the Greek. But since this sounds so strange in English, octopuses is accepted.
As for English being destroyed, the anthropologist in me would say that language always changes and no form of human language is better or worse than another. The rest of me cringes when people misspell words.
@mickycarcar how would the third 'o' in 'octopodes' be pronounced? Would the word ending sound like the word 'odd' or the word 'ode' (followed by the 's')?
@stephenhorton It is hard to tell by looking at it, which is probably why people just say octopuses. But Wikipedia claims the o is a schwa sound, so perhaps "-uddies" (?)
@mickycarcar awww, that's a bit of a disappointment. I think a new rule should be made. It's pronounced '-odes' when it's the subject noun, and '-odds' when it's the object noun :¬Þ watch people struggle with that one, lol
You got The United Kingdom almost right, but implied it slightly wrong. Its the "United Kingdom of Great Britain", IE the union of the two Kingdoms previously on great Britain, England and Scotland, AND Northern Ireland. It is not the United Kingdom of "Great Britan and Northern Ireland" as in the Union of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Northern Ireland. Wales misses out on a say in the name, because at the time of the Act Of Union it counted as part of the English Crown.
I have a friend who chronically mispronounces the word "pronunciation," which I find hilarious. I've tried to correct her, I really have. She insists upon pronouncing it pro-NOUN-ciation, even though there's clearly a NUN in it. But she blatantly eschews my correct pronunciation in favor of her flawed pronounciation as a point of pride. I don't understand why it's more embarrassing for her to admit she's wrong than to go around saying the word wrong.
I mispronounced "lesions" once as "leh sea owns" in book club. The teacher kindly corrected me and I was like: "okay, blah blah blah" and she was like "it's good you learned it in a safe environment like here." I and the other book club members almost died laughing. The teacher was flabbergasted.
I once accidentally mixed up "circumcise" and "castrate" in a room full of guys where I was the only girl. I also didn't catch my mistake immediately so I was really confused when they all looked a little afraid of me.
In first year at my bilingual university, I was trying to tap into the francophone culture by pronouncing tasty dish of "poutine" (correctly pronounced /poo-teen/) as /peu-tain/. The humor? The pronunciation /peu-tain/ translates as "whore".
I've always been that shy kid that never wants to answer anything out loud for fear of being wrong. So, one day in third grade, during spelling/vocabulary time, "catastrophe" came up. I mispronounced it to the popular girl next to me and she shouted it out, "cat-tuh-strof." When she was corrected I wanted to run and hide from humiliation (even though she was the only one that knew her mispronunciation was my fault).
Is Missouri pronounced "mi-zer-ee" or "mi-zer-uh"? It's a big controvery here.
there's a person in my school with the surname 'Fuchs' pronounced 'Fooks', the headmaster had to read the name in assembly, he was tired, and inevitably swore at the entire school. it was hilarious, the same day he read out our register, and his son is in our class, he forgot one name on the register, guess who's name he forgot? :P
I remember vividly in 8th grade English, we were reading the Hound of the Baskervilles, and I was reading aloud to the class and said "Colonial" instead of "Colonel". Sometime in the next sentence I had realized what I'd done, and, while continuing to read, looked up and notice that no one had even noticed, not even the teacher. And that is how I taught an 8th grade English class about the British Colony of Devon.
I was trying to be impressive in front of my friend, because I'm a show-of-y prick like that, when a MCDONALD's commercial (of all the things I could "correct") came on and I said that it was pronounced "cresendo" not "crechendo". Two minutes later I was corrected and kind of entirely humiliated when I tried to laugh it off awkwardly.
I said poltergeist as "polergist" because, as an eight-year-old up until about two years ago, the only time that I had noticed the word was when I was reading Harry Potter my brain was, apparently skipping words... When I found out, it was in the middle of a conversation at work and I felt like an idiot. I still say it like that when I forget to think thoroughly before I say things.
@0181J Because half a million people love him, and he isn't going to stop for a few trolls. also, go tell his WIFE he's ugly, because i'm sure she'd disagree.
Mature: the one word where people think 't' makes a 'ch' sound.
Forte: there are a lot of people who are loud in Italian when they mean to have a strength.
donfolstar 5 hours ago
It took me years to master the Pythagorean Theorem. Not because of the math, because I kept saying Ptyagorean. My teacher laughed at me.
I also used to say Achilles Ach-il-ees. It was bad.
ChrisKilljoy12 8 hours ago in playlist Uploaded videos
I've actually heard many people pronounce colonel
this way ---> (kə-lō-nl)
instead of this way ---> (kur-nl)
But I say (kur-nl)
English is such a shitty language anyway...
Guerrillablackdog 8 hours ago in playlist Favorite videos
When I was little I would always say "smart uh-LECK" (instead of AHL-lick).
amandalaaaaa 9 hours ago
some one in my history class mispronounced Nazis as naaz's
gretaface 11 hours ago
I cannot say "habit" right most of the time, and yesterday I could not say subscription. I talk faster than my brain allows me to most of the time. And there is always the classic, "go left here" as I point right...
ChristieLily35 11 hours ago
Aloe. Every time. EVERY. TIME. I still can't tell you whether it's ay-loe or ah-loe.
outofcake 11 hours ago
Misled - apparently it's pronounced 'myzeld', not 'miss-led'. Thankfully my boss was not too embarrassed to point that out to me. In front of my workmates.
sweetNic82 11 hours ago
Thank you! ...I did think it was "for all intensive purposes"
nahnahnahwoaah 13 hours ago
I also hate when American people say things like "If I had a British accent, I would never shut up." Usually, they are talking about English accents, but if it was a British accent, it would be a weird hybrid of English, Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh. Good luck coming up with that. C:
lachatestsurlamur 15 hours ago
@lachatestsurlamur Technically it could be any of the individual accents themselves, also.
JoeJones3001 14 hours ago
I accidentally pronounced the second "L" in Lincoln.
BrandonTheGamer2011 15 hours ago
Loved this video. Worst mispronunciation of my life: In the 4th grade, I had a book review on Harry Potter, I never had a friend named Ginny before and therefore did not know it was short for Virginia, and that it does not start with the sound 'guh' XP
SilentlyFuming 16 hours ago
This isn't mine, but it's my friends. In her Language Arts class they had a packet with the word stingy in it. No one knew how to pronounce it except for her. They thought it was stingy like you get stung by something.
ballerinaa97 19 hours ago
The worst however is the sheer amount of people who say "your" instead of "you're". If people cannot understand basic grammar, they should not be on the internet.
TheAzrael2010 23 hours ago
redundant
Sahara Desert, Rio Grande River
ElizabethLCRandom 1 day ago
I've mispronounced Nova Scotia....never heard that pronounce in real life so...yeah.
Reiki101 1 day ago
The only one I didn't know both the proper pronunciation and spelling on was Edinburgh. I love words, so I don't often pronounce them wrong since I spend a lot of time with a dictionary.
Two that I often hear that drive me insane are "drowneded" and "thy" when the speaker means "my." You do not "drowned," you are not "drowneding," and in the past tense you need add "-ed" only once to "drown." As for Old English, I love it-- when it's properly executed.
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RidiculousRaivis 1 day ago
I wish I had an inflatable fort. That's all I got from this.
FirstFallSnow 1 day ago 3
Writhed
I learneed yesterday RYE-TH-ED not RIH-TH-ED
foreverwantingpie 1 day ago
posthumous
celloowls 1 day ago
I have a hard time pronouncing hippopotamus.
kricketuneftw 1 day ago
Noooo you made me lose the game :(
cheeselikejonas 1 day ago
For the first 18 years of my life I said "trood" instead of "trod". I didn't know I was wrong until someone corrected me at College. Apparently "trood" isn't even a word.
KaeDays 1 day ago
I did the Hyperbole mistake but it was ok because English class isn't my first language and nobody else knew any better :D
naeviaus 1 day ago
You're not supposed to prononounce the 't' in 'often'. I am incapable of doing this. Oh yeah! New and improved. If it's new, nothing could have preceded it, but if it's also improved, what did you improve upon?
ElectraChan 1 day ago
People in England use the United Kingdom in place of England or Great Britain. Our own country can't even get it right xD
kaleidochord 1 day ago
When playing Sonic I used to mispronounce "Chaos Emeralds." I'm sure you can figure out how.
rstuckmaier 1 day ago
i lost the game :( :P
Fenyally 1 day ago
Don't feel bad. Facade lost me a spelling bee. I didn't know how it was pronounced so when they said it I thought it was some other word.
rutabaga42 1 day ago
i was crying over my earthscience homework cuz i didn't know wat a THERMOmeter was... then i had an epiphany and realized it was a fucking therMOMeter
1dancerac 1 day ago
I always mispronounce plethora and asylum!
MyLovelyLifeAsMe 1 day ago
So how about Aluminium(or as you probably call it:Aloominum)?
Maybe Capilary too? (idk about that one, maybe it just the American accent on the biology dvds we watch)
artemisf125 1 day ago
sidle how do you pronounce it
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I am not sure who did the 'couldn't care less' and 'hold the fort' but David Mitchell have something very very similar. Almost exactly the same, in fact
JL113427 1 day ago
I pronounced "ecstatic" as "estastic" until I was fourteen. And I still can't break the habit of pronouncing "pronunciation" as "pronounciation". Living in a country you didn't grow up in and learning the majority of one's vocabulary from books is not good for the ability to speak aloud and be understood.
adventuresofneroli 1 day ago in playlist Uploaded videos
up until a few days ago, i thought that the word "zealot" was pronounced "zee-low" because i was convinced the t was silent
flowiepanda 2 days ago
some of those mispronunciation words surprised me because i never thought of them that way aha
bellacullen98a 2 days ago
The official name of the UK is the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." And not all countries on the island of Great Britain are autonomous; Scotland and Wales have their devolved governments, but England does not.
lordofhatred510 2 days ago
from where I'm from, everyone calls mountain 'mounan'.
shadestepwarrior4 2 days ago
"Not the sequel to the Super Bowl, the Hyperbole." LMAO
bbtdgfan890 2 days ago
I got purple and orange mixed up as colors when i was young and wasn't corrected until middle school, also there is a trend of saying purposly instead of purposefully, and it drives me mad. The pronunciation of the word aunt as ant is also another pet peeve of mine.
Foobdiddy 2 days ago
I always pronounce hitherto as hit-her-to
17wootwoot 2 days ago
plaid. eventually realized it was pronounced "plad" and not "played"
bulaey 2 days ago
I'm of lebanese descent, so when someone asked me what nationality I was, I said that I was lesbian
LoganTheUltimate 2 days ago
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flowiepanda 2 days ago
for some reason, a few years back, i couldn't figure out the word "parody". i said the weirdest things, both as pronunciations of the word and ways to get around it by explaining what i mean in really lengthy babbles.
ghostmelissa 3 days ago
I used to not hear the difference between "M" and "N" and in kindergarden I never remembered how to spell "d" and "b".
MeisHolister 3 days ago
Here are some phrase that ALWAYS said wrong. Nip is in the BUD not BUTT. Lip-SYNC not sing. Seriously people always say lip sing its SYNC. I told my friend that and she said, "You're wrong. It is sing. I would know." We looked it up and she felt stupid.
MrTeddy12986 3 days ago
"They will punch you in the face"
Such a beautiful summary of the Welsh people :')
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"Birmingum" not "Birming-ham"
...that one annoys me
jameswhee 3 days ago
Arborvitae. There was an "Arborvitae Road" when I was navigating and I pronounced it as [are-bore-vi (short I)-tay]. One of the most embarrassing moments of my life.
shannerz91 3 days ago
@shannerz91 Arborvitae means tree of life in latin, fyi
flowiepanda 2 days ago
this is the problem with reading your vocabulary...
i pronounced "heretic" wrong for four years.
and no one told me.
DareYouToMove369 3 days ago
Dichotomy... (Die-ca-toe-me) I said, "dick-a-toe-me" in front of my entire Comp. 101 class while presenting a group project :[
GooberFishFriend 3 days ago
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jameswhee 3 days ago
"England is not a synonym for the United Kingdom"
YES HANK
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jameswhee 3 days ago
It is true about the Wales/England thing. It's fun living on the boarder.
MsUndeadPrincess 3 days ago in playlist Uploaded videos
i hate it when people get aloud confused with allowed
TheWilliamisles 3 days ago
I always noticed how people tought Frankenstein was the monster. So weird.
letsplayrocks1 3 days ago
I cannot recall the word I mispronounced (evidently I am good at erasing embarrassing memories) but I had used it in essays and never heard it out loud before. I said the word incorrectly and was corrected by the people I was speaking to. Luckily I was overseas so I said "Oh, that's how we pronounce it in Australia."
mlemleh 3 days ago in playlist Uploaded videos
You guys are so cool! Your videos are great.
karlmosher 4 days ago
Has Hank been watching David Mitchell's Soapbox? Because I just watched the Baby Name video Hank did, and it's pretty similar to David's baby name video. As is this one to the "Dear America" and "Spelling Standards" videos. I like it.
uiruu 4 days ago
ya i just lost the game...
singergirl1978 4 days ago
I use to HATE when people said "I could care less".
after they say that, I just stand there, quietly, staring at them...
a huge pet peeve if i ever had to say i had one.
Knuxallen 4 days ago
I spent an entire week telling everyone I was applying for the environmental writing & rhetoric minor. Too bad nobody corrected me by telling me it was pronounced "RHE-tor-ric" rather than "rhe-TOR-ic". My adviser literally laughed in my face. D:
TheAiluridae 4 days ago
his grammer lesson about affect and effect confusses* me everytime!!
*yes ik its spelled wrong!...it is right?
StylesSwag4ever 4 days ago
In English (UK) :P Its Pronounced Lefttenant even though oddly its spelt Lieutenant... I hate languages...
Maceman25 4 days ago
I noticed that you and John say "...and et cetera", which is redundant since et=and
edennov1 4 days ago
@edennov1 Wow... you really watch closely. This matters why?
halfpintstuff 4 days ago
@halfpintstuff Well, the whole point of this video is correcting mistakes, so I thought it would be appropriate to post it here, in case they still read comments on old videos. I in no way meant it as an insult, I just wanted to help...
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xNightstormx 5 days ago
Segue. For the longest time I said it as "seeg". And I thought that segway was a separate word. NOPE.
mnemosyned 5 days ago
A common misnomer in the south...conversate. Its converse. E.g. "We were conversating about that the other day."
jalandrums 5 days ago
I did not know about "meme" oh god...
lasatern 5 days ago 3
@mickycarcar I see I never knew that about octopus. I mean that it's becoming much more complicated to understand American English because we change one word against the grammar rules we come that and we keep doing it until the rules stop applying to anything.
dianan502000 5 days ago
I used to read the word "applause" as "applesauce."
HPAnimeFreak 5 days ago 3
But my fort is inflatable
TheDogylover 5 days ago
For the longest time I pronounced ethereal like "earth-uh-rul" I do not know why.
eleventhousandfour 5 days ago
I didn't realize epitome written and epitome said out loud were the same word. I always read it as the way Hank said it's mispronounced so I though they were two different things...
I also still do this but I say oriented and disoriented as orientated and disorientated. I spell them the first way but say them the second way.
MissAshyQ 5 days ago
The whole, UK, England, thing used to confuse the shit out of me. x3
hamtarofan4000 5 days ago
When I was younger I could pronounce everything but...Worried. I used to say 'Wowid'
IMAmyrose 5 days ago 17
@IMAmyrose "manure" was my achilles heel
flowiepanda 2 days ago
and in the NC sandhills it was not uncommon to hear "thermo meter" for thermometer and "my knees" for mayonnaise
deveryday1 5 days ago
. when i was kid i pronounced determined "dee-tur-mine-d"
deveryday1 5 days ago
When I first read Harry Potter in elementary school, I had head the word anxious, but had never seen it spelled, so when I saw it in the book, I didn't know it. I understood what it meant from the context of the sentences it was in, but thought it was a new word I'd learned. It wasn't until later, when I said it, and then had to write it for my teacher, that I found out they were the same word...... it was embarrassing....
bitstar6 6 days ago
@bitstar6 "heard", my keyboard, sorry....
bitstar6 6 days ago
I have a friend who says it pronounces it me-me, I've reminded him like 5 times already but he still says it. I swear he says it that way just to annoy me.
dfer159632 6 days ago
Thank you! I could never grasp why everyone was saying they "could care less." I always thought I was wrong in saying "couldn't," yet I stuck with it because it made more sense... and I was right about being right.
"Use to" instead of "used to" drives me up a wall.
I can't think of a specific embarrassment, but be assured that I've lost count of the times I've Googled these phrases either because I was unsure or had to double check. I'm glad I'm not keeping count.
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Another atrocity plaguing human kind - at least in the southern United States is the southern accent. One of the more bothersome aspects (if we exclude the whole "I have no idea what you are saying" problem) of this is the pronunciation of cities ending in "ville". Shelbyville, Loisville, etc. are NOT pronounced Shelbyvull, Loisvull, etc. "Ville" is short for "village". It should be pronounced as such. Do you call a village a "vullage"? I hope not.
bandnerd218 6 days ago
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bandnerd218 6 days ago
Here is one that bothers me: "I'm alright" when it should be, "I'm all right".
PtahGaming 6 days ago 2
My English teacher cannot pronounce omnipotent (om-nee-poh-tent) and he cannot pronounce or spell homeoteleuton. I'm probably missing some more words. And last week a girl said fay-cade. Oh dear.
BriitStiick 6 days ago
Also, I speak quite a bit of Spanish because of my Salvadoreno nanny, but I simply cannot master the word 'maestra' (my-eh-strah) (it means female teacher) because of the way I roll my r's. It always comes out sounding my-eh-stuh-rah.
flyingstarcat 6 days ago
My entire life, up until now, I have pronounced lapel like 'LAY-pell', not 'lah-PELL'. My mother finally told me I was pronouncing it wrong about three days ago. My embarrasment lasts on.
flyingstarcat 6 days ago
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In 8th grade, I was asked my math teacher a question about a parabola.
I pronounced it pear-uh-bowl-uh.
gadammit69 6 days ago
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gadammit69 6 days ago
Note: affect can also be used as a noun when referring to emotion. =)
failsatvideos 6 days ago
I once had an argument with my Dad at the dinner table (where all discussions take place) about how he said 'pronounciation' rather than 'pronunciation'. I had to get the dictionary out and show him that 'pronounciation' is not a word. His expression was priceless :') Teenage daughter 1, Elder 0.
randomgirl22695 6 days ago
I used to be a tour guide, and for some reason, when I had a tour group, my mind would be thinking "artisan" and my mouth would say "artesian". If there is anything more embarrassing than finding out you've been mispronouncing a word without knowing it, it must be knowing how to pronounce a word and STILL getting it wrong. In public. With witnesses. I do not miss being a tour guide.
flodnak 6 days ago
My Mum made the epitome mistake a long time ago. She gets so embarrassed every time someone mentions it.
iamcalledcaroline 6 days ago
I heard the word organism mispronounced in public... yeah. You know what it turned into.
RKH1502 6 days ago
If I am sometimes "disheveled" can I also be "heveled"?
tuckernielson1 6 days ago
@tuckernielson1 i know that you can be underwhelmed, and that you can be overwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?
Mermez3000 4 hours ago
It's driving me crazy that he is not looking straight into the camera..
TheMcrub 1 week ago
And stood is not spelled S-T-O-U-L-D. Yes, I have met idiots much older than me who do this. Most of them on youtube.
boring5551 1 week ago
In like 6th grade someone asked me if I was left-handed or right-handed. I said, "Oh! I'm anorexic." I said that instead of ambidextrous.
apresmio 1 week ago 40
rendezvous...yup that was my fail :D
WxMan18 1 week ago
I never remember the definitions for affect and effect, so I'm just going to get them tattooed upon myself.
RoseCullen1000 1 week ago
When I was in 1st grade, I read What to Expect When You're Expecting because it was around. The best part of this was when I announced to my class, "Boys have a pen-is" with the first syllable pronounced as the writing implement.
brightandsunshiney 1 week ago
Every day I hear customers call ramen "roman". I just don't understand how they got that. Also, when I was taking a Women's Studies course and started dating someone in the class, I would always call patriarchal as "pay-tree-article". No one corrected me for years, because they thought I was making a joke.
Anigust 1 week ago
I used to say 'psuedo' like suede-oh.
MacyLuvsNSN 1 week ago
For nearly 30 years I thought it was paddle lock not pad lock.
A moment that my wife will never let me live down.
chetopuffs 1 week ago
For years I pronounced 'stingy' as "steeng-ee" instead of "stin-jee".
INTPTT 1 week ago
@INTPTT sting ee is right, i believe..
Suzinyou 1 week ago
@Suzinyou No, it's stin-jee. I thought it was sting-ee for ages, and my dad still makes fun of me for it.
INTPTT 1 week ago
Hank, how do you say margerine? americans say it differently to the english.
YellingYaz 1 week ago
1.55 that is nothing to what the'll do to you in in scotland....
FAllenAngel335 1 week ago
banana chocolate ice cream I LOST THE GAME boob pen15 club~
sha132 1 week ago
I used to frequently mispronounce the word, "pronunciation."
LordToast 1 week ago
I ALWAYS pronounce Socrates wrong... I say "So-CRAH-teez" instead of "SAW-crah-teez." I have a chronic problem with putting the emphasis on the wrong syllable.
thearthippie 1 week ago
I always pronounced melancholy wrong... pretty much until that melancholia movie came out -_-
oh and miscellaneous. I could never pronounce that when I played the sims.
tiffanymondesir 1 week ago
RBC Bank...Royal Bank of Canada Bank
ScienceManComics 1 week ago
i have to think about how to pronounce chamalean character and conscience when i read them
diblover9 1 week ago
My English teacher used the Alanis song to "teach" us irony. I told her that it wasn't the proper use of ironic, just what a lot of people seem to think ironic was. She told me I was wrong. When I realized a woman who is an educator actually believed this and wasn't joking, I asked to go to the bathroom and I cried. A lot.
BeautifulSilence 1 week ago
I some times have a problem with talking, so often in fact that i'm beginning to think I have some form of dyslexia, but I solve it by talking in an accent. I have no idea why it works, but it does
Phoenixdragonfang 1 week ago
3:30 follow the bouncing ball
jpamado96 1 week ago
I pronounce "adage" with the "g" being a "zh" noise, not because I don't know how it's supposed to be pronounced, but rather because I think the English language should have more "zh" sounds in it and this word is the perfect candidate.
PantheonParadox 1 week ago
I mispronounce many words since I learn most of my vocabulary from books. I also believe that education is failing. In addition to that, I believe that America's attempts to simplify English is destroying grammar and language laws which will lead to American English becoming a nonsense gibberish language soon enough. It is octopi not octopuses! Stop trying to make a language with so many irregular words have more irregular words! Soon through will be spelled thru as the formal spelling.
dianan502000 1 week ago
@dianan502000 Actually it is octopuses. That -us is not a Latin 2nd declension ending; it comes from the Greek "pous" meaning "foot." The *most* correct plural would be octopodes, following the rules from the Greek. But since this sounds so strange in English, octopuses is accepted.
As for English being destroyed, the anthropologist in me would say that language always changes and no form of human language is better or worse than another. The rest of me cringes when people misspell words.
mickycarcar 1 week ago
@mickycarcar how would the third 'o' in 'octopodes' be pronounced? Would the word ending sound like the word 'odd' or the word 'ode' (followed by the 's')?
stephenhorton 1 week ago
@stephenhorton It is hard to tell by looking at it, which is probably why people just say octopuses. But Wikipedia claims the o is a schwa sound, so perhaps "-uddies" (?)
mickycarcar 1 week ago
@mickycarcar awww, that's a bit of a disappointment. I think a new rule should be made. It's pronounced '-odes' when it's the subject noun, and '-odds' when it's the object noun :¬Þ watch people struggle with that one, lol
stephenhorton 6 days ago
During a whole speech I was saying tropical instead on topical. I felt like a fool
frostbyte1134 1 week ago
Fuck that, be bold and say that the english language is embarrassing itself.
TheRepublicOfUngeria 1 week ago
Actually, Scottish people do pronounce it "Edin-burr"...
CannonLongshot 1 week ago
@CannonLongshot But not "Edin-Burg".
JennyTwoJackets 1 week ago
@JennyTwoJackets Ahh, my bad, I misheard XD
CannonLongshot 1 week ago
You got The United Kingdom almost right, but implied it slightly wrong. Its the "United Kingdom of Great Britain", IE the union of the two Kingdoms previously on great Britain, England and Scotland, AND Northern Ireland. It is not the United Kingdom of "Great Britan and Northern Ireland" as in the Union of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Northern Ireland. Wales misses out on a say in the name, because at the time of the Act Of Union it counted as part of the English Crown.
AlfredTheEccentric 1 week ago
I have a friend who chronically mispronounces the word "pronunciation," which I find hilarious. I've tried to correct her, I really have. She insists upon pronouncing it pro-NOUN-ciation, even though there's clearly a NUN in it. But she blatantly eschews my correct pronunciation in favor of her flawed pronounciation as a point of pride. I don't understand why it's more embarrassing for her to admit she's wrong than to go around saying the word wrong.
KTGetc 1 week ago
I wrote a story and kept saying there instead of their...... I got a D on the paper for grammatical errors
KillerBeeBiju8 1 week ago
who is john?
KillerBeeBiju8 1 week ago
I mispronounced "lesions" once as "leh sea owns" in book club. The teacher kindly corrected me and I was like: "okay, blah blah blah" and she was like "it's good you learned it in a safe environment like here." I and the other book club members almost died laughing. The teacher was flabbergasted.
AnthonyVonHertzon123 1 week ago
In highchool, there was an asian girl by the name of Bich, and new teachers and substitutes would awkwardly pronounce her name as 'bitch'.
SilverDemon456 1 week ago
I once accidentally mixed up "circumcise" and "castrate" in a room full of guys where I was the only girl. I also didn't catch my mistake immediately so I was really confused when they all looked a little afraid of me.
perpetuallyhyper101 1 week ago in playlist Uploaded videos
I hate in when people do that acronym thing you mentioned, "DC Comics". Really? You call your company "Detective Comics Comics"?
MrCalzilla 1 week ago
For all intensive purposes, I couldn't care less about your video.
SamualTLedbetter 1 week ago
I have previously mispronounced almost every word he talked about in that video...
blakethegecko 1 week ago
I learned the word 'relatives' from a book (I, in fact, learned most of my words from books), so for the longest time, I pronounced it reh-LAY-tives.
ilovetocomment317 1 week ago
In first year at my bilingual university, I was trying to tap into the francophone culture by pronouncing tasty dish of "poutine" (correctly pronounced /poo-teen/) as /peu-tain/. The humor? The pronunciation /peu-tain/ translates as "whore".
sarahthefrey 1 week ago
I've always been that shy kid that never wants to answer anything out loud for fear of being wrong. So, one day in third grade, during spelling/vocabulary time, "catastrophe" came up. I mispronounced it to the popular girl next to me and she shouted it out, "cat-tuh-strof." When she was corrected I wanted to run and hide from humiliation (even though she was the only one that knew her mispronunciation was my fault).
Is Missouri pronounced "mi-zer-ee" or "mi-zer-uh"? It's a big controvery here.
dothrakiwaeguk 1 week ago
foyer
rrlloo1 1 week ago
For the longest time, I could not properly pronounce aluminum.
landler656 1 week ago
there's a person in my school with the surname 'Fuchs' pronounced 'Fooks', the headmaster had to read the name in assembly, he was tired, and inevitably swore at the entire school. it was hilarious, the same day he read out our register, and his son is in our class, he forgot one name on the register, guess who's name he forgot? :P
jaakhumparies 1 week ago
I remember vividly in 8th grade English, we were reading the Hound of the Baskervilles, and I was reading aloud to the class and said "Colonial" instead of "Colonel". Sometime in the next sentence I had realized what I'd done, and, while continuing to read, looked up and notice that no one had even noticed, not even the teacher. And that is how I taught an 8th grade English class about the British Colony of Devon.
ChrisJMichaels 1 week ago 10
I hate it when people say "irregardless" when they mean "regardless".
themurph37 1 week ago
Descartes. Every time for the first three months of my philosophy foundation course. Not even my tutor told me I was saying it wrong.
seonaa 1 week ago
English still rules all.
CullTheLivingFlower 1 week ago
You pronounce your words very nicely :)
cadetnemo20000below 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
I was trying to be impressive in front of my friend, because I'm a show-of-y prick like that, when a MCDONALD's commercial (of all the things I could "correct") came on and I said that it was pronounced "cresendo" not "crechendo". Two minutes later I was corrected and kind of entirely humiliated when I tried to laugh it off awkwardly.
mkl11purple 1 week ago
I said poltergeist as "polergist" because, as an eight-year-old up until about two years ago, the only time that I had noticed the word was when I was reading Harry Potter my brain was, apparently skipping words... When I found out, it was in the middle of a conversation at work and I felt like an idiot. I still say it like that when I forget to think thoroughly before I say things.
bandnerd218 1 week ago
@bandnerd218 your not alone
cakebomb77 1 week ago
@cakebomb77 Yay! I'm glad I'm not the only one.
By the way, it's "you're" not "your" (Sorry, I'm an English major. I can't help myself).
bandnerd218 1 week ago
once i had my fly down and i was wearing birght pink underwear against black pants...
my sister told me when we got home though to save herselhe embarassment =.=
bluescidoo 1 week ago
I used to mispronounce lyrics - it's "le-rics", not "lai-rics".
Spiderboydk 1 week ago
This should be in a playlist alongside David Mitchell's Queen's English rant.
TheGFeather 1 week ago
I went to the bank to cash my check one day and they had a poster up for a "BACK TO SCHOOLL" coloring contest. I laughed my ass off.
mostnormal 1 week ago
why is this guy so ugly, and why does he keeps on making videos o.0
0181J 1 week ago
@0181J Because half a million people love him, and he isn't going to stop for a few trolls. also, go tell his WIFE he's ugly, because i'm sure she'd disagree.
TheYambo121 1 week ago