Most Mispronounced Words

[Majestyx]

Several idiots on this site cannot differentiate lost & loss

“Sorry for your lost”

sell vs sale also

 

[AquaCityBoy]

Worcestershire sauce

 

[Majestyx]

umber-ella instead of umbrella

Lab-top instead of laptop

i got a breh from Louisiana that say labtop i'm everytime

 

[Lexx Diamond]

Ozempic is properly pronounces Ozem-pike.

 

[ItzDaKiing]

Folks mispronouncing the Orlando Magic as the Orlando “Magics”

And Miami Heats

 

[Hoshi_Toshi]

Depth = debt

“I have to pay off my student loans then I’ll be completely out of depth”

Of = have

Could of, would of. Now I see people using it with had of.

“If you had of finished on time then we would of been able to go to the show”

 

[Flexington]

Roof being pronounced ruff

 

[StretfordRed]

homogeneous
I've heard people say hahmah-genous most of my life. It's homo-genius

It’s actually more ho-modge-eenus (the last part like penis without the p). The whole word people say too slowly and should be more “homodgeeenus”

 

[MidniteJay]

I don't know about most missed pronounced but "Strategy" still fukks me up. It's a word I have to think about before I say it or I'll keep saying "stragety"

 

[Turbulent]

At y’all BIG age still using the white man’s taught anti-Black language towards the African Diaspora using “ax”.

C’mon brehs, y’all can do better.




“Ax” is an indication of cultural retention found across the African Diaspora.
Know you history Black man

This will be my new random fact i bring up when trying to make small talk.

 

[Turbulent]

Vo-LUMP-tuous

RAY-men noodles

Voluptuous i always thought of it as on purpose to put extra emphasis on it. So to me it was kinda like a different word.

Kinda like saying "Gat DAMN!" instead of "God damn".

 

[Turbulent]

Depth = debt

“I have to pay off my student loans then I’ll be completely out of depth”

Of = have

Could of, would of. Now I see people using it with had of.

“If you had of finished on time then we would of been able to go to the show”

That could be more of an accent thing when pronounced. No excuse in the written form though

 

[Turbulent]

Nucular instead of nuclear

 

[TheJet]

Also, what's up with people not knowing how to use the word "literally"?

 

[Flexington]

Also, what's up with people not knowing how to use the word "literally"?

Same with “legit”

Most of em also forget the word “legitimately” exist