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Words I mispronounce:
Accidentally:
UNICEF: UNICHIEF
Arrogant: aggorant
Dais: dias
Debris: derbris
HEPA: heapa
Caste: kayst
Nictitate: nictate - turns out both are correct and synomyms
NSAID: Nsayd
Height: heighth
Drowned: drownded
Foment: forment
Tempestuous: testemptuous
Ergodic: ergotic
Deliberately:
Scared: skeered
Resent: resemble that remark
Go Slow: Gos-low, as Curly from The Three Stooges put it, the next town according to the road sign
Necessarily: necessacelery
Educated: edumacated
Automatically: automagically
Sean Bean: Seen Bean
Cigar: seegar
House of ill repute: repuke
Muscles: muskles
Vitality: vitaliky
Infant: infink
Wrestle: wrassle in the castle
Apologies: ap-o-lo-gees
Revenge: re-wen-gay
Ignorant: Ignernt
Confused: Cornfused
Crayloas: Crayellas
Deaf: deef
Diaphragm: dia-frag-m
Paradigm: para-dig-m
Target: Tarzhet
JC Penny: Jacque Pennay
Covers: kivvers
Kmart: Kmarket
Krogers: K-Rogers
Buck Naked: nekkid
Sears & Roebuck: Rareback
Home Depot: Home Dee-Pot
Misconstrued: Misconscrewed
Personally: poisonally
Purpose: porpoise
Probably: prab-ly
Probably: prolly
Incognito: inmagneto
Hilarious: high-larious
I expected: expectorated that...
Montgomery Wards: Monkey Wards
Hardin–Simmons University: Hardened Sinners
ETBC [now East Texas Baptist University]: Itsybitsy
I have a number of those deliberate ones myself. The long street in Phoenix that was once Business Route I-10 is McDowell, which I pronounce "M. C. Do-well"; I tell people it's the name of a Mountie rapper. Also, a certain family restaurant chain, called by its owners "Country Kitchen", will forevermore be known in my family as "Crunchy Kitten".
The other night on the latest episode of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives", a chef announced that he was adding "washed-your-sister sauce" to a recipe.
Whoopi Goldberg always made me chuckle when (on The View) she'd refer to Ahmadinejad as "I'm a dinner jacket."
Myself: I often call Tucson (AZ) "tuck-sun." I think when I first heard of the city it may have helped me remember how to spell it. But I still find myself saying it that way even after living in AZ for 30 years.
EDIT: Just realized I did this with another word (intentionally). When I was teaching science, I'd pronounce "thermometer" as "ther' moh meter" just to reinforce the fact that the device was, like so many other measuring tools, a meter for some physical quantity.
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