There are some words we just love to mispronounce, like “spatula” as “spatular,” which rhymes with “bachelor.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Intentional Mispronounciation”
Do you remember that program that we did quite a while ago about words that we love to mispronounce?
Oh yeah, yeah, like skidooly.
Skidooly.
-huh.
James Schmidt from Arcata, California, where we’re on KHSU, sent us an email with two words.
He says, a friend from Tennessee called a spatula a spatula, pronounced like bachelor, and her father called aphids on the roses atheists.
I just thought those were cute and fun.
Thanks, John, for sending those.
And if you’ve got words that you or someone you know loves to mispronounce, send them along.
