Comments on: 50 Incorrect Pronunciations That You Should Avoid

By: Yankee transplant

Yankee transplant — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:20:48 +0000

All I can say is, Maeve, don’t move to northwest Arkansas. (Though that is one word they do pronounce correctly here.)

Nearly every word you list is pronounced the “incorrect” way here, on a regular basis, by everyone, as well as a few other pronunciations like “gub-ment” for government.

I cringe all the time, having had an English teacher for a father, but I’ve also learned to pronounce some of these words colloquially in order to “get along.”

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:05:39 +0000

Excusing bad English by brushing it off as a dialect is highly incorrect. I remember a column in my university newspaper in which the writer (who was Black, by the way) made the following observation: “Jive is a dialect. Ebonics is just bad English.”
While the word “ask” may have an interesting history, the fact is this: it is spelled A S K. It’s not polysyllabic, nor in any other way does it lend itself to slurring or anything like that.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:19:04 +0000

For years I would say “seeg” instead of SEG-WAY for the word segue. I am now an example to others.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:34:10 +0000

Yep – Pennsylvania…typo…ironic.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:33:06 +0000

I knew some folks in the mountains of Pennsylvannia who used to say “bedroom suit” vs. “bedroom suite” — they knew it was spelled “suite” and still said “suit.” I just couldn’t figure out how that happened.