- relator (as in, "Did you find a good relator to sell your house?")
- nucular (as in, "There was an explosion at the nucular plant today! I feel funny.")
- jewlery (as in, "Does this piece of giant fake gold jewlery make me look like a ho?")
- expecially or eggspecially (as in, "Do you carry the expecially eggspecial on your breakfast menu?")
- expresso (as in, "I would definitely take an expresso machine with me on Survivor.")
- muse-em (as in, "This one might get me in trouble with my darling sister-in-law, who pronounces it muse-em even though she is a very intelligent person.")
So remember, you need a good re-al-tor if you don't want your new house to be by a nu-cle-ar reactor, but you want to live close to the art mu-seee-um and a good eSSSpresso shop. Also, you prefer not to live in the ghetto, eSSSpecially if you have a lot of expensive jew-el-ry in your house.
Sound it out, friends. Sound it out.
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Very funny and true! I never thought about it, I guess. I do have to admit I am guilty of committing a few of those speech faux-pas (and maybe didn't even spell that right!) I'll work on sounding them out...
Talk to you soon!
Kelli
Oh I am so with you on this. One that drives me crazy: suppos-AB-ly. I see no 'b' in the supposedly. E-X-presso is definitely number one though.
Expresso is my big pet peeve, too. Just pronounce the letters, people.
You forgot ambliance. I think that if you don't know how to pronounce ambulance then you don't deserve to ride in one!
Mine is Relator. UGH!!! I hate it when people say that.
What about "laxadaisical" and even worse, "birfday?"
My word pet-peeves (because this is just too fun of a game not to jump in on) are two that are most often heard in Idaho--Warshington and crick, as in "I'm going to mosey on up to Warshington and wash my britches in the crick." Got to love it.
Mine is when people add an apostrophe-s onto the names of stores. For example, "We went to Fred Meyer's for some new shoes".
My husband's pet peeve is "fustrated" and many of our intelligent friends say this. I don't mind it - I think it is fun to hear and then watch my husband cringe! He gets so fustrated!
My sweet mother in law loves to shop at the Bond, now known as Macy's. You are on my to-do list this week! I am aching for some good conversation.
That last comment was mine, don't know why I am anonymous.
Mine is without a doubt Willamette, as in the river, which is always pronounced "Will-ah-mett-ey" and for all you non-Oregonian's out there it's "Will-a-met." And we live in OREGON, not Ore-gone.
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