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06/16/09
Since our library was near to an actual Armory, this threw everyone off for several minutes as, being librarians, we were all desperately trying to figure out what she was talking about.
Eventually, one of us realized she meant ar-moires.
06/16/09
My roommate was sitting on the kitchen counter one day, chatting with me about something and in walks the cat. She (my roommate, not the cat) says, "Here comes the calvary!"
Me: "Calvary?"
Her: "Yeah."
Me: "Jesus died on Calvary. I think you're thinking of cavalry.
So she practiced it there for a few minutes and then for DAYS would randomly (slowly) say, "Ca-val-ry?"
Me: "Yes, honey. Very good."
(She reads this blog every now and then and I see a shoe being thrown at me if she reads this entry.)
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06/16/09
A former roommate always called the raspberry liqueur "Chamborg" - that REALLY drove me nuts. She owned a restaurant.
Best of all, my husband knows a woman who says "meem" instead of "mime." Thanks to her, we both say it now, too.
But, I live in a place (northern NH) where people routinely take the "r" off the ends of words, and put it on the ends of words that end in vowels, so that you have astounding statements like, "Get in the cah, Danar."
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Since then, I figure that anyone can pronounce a word any way he or she likes.
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We kept a log of all the ways people mispronounced "echinacea" for awhile. One of the most popular mispronunciations for that was "euthanasia". As in "hi, I've got a really bad cold, and my doctor said I should come here and get some euthanasia from you?"
Another favorite was "prostrate gland". Once from a guy who then explained to me in a very careful and ponderous manner that I did not have one and therefore did not need to take "african penguin extract" (actually "african pygeum extract).
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[www.huffingtonpost.com]
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My seventh grade history teacher pronounced archipelago as 'arch-ih-peh-laaaaa-go.' Seriously. How did she become a teacher?
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He was not joking.
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@missteenwordpower is your sexy Ms. Magoo.: My stepmom says "All-timers" or "Old-timers" instead of "Alzheimer's".
06/16/09
Oh, also wilful, unsolicited anglicising of people's nams. Like calling someone named Paola "Pawla."
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Drove one of my friends crazy.
06/16/09
From GrammarErrors.com
"This is probably one of the most commonly mispronounced words in the English language. The r in February has been dropped so that it is almost always pronounced Febuary--without the r. Perhaps this is because placing the r sound in the word makes it slightly more difficult to pronounce, and since laziness tends to get the upper hand when we speak, Febuary has become the common pronunciation. However, despite this, the word is correctly pronounced February. The English language has enough silent letters as it is. Remember to keep the r sound in February."
03/06/09
However, "mating is the engine of history" is a hilarious line.
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