15 Words You're Probably Pronouncing Wrong

[konanpalmer]

Oh man I can’t wait to get back to the office and correct everyone on “processes.” As soon as I get a job

[philiphan]

About a third of these words I never pronounced wrong cuz I never knew them in the first place.

[LeslieKwan]

3:48 - They spelled it DIPTHONG instead of DIPHTHONG.

[drsnooker]

So you hit my PhD committees' pet peeve... "et al. " is short for "et alii" which means and others, hence requires a period if abbreviated to et al.
As an added fun fact, if a list of authors on a paper is only two, you can not use "et al." as it is plural. authors: Smith and Jones cannot be shortened to Smith et al. As Jones is only one person.

[ghill]

Boatswain, coxswain, forecastle--you could do a long list of just nautical terms which are pronounced differently than spelled.

[mststgt]

As the saying goes: Never judge somebody over the wrong pronunciation of a word. It means, they learned it from reading.

[jphilb]

It’s Stephen with a ph.

Thanks Phteven.

[TJ]

Victuals gets me because I think I've only ever Heard it pronounced by the Clampetts on Beverly Hillbillies...
and I assumed that 'Vittels" was the Hillbiily-ization of "Vict-uals" a la being a modification of 'Critter' for 'Creature' or Creek being pronounced 'Crick"

[XtomJamesExtra]

While "renumeration" may be a common misspelling of "remuneration" in terms of to compensate with monies, the word "renumeration" is in and unto itself a proper word. Constructed of the prefix re- meaning to do over, the root word numerate meaning to count, and the suffix -ation meaning to act. The proper use for the word is the same as "to be in the act of recounting". Example: "The store team did their annual renumeration of the goods in the store."

[jphilb]

I can thank The Beverly Hillbillies for knowing how to pronounce victuals.

[maxximumb]

As a Brit we pronounce some of those words differently. For solder we pronounce the L so for us it's sol-der. For primer we pronounce it the same way whatever it's meaning, pri-mer. And finally we don't pronounce it real-tor, we pronounce it estate agent.
I was surprised at the word victuals having only ever heard it spoken. Over here we don't use victuals. We have words like grub, scran, nosh, snap, scoff, tuck and more recently noms.

[strifera]

I've literally never heard anyone ever say "primmer" before.

[deVeaux]

"They said I was being pedantic. (Period. No comma.) That led (not lead) to a vote of no confidence . . ."

[Ggdivhjkjl]

5:06 In Australia that word is pronounced as sol-der. The first syllable is said with the LOT vowel.

[bunnyfourseven]

Language is like its own beast. We can set as many “rules” for it as we want, but in the end, it really just depends on what sticks with the everyday speakers. I feel like this is becoming more and more prevalent as a the internet continues to grow and we’re exposed to others who speak variations of our own language. Think of American English versus British English versus Australian and New Zealand English. Before the internet, we were more insular, so even though we all spoke the same base language, accents and slang developed differently in our own smaller communities. Now we have much more exposure to variations like slang and accents, and some internet-based ones are starting to develop as well. And it’s not necessarily just fleeting online slang either; think about the infamous YouTube and TikTok “accents, ” although a lot of people just consider them to be intonations rather than full-on accents.

[DanWhalen]

The mispronounciation of processes is helpful, just as a way of distinguishing pluralizing the noun vs conjugation the verb. Ie, people seem to use "processEEZ" as plural processes (n), and use "processES" as like the 3rd person tense of to process (v)

[dw.in.michigan]

Please explain why the British add an "f" sound to lieutenant.

[Half_theBattle]

Count me as one of the few who says Feb-roo-ary. I also have opinions on long-lived and reprise.

[John-gxh]

There were 4. I'd seen "vittles" and "victuals" and just figured "vittles" must have been a corruption of the word. Antennae, diptheria and primer, I had all wrong. Well, I had primer right half the time.

[danielhughes]

I would love to see how you pronounce “flaccid.” I will put money down that 99% of the people here will also mispronounce it