re: Words you say wrong

I find most people say "Ant-artic" rather than "Ant-arc-tic". Same with "Ar-tic" instead of "Arc-tic".

"Ath-uh-lete" is another common mispronunciation of "ath-lete". It is two syllables.

The phrase "chomp at the bit" should be "champ at the bit".

100 Most Often Mispronounced Words/Phrases

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Are trying to say the correct way to say Huge is "U-ge"???

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No

Even Hawthorne says "U-ge"

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When I hear someone say Reese's like that (very common), I just remind them that it belongs to a guy named Reese.

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You are quite nice. I just call them a butt fricking retard.

For the life of me, I have a hard time pronouncing "jewelry." Shite is so awkward for me to say.

I have some friends that says 'pane-guin' instead of 'peen-guin' for penguin and another friend that says 'bond fire' instead of 'bon fire'

I also pronounce jewelry as 'jule-ree'

On the drive in this morning I was listening to ESPN radio and Kevin Mawae came on for his weekly segment. He then took the unenviable position of trying to explain the problems with LSU's passing game, and got hung up on the word intermediate.

"The problem with the blocking is they are trying to run too many deep routes. They need to run more intermitary. . interminal... middle routes to help Harris out."

In his defense though he didn't miss a beat.

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Pillow.

I say "pellow" like it rhymes with jell-o.

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I say "Pee-low", like Prof. Litvinoff. As in, "There's are many promises made, my friend, to which the only witness is a pee-low."

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"fisshun,"



no, no, that's how you say "fishing"

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Actually, he's at least partly right, because nucular physicists pronounce "fission" as "fishin'", which does rhyme with "mission" as he said.

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