Do you or anyone else you know pronounce words in an odd way?

@mmiceli (382)
February 12, 2009 12:37pm CST
Do you pronounce some words differently than everyone else does? I definitely put my own spin on a word or two. One word I always get joked about is 'comfy' I always say 'comfTy', with a T between the f and the y. I don't really care though, I like the way I say it better. haha. =] My mom always mixes up her 'ch' and 'sh'. My nephew is eight and he still calls armpits, 'armpips.' Do your kids say any funny words? What do you think about mispronounced words?
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@Jae2619 (1483)
• United States
12 Feb 09
I have pronouce Crayons -- Krinyons... My husband get's so made at me because our son now does that. other words would be specific, if I'm in a big hurry talking and use that I can't say it, it takes me forever, I have to slow down and and think. I also had issues when I was younger pronoucing the brand Fruit Of A Loom, -- I said Fruit of ababloom, my mom still laughs at me when I mess that up. My son has issues with tootie roll... it's tristwe roll-- Spelling probably isn't even close to how he says it.
• Hungary
12 Feb 09
I am not a native English speaker, but I do use English a lot and I do have an accent. As I traveled a lot and learnt different languages, now I have an accent in my native language as well! My husband is Spanish and has a strong accent in English, but amazingly our kids have very good accents when they speak English, didn't get any of ours!
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• Janesville, Wisconsin
12 Feb 09
I do not have children, but I have nephews and neices and foster siblings who have on and off accidently said words funny.. Many of picked up Thingy.. saying it as Thing-gee we did not realise for years where we picked that up from.. Crikey! It was Steve Irwin! :) ... I struggle with my r's on and off... Many times I would prounce them as L's... I never understood that.. until I learned That I had Cherokee heritage.. and The is no R's in the cherokee language its Tsalagi .. Cha la gee ....I figure that is where I picked up my funny r's was from maybe my biological mother... I was also born with a cross bite, and I am missing some front teeth, at times I speak with a lisp, or its hard to speak without grinding my teeth although the cross bite was fixed I was so used to having to work so hard to verbally speak. I laugh at my silly things too... But I find the most interesting thing about myself. Is I talk to anyone who has an accent within seconds I am speaking back to them with the exact same accent. I tend to mirror who I am talking with... So in those days when yahoos voice chat was still good. I'd get offline and wander into share news or jokes with my family... And without meaning to.. Find myself stating words in the same sentance in 4-5 different accents as they laughed, and sometimes to tears at it. The Accents that I was mixing was Southern India Accent, English Accent, Texas, TN, South Carolina.. Then I am from Wisconsin... Then you add in my funky L like r's or how I roll my rs at times cause rolling them is an easier more natural sound to me.. Then Comes the inter lingual mix... I start to say stuff like... Ah! Yesouisiyah! Ah! nononnonnine! You look closely and that is Yes in four languages ran together in one word and same with no!... :) .. That always catches people off guard But its fun to say! :).. and as a little flavor to Yes Yes Yes Yes! No no no no! :) Then I have my own language to but so sometimes my own language words creep in here and there.... So, Aoonoonre reig! translates to Good Day! :) - DNatureofDTrain
12 Feb 09
Some Of Them Are If I am Not Wrong :- EGG AAAG MILK MELK stove stolve More Example : I Say "Bra" Like The Word Brawl. Same As "Draw" I Say Drawl cold code told toad library liberry lol..
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• United States
23 Feb 09
I was born in east Tennessee and at time have a very heavy southern/appalachian accent. My husband, who grew up in South Carolina, laughs at me when we go to visit my family. I have been told that the longer I am there the heavier my accent is. I am probably more aware of the way I say things because I moved a lot as a child and was exposed to many dialects, accents and speach patterns. I know there are funny words I use, like ya'll instead of you guys, you or you all. When I go to visit family it gets worse, it goes from ya'll to youn's (I majored in English in college and there learned that this word is used only by people in the appalachian region of America). I pronounce eggs as aggs, root as rut, soot as sut. I often use southern terms of endearment, like honey, sweet heart and darlin' but I also call almost everyone kiddo. I call a garden hose a hose pipe even though my Tennessee native mother calls it a water hose and my Idaho native father calls it an irragation pipe. I stretch words like at into at least two syllables. I often over emphasize vowels. I used to have a hard time saying specific, it always came out pacific. My middle child says bleauty instead of beauty and now we all do it too. One of my friend's daughter used to call boobs buttons.