Learn How To Speak English
I have a serious problem with people who pronounce certain words completely wrong. The one that specifically comes to mind is the word burger. As in “Yes, I would like a nice, juicy burger to eat.“ I do not want a nice juicy burger when somebody asks me this question:
“Would you like a nice, juicy booger?”
My response is, “No, no I would not, no thank you, no.”
Please pronounce BURGER correctly.
Any words pronounced incorrectly that drive you up the wall?
[This is part of The Unappreciated Blog Posts series]
I think you have put your finger on a very serious subject. I have a similar gripe, but couldn’t shake it off.
Just keep rolling and eventually your problem falls off.
I’m not sure I pronounce many things correctly, so it’s probably best if I sit this one out. Maybe I’ll go enjoy a nice burger…
Knock yourself so long as you don’t pick your nose.
In hindsight that does sound like pretty good advice.
“In hindsight”
Please wash your hands before your fingers start clicking things on this site!
A roof is not a ruuf!
A tomato is not a tam-mat-toe!
Wombania is not womb-ania! It’s Wom (rhymes with Tom) -mania!
I say ruuf but not tam-mat-toe. I also mess up feel and fill from time to time.
I like womb-ania! better
I would have never guessed you’re a ruufer!
You make me sound like I smoke pot…
My British father-in-law says Ruuf
I’m from the south in North America and I say ruuf. I didn’t realize I had something in common with a Brit.
I had to become a vegetarian in order to avoid ever ordering a burger incorrectly.
That is one solution but I love meat way too much
There’s always Tofu Burgers. (Not that I’m into tofulery.)
There are no such things as Tofu Burgers.
Oh, man. My father and “wash”. Our first president was George Warshington. He would warsh his car. I would plead, beg, cajole, and scream, to no avail.
And to everybody else in the other 49 states, I come from Illinoi. NOT Illinoi-IS. The “s” is silent!
Oh, as to a ground-beef patty on a bun, if anything, I over-emphasize the “r”. I tend to eat a lot of “brr-grrs”.
My parents are from Illinois and they both say warsh. I grew up in Oklahoma and say wash. Surprisingly my dad says Illi-NOIS. I have to correct him. I’ve have given up.
It’s gotta be regional within Illinois. Neither my mom (who grew up on the NW side of Chicago, as opposed to my Dad from the Far South Side), nor any of our neighbors ever did the “warsh” thing. And I’ve found the greatest perpetrators of “Illinoy-IS” to be from New England, despite all the dropped syllables in the imported British place names. (Just how does Worcestershire become “Whoosh-te-sure”?)
Then I have no clue what is wrong with my parents… though I have always that something was up.
My wife hates that I drop the T out of Petrol & say Pe’ruul
How do you say Patriot?
pay-tree-ut
My brother used eat his boogers as a kid. He offered me once. Don’t want to talk about it… haha
Gross! You ate it, didn’t you?
Amburger..?
Truly an Unappreciated post. It’s one thing is some poor bastard has a regional accent. It’s another when stopping by a restaurant in California and hearing an ignorant employee offering me the special… escar-goat.
True story. True face-palm.
Of course there’s everyone’s fave Bush 2.0 word: ‘nouk-u-lar’
Think that your idea of ‘Unappreciated Posts’ is a great one. We all have them. Damn. Wish I’d have considered this idear.
~Miss R
well so much for the miss-typing. need a bitch-slap on that second sentence.
Ahhhhhh, that’s better.
No problem.
escar-goat!?
Please feel free to take this idea of Unappreciated Posts and run with it.