Scott and SadieFor some people, it feels like “nails on a chalkboard” when someone says something wrong. It might be even more irritating to find out that they’re saying it wrong INTENTIONALLY.
Someone asked the internet, “What is your best ‘I say it wrong on purpose’ example?” And here are the most popular responses:
1. Someone said they call it “The Google” . . . mostly to annoy their kids.
2. Someone else said they like to say, “I’ll give it a Goog” before searching.
3. “Strategery” . . . inspired by the old “SNL” bit.
4. “Merlot,” WITH the “T” sound . . . so, “mer-lot.” (Especially when wine-tasting . . . only to watch the workers’ reactions.)
5. “Deers” when they see more than one deer, instead of just “deer.”
6. “It’s not rocket surgery.”
7. “It’s all water under the fridge.”
8. (PG-13) Someone said, “My mom would say ‘Urethra!’ instead of ‘Eureka!'”
9. Pronouncing Arkansas as “R-Kansas.”
10. Pronouncing Pokémon as “Pokey-man” or “Pokey-mans.”
11. Pronouncing scissors as “skissors” . . . to be “funny.” (Ugh.)
12. “Sangwich” . . . inspired by how their grandpa said it.
13. “Mack-Donalds.”
14. Saying “expresso” instead of “espresso.”
15. Someone said, “I was sick of people correcting me whether I say ‘gif’ or ‘jif.’ Whichever I say will be wrong to someone. So I started calling them ‘JEEFS.'”
16. Someone said, “My dad keeps pronouncing the word ‘vegan’ as ‘vay-gan,’ even though I’ve corrected him many times.”
17. Some people got silly with it . . . saying stuff like, “I’m living bi-curiously through you” . . . and “self-defecating” instead of “self-deprecating.”
18. “Irregardless”
19. “Gulf of Mexico”
20. “Screenshat” . . . for the past tense of “screenshot.”
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