A while back, I posted a story about people who mispronounce the word nuclear. I subjected George Bush, Jimmy Carter, and one of Hillary’s underlings at the State Department to special ridicule.
While researching that post (as often happens while Googling), I ran across something really interesting: a list of words and phrases that people consistently butcher.
You, of course, would never, ever make these mistakes. But, like me, you probably can’t resist perusing the list anyway.
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Words and Phrases People Most Often Screw Up
Right: across
Wrong: acrossed
Right: affidavit
Wrong: affidavid
Right: Antarctic
Wrong: Antartic
Right: ask
Wrong: aks
Right: athlete
Wrong: athelete
Right: barbed wire
Wrong: bob wire
Right: cavalry
Wrong: calvary
Right: cardsharp
Wrong: card shark
Right: a blessing in disguise
Wrong: a blessing in the skies
Right: cacophony
Wrong: caucaphony
Right: chest of drawers
Wrong: chester drawers
Right: champing at the bit
Wrong: chomping at the bit
Right: dilate
Wrong: dialate
Right: escape
Wrong: excape
Right: espresso
Wrong: expresso
Right: etcetera
Wrong: excetera
Right: February
Wrong: Feb-you-ary
Right: For all intents and purposes
Wrong: For all intensive purposes
Right: Height
Wrong: Heighth
Right: Regardless
Wrong: Irregardless
Right: Jewelry
Wrong: Jewlery
Right: Lambaste
Wrong: Lambast
Right: Miniature
Wrong: Miniture
Right: Mischievous
Wrong: Mischieveous
Right: Nuclear
Wrong: Nucular
Right: Ordnance
Wrong: Ordinance
Right: Nuptials
Wrong: Nuptuals
Right: Orient
Wrong: Orientate
Right: Percolate
Wrong: Perculate
Right: Prerogative
Wrong: Perogative
Right: Perspire
Wrong: Prespire
Right: Recurring
Wrong: Reoccurring
Right: Sherbet
Wrong: Sherbert
Right: Silicon
Wrong: Silicone
Right: Supposedly
Wrong: Supposebly
Right: Take for granted
Wrong: Take for granite
Right: Triathlon
Wrong: Triathalon
Right: Utmost
Wrong: Upmost
Right: Verbiage
Wrong: Verbage
Right: Zoology
Wrong: Zuology
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Okay, I confess. I mispronounce February and nuptials all the time.
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Well, you‘re wrong on one of them: They‘re actually called “chester drawers”, by the men who made them ways back. People just thought “chest of drawers” sounds more logical, so that‘s what everybody‘s been wrongly calling them (=Folk Etymology).
Wow! Who knew? Chester Drawers is a country songwriter and comedian, too.
Also, add penitentiary:penitentionary. Nobody knows.
I speak English as a second language. After living for 8 years in Canada (now back in Indonesia) I’ve adopted some of those bad pronounciations too.
and all this time I thought I was saying those words correctly