Annoying Words & Phrases

"Are UFO's real?"

"I ain't lying!!"

"I didn't say you were lying, I just want to know if UFO's real"

"Dammit quit callin' me a liar!! 'Course I'm fo' real!!"


Another intentional mispronunciation I do is vegetables. Last night while making dinner, I asked my wife what she wants for "vegg-ah-TAB-leez".
 
I would be willing to bet – but no more than a dollar – that the people who add an extra "r" to "sherbet" also drop the first "r" from "temperature" and pronounce it as "tempachoor." Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!
 
sadchild said:
Another intentional mispronunciation I do is vegetables. Last night while making dinner, I asked my wife what she wants for "vegg-ah-TAB-leez".
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As probably most people do, we have like a hundred nicknames for our dogs. Penny is short for Penelope Pitstop. And some of the nicknames we have for her are variations on pen-EL-oh-pee. Like PEN-a-lope and PEN-a-lope-ee. We also call her Penny poo-poo, Penny pen-pen, or just "P". She doesn't care, as long as we give her meals and treats.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I've never heard anyone say "YOO-foh"; and in my 40 years as an engineer, I haven't come across anyone who says "JIFF". It's graphical, it starts with a G, so everyone says GIFF.
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You are from an area which mispronounces most words particularly ones with an 'a' in them so I would take this with a grain of saaaaalt.
 
Here's a new one: stagflationary

“The tariffs are stagflationary, so slower growth and higher inflation.”

That's an annoying word!
 
sadchild said:
stagflationary
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Oh that's gross.

Apparently it was crested as a word in the 60's so that makes it a fake word to me.

If it wasn't created in early modern English then it better be good or else I'm going to be a grumpy old man when I hear it.

And it's obviously just slang for a stagnant job market during rising inflation.
 
scotchandcigar said:
I've never heard anyone say "YOO-foh"; and in my 40 years as an engineer, I haven't come across anyone who says "JIFF". It's graphical, it starts with a G, so everyone says GIFF.


If it wasn't for the internet, nobody would know this. It's not like he's a public figure.
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So he needs a better marketing team.

I can’t help it they don’t listen.
 
Giblets are the the edible organs of a fowl, typically the heart, liver and gizzard. The word comes from the Old French gibelet ("a stew or ragout of fowl"), which is related to gibier ("game"). Several years ago, the afternoon hosts at KFI in Los Angeles spent a half-hour discussing the pronunciation and putting callers on the air. John Kobylt insisted the word is pronounced with a hard "g" and Ken Chiampou insisted it's pronounced with a "j" sound. The Collins dictionary, Merriam-Webster dictionary and Oxford English Dictionary all say "the 'j' sound is considered the more standard and widely accepted pronunciation."

I have never heard anyone pronounce "giblets" with a hard "g" – but, to be honest, I seldom hear anyone even talk about giblets.
 
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Jif is partnering with GIPHY, a GIF search engine, to “put a lid on this decade-long debate”: Both GIF and the peanut butter are pronounced “Jif.”

 
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hey look! a jiraffe jif!

But aside from that:

Those who say “giff” think they have logic on their side but they really don’t. “It’s a hard G because it stands for Graphic,” they insist. “It’s not Jraphics Interchange Format!”

That may be so but the argument is irrelevant. The whole point of an acronym is to create a pronounceable word; the pronunciation of the letters in their original contexts is irrelevant.

Consider the acronym “scuba,” which stands for “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.” You’ll notice that, even though “underwater” is pronounced with a short U (“uh”), “scuba” is pronounced with a long U (“oo,” i.e., “skooba”). To my knowledge, nobody goes around saying it should be pronounced “skubba.” The same is true with “laser.” It’s short for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” “Amplification” has a short A (as in cat) but we say “leizer” with a long A and not “lasser.”

It’s not only the case with vowels. Consider the American Society of Photographers (ASP). The P stands for “Photographers” but it’s not pronounced “Asf.” And what about Content Integrated Research in Creative-User Systems (CIRCUS)? The first C stands for “Content” but the acronym is pronounced “circus,” not “kirkus.”
 
Aerospace scientist John Cover Jr. invented the stun gun and patented it in 1974. He named it TASER, which stood for Thomas A. Swift's Electric Rifle, after Tom Swift & His Electric Rifle, the tenth in a series of Tom Swift novels, published in 1911. Tom Swift did not have a middle name or middle initial in any of the books – but Cover knew TASER is more pronounceable as a word than TSER.
 
sadchild said:
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hey look! a jiraffe jif!

But aside from that:

Those who say “giff” think they have logic on their side but they really don’t. “It’s a hard G because it stands for Graphic,” they insist. “It’s not Jraphics Interchange Format!”

That may be so but the argument is irrelevant. The whole point of an acronym is to create a pronounceable word; the pronunciation of the letters in their original contexts is irrelevant.

Consider the acronym “scuba,” which stands for “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.” You’ll notice that, even though “underwater” is pronounced with a short U (“uh”), “scuba” is pronounced with a long U (“oo,” i.e., “skooba”). To my knowledge, nobody goes around saying it should be pronounced “skubba.” The same is true with “laser.” It’s short for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” “Amplification” has a short A (as in cat) but we say “leizer” with a long A and not “lasser.”

It’s not only the case with vowels. Consider the American Society of Photographers (ASP). The P stands for “Photographers” but it’s not pronounced “Asf.” And what about Content Integrated Research in Creative-User Systems (CIRCUS)? The first C stands for “Content” but the acronym is pronounced “circus,” not “kirkus.”
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Or Fubu clothing.
It isn't pronounced Fuh Buh.
 
sadchild said:
dh23t0x-474b04eb-95af-4b11-a13a-e7cbdeb7e3b0.gif


hey look! a jiraffe jif!

But aside from that:

Those who say “giff” think they have logic on their side but they really don’t. “It’s a hard G because it stands for Graphic,” they insist. “It’s not Jraphics Interchange Format!”

That may be so but the argument is irrelevant. The whole point of an acronym is to create a pronounceable word; the pronunciation of the letters in their original contexts is irrelevant.

Consider the acronym “scuba,” which stands for “self-contained underwater breathing apparatus.” You’ll notice that, even though “underwater” is pronounced with a short U (“uh”), “scuba” is pronounced with a long U (“oo,” i.e., “skooba”). To my knowledge, nobody goes around saying it should be pronounced “skubba.” The same is true with “laser.” It’s short for “light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.” “Amplification” has a short A (as in cat) but we say “leizer” with a long A and not “lasser.”

It’s not only the case with vowels. Consider the American Society of Photographers (ASP). The P stands for “Photographers” but it’s not pronounced “Asf.” And what about Content Integrated Research in Creative-User Systems (CIRCUS)? The first C stands for “Content” but the acronym is pronounced “circus,” not “kirkus.”
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You can make whatever arguments you like. I will never look at GIF and pronounce it with a J sound. It's not a real word, rules don't apply. It's pronounced the way it looks.
 
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