Remember if you're over thirty it's not cute to make these common mispronunciations. It's especially NOT cute, if you're a boss.

supposably instead of supposedly

frusterated instead of frustrated

casterated instead of castrated

affidavid instead of affidavit

hiarchy instead of hierarchy

punkin instead of pumpkin

interpretate instead of interpret

nucular instead of nuclear (our beloved president used this one)

orientate instead of orient

percription instead of prescription

irregardless instead of regardless (someone mentioned this in another thread on this board, but I thought I’d add it to the list)

simplistic instead of simplified or simple

Oh man! How did I forget that one? Thanks for adding to the list!

"Often" rhymes with "soften." The "T" is silent.

Well....it isn't always silent.

Let us not forget "ax". It's - um - egregious.

Birfday instead of birthday.

Death instead of deaf.

Valentime's instead of Valentine's

You already know the nucular/nuclear is my pet peeve but "ax" instead of "ask" is the close second.

Oh, and there's the very beautiful custom artistic diamond ring my husband gave me on an anniversary. Engraved inside- YOUR MY WORLD

Never have had the heart to say anything until now. Keep my secret, please.

Supposably is the adverb form of supposable, adj, meaning conceivable.

Irregardless and regardless have the same meaning, although regardless is more used in the vernacular because irregardless has an implied double negative.

And technically, while you are correct in that people often use orientate (to turn to the east) when they mean orient (to turn in a give direction), the use of orientate is correct when the meaning is per the definition.

As for the nucular vs. nuclear argument, it is pronounced like the former in many regions of the country because that's what the accent per-scribes. to label someone from the south as uneducated for pronouncing as such, you would also have to call those from the northeast, including a famous Catholic-Irish President, ignorant rubes because they can can't pronounce the country of Cuba or the continent of Asia without an R at the end.

YTH

yatahey:

Supposably is the adverb form of supposable, adj, meaning conceivable.

In the Word program, supposably gave me a red line and no matches were found.

yatahey:

Irregardless and regardless have the same meaning, although regardless is more used in the vernacular because irregardless has an implied double negative.

Irregardless is a double negative. Irr connotates non or not.

yatahey:

As for the nucular vs. nuclear argument, it is pronounced like the former in many regions of the country because that's what the accent per-scribes. to label someone from the south as uneducated for pronouncing as such, you would also have to call those from the northeast, including a famous Catholic-Irish President, ignorant rubes because they can can't pronounce the country of Cuba or the continent of Asia without an R at the end.

My boyfriend is from the south (complete with the accent that I listen to all day), and he doesn't pronounce nuclear as nucular, If he did, l'd hit him over the head with a dictionary!

'cept what do you do with "irradiated"?

In recent days, I've heard:

"spaded" instead of "spayed"

"emnity" instead of "enmity"

Of course, each of the miscreants was dispatched with aplomb - God bless 'em.

Was that dispatched with a plume or, more efficiently, an ax? Or "cannonade and cutlass and all manner of remorseless bits of metal?"


Dude, you walked right into that one....I had to.

Calvary instead of cavalry.

When I worked in classified advertising, I had to give someone a free ad, because I had changed her ad from "Spaded" to "Spayed." She insisted no one would know what that meant.

service instead of serve.

You might service your vehicle, but probably don't service your customer unless you are a practitioner of the oldest profession.