Pronouncing most words "wrong" (just different)

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Anyone else have this problem? I've had this issue my whole life where I pronounce a word according to how it's spelled, and then someone corrects me, and I'm all like, who cares? No big difference.

One such word that really annoyed me is finite. It's pronounced "fie-nite" but I always pronounced it like "fin-it" because it's spelled like "infinite" without the prefix "in" and that should also apply to the way it's pronounced.

There is also the phrase "for all intensive purposes" which makes no sense at all, and I have always said it like "for all intents and purposes" but everyone else seems to disagree.

I also have had some minor speech probelems in the past, and even now I keep wanting to pronounce "dream" like "jream".

Yep, I pronounce it that way too. Or Buffet - Buff-Ae (I said Buff-it until corrected) Or Fillet - Fill-ae (Fill-it until corrected) and there is a million more examples I can't think of.

No but I have corrected people, you worst is when someone says pitcher when talking about a picture.

I've been told that I speak very well, and that's in a community where words are mispronounced all the time, as it's supposed to be our local dialect or accent. For example, "boy" is pronounced as "by", and "cousin" is pronounced "cousint", and "never" is "neverd".

Although when I was younger and did a lot of reading, I would sometimes pick up words but not the correct way to to say them that aren't that common in our everyday local speech. For example, I once pronounced "Supremacists" as "Super-mashists".

The opposite is what I always wondered.

How come we DON"T call the "Margaritaville" singer "Jimmy Buffay", or the business tycoon "Warren Buffay"?

I guess they both had French ancestors whose names were pronounced that way, but the families gradually allowed the pronounciation to get Anglicized in America.

I do this quite a lot. I pronounce a word how it is spelled.

Some people do correct me but other people find it amusing and some people even follow suit.

I also say certain words and leave letters out, for example I'll say "Birminham" instead of "Birmingham" or "Ponounce" instead of "Pronounce".

I pronounce words like they're spelled when I'm reading them sometimes but I pronounce them correctly when I'm just talking. For example when I'm just talking, I'll say Jalapeno where the J makes an H sound like it's supposed to but when I read the word, I read it with the J making a J sound. I was never taught in school that a J could make a H sound.

my biggest one is.... saying wool instead of well....LOL

Yes, for example I pronounce comfortable as "comfterble". I also can't pronounce R's in the middle of words.

It's a Spanish origin word.

In Spanish J is always pronounced like "H" is pronounced in English (Jalapeno, marijuana, Juan, Jose, Navajo).

Naming your child "Jesus" is considered blasphemy in the English speaking world. But boys are commonly named "Jesus" in the Spanish speaking world. But its pronounced "HEY-zeus".

Does an H make a J sound in Spanish

H is usually silent. Though they do seemed to call the capital of Cuba "Habanna" (V is pronounced like B).

But usually its silent. A big ranch in Mexico is an "Hacienda". Pronounced "Ah-see-enda", and not "HAH -see-enda" (the announcer pronounced it the wrong way in an instructional video I saw once - so irritating that I still remember it years later!).

The word for speaking itself is "hablar" (to speak) which is pronounced "AH-blahr".

For better or worse I am usually the disher-outer of pronunciation corrections, and not the receiver of the correcting.

In every classic Hollywood western the stagecoach always stops at a town called "Goshen" (rhymes with "ocean"). Its kind of a cliché name for a western frontier town.

And it comes from the "Land of Goshen" in the Bible.

But when my coworkers used to talk about a local "Goshen Road" they would pronounce it like "gosh" in "oh my gosh". Shudder!! !. But I did my civic duty of rescuing them from sounding like ignorant knuckle draggers by correcting them! Don't know if they liked me doing that or not. But you would think that if you didn't know from the Bible you would still know from Hollywood, or vice versa! Jeeze!

You have the right idiom, mikeman. "For all intensive purposes" has appeared only recently, as a mis-hearing of the original phrase. And you're right, it doesn't convey the same thing at all!

My inability to pwonounce certain words has often caused me to get cowwected. But it is not my fault that I cannot pwonounce some words with pewfect gwace and accuwacy.