Do you get annoyed when people pronounce words differently?

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Like "ah-dult" or "nucular" or "ArkanSaS"
Also certain accents USED to bother me. Like the New "Yoik" accents, or southern accents or Canadian. "aboot" Hehe. But I don't mind them anymore.

Nucular.

I find that this thread is interesting, coming from both sides. I get to see things from your side, while you get to see things from my side.

It does annoy me when people miss-pronounce simple words, like saying asgetti, instead of spaghetti, or route like rowt. "Look at that Rowtmaster, over there!" just wouldn't fly well, with me. When I hear a grown adult pronounce spaghetti, the way that I've mentioned, above, I want to pull my hair out.

I used to and in true AS fashion would 'correct' the offender.

I still notice incorrect pronounciations but neither the mistake nor the person making it seem important enough to make it worth mentioning.

In my work I rarely correct errors of pronounciation that my clients make.

Few people enjoy being told they are wrong (however nicely it is dressed up) and so unless incorrect pronounciation impairs proper understanding of our topic of discussion, I let it go.

In fact, in some cases with clients, I 'mirror' the incorrect pronounciation, when I use the word

Yes, I hate it. It is awful. It hurts.

I try to restrain myself from correcting mistakes, just with very close friends I cannot keep myself back.
And I only do it in my mother tongue

Salt

I am a radio announcer. Words and their pronunciation are very important to me, and to the people I work with.

If I hear someone mispronounce something on the air, I will ask them later, "may I offer you a pronunciation guide?" That way, it comes across as a genuine offer of help, rather than a criticism. Something like that will prevent the news director from mispronouncing a word on the air later, which is the kind of thing that makes some listeners call in to accuse him of being an idiot. And he isn't an idiot, there are just a lot of rude, nasty people who have nothing better to do than call up places to complain about the most trivial things as though they were crimes against nature. I'm glad I don't have to take those calls, because I'd be telling them to perform an impossible action.

I understand that in any other field of work or in social situations, correction would be taken as criticism, and not received well, so I don't do it.

Yep, I completely hate this! Also when people talk about something in 5 sentences when I already understand what they want to say by the second word, I then say okay I understand, but they still have to finish all there sentences.

Yes I do but I keep quiet about it most of the time. My grandparents (on both sides) are from Oklahoma, Missori and Arkansas and we live in Califonia (Northern Califorina) so I was often around people who said Ah-mon for almon (I say Al-mon usually as well as peh-con) and pee-can for peacan. Our new paster is from the south and says moneys (which is a vaild word I'm told) and it sounds very wrong to me as someone who's only heard 'money' used. It sounds childish but I can't stop my paster from saying it.

But I say things wrong often myself as I read a lot and since I read silently in my head (as I was taught to do in school and I also prefer to read this way) I may read a word and know it and understand it but when I say it out loud it's wrong (but since I've always said it that way in my head it seems right to me).

Also as a child and even now a little I have trouble saying certain words.

I was one of those kids that said 'axe' instead of 'ask'. I could say 'ask' and did when repeating my mom when she'd correct me (which was often) but the default for me was 'axe' even though I knew it was wrong I couldn't say it right unless I made myself do it. Not til some years ago when I finally got over that and now I can and do say 'ask' (most of the time). The harder one was specific which still doesn't sound natural to me when I say it. I have to stop and think about it before saying it but I do say it right now and so my mom can stop reminding me that the Pacific is an ocean (which I'm very aware of). I think my main problem is my vocabulary is larger than my verbal/spelling skills are, if that makes sense.

Mispronunciations annoy the living hell out of me. Whenever I hear someone call a "Jaguar" a "Jaguire"....it's borderline infuriating, lol. I've also heard people call robots "robutts"

I have noticed that the tendency, in America more than any other English speaking country to confuse verbs.

The one that always comes to mind is bring and take.

My daugher has a learning disability and got very confused in science class when her teacher was explaining about the 'gas' that goes in cars at service stations.

We now call it petrol (a common term OUTSIDE the US) so that she is aware that we are actually filling up the car with a LIQUID)

She also studies the two measuring systems at school, one of does NOT use base 10

Explaining the (alternative) Imperial measuring system to a child with a learning disability is about as much fun as microwaving my head.

yes, i have major issues with this. i grew up speaking a very standard, nondescript, "media" accent while surrounded by chicago accents, and it's just grated on me all my life. i also grew irritated once i picked up on the odd linguistic patterns and pronunciations while living in other regions of the country. and even more so, having moved back here. i swear it's like Fargo to me now.

people beginning their sentences with "anymore" or using it incorrectly at the end of a sentence. people leaving out "to be" in sentences ("that needs cleaned" - what?). "all's i need". "them are". this crap is pure illinois.

but the one thing i really grew up peeving on from day 1? "MELK". makes me want to smash a bottle over their heads.

also, i'm noticing something a lot lately - for the last year or so i've been hearing words with the "ull" sound pronounced as "ole": "my hair looks so dole today" "adolts find it difficolt accepting a new colture". just watch the kids doing the news on CNN lately. it's rampant there.

don't rip your hair out! it's cute!

Not that much. I mainly get annoyed with my stepdad, he incorrectly pronounces words constantly, and sounds as though he's doing it on purpose as if he's trying too hard not to be a nerd or something. It pisses me off. A lot of times he'll begin to pronounce a word correctly and then halfway through he'll stop and repeat the word completely incorrectly.

But one thing that really annoys me is when someone pronounces a word one way half of the time and then another way for the rest of the time. As of now I'm watching Stargate SG-1 for the first time, and it's irritating me that any given character in particular the show are pronouncing "Goa-ulds" as 'Golds' or 'Gewlds' but occasionally pronouncing it correctly. Even Teal'c does this, and he's a Jaffa!!