Anyone else tired and fed up of Mispronunciations

[Skanky]

DVD's or CD's ----makes no sense gramatically

Oh goarrr sMASH, leave out the '

ay, juss now is just usb ting, an my peeps still refer to dvd's as flim.

how else to type it...

sMASH the plural of car isn't car's now is it? The plural of house isn't house's is it?
The plural of dvd is dvds.
The plural of cd is cds.

[Sky]

You use the 's when the acronym has punctuation in it, like Ph.D's in selling DVDs.
Doh ask. English again.

[wana-B-racer]

Gloves-Globs

[partsman]

the other day a customer came asking for "frog lamps' . Once a lady told me she couldn't "phantom" what someone was talking about . I have a friend who is a gold mine of such slips, the best one being the time he told me about a woman's "estrangled" husband . Moments to be cherished .

[Hook]

Gloves-Globs

you in friggin Mexico awha?

DAMN YOU LETTER V!!!!!!!

[Bizzare]

a woman's "estrangled" husband .

[shogun]

Gloves-Globs

Have to admit, i haven't heard this one.

[mitsuboi]

Ever heard an american pronounce Harry- Hairy

Reminds me of d white girl joke tho
White girl walks in front car at price plaza
Man in car yells "u come here to die"
White girl "no I came yes-to-die".

[Sumana.00]

I made a 10 year old cry last night for correcting his speech and pronounciation.
I didn't care though because while my speech may not be perfect Queen's English, I'm not the one writing SEA examinations next year. And I am a firm believer in "How you speak is how you write" when it comes to kids.

You will never hear my child saying things like "Ah de gi'im de ting when he was dey!" "Di'iy Aidan, ah was to check on de ting dey."

My mom used to look at me hard whenever I spoke broken english...and be like what did you say? Now I find myself doing it with my Brit friends cos dear God for people who live in the country of supposedly perfect english...they can't speak it, tired of hearing people say "me mum", "me work", "me everything"


& speaking of names everyone gets mine wrong :\ I've stopped correcting them/just give them the shorter version

[- Rovin's car audio -]

Ever heard an american pronounce Harry- Hairy

Reminds me of d white girl joke tho
White girl walks in front car at price plaza
Man in car yells "u come here to die"
White girl "no I came yes-to-die".

wtf u serious !? .....

[rollingstock]

Ever heard an american pronounce Harry- Hairy

Reminds me of d white girl joke tho
White girl walks in front car at price plaza
Man in car yells "u come here to die"
White girl "no I came yes-to-die".

wtf u serious !? .....

should be in the stale joke thread

[mitsuboi]

^^It is...well I tink das wey I heard it

But she walk lil further into Price plaza an saw tgif.....so she was like "TGIF, TGIF, TGIF!!!
A man yelled out "sheit!!!!!
She said "no, tgif- thank goodness its Friday"
Man said "SHIT- sorry honey its Thursday"

[mitsuboi]

Oops can't say Sh!t on tuner

[sMASH]

supposed to be an aussie girl.

[Rallyfignis]

Breds, yall talking about reporters??

Wha bout Samuel MAc Knight, whose name is actually Samuel McKnight.

When a man cah pronounce he own forking name yuh cah expect him to master anything else

[shogun]

Not really a mispronunciation really, but...WTF, is a coverlet? ... i've heard grown men say that sh!t...always funny as hell.

[Hook]

Not really a mispronunciation really, but...WTF, is a coverlet? ... i've heard grown men say that sh!t...always funny as hell.

ppl who say dat does "heng" up dey shirt...go figure

[Mark!]

ay that avetar rel crips dan

remember sometime 96.7 had a segment sponsored by Supligen. man used to call in and say supligent

[~*Pãñdorą*~]

ROFL @ coverlet. Yep I've heard that a lot..

I also heard jooking(sp) board - scrubbing board.
Or "careful yuh jook yuh eye out!)

[~*Pãñdorą*~]

^^^ ummm...where you does be to hear people talk so?

yuh CERTAIN is Valsayn yuh say yuh livin', right?

Actually I hear it at work and with my bf's family.
And the perpetrators are ALL from South Trinidad. That was a big discussion at my workplace two days ago. Folks from South Trinidad, Penal, Barrackpore, Debe, Princes Town, Siparia just to name a few.. speak so poorly you can barely understand them. But then I would think it's poor speech because I'm from the North. *shrug*

[sMASH]

Not really a mispronunciation really, but...WTF, is a coverlet? ... i've heard grown men say that sh!t...always funny as hell.

ppl who say dat does "heng" up dey shirt...go figure

but why was something hung and someone hanged?
and why is morrow, not used any more?

and another, presently, this is used to mean the conditions or the situation now. when that is wrong and should be used to indicate a time in the near future, like shortly or "juss now".

wrong - presently it is sunny.
correct- it is late in the night, and the sun will rise. it would be day presently.



wham, allyuh doh watch 'blood and sand' ?

[rossi]

^^^ ummm...where you does be to hear people talk so?

yuh CERTAIN is Valsayn yuh say yuh livin', right?

Actually I hear it at work and with my bf's family.
And the perpetrators are ALL from South Trinidad. That was a big discussion at my workplace two days ago. Folks from South Trinidad, Penal, Barrackpore, Debe, Princes Town, Siparia just to name a few.. speak so poorly you can barely understand them. But then I would think it's poor speech because I'm from the North. *shrug*

I beg to differ here. Exactly how poor was the speech recognition? I'm from Siparia and yes, I kinda dig ah tiny bit ah horrors.

[cinco]

BODOW is pronounced BOH DOH WUH
not BOO DOO
or BOO DOWUH

[rossi]

^^ Boh-Dough

[crazybalhead]

the other day a customer came asking for "frog lamps' . Once a lady told me she couldn't "phantom" what someone was talking about . I have a friend who is a gold mine of such slips, the best one being the time he told me about a woman's "estrangled" husband . Moments to be cherished .

Sooooo, how much for the frog lamps???

[wagonrunner]

[Trini Hookah]

Gloves-Globs

you in friggin Mexico awha?

DAMN YOU LETTER V!!!!!!!

[mattu]

the "shottas" up in the club that buy MOET and pronouncing it mo-aye, trying to sound all pretty and french. Well the word is pronounced in dutch not french so it really is supposed to sound like " mo wet"

[rossi]

the "shottas" up in the club that buy MOET and pronouncing it mo-aye, trying to sound all pretty and french. Well the word is pronounced in dutch not french so it really is supposed to sound like " mo wet"

Buying a bottle of champagne at a club is a waste of time anyway.

[southagain]

How do i get to d "Li-cen-sing" office again?

great we are!

It's not licensing office?

I would LOVE to know the proper pronunciation of the word "licensing" as well.
Is it the way THIS GUY did it?

*awaits enlightenment from southagain*

unless he seriously forget and he asking how to get there?

lol! Dont take my word, just listen the radio ad for the carnival fete. And dat website with the pronounciation speaks like a trini because the computer generated voice breaks up the word as well. Good observation!

its "licen-ing" silent "s" .....i know we like to break up words and jump into song when we speak but please.

It was brought to my attention when a visitor for carnival heard the radio advert ask me what is "li-cen-sin fete"

Go ask an english teacher and educate me as well please if i am wrong!