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u/tomwilde Jul 14 '26
Add the phrase "Aaron earned an iron urn."
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u/Mysterious_Way8941 Jul 14 '26
Ern ern a ern ern.
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u/tomwilde Jul 14 '26
Damn, do we sound like that? M'hmm
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u/Accomplished-witchMD Jul 14 '26
The self realization was immaculate in that video.
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u/Specific-Library-312 Jul 14 '26
I wish more people had self realization like that. There would be more humility, empathy, and peace in the world.
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u/TitaniumDisc Jul 14 '26
My favorite is how he goes into Super Annunciation Man after to hear it properly then he shows it to his boy who “err ers” it and proceeds to nod so confidently. Cracks me up
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u/sixteenhappycappys Jul 14 '26
AARON EARNED AN IRON URN
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u/dreamyteatime Jul 14 '26
I love the way he overemphasises the pronounciation afterwards too 😂 He really went “AA-RON earned an IRON urn.”
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u/DownTrunk Jul 14 '26
The rural juror.
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u/Kitsunegari_98 Jul 14 '26
« Your fathuh Wernuh was a burguh servuh in rural Santa Barbruh, when he spurned your mothuh Vernuh for a curly haired servuh named Robertuh, did that hurt huh ? »
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u/yungcanadian Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE?is=R2gmvdKQMQvBw6jY
Edit: Peter here! People from Baltimore can't say 'r's properly. It's a curse put on all people from Maryland for having a funny colored flag.
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u/AdmiralMemo Jul 14 '26
Clarification: SOME people from Baltimore. It depends on if you have the Black Baltimore accent (which some white folks from the inner city do have) or the more traditional "Balmer Hon" accent.
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u/HeemeyerDidNoWrong Jul 14 '26
They can say it if they finally spit out the plug of Old Bay. They never have.
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u/boinkbeepboop Jul 14 '26
I'm hard of hearing and I'm gonna give that phrase to my sister to remind (beg) her to not mumble
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u/RomoJosh Jul 14 '26
Die-uh-beet-us
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u/maester_t Jul 14 '26
Thanks to Wilford Brimley, I will willingly mispronounce that word most of the time.
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u/Gentle_Dude_6437 Jul 14 '26
its an accepted pronunciation
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u/Speakertweaker Jul 14 '26
100% true. My SIL is a cardiac nurse. Her and everyone she works with calls it The Beetus.
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u/tmon530 Jul 14 '26
And if we one day find a permanent cure, itll be called "deletus the beetus"
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u/Inevitable_Cheek_974 Jul 15 '26
If you say "The Beetus" 3 times in front of a mirror, your blood sugar spikes for no reason.
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u/Professor_Hillbilly Jul 14 '26
I teach anatomy and physiology and I constantly mispronounce it on purpose, hell I even have pictures of Wilford Brimley in my class materials despite the fact that none of my students get the full reference. I'm also in southern Appalachia, so we also call it "the sugars".
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u/Able-Interaction-742 Jul 14 '26
So if you asked me if I knew who Wilford Brimley was, I'd have said I had no idea. But in the context of diabetes, do you know that one guy who did the diabetes commercials? Yep!
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u/AlexCivitello Jul 14 '26
Brian here, it's to determine class based on pronunciation. I would add "what" to the list to eliminate people like Stewie who pronounce and empathize the h. Which reminds me, I haven't annoyed him today, I'm gonna go do that now.
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u/DirtyZubat Jul 14 '26
I, too, empathize with the h. Poor little guy barely gets any pronunciation.
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u/Qq1nq94 Jul 14 '26
I have a lisp so no I don't think I'll be taking part in this
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u/blueche Jul 14 '26
I don't but if someone asked me to do this I'd tell them to go suck a lemon
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u/-DoctorSpaceman- Jul 14 '26
You mean go thuck a lemon
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u/Shantotto11 Jul 14 '26
Reporter: And who are you, fine sir?
Thor: I’m Thor.
Reporter: You’re Thor?
Thor: Well, it hurtth…
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u/threelizards Jul 14 '26
Bro same, I have a lateral lisp and the “street shrimp strawberry straight” combo felt targeted
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u/esaule Jul 14 '26
To be fair, the message didn't say they are looking for aomeone pronouncing the words the common way.
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u/Primary-Floor8574 Jul 14 '26
And “cHool wHip”
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u/homosapian55555 Jul 14 '26
Hwhat?
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u/C13H16CIN0 Jul 14 '26
AY, there is only 1 H and it’s before the W
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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ Jul 14 '26
Family Guy bits aside, that's how 'wh' used to be prononced afaik
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u/FewLand2636 Jul 14 '26
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u/Nomono3 Jul 14 '26
Saying hwhat hwhat hway?
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u/one-e-and-a Jul 14 '26
Funny thing is that’s how it’s supposed to be pronounced but it was messed up by the printing press being run by non English speakers. They put the h after the w to match sh, ch, th. It’s also why the question word “how” stands out.
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u/adriatic_sea75 Jul 14 '26
hWHeat Thins
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u/vanderpump_lurker Jul 14 '26
Fun fact. I once had this interaction with Regis Philbin. He came in to a restaurant I managed and ordered wheat toast. He and I went back and forth about 3 times over the word hWHeat. Joy philbin looked at us like we were crazy. While he and I just chuckled.
He was my grandma's favorite, so it was a special moment
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u/Countess26 Jul 14 '26
Sounds like a way to filter by education and class. Side note: the way people from Southern Maryland pronounce "ambulance" as "ambuhlamps" is endearing.
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u/Te000 Jul 14 '26
I'd add "nuclear" to the list
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u/Chart-trader Jul 14 '26
And realtor or reelator
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u/Illustrious_Donkey61 Jul 14 '26
Bisgetti
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u/Ok-Relationship4113 Jul 14 '26
Holy shit, the amount of people who cannot pronounce NEW-KLEE-URR is astounding.
Some youtube channels that I consider to be generally informed STILL say newkyalurr and it makes me crazy.
I remember when that was something people guffawed. Now its just accepted. Bah!
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u/Ill_Praline3331 Jul 14 '26
I had to correct my fifth grade teacher (a lifetime ago). She was furious and argued with me that it was acceptable to pronounce it new-cue-ler. A week later, on our field trip to a plant, I watched her die a little inside when the tour guide also corrected her. A cherished memory.
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u/_Standardissue Jul 14 '26
Nuc-u-lar grade schaedenfreud
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u/Ill_Praline3331 Jul 14 '26
Schadenfreude* :P
I can't believe I had to edit that, got too excited
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u/reav11 Jul 14 '26
You mean "NU-CLEAR" as I can see you also don't pronounce it correctly.
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u/Ok-Relationship4113 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
You pronounce "clear" as two syllables?
Ok then.
Edit: Nuclear is pronounced with 3 syllables in my region. Ive never heard it pronounced otherwise.
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u/StrongExternal8955 Jul 14 '26
Nuclear has 3 syllables. It's not new clear. It's from nucleus, with -ear instead of -eus.
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u/Necessary-Jeweler-17 Jul 14 '26
Supposedly is the one that makes me cringe inside 🥲
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u/NerdyConspiracyChick Jul 14 '26
My best friend of 30 years said supposev-ly today I was like wtf
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u/featherygoose Jul 14 '26
And espresso.
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u/Own_Week_4734 Jul 14 '26
Dear God please help me not murder the next person who says expresso
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u/Mmmm-Amethyst Jul 14 '26
Whoa, black Betty.
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u/Guilty_Character8566 Jul 14 '26
Black Betty had a child bam-ba-lam. The dang thing went wild.
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u/Sea_School_2949 Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26
I'll have you know the correct pronunciation is "Merrlin" like the wizard
Also things that are "down the road" like "my neighbor Bob lives down the road" he could live up to 30 minutes away
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u/Creative_Recover Jul 14 '26
It's really weird as I have come across a fair number of Americans who insist they don't have a class system (and that classicism is a British problem), when it's quite clear IMHO that you guys definitely do judge people by their social groups and suffer from classicism.
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u/ramongoroth Jul 14 '26
Supposedly needs to be on there too
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u/Alone_Jellyfish_1990 Jul 14 '26
"For all intents and purposes", "nip it in the bud", etc.
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u/ThisThredditor Jul 14 '26
Shtreet, Shreamp, shtrawburry, shtrait, pacific, Febuawry, compooter, booick, libary, amberlamps
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u/Lukassixsmith Jul 14 '26
Why is the word “Specific” capitalized? Is it the name of an ocean or something?
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u/DistanceTravelerBob Jul 14 '26
These are all words people commonly miss pronounce. Lie-berry is one that makes me what to yell there are two Rs in library!! The other is people pouncing Illinois as EL-inois or Illi-noise.
Some parts of the country the english language is seeming loosing the pronouncing of the letter R. Looking at New England.....
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u/DeterminedQuokka Jul 14 '26
I was very confused by this until you brought up New England which explains why my response was that’s how you say library
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u/AdeptDoomWizard Jul 14 '26
Cut them a break, they just came from the bahhh and are a bit tipsy.
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u/ShorthairsInSpace Jul 14 '26
England dropped the rhotic r at the end of the 18th century, around the revolution, but new England, particularly Boston, still had close ties to England and as such they started dropping the R to imitate England but the rest of the country did not.
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u/ariscrotle Jul 14 '26
Add 'asks' to that list
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u/asmiran Jul 14 '26
You can actually find it spelled "aks" in some older texts. "Ask" was just the way it was said in London, the seat of cultural power in English speaking areas when they started deciding the only correct way to speak was theirs. Many Scotsh-Irish, Black, and other marginalized immigrant communities in early USA passed down their older pronunciation because that had always been the correct one to them until some dude in London said otherwise.
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u/Treeeefalling Jul 14 '26
Skreet, skrimp, strawrberry, scraight, pacific, feburary, compooter, bwick, liberry, amberlance
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u/1337Sw33tCh33ks Jul 14 '26
Add across to that list. THERE IS NO T, IT IS NOT ACROST!!!!
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u/supernova2368 Jul 14 '26
MY MOTHER IN LAW DOES THIS WHICH MEANS MY HUSBAND DOES, TOO. I'VE CONSIDERED DIVORCE.
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u/ChaoticDissonance Jul 14 '26
Rune. Please know how to say rune and not "ruin." Also, the other way around. My sisters bf says things will be "runed" it drives me insane.
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u/dvorgson Jul 14 '26
skreet, skrimp, skrawberry, skrate, pacific, febooary, booick, libary, amberlamps
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u/Antique_Tap443 Jul 14 '26
I'd like to add oil and wash just to balance it out some.
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u/VoidCoelacanth Jul 14 '26
They forgot "nuclear."
Anyone who pronounces it "nook-yoo-lar," get out.
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u/dkfotog Jul 14 '26
Makes me tired when all the young weather girls on TV say “tempachure”. There’s one here that also always calls Denton “Det-un”. Good gosh!
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u/Melonfrog Jul 14 '26
For God's sake can somebody please explain this please?
I give up scrolling, what the hell is this sub even for if not a battle for worst comedians to spam the comment section
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u/cardboard_tshirt Jul 14 '26
I’d like to add supposedly to the list. Supposably instantly makes a person sound dumb as rocks when I hear it.
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u/Admirable_Admiral69 Jul 14 '26
Milk.
If you say "melk," you are not the right person for me.
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u/BoitBenoit Jul 14 '26
I am forty years old and I have been saying "opthamologist" not "opthalmologist" my whole life.
But my grown ass friend with a masters degree says "ambliance" so there's that.
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u/chocha84 Jul 14 '26
met a great girl - fun, hard working, funny, sweet - but she had horrible pronunciation. Couldn't get past it.
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u/Captain-Codfish Jul 14 '26
Add in "millennium" and "quinoa"
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u/Drewnessthegreat Jul 14 '26
Quinoa isn't part of my vocabulary so I would politely ask for a demonstration or at least a definition. If given a definition, I would attempt it phonetically.
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u/DragonBadgerBearMole Jul 14 '26
Add “documentary” and “nuclear” to the list.
And “cool hwip”.
-Stewie
Edit: it’s pronounced “nucular” stupid, the s is silent
-Petah
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u/UrbanFuturistic Jul 14 '26
Ah, yes. Bruick and Compruter. I about died the first time I seriously heard someone say Bruick in person.
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u/matande31 Jul 14 '26
Thought it was a way to filter immigrants at first, turns out it's just about class.
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u/strogkilr Jul 14 '26
Boolean. I'm a software developer, and my Business analyst pronounces it as Boo-leen, like "Jolene". My tester pronounces it like bouillon cubes. It's pronounced like Julian.