You say potato, I say po-tah-to. Really? You say po-tah-to?

Irredgardless (not the pronunciation, but that it is said at all).

Axed you a question.

It’s “what if” not “whats if.”
It’s “library” not “libary.”
It’s “ask” not “aks.”
It’s “spaghetti” not “pasketti.”

I don’t really care how you say “potato,” “tomato,” or “envelope.”

Shit, that was a lot of quotes.

escape —“ex-scape”

vice versa —“vice-a-versa”

I don’t know of anybody who says po-tah-to. It’s just a play on words by the Brothers Gershwin because it rhymes with to-mah-to.
Now to-mah-to is a different story.
As for what word mispronounced that gets to me- it’s not pronouncing the g in strength and length.

liberry
nukular
febyooary
supposably
reelitor
asterick
ek cetera

jewelery (instead of jewelry)

nucular (instead of nuclear).

“aks” has a long history. It was a standard form from about 1000 to 1600. In 1600 “ask” became the standard written form, but “aks” continued to be used in some dialects until the present.

@Jeruba – Oh, Bob, those are like nails dragging across a chalkboard. ::shudders::

you say potato with an e

No. But I say..

Nev-ahhhhh-dahh for Nevada.
Or-uh-gone for Oregon.
And things like bawl, cawfee, Bawston.

I have also heard people say “seldomly,” as if “seldom” alone were not an adverb. One of those people was an editor, and she said it twice in consecutive sentences. I wanted to get up and leave the room.

expeshully (instead of especially)

Don’t even get me started with the whole ‘nucular’ thing. I couldn’t believe that our last president never bothered to say it correctly! Or was he doing it on purpose, to seem like an “aw, shucks / down-home” type of guy?

Either way he shouldn’t have been left in charge of a nuclear arsenal.

Init instead of isn’t it.

I can’t stand when people say “youse”

nucular: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear
“Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \\-kyə-lər\\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, United States cabinet members, and at least two United States presidents and one vice president. While most common in the United States, these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.”

seldomly: c1864 Emily DICKINSON Poems (1955) II. 610 The ships..That touch how seldomly Thy Shore?

@morphail First one. Yeah, so? Educated people can be wrong too. Second one: poetic license.

I’m just trying to prevent this discussion from being totally facts-free.

Moet champagne is pronounced with the t sound, mo ett.
People say mo ey and it drives me nuts.

fustrated
acrost (He walked acrost the room)

What’s facts-free about answering that something bothers you?

Fer instead of for. Drives me nuts!

Kruger took mine (hence the lurve kruger d), there is nothing in the world that frustrates me more than hearing fustrated instead of frustrated.

So, @Eureka, how do you feel about “fer sherr,” then?

@Jeruba nothing. I just find discussions about facts about language more interesting than griping. :)

I like both!

@jeruba – makes me run off screaming into the sunset!