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What is your least favorite mispronunciation of an English word?

Asked by Dansedescygnes (2881points) April 18th, 2009

Mine would have to be the way people murder the word “poinsettia”. This is how it’s pronounced: poin-seht-ee-uh. I’ve heard people say “poin-seht-uh” and “point-seht-uh”. Do people just think that the “i” can be ignored or that you can throw a random “t” in there? My mom hates it and my grandmother hated it…lol

I also don’t like the way “Bruschetta” and “Freschetta” are pronounced. In Italian, “sch” is pronounced like “sk” not like “sh”. So it’s “Brusketta”, not “Brushetta”.

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