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I pronounce caramel as "care-uh-mell".
People always say something and I reply with "no, Carmel is a [beach-town in California], I'm talking about caramel".

I purposely pronouce "download" like dunlaad to annoy my SO.

Yes but I do this on purpose. Mazda with a flat A like in Aztec. Bag is bayg, measure is maysure. My long Os are longer like Psy saying ope in Gangnam style or like the movie Fargo. Snow is Snew with an Irish accent like Ygritte. There are too many more to recount, about every fourth sentence on average I pronounce a word wrong on purpose, it has become my dialect.

I over-pronounce Wednesday. Like wed-nes-day. Most people say wendsday.

Also apparently I'm weird for pronouncing jewelry correctly. I pronounce it like it is spelled, and what it means. It is personal ornaments often containing jewels. Jewel-ry. Not Joolery.

Same thing with Aunt. It's not Ant. There is a U in there.

I pronounce dragon as dragòn, if you know what I mean.

I used to pronounce "adjacent" as adjuhsent.

My SO's family all like to pronounce "mauve" in a weird way, so I say it every chance I get to perturb them.

I'm Dutch. I pronounce the -en at de ends of words, including the n. If you don't know, that's like 10% of all Dutch words

I say appree-see-ate for appreciate, and artif-isss-ee-al for artificial.

Bala-tro, not Ba-lottro.

agghh these comments my eyes the fauxnetics please god why can't Lemmy have a bigger linguistics community and you mfs wonder why i still use Reddit

So I just realized a few years ago that “join” is one syllable like “coin.” Should make sense, right?

I’d always pronounced it “joy-in.” I still have to consciously change my pronunciation to say it right.

I also learned a couple months ago that I trill the ‘r’ in “three.” I don’t really know how to make the “thr” sound without a slight trill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Since that Bob's burgers episode it's been Tattoo but said "Tuh-too"

Two immediately come to mind.

First is "Comfortable". I pronounce each part of the word: "COME-for-tuh-bull". Many people give me weird looks and insist on "Comf-turr-bull".

The other is more niche and has to do with League of Legends.

There is a champion whose theme is moonlight. His backstory is that he belongs to a moon cult who opposes a group that is am Order of the Sun type group. This character is an edgelord whose whole thing is darkness and midnight etc etc.

His name is a combination of the Greek "Ap" meaning "furthest from" and "Helios" meaning the sun. His name is Greek for "the one furthest from the sun" in this moon cult.

In Greek, "ph" does not make the "fuh" sound. His name should rightly be pronounced "App-Hee-lee-ose"

But all the casters and developers call him "Uhh-fell-ee-ose" and it drives me absolutely insane.

escape for me, I tend to say it differently every time I say it. No idea why

PIH-cawn instead of PEE-can for pecan. CAR-mel instead of KARA-mel for caramel. AWN-t instead of ANT for aunt. VAH-se instead of VAY-se for vase.

Which ones are right/wrong could probably start another Civil War

I sometimes like mispronouncing words to point out their sillyness or for fun.

Sometimes a window is called a winddoor. Go and ask someone to open/close the windoor and play it 100% serious straight as you point to it, its great.

Sometimes a knife is pronounced kuh-nife. Sometimes Arkansas is pronounced ar-kan-sas.

I like to have fun every now and again.

I dont have any problems saying Albuquerque but I can't stop calling it "yabba-yerkee"