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YouChyoob.

I pronounce azure as “uh jzer” with emphasis on the second syllable and most other people say “aa jzer” with emphasis on the first.

sometimes I accidentally pronounce "C'est la Vie" as "sest lah vy" even though I know its "say la vee" just because I read it first and it lives in my head as that first wrong pronunciation. confuses the hell out of people and I have to explain my foolery

The way Midwestern Americans say "roof" bothers me.

I cop it from my friends and family for the way I say "baloon"

I say bloon with no a sound.

I think it stems from learning to spell it wrong as a child I never put the a in there to begin with and no one corrected me and by the time I realised it was to late

I also can't pronounce "regularly" to save my damn life.

When I say it i add syllables to the thing I think.

Reg u ar ly

I still don't know how you pronounce it. Im not sure myself but when my dad had a headache he would say he needed an assburn.

Penalised. Is it from penal colony, or a penalty?

(allegedly both pronunciations are valid, and my experience has been others who were educated with a more British background pronounce it like penal-ized)

Baggel for Bagel.

Laypis

The blue stuff you mine in minecraft.

Agate. Apparently I pronounce it the British way rather than the American way because I had read the word many times while never having heard it spoken aloud.

Yosemite rhymes with Vegemite. Change my mind.

Cape CANNA VERR ALL = Cape Canaveral

Why? Because I can.

Where did you grow up to learn to say south-urn?

I am the odd one out accent-wise, I am a woman with what would be called a Kiwi accent in a place where everyone else speaks with either a neutral American accent or a New England accent and one of the most common first questions people ask me is if I can say "envelope" for them.

I'm fluent in both Spanish and English (obv). When speaking English, I'm conflicted on whether I should pronounce Spanish loan words in a shitty English accent like everyone else, or in a proper Spanish accent. So instead I pronounce them as horribly as I can.

Jalapeño is "yah-la-PEEN-oh". Fajita is "fa-JAI-tah". Quesadilla gets "QUAY-sah-dilah"

(As a joke of course)