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[HawaiianShirts]

It's always funny when customers call something by the wrong name. I find it funnier when they get the name right, but it comes out wrong. Most of them don't even notice their mispronunciation, even when employees or commercials pronounce the word correctly or when it is written out in front of them. This thread is dedicated to those customers. Here are a few from my retail world:

"Compact Pre-Say-Rrrr-Yo computer" = Compaq Presario computer
"Cue-West" = Qwest
"Com-Quest" = Comcast
"Foe-Najj" = Vonage
"DVD Read-Write" or "CD Read-Write" = Rewritable disks
"Sloppy Drive" = Floppy disc drive
"Linn-Skee Warr-Liss Root'r" = Linksys Wireless Router
"Lab-Top" = Laptop
"Where-Boot Sweepers" = Webroot Spysweeper
"LSD Flat Scream" = LCD Flat Panel
"Dell Inspiration" = Dell Inspiron
"Scan Disk" = Sandisc
"Celery" = Celeron
"Sent-Rent-Rin-ee-Yon" = Centrino
"Antha-Lon" = Athlon

Even something as simple as "Canon" can be mispronounced. "ka-NO," as if it was French.

And, last but not least, a customer yesterday looking at laptops saw "AMD Turion 64" on the spec tag and pronounced it "ADM Turn-Me-On."

[AFpheonix]

Yep...no one can say things like:

Atenolol: They always say it atenoNol...

Levothyroxine- I always just ask if they'd like their thyroid medicine.

And everyone's favorite...hydrochlorothiazide.

[NightAngel]

Ah, yes. I'm always amazed at how few people can pronounce movie titles.

Nunya, Nooniya, Neerina= Narnia

Anna Populous, Andpolopus= Annapolis

A Eon, Aon, Onna=Aeon

[Ryu]

heres the one that amazed me at the theater
we have something called a taquito but its named the chicken tornado for whatever reason
"i'll have a toe nah dough"

[moekosowl]

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/medic/fitness/
Paracetomoxyfrusebendroneomycin, anyone?
(Mods, if this is wrong of me, please remove and I'll be contrite)

[NightAngel]

I don't know how anyone else feels about it, moekosowl, but I don't really have a problem with it. I imagine that there are probably quite a few members that listen to albums with Parental Advisories.

Plus, the proceeds go to cancer relief. Good on them for that.

Back to your regularly scheduled thread...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Olive Garden customers down here in SC (Hmmm....South Carolina =SC. Sucky Customers =SC. Coincidence? I think not. ) like to say things like
"I love EYE-tal-yun food. I'd like a bowl of Pasta Fag-lee-OH-li." Or something like that.

[friendofjimmyk]

Olive Garden customers down here in SC (Hmmm....South Carolina =SC. Sucky Customers =SC. Coincidence? I think not. ) like to say things like
"I love EYE-tal-yun food. I'd like a bowl of Pasta Fag-lee-OH-li." Or something like that.

Ah, yes, restaurant mis-pronunciations.

Merlot - Mer-loT
Cabernet - Ca-bare-neT
Pinot Grigio - Pee-noT Greg-geo

[Mixed Bag]

Maybe some of those got printed inadvertently on the menus--you know, the one's that start off with Taco (TAH-co).

[Ree]

... Mods, if this is wrong of me, please remove...

First of all, I have no problem with it, other than perhaps a disclaimer that there is adult content at that link and the sound clips aren't really work safe, although anyone who would open a link at work, with some of those titles, deserves the consequences.

Second, if the mods want to delete or move stuff, they will, so there's really no need to tell us it's OK to do it. (Just an FYI...I notice a lot of people say that in their posts.)

[SongsOfDragons]

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/medic/fitness/

Ohhhhh, I love this group. Unfortunately I played the London Underground song to my Dad, and he said it wasn't funny as it was totally and utterly true.

[South Texan]

"Fuh-g-eye-tuh (rhymes with a basic feminine anatomical term) for Fajita, pronounced fah-hee-tah

“Tacos Al Capone” (like the gangster) for “Tacos Al Carbon”

then there was

“Pie on the mold” for “pie ala mode”

[jlk512]

From the Copying/Printing Side of Things

"E-lamination" for "lamination" ... "I need something elaminated"

"Bounded" for "binding" ... SO many customers say that "I need this book bounded" ... and most of them are thesis-writing graduate students.

And, of course, "ups" (pronounced as the plural form of "up"), for the delivery service U-P-S.

[aqutalion]

There are several radio and tv ads for local furniture places around here that all make the same mistake and pronouce "suite" (pronounced like sweet) as "suit" (rhymes with boot). Every time, it takes all my willpower not to blurt out "Bedroom suit? Is that like a birthday suit?"

[Think Blue]

Easter Ceee= Ester C

Mel's a tunein=melatonin

Even Prime oil=Evening Primrose oil

Hoods ya gordo =Hoodia gordonii

and me and my gf's favorite

phil at mig none=filet mignon