Unintentionally funny mispronunciations.

[BookstoreEscapee]

I read somewhere that most of that Forrest Gump shrimp scene was ad-libbed. How does one come up with so many dishes off the top of their head?

[MadMike]

Actually I think I read that Jolly Penises and Vagina Mongolians are natural enemies...

Not suprisingly, considering how they're always screwing each other.

[Witch of Endor]

Who needs a vagina dentata when you've got a Mongolian horde in there?

My favourite Pokemon mispronunciation is 'Pokey-man'. This one always makes me wince and think 'grownups are so uncool'.

[protege]

Not suprisingly, considering how they're always screwing each other.

...and now someone owes me a new screen! Is anyone surprised that Mike would make a comment like that?

[ominousoat]

Not suprisingly, considering how they're always screwing each other.

Cue "Wah-wah-wahhhhhh" sound effect.

[MadMike]

Is anyone surprised that Mike would make a comment like that?

As the only remaining mod since before I even became a member here, you should have been the last person.

[zzapp the witch]

I can hear my DJ on the radio now, introing a new song by Vagina Mongolia and the Jolly Penises....

[ArenaBoy]

Growing up in the hand state you read street names that sound nothing like it's read, then you volunteer to work Super Bowl XL and become slightly amused when giving directions to tourists. Some street names

Graitiot: Mistake: Great-it. Proper: Grashit

Schonner (Spelling may be off, a word that is impossible to spell right) Mistake: Shone her. Proper: Shaner

Other hilarious mispronuciations:

Euchere (card game): Oo cre Proper: You Cur

Mackinac: Mack in nac, Proper: Mackandnaw

And my personal favorite: Milford: Mistake -MILF-ord someone dragged the 1st part out a little too long. Proper: Pronounced like it's read.

[HawaiianShirts]

I know Microsoft has several different products, and I can see how one might get them confused, but a woman called in today wondering about an Office suite I've never heard of.

She wanted the MS Office package that included the programs "Word, PowerPointers, and Electra."

[DisgruntledBadger]

I worked in a fast food Italian restaurant in my hometown for awhile...let's call it Spazoli's. Anyway, at one point they introduced new panini sandwiches. For some reason, denizens of my hometown could not pronounce panini. They came up with some interesting ones, though...
"Pan-inny"
"Pee-ninny"
"Pay-nee-nee"
"Pah-nawnee"
...and the one I heard most often, from people ranging from teenagers to nice little old granny ladies...
"Uh, yeah, I'd like one of them poo-nanny sammiches, please?"

[MissVendetta]

Today: "Tee-wa". Spelling? "the-eh-you..." (his pronunciation). When I asked him to write his name on a post-it (easier for me, and a lot faster), it turned out that his exotic last name was... Taylor.

[The Distorted Kwi]

My weekend job as a cellar door assistant in a winery means I hear a lot of mis-pronunciations. One of our labels is "Shingle Peak", but an staggering amount of people have come up with heir own variations recently. Single Peak is the most common. Shingle Creek just makes me giggle internally. Shingle Park, that one's a little more out there.

As for grape names, calling riesling "Rise-ling" (as TONS of English people do) is the only one that grates on me. It's "reese-ling", in fact. Syrah and Gewurtraminer just throw people for loops.

But try keeping a straight face when some asks for a "penis gris". (Which I assume means you wingwang just turned grey.)

And my all-time favourite. The large American beer-drinking guy with the 800-decibel oice who loudly decided to try the 'Merlot Caberet". If i'd had a top-hat and can and I'd have danced that sucker right into the glass for him.

[EmiOfBrie]

Worcester (Woosta)

Maybe I'm just weird then, I lived on the Cape for 25 years and I always said it like it looks: WORCE-ster, 2 syllables

[Jester]

My weekend job as a cellar door assistant in a winery means I hear a lot of mis-pronunciations. One of our labels is "Shingle Peak", but an staggering amount of people have come up with heir own variations recently. Single Peak is the most common. Shingle Creek just makes me giggle internally. Shingle Park, that one's a little more out there.

Out west a popular beer is Fat Tire. I can't tell you how many people asked me for Flat Tire.

I know one local musician who always drinks Bass beer and orders it pronounced Base, but he does that as an intentional joke, as he plays (what else?) the bass guitar.

I can't even tell you how many amusing pronunciations I get for people ordering Kalik for the first time. Kalik is a Bahamian beer, similar in taste to Corona, which I have heard pronounced, I believe correctly, as both "kuh-LICK" and "kuh-LEEK." I have heard it mispronounced as KAY-lick, KAH-lick, kay-LEEK, CALL-lick, kuh-LIKE, kay-like, etc., etc. But since it is foreign to them, I give them some leeway with it.

I am frankly surprised I don't get more people mispronouncing Cuervo tequila, Patron tequila, Tanqueray gin, Absolut vodka, or Bacardi rum. With everything else they butcher, I would figure these would be easy targets.

[Ljt09863]

Some people have pronounced "vista" with an extra long e, as if it was spelled "veeeeeeeeeesta."
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im not the only one! my fiancee does it too!!!! he was the first one to tell me about it, and thats how he pronounced it, so i just followed his lead!

now for my story...

my grandmother lives in Wilmette,IL. going there for thanksgiving one year, my fiancee kept calling it Willa-met. i don't know why, but i had to correct him a bunch of times, then show him how it was spelled first.