Pronunciation - why oh why?!

[Silvercat]

My mom uses 'Scandisk' when she means thumb drive. And 'Windows' when she means 'Word.' It drives me nuts.

At work I get 'logo' when they mean 'label.' And one of the salespeople has to describe the icons instead of just giving me the extension. When I finally get a file format out of him it's 'Adobe' instead of 'Acrobat'

Why can't I hurt people with my mind?

[1756GR2]

Sony Ericsson cell phones become Sony Excursions or more often Sony Erections. At first I thought it was someone's little joke, but I've heard both corruptions countless times now.

[marasbaras]

My current peeves are (for written communication):

"per say" for "per se"

"wala" or "walla" for "voila"

"should of" for "should have" or "should've"

[Broomjockey]

My current peeves are (for written communication):
"wala" or "walla" for "voila"

We actually covered that in a thread a while ago, and turns out most of the people here who do that do it not because it's a misspelling, but because it *is* different from voila. Different tonal implications and resonance, different qualities, different verbalization. Different word.

However, pet peeves are still annoying, regardless of other people's rationalization for it, such as my dislike of "pee on" for "peon" so I understand.

[Shabo]

I remembered another one because we are dealing with it right now. We run a program called FILP. EVERYONE, and I do mean everyone, calls it FLIP. It really shouldn't drive me crazy since it's not that big of a deal, but I can't stand it.

[earl colby pottinger]

CrackBerry

But please note 'CrackBerry' is not a mispronunciation of 'BlackBerry', if you don't believe me just try and take one away from it's owner/user.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Scandisk pisses me off too.

I've gotten A-doobie for Adobe, or Adobe prounouced like Earlobe

I believe someone once asked for "Orton Antivirus"

I also had someone come in looking for an "Acre desktop" (Acer)

[chops]

I believe someone once asked for "Orton Antivirus"

"Why just delete your viruses when you can RKO them instead?"

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

"Why just delete your viruses when you can RKO them instead?"

Yeah I guess it's funnier now that you can make wrestling jokes about it.

[Nicholae]

The ones I tend to get are..

"Do ya'll have any copies of that Windows Fiesta?"

or.. "Do you have the Double-U Twos in?" (Wii. Something I hated to take calls for , so I recorded a message to play before I even pick up the phone.)

[marasbaras]

We actually covered that in a thread a while ago, and turns out most of the people here who do that do it not because it's a misspelling, but because it *is* different from voila. Different tonal implications and resonance, different qualities, different verbalization. Different word.

However, pet peeves are still annoying, regardless of other people's rationalization for it, such as my dislike of "pee on" for "peon" so I understand.

I must've missed that discussion.

Here in the Philippines, "wala" means "none" or "nothing". So, yes, there's a different quality to the word.

[drunkenwildmage]

Client for Microwave networks
Client for Microsoft Nitwits
Ethernet = Earthnet
Etherlink= Earthlink = This would through off Newbies

[crashhelmet]

I get Link-Skeze a lot for Linksys

The one that blew me away the most was a guy with a spanish accent that said "Add-a-bob" Took me a few minutes to realize he meant "Adobe"

Crash Helmet

[protege]

Client for Microsoft Nitwits

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