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Funniest thing for me as a bilingual French is people ~~butchering~~pronouncing French words like hors d'oeuvre or whatever. I mean it's funny but okay, that's both no big deal and you can always educate someone and give them the real French pronunciation if they absolutely wanna sound posh.

But then I'm always so torn when somebody has a clearly French name but again, their pronunciation is atrocious. Like, I try to just ignore it, but sometimes I can just imagine myself jumping at them and screaming how they are pronouncing it wrooooooong, hahaha!

My father had a terrific sense of humour and would deliberately mispronounce certain words to wind up his fancy-pants daughters. "Patio" became "pay-tio", that kind of thing. But one word in particular has entered the family lexicon: "gnome", pronounced "ganOmee". Not meaning a garden ornament, but a young man of dubious moral/intellectual qualities. Our boyfriends were almost always declared gnomes.

Phonetic transcription exists for a reason. The comments here are full of "this is pronounced as this". Which isn't very helpful.

On the one hand ... “Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.”

On the other hand.. what else are friends there for?

One dnd session, the dm described the room as having flaming braziers. He pronounced them as "brassieres."

We never let him forget.

I was 12 and believed chaos was 'cha-os' because I'd only ever seen it written.

At university a college pronounced 'machine' a bit like 'ma-shayna' (almost a bit Slavic? but totally on accident whatever it was). I loved it so much it stuck with me all these years, basically became headcanon.

My friend once put the emphasis on the first syllable of pedantic, and correcting him was probably the single greatest joy I’ve ever felt

My friend wants to know how you actually pronounce “fugue”. What a dumb friend, right?

Fyoog is just so wrong

swim away fugu fish, swim away!

Omg it's from 2008. Half my lifetime ago.

"Never take your friends for granite."

"It's alright, Alex. I know you're not made of stone."

Just looking at the word I would definetly read ir as fugu.

Looking at the Wikipedia article, it says it's pronounced fjug. Like what happened to the u and e.

A dear friend once said, "Let's go to the mall and get some of those Bavarian peck-ins

Chris, if you're reading this, I'm still loling, bro. 25 years, still loling.

At church, they read the part where Jesus heals the leapers.

Pretty mainstream. When I was a kid most people struggled to learn how to laugh these things off. These days if you speak on any platform it's a good idea to have some mispronunciations because it catches peoples attention. Even if it's the only thing they'll talk about as long as you're good natured about it you've made progress.

I don’t overreact to things I can tell are regional dialects and whatnot. But I recently watched a movie review where the guy pronounced linear as “li-nEAR” and I was the personification of the double take white guy meme. Never heard that one before. And he kept using it throughout, so, somehow, this 30ish year old man has never been corrected. I think everyone that knows him might be playing a cruel joke.