Friday, January 7, 2011

#8 BadmiTTon vs. badmiNton.

A whole 'nother.
Jewlery.
Man-aise.
Feb'uary.
Supposably.
That's no fair.

…and my least favorite…

Bad-mitton. Look at the word badminton and sound it out. Bad-miN-ton.

I know that we all say things strange. I certainly say comfterble when I know it sounds retarded. Oh well. Lets shake our heads at ourselves.

2 comments:

Connor said...

BatmiTTon I don't mind, but the one I can't stand for the life of me is EE-lec-tron-ic as opposed to e-lec-TRON-ic

Gretchen Alt-Cooper said...

My all-time cringe-worthy mispronunciation is nucular instead of nuclear. It is usually mispronounced by presidents and prime ministers, I have found