Who hears extra sounds in words? Or doesn't hear certain letters?

[Baitball Blogger]

I hear a "d" in pigeon and always spell it pidgeon on the first try.

And I've been known to write suprise without noticing the missing "r."

[hedgehog]

1. i think any of us with a regional accent who were taught to read phonetically

is doomed to a certain amount of mis-spelling.

[dr.strangelove]

2. without question

I fail to understand way New York is not spelled New Yawk.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. LOL!

My husband's mother would pronounce Lladro figurines as Yardrow. She was from New Yawk.

[dr.strangelove]

10. I thought it was Yawdrow

Its not???

LOL. My mom would kill me for that, with all the money she spent on those stupid things.

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Yaw-Droh

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[dr.strangelove]

16. I hear that

My lovely mother has a ton of the "precious moment" figures too. I did not inherit that!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

19. Oh, dear.

From Lladro to precious moments. What can I say? Dear mom.

[dr.strangelove]

29. To me, there really is no difference

but to each his own. She also collects music boxes and has dozens. To me, they are all just little dust collectors. But I probably have way to many tools and I am constantly making things we don't need. We all have our quirks.

[Baitball Blogger]

31. Music boxes are cool!

Especially if they have some age to them. How they were able to put some of these intricate little things together back in the day was a promise of what was yet to come,

[dr.strangelove]

37. She has a bunch of old tin/copper music boxes and others

Again, not my thing, but she collects all kinds of things. It makes her happy, and she might as well spend her money making her happy.

[DavidG_WI]

3. Are you Scottish?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. I grew up hearing/saying "Warshington" and "Boeings"

" He works for Boeings" was the usual context. But we would say "Boeing Field".
Had no trouble spelling the words.
(born and raised in Seattle area)

[Baitball Blogger]

6. "Warshington."

That one is a given.

[pinboy3niner]

7. To hear most people, you'd think the 2nd month is Febyooary

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I DO know the middle of the week is

Wensday.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. They're all on the collander, so no damage done.

[Populist_Prole]

11. Interesting, now that you made me think about it.

I used to wonder that too from time to time. I always though that if a word is seldom, if at all pronounced the way it's spelled, that the spelling should be changed then.

I think the root of it is the speed and cadence of speech. If we all spoke "school english" slowly and and an enunciated way, words would be pronounced more properly; at the expense of sounding stilted. We'd sound like hoity toity dorks.

In this manner, "Get out of the road" sounds more like "Gatta d'road". Or "Did you eat yet?" as "Didja eat yet?" or even "Jeet yet?"

[Baitball Blogger]

13. My personal favorite is dunno.

As in, "I don't know."

[Populist_Prole]

14. Funny thing

Back when I was a kid, my father had a quasi-NYC accent, especially noticeable due to his failure to pronounce his "Rs" unless the word started with an R. Because of this I often spelled things wrong, especially surnames, because of the way my father pronounced the word. As time went on I came to realize this and began to compensate where I would add an R sound in spelling where I thought one was being omitted...sometimes in error.

[Baitball Blogger]

15. My father's personal peeve had to do with a colloquialism I picked up.

I say, "I'm used to it." As in, "I'm accustom to it."

I still don't see what is wrong with it.

[Populist_Prole]

21. I use that all the time.

Very seldom do I say "I'm accustomed to it". In fact, I never do.

I'm glad my father's accent has faded. For example, for the longest time I always said "Sha-CAR-go" ( for Chicago ) because I used to think my father dropped his "R" and was pronouncing it wrong.

Funny thing was none of us 4 kids ever picked up his accent. One of my sisters did until maybe 7 or 8 years old. That bad accent kind of made me be more grammar/spelling aware.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. "Chicago" is one of the few words that exposes my Latina roots.

I pronounce the "Ch" as in "Cheetah" instead of "She"

[Raffi Ella]

17. One word that's always bothered me is Comfortable.

I say comfterble, but it's spelled comfortable. When ever I hear someone say it like it's spelled it sounds so wrong to me. I've always spelled it correctly though.

[Callmecrazy]

18. Sword and salmon...

I always want to pronounce the silent letters. Probably because I "see" words when I speak them.

[Populist_Prole]

20. Or the word "Chocolate"

To me and so many of my peers, it's "Chawk-lit". I also concur with "Comfterble" for comfortable.

If I or anyone else were to enunciate both words It feels like a pretentious affectation.

[Raffi Ella]

34. yes! exactly.

I can say it with the 'fort' in the middle and make it sound OK, but only if I say it real fast.

[Populist_Prole]

22. Valuable

It sounds to weird to say "VAL-you-able". I've always heard it has "VAL-you-bull".

[3catwoman3]

24. The cute little bright-eyed rodent...

...spelled "hamster" is typically rponounced as if spelled "hampster.

[pinboy3niner]

25. Imagine the egg on my face now

That's where I put my dirty clothes.

[betsuni]

26. Lightning

I always spell it "lightening" and have to correct it. I wasn't aware that I was spelling it wrong my whole life until spell check happened.

It bugs me for some reason when people pronounce the "t" in "often." I HATE when people write "prolly."

When Scotland was in the news recently, I thought the Scottish minister's name was Salmon. Not until I saw it written did I realize it was Salmond. My husband's name is Sam and he has a friend named Simon. When they're together I end up calling both of them "Salmon." It's terribly embarrassing because I can't seem to stop my brains from doing it.

[ailsagirl]

27. Where to begin?

For starters, some people say "feb-U-ary" instead of "feb-RU-ary"

And those same people may say "wends-day" instead of "wed-nes-day" (three syllables)

It's just that we speak fast and when that happens, certain syllables are collapsed. In other
words, it would take too long to properly enunciate each syllable in a word.

That's my theory but who knows?

[Paulie]

28. Conscience

Because science isn't pronounced "Shen-sh"

Or the pol ice. The e at the end should make a long I, shouldn't it?

Figured out anonymous is anomy-mouse with no ending e though.

[Raffi Ella]

35. Conscience tripped me up recently on DU.

I replied to an OP and when I went back in later and read more replies I realized I'd typed out 'conscious'. I left it as is because it was obvious I meant Conscience but yeah. I was surprised to see that I'd made that mistake.

[raccoon]

30. When I was a kid, I noticed kids saying "CANTapillar" (caterpillar).

Also I used to work with a goofy fundywho always said, "mandantory." (Meaning mandatory.)

And some people say, "relator" for "realtor." "jewlery" for "jewelry."

But of course, I never do any of these thing.

And I think everything should be spelled phonetically, and silent letters should be against the law.

[orleans]

32. interesting thread. i'm gonna make a SAM-wich and think it over. n/t

[Baitball Blogger]

33. You mean a sammich.

[orleans]

38. actually no--i grew up saying samwich.

i also pronounce milk as mellk (like the boy's name mell)
and halloween is pronounced hall-owee not hollow-een

[Populist_Prole]

36. Theatre is another one

I most often hear ( and most often say ) it as "THEER-turr"