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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA coworker consistently pronounces "recipient" as "reciprient."
Honestly, I don't know how long I can go on like this.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)All you can do is chuckle to yourself about the little quirks.
I have worked with some who would twist the English language and I have had some that worked for me that twisted it. You just roll with it and keep it to yourself. It's not worth getting in a hassle over.
Back when such things were accepted, but not acceptable, we would keep a dictionary on a coworker who created so many new words and twisted others. It was a private little thing one person kept and was only shared among 3 people.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)makes me very flustrated.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)It's a good thing that you found out about his or her preversion, because they're probably organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts.
oswaldactedalone
(3,491 posts)predicting the future like that now that we have a presidential candidate interested in using nukes.
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femmocrat
(28,394 posts)a fellow teacher, a person with a master's degree! I guess no one every corrected her and she didn't realize she was saying it.
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)It drove me up a tree!
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)I thought he was doing it because it was some cool new thing to pronounce it this way..... But...
so then we looked it up. It actually is a word. however most people are using it incorrectly and saying supposably when they mean supposedly.
Supposedly is an adverb that means according to what is accepted or believed to be true; seemingly, purportedly.
supposably means conceivably.
http://blog.dictionary.com/supposedly-vs-supposably/
KMOD
(7,906 posts)I'd probably go nucular on them.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Less so in real life. As such, I'm typically very accommodating when it comes to quirks of speech, misspellings or the like. This guy, however, is an incessant know-it-all and a proud Trump supporter, so I'm less inclined to smile and nod when he messes up on something so simple.
I have a brother-in-law who is like that as well.
And yes, online there is nobody better than you, Orrex.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)for being such a spectacular "sexual intellect". Let him figure out that you've just called him a fucking know-it-all.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Always talking about something being "ludacrist". Says people are "knowledged" rather than knowledgeable.
Orders sandwiches on "see ya botta" bread, rather than ciabatta, despite being reminded of the proper pronunciation, repeatedly, by the server and myself. Orders "fah JITE ahs", when she'd like a fajita. Too many other to list...
geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)I say "auspicious" instead of "suspicious" all the time, just to watch people roll their eyes.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)He also mispronounces other common words with sufficient consistency that he's either not doing it on purpose, or he's a world-class performance artist.
mentalsolstice
(4,461 posts)We worked for our state's protection and advocacy system. We used to smugly joke behind his back that the American with a Disability was coming soon to a state, city or town near you and that's why a law was passed requiring all kinds of accommodations so that s/he could get around. He also used to always talk about artistic kids needing special education. It took us awhile to figure he may be referring to autistic children....although he may have really misunderstood that artistic had special needs. He otherwise didn't have any discernible speech impediment.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 8, 2016, 12:25 PM - Edit history (1)
You're point is mute...
Orrex
(63,224 posts)But I don't generally mispronounce common words, so it jumps out at me when he does it.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)Orrex
(63,224 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,190 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)That and "Real-a-tor" and "Eye-talian" and "ESS-state" for "estate"
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)if they're wearing "joolery".
Skittles
(153,193 posts)WHY DO PEOPLE SAY JOO-LER-Y - it is a RIDICULOUS mispronunciation
3catwoman3
(24,045 posts)...annoys me greatly but I leave it alone because I doubt it would change.
He also says "stint" when talking about the medical device "stent." As a health professional, that drives me bats, and I have corrected that several times, apparently to no avail.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)I work with someone who constantly says things are "ironical".
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)Archaic, and of fuzzy usage. So the question would be if your co-worker is being consciously ironical, or is just ignorant.
-- Mal
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)Isn't it ironic?????? LOL LOL
This co-worker is many things. Could be either.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)that's what I hear
herding cats
(19,567 posts)I catch myself involuntarily blinking every time he says that word. The first time I was so confused is actually said, "excuse me" to them.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)herding cats
(19,567 posts)It makes no phonetic sense!
Skittles
(153,193 posts)there's no freaking 'W' in that word!
it occurs to me that most accents are caused by people unable to pronounce 'O' correctly - I've noticed in the east, a hard O is pronounced OO, so ROAD sounds like ROOD.....in the north, O is pronounced like A - so CON MAN becomes CAN MAN and down south, the word FOR sounds like FAR
I'm was a GI brat so I picked up my dialect from all over
underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)Granted she was only functioning with one lit bulb out of the 12 pack.
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)Granted she's developmentally challenged, and sadly, she's had several children. But whatever. She still speaks in glowing terms about being 'prenick'. That was 20 years ago.... ah well.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)I've heard that constantly. You're lucky.
-- Mal
GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)And my favorite Philadelphia pronunciation - Confortable for comfortable.
Enrique
(27,461 posts)tell them, I cannot work under these condidtions
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)it's that you should kill them and take their stuff.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Not meme with a long e, but mem with a short e...
NanceGreggs
(27,818 posts)... who was always talking about filing her company's taxes based on the end of their "physical year".
Also worked with a court reporter whose transcripts always had witnesses saying, in answer to how long something had been going on, that it had been going on since "time in a memorial".
Skittles
(153,193 posts)kind of defeats the purpose of a contraction