Do you get annoyed when people pronounce words differently?

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I get annoyed with my sister when she says "ecks-specially" for "especially". I also get annoyed with my dad when he says "FLAME-able" for "flammable". There are two ms and no e in there, dad.

Oh, do I ever agree.

I spent 45 minutes today mentally screaming at the student teacher in my history class. He continually pronounced "bicameral" as "biCAR-A-MEL". Every time he said it, I got a mental picture of the government made of candies.

Though, I can't seem to pronounce "caterpillar" correctly. It always comes out "KALER-PELLER".

The people at my school also tell me that I pronounce "Reese's" incorrectly. They say "re-sihz", and I say "re-seas." I have determined that it's a cultural difference.

I understand the cultural or regional difference. I've got a jumbled accent from moving around, so words that should rhyme don't. Just had a talk with someone in which I insisted that "bad" and "pad" didn't rhyme. A dictionary proved me wrong. The way I speak, "bad" has a longer "a" sound, and rhymes with "sad," whereas "pad" rhymes with "had."

But in my mind, if my tongue weren't lazy or confused, they'd all have the shorter sound I associate with "pad" and "had."

We serve a variety of coffee beverages at work. I hate when someone says ex-presso.

Oh yes, this drives me nuts.

It's Alex Trebek syndrome! My family has been joking about this for years. It started with the pronunciation of Nicaragua on jeopardy (nee-caragua, complete with a slight rolling of the "r"). Now it's spread to almost all news channels and even Jaguar commercials are getting in on the over-pronunciated fun.

Way too many people around here (the mid-western US) call the children's writing instrument made by Crayola a "crown". It's not even that they say "crown" as one would say a king's hat, it comes out all mush-mouthed white trash slurred. I will even correct little kids on this one. "You want a what? Oh, a CRAY-ON. Ok."
Little kids are cute, adults that say "crown" when they mean "crayon" make me want to stomp their face. I guess I really am an Aspie if something like that can bother me so throughly .

Also...
I've had the following discussion way too many times to count:

<<Co-worker pronunces something really wrong but in a way that society at-large accepts>>
-Me: You know you're pronuncing that wrong. It's supposed to be _______.
-CoWorker: Well that's how I pronunce it.
-Me: Ok, I was just trying to help you not sound ignorant. Carry on.

Man, I'm a jerk!

I wrote in other thread that I hate when people speak assburger instead asperger and then they complain that people laugh at them.

I don't like when people speak company's name Kärcher like karcher instead kershyer.

It depends. If I'm in high stress yes because with Auditory Processing Disorder I have even more trouble understanding what they're trying to say.

If I'm in low stress and someone pronounces something that sounds "weird" to me I think it's funny. I might even laugh and people wonder what I thought was so funny.

Not really. I understand people have accents and words are pronounced different in other places. Also English isn't always their first language so they may say words differently.

But I hate dealing with people who have thick accents. They are so hard to understand. But other people seem to do better at understanding them. I wonder if it's non verbal cues they are reading so that's why they can understand them? To me it's a struggle to be with them and I just hate being put with them. But if they are training me, I can watch what they do to learn how to do the job.

I haven't heard "sangas" yet either. I often hear "samwudge" and that annoys the hell out of me. "Innersted" instead of "interested", "daynce" instead of "dance", and so many others. Oh well, I am in east Tennessee, where some people don't even know how to pronounce their own names, or their own children's names. Seriously... I find it nearly impossible to keep a straight face when I hear something like "Mah young'un Nayncy..." I have nothing against people with accents. But there's a difference between having an accent and just pronouncing words in extremely stupid ways. Yes, I may have sounded somewhat like this in the past, but my excuse is that I was still a little kid, and too young to notice how ridiculous it sounds!

YES.

Strange thing, in person, I generally understand those with thick accents less than those around me, but, on the phone, the opposite is true. I guess the babelfish most are born with doesn't work over the phone.

My mom says "warsh" instead of wash. I'm going to go warsh the dishes. drives me nuts.

I have friends with various accents (Brazilian,Russian,Croatian,French) and it really confuses me to hear all the various pronunciations of words! But it's important to be patient most of all.

That reminded me of a scene in the movie Kangaroo Jack where they are in Australia and there is an old guy talking with a very strong Australian accent and they don't understand a thing he says lol it is funny. I wouldn't know what exactly is australian slang tho because I have never lived there.

Shadi