Mispronunciations I remember
ThoughtsIt’s funny how we forget so many important things, and remember such trivial ones. Here are some that I remember, some going back to my childhood:
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In primary school I had a friend who called the sport shutput. Maybe he was my first interaction with a Kiwi!
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My networking lecturer at university called it a LAN tropology. He also had a habit of starting each sentence with also too…, which would lead to also too, this tropology…
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An Adelaide Channel 7 weather forecaster used to say it’d be chwenty degrees.
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A 2006 Australian TV ad used to pronounce bills as biwls.
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Anyone who’s ever said expresso or ex-cetera. Neither of those words contain the letter X.
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I pronounced Arkansas as Arkansas on an old podcast episode, which an American listener clarified for me. It’s pronounced Arkan-saw.
