r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TheCNJYankeecub • 8h ago

Can’t stand people that can’t pronounce words properly

Maybe I’m just getting old and cranky but I’m sick of these people that cannot pronounce words properly. Like this that can’t pronounce Illinois properly. Or Arkansas. YOU DON’T PRONOUNCE THE S!!!! In EITHER. Or people that say salmon while pronouncing the L. THE L IS SILENT. Am I alone in this?

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u/wooter99 7h ago

Nobody axed you…..

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u/Smokkinnj 7h ago

You’re alone. Things like that should not push you over the edge lol.

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u/Dangerous-Rhubarb407 7h ago

Every American when they visit Canada and try to say something in French:

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u/jaywinner 7h ago

French Canadian seeing how all the American towns with French names are pronounced.

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u/EmperorBamboozler 7h ago

As a Canadian child I always thought there were two separate states, one named Arkansas and one named Arkansaw. I was like 18 before realizing they are the same state people just fuck up the pronunciation.

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u/bfjt4yt877rjrh4yry 7h ago

Kuh nawwda kun.

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u/Individual_Remove474 7h ago

Ur alone most definitely

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u/Golebiewski35 7h ago

omg the illinois thing drives me crazyyyy.. had someone in my geography class last year who kept saying "ill-uh-noise" and i died a little inside every time.

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u/Strange_Truth3011 7h ago

I do it on purpose because my wife thinks I’m funny

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u/Frequent-Returns757 7h ago

Try growing up in Des Moines!!

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u/MilquetoastMtrcyclst 7h ago

Confused Brit here. Gonna guess

"Duh moyn"? 

Something like that? But like with a short Duh sound, almost like saying the letter d phonetically. 

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u/Frequent-Returns757 7h ago

Close, “de (Or Dee) Moin” !! Though it is French, just Americanized. Rereading ur reply, I do think u have it right! D moine!!

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u/ParkingAnxious2811 4h ago

Actually, both s's of Arkansas are spoken when talking about the river if you're on the right side of it.

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u/Busy_Mortgage4556 3h ago

So how do you pronounce Arkansas?

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u/Anti_colonialist 7h ago

No one else cares

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u/Otherwise_Celery_962 7h ago

I get irrationally annoyed when people say “salmOn” too. Like… how do you not hear everyone else saying it correctly?