Comments on: 20 Embarrassing Mispronunciations http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/20-embarrassing-mispronunciations/ Teaching resources to differentiate instruction. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:58:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kylee http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/20-embarrassing-mispronunciations/comment-page-1/#comment-18749 Kylee Wed, 03 Aug 2011 20:05:59 +0000 http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/?p=1394#comment-18749 Jen, that made me laugh. Thanks! The one that gets under my skin the most is RealAtor -- probably because I took the real estate exam and passed. Would have become a Realtor if we'd stayed in that state. My funny story is regarding accents, I guess. The company that I work for has several branches all over the southern United States. Our newest branch is outside of New Orleans, LA. There are about four people at that branch who I talk to on a regular basis. I finally asked my boss one day "Why do every single one of them at the LA branch have a speech impediment?!". lol, I didn't realize it was their accent, I thought something was wrong! The boss broke out laughing his butt off. =) Being a Southern gal I should've figured that out, but it just sounded so wrong that it never occurred to me. ~Ky Jen, that made me laugh. Thanks!
The one that gets under my skin the most is RealAtor — probably because I took the real estate exam and passed. Would have become a Realtor if we’d stayed in that state.

My funny story is regarding accents, I guess. The company that I work for has several branches all over the southern United States. Our newest branch is outside of New Orleans, LA. There are about four people at that branch who I talk to on a regular basis.

I finally asked my boss one day “Why do every single one of them at the LA branch have a speech impediment?!”. lol, I didn’t realize it was their accent, I thought something was wrong! The boss broke out laughing his butt off. =)

Being a Southern gal I should’ve figured that out, but it just sounded so wrong that it never occurred to me.

~Ky

]]> By: Jen http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/20-embarrassing-mispronunciations/comment-page-1/#comment-5506 Jen Wed, 05 May 2010 21:07:20 +0000 http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/?p=1394#comment-5506 Wow, I must say writing a comment on any grammar, pronunciation or English language post is a bit intimidating, but here goes. I've always thought of myself as an educated individual; not necessarily as someone who would beat every opponent at a game of Trivial Pursuit but one that could hold my own anyway. So here is my embarrassing story about mispronunciation and mangaling a "sill-ab-bull"; this happened to me as a junior in high school. I was taking a test in my English class and I came to a question relating to an award given to an author. My answer was that they received the "Pulit Surprise". When we received our graded tests back I was shocked to see that I missed this question but it did not take me long to realize that it was the Pulitzer Prize that the author was awarded instead. I do not think I will ever forget this mistake! Wow, I must say writing a comment on any grammar, pronunciation or English language post is a bit intimidating, but here goes. I’ve always thought of myself as an educated individual; not necessarily as someone who would beat every opponent at a game of Trivial Pursuit but one that could hold my own anyway. So here is my embarrassing story about mispronunciation and mangaling a “sill-ab-bull”; this happened to me as a junior in high school. I was taking a test in my English class and I came to a question relating to an award given to an author. My answer was that they received the “Pulit Surprise”. When we received our graded tests back I was shocked to see that I missed this question but it did not take me long to realize that it was the Pulitzer Prize that the author was awarded instead. I do not think I will ever forget this mistake!

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