100 common mispronunciations in U.S. English. (Thanks Girlhacker.) Naturally, the phrases less often seen in print are more likely to have cultural "mis-" pronunciations. Some of these I've heard before (and thereby consider common), some I've never heard before (and thereby consider silly), and there are even a couple in this list that I may have misunderstood myself (and thereby consider obscure). The overall pattern would probably indicate the zip codes in which I was raised. Unfortunately, this list seems less interested in regional dialects than in rehashing commonly picked nits, and they've mixed in some misheard phrases, which aren't necessarily mispronunciations, either. (Who the hell says "Laura Norder"? I might say "lawn order," but...)
March 16, 2004