#mispronounciation

[mythological-mayhem]

Reblog if you once called Aphrodite "Afro-dyt", Persephone "Persa-phone", or Poseidon "Po-sey-don" (or optionally all three)

[sarcasticbabywhispererjess]

In the audiobook I’m listening to the male narrator just mispronounced “oxytocin” three times in a row. How did no one catch this before publishing it?

He pronounced it ox-ee-tox-inn. 🤦‍♀️

It is supposed to be ox-ee-toe-sin.

The character that was supposed to be saying the words would not have said it incorrectly. A word spelled “oc” wouldn’t have that sound anyway. Maybe “occ”, but that’s more “oak”. Anyway, I don’t know how he fucked that up so badly.

I guess I need to add consultant for narrators for medical terminology pronunciation to my list of media related consultations I want to do to avoid these issues.

[raointean]

Enoch Backstory/Headcanons

(This is mostly movieverse with some book details sprinkled in)

Was born in 1898 in the Outer Hebrides to a family of undertakers

He grew up speaking Scottish Gaelic exclusively and didn’t learn English until “adulthood”

His family was an old peculiar family on both sides

His mother had the same power he does. She can give life to things

That’s partially why she had so many children

His father had the ability to give death. Good for killing chickens for dinner

Enoch was the thirdborn of nine

All of his siblings had one of their parents’ peculiarities because punnett squares and because I said so

They lived in the woods, a ways away from the other villagers

The villagers grew suspicious of them and thought they were witches

One day, the villagers decided to take things into their own hands and marched on the house

Most of the children escaped but two of them were killed along with their parents

The children were then found by an Ymbryne by accidentally stumbling into a Loop

Once the Ymbryne discovered that none of them spoke English, they were taken to Miss Skua and Miss Mockingbird’s Loop in Ireland

There they met other children who were also learning English from all over the continent

After they “graduated” the Loop, they could be sent to other Loops

Unfortunately, no Ymbryne can take seven new children all at once so the O’Connors had to be separated

Enoch was sent to Miss Peregrine’s Loop obviously

The reason he’s so grumpy is because he misses his family

Also because he’s just Like That

His English has greatly improved by being around native English speakers but he still has some Gaelic speaking habits

He pronounces the hard g sound like a k

The name ‘George’ is just, no

When reading out loud, he tends to skip over the ‘th’s, it drives Miss Peregrine crazy

His spelling is absolutely atrocious

He’s a phonetic speller but he spells with his Gaelic brain

The first time Jacob sees something he wrote he’s just like ‘what? You can’t put an h with a b! That makes no sense!’

He labels stuff in Gaelic

Anytime he is able to see any of his siblings, they speak Scottish Gaelic and nothing else

[omni-scient-pan-da]

Alright so I have never actually seen a John Mulaney show before

I've seen the memes and heard a lot of the jokes, and watched him on SNL but I haven't actually seen one of his shows, mainly because I'm too lazy to actually search it up and watch it

But EVERY TIME I see this man's name, I read it in my head as "John Mulaney" as in, pronounced "John Mulan-ey" instead of "John Mu-laney"

The first time I ever heard it actually said aloud I was SHOOK because I just always thought that his name just sorta rhymed and now that I know how it's actually pronounced, I still can't wrap my mind around the fact that it's not "John Mulan-ey"

[totallynotjai]

Beau: *eating apples and barbeque sauce*

Luke: BEAU ARE YOU PREGNANT

Beau: I have a dick, not an utter-us

Luke: it's pronounced uterus

Beau: tomato tomoto

[floweramon]

(Friend, who is studying Irish Gaelic, and I are playing a video game when the phrase "Claíomh Solais" comes up in a quiz)

Me:  Oh hey, you got it right!

Friend:  No no no, I want to hear how you pronounce that.

Me:  ...... Clam Sollux.

Friend:  ...... Yes, that is exactly how it's pronounced.  Good job.

@inspectormuffinthetimemuffin

[raointean]

Lloyd’s name prompt

Ok, this has to do with my headcanon that Nya (and Kai) are Spanish speakers and the fact that the double L in Spanish represents a Y sound. Basically, one day Nya has to read the ninja’s names off of a list for some reason and gets distracted and so it goes

Cole

Jay

Kai

Yoyd

Nya

Zane

She looks up and everyone’s just like??? What??? And she’s like “what?” And Lloyd corrects her pronunciation of his name and that’s how the ninja find out that Nya and Kai speak Spanish.

[kiwibirb1]

When you mispronounce mauve as mwauve

MWAHAHAHAUVE