What annoys you more?When people say aks instead of ask,or when people say pasific instead of specific?

It happens in conversation all the time!!!Do you know of any other glaring examples of mispronunciation.

It doesn’t bother me at all. Little things like that don’t get to me even though I speak well.

That “aks” is rather funny!Its more of a slip/roll problem of the tongue. I dont think that annoys me!

people who say qwisp instead of crisp are worst

Grrrrr!

Or “suppose to” instead of “supposed to,” although it’s easier to notice in print.

Who in the world are you talking to that would say aks or pasific? I think it might make me giggle if I heard someone use those terms. They sound like characterizations they might use on SNL.

@bythebay,it happens all the time during conversations in all walks,it seems to be something thats on the increase.
Just watch tv or the radio even in films.

“aks” is an example of what linguists call s-cluster metathesis, a common feature of African American dialect. Interestingly enough (and lest we get all snobby about this), it is an extremely old, and formerly accepted, variant pronunciation. Consider this quote from Chaucer: “I axe, why the fyfte man Was nought housband to the Samaritan?”

I can’t really describe the feeling I get when I hear people say things like “Pacific” when they mean “specific.” It’s almost painful. I don’t care, and they don’t know they’re saying it wrong, so they don’t care, but I’m almost embarrassed for them. Should I correct them, and risk coming off as a snob, but save them possible future embarrassment, or keep my mouth shut, and let them go on? Usually I keep my mouth shut. Like when my mother says “exscape” instead of “escape.”

@pete: I used to work at a place that served coffee, and the customers would ask for “expresso” all the time. It grates on the nerves.

Harp, goddamn it, you always beat me to the punch, but I love you anyway, because you’re so darn cool.

fuckin CHAUCER!!! i love it!

I grew up in a very diverse area, and many of my African American friends pronounced ask as ‘axe’. I gave up trying to correct that particular thing when I realized that they basically could not pronounce it properly. I get much more annoyed when people use the wrong word, more like your second example. I had a friend who did this so often it drove me crazy! For example, she would say ‘medallion’ when she meant ‘battalion’...and she was a teacher! I stopped correcting her when I realized it was a never-ending job and probably hard on her self-esteem.

“libary”.

My wife mispronounces several words, but hey, to keep the peace I keep my mouth shut. Some examples: infomation instead of information, probably caused from hearing the short version ‘info’ too much; alblum, for album, owinge instead of orange, flustrated instead of frustrated. Of course, my very favorite is when other relatives say Picksburg instead of Pittsburg. Of course, I have a devil of a time with thesaurus and humanitarian. I can think them and spell them and even see them correctly, but speaking them screws me up for some reason.

We all are ignorant, just on different subjects. ~ Will Rogers.

when people use “Your” when they should have written “You’re”

That drives me insane.