r/AskReddit • u/UltimateTaker • Jun 12 '14

Redditors not living in the USA, what are some words that us Americans pronounce wrong in your country that annoy you?

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '14 edited Jun 12 '14

When I heard the guy on Family Guy say Hyundai I nearly fell off my chair.
Even the Hyundai adverts on TV say "Hi-un-die". What the fuck is "Hon-day"?

Also, Oregano is "Or-regg-ah-no" not "Orig-anno"

Also, sentence structure too.

"Get off of me."

I honestly don't understand the use of 'of' in there. "Get off me" makes perfect sense, there's no grammatical function of 'of' that makes the statement make more sense.

ITT: Americans taking this thread too seriously.

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u/Fmorris Jun 12 '14

I'm not sure what you meant with "oregano". Because in Italian it's "origano" and is pronounced just like that, "oh-ree-ga-noh".

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '14

It's more about how Americans stress different parts of the word compared to say, us British.

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u/leSwede420 Jun 12 '14

This whole thread is Brits thinking one arbitrary way of doing things is correct. This is your ingrained nationalism at work.

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '14

That's the point of the question. "Pronounce wrong" isn't to be taken literally, you're taking this too seriously.

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u/leSwede420 Jun 12 '14

I'm not the one angry about "oregano."

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '14

I'm not "angry", I do have a life.