chocolatechip Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Do y'all have any words that you/your spouse/children/acquaintances really mispronounce, like a "lazy" word? I don't just mean mumbled, actually changed. For example, sometimes I catch myself (and I'm sure the rest of the family does it too) saying "pry." But it doesn't mean pry: it means 'probably.' As in, "We should 'pry' make sure the windows are shut before we leave." (That looks so bizarre in print. . .but if I hear it/say it I don't give it a second thought/it makes sense to me.) The other (less strange) I've recently noticed is "trunna," as in 'trying to' (similar to "gonna"/going to.) Or maybe I'm just really bizarrely lazy with words? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolt. Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I'm pretty sure contractions are a normal part of speech. You can write them with apostrophes if it makes you feel better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiMi 4under3 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I was shopping for a rather formal dress the other day, and the saleswoman pointed to several dresses and said, "These are all cazh. And these here are also more cazh." (short for casual) :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 We play with language all the time but it is on purpose. If someone said to me "Can mean Joe go to the store with me?" they would be treated to a long drawn out "Oh, poor Joe. Why do you think he's mean? etc. etc." while they rolled their eyes and said "Mom! You know what I mean!" and you know they wouldn't keep doing it because of my "misunderstandings". But on purpose we say "possumbly" instead of possibly. And "vegeble" instead of vegetable (it's a Runescape thing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ali in OR Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Well, a sandwich is a samich. Or sammie. That's the only one I can think of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerileanne99 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Yes! Gonna, gotta, and yeah are prime offenders. Hubby is British and doesn't have a problem with the big three, and has much better control of his 't's and r's...but has his own strange lazy speech/portmanteau words! My dd4 is the language police however, and corrects me every time I use gonna, gotta, or yeah😳 Very aggravating yet very effective! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I'ngunna. As in "I'm gonna." Prolly instead of probably. My dd's oral surgeon said that. o_0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Shouldn't is shou'n Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 English muffins are known as E-muffs in our house. A boy we knew in college used terms like that for nearly everything, and we always thought E-muff especially goofy. Naturally, it stuck and we've inflicted it upon the next generation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maize Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 This happens in other languages too. French "je ne sais pas" often ends up more like "shais pas". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelotmom Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Computer is "Ter", because my DS said it that way when he was 3. This passed on to a family friend, who apparently passed it on to the department she works for at the state. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belacqua Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Computer is "Ter", because my DS said it that way when he was 3. This passed on to a family friend, who apparently passed it on to the department she works for at the state. I love that. In fact, I think we need to consolidate Hive efforts to Make Ter Happen. We can do this, people! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Not exactly, but both my oldest and 5th kids pronounce(d) piano as "planno". Dh's NY comes out when he says "draw" for drawer. Otherwise the most lazy speech we have usually sounds something like "can you get me that thing over by the thing - no the other thing..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Yes, ice cream is "bean bean" in our house because that is how dd said it when she was a toddler. It's cute! (We don't inflict it on strangers.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty ethel rackham Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Most of ours are continued use of childish pronunciations that we found cute. 'puter (computer), sammich, canny (candy.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I say Pacific for specific. But I only say it to my kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdesigns Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 My boys always say "wi" instead of "with." It drives me nuts. But my oldest used to say "mini-the-mote" instead of remote, and that's what I've called it ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 "I don't know" gets turned into something completely unintelligible here. It is usually accompanied with a rise in shoulders and a crazy eyed look as well. Drives me cray-cray. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Most of ours are continued use of childish pronunciations that we found cute. 'puter (computer), sammich, canny (candy.) My younger DD called water "wa-ku" when she was really little, so I started calling it that for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Most of ours are continued use of childish pronunciations that we found cute. 'puter (computer), sammich, canny (candy.)This. We have puter, prolly, canny, sketti (spaghetti), along with gonna, gotta, and shoulda instead of 've. I'm sure there are more. My whole family can have a conversation using cute-kid speak and quoting stand-up comedians that we like. It would drive an outsider insane, trying to understand us. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sara in AZ Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I don't remember why now, but years ago my sisters and I started leaving off the second half of the word welcome. So "you're welcome" became "you're well". Always. Glad we're not the only weird ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KellieK Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 My daughters say will when they mean while. It took me a long time to figure out why they kept getting that word wrong when we read out loud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I can't think of any particular "lazy" words that I use other than typical ones like gonna and using schwa sounds instead of clearly enunciating all the sounds in a word. I sometimes smash words together in a jumble. Sometimes it just takes too much energy to add the spaces in my speech. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiMi 4under3 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Most of ours are continued use of childish pronunciations that we found cute. 'puter (computer), sammich, canny (candy.) We have puter, prolly, canny, sketti (spaghetti), along with gonna, gotta, and shoulda instead of 've. I say "jammies' for pajamas, and "cheesies" for mac-n-cheese. My kids loathe this now, but it's a decade long habit... Also, for fun (I'm not sure why) I pronounce the "k" in knife when cooking with DH. And we poke fun at Pottery Barn's perfect $$$ rooms by referring to it as "Snottery Farm." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbutton Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I say Pacific for specific. But I only say it to my kids. Thank you for keeping it at home, LOL! That one drives me bonkers for some reason. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellie Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Most of ours are continued use of childish pronunciations that we found cute. 'puter (computer), sammich, canny (candy.) We say sockies and shoe-ies and feets. :-) I corrected just about everything else, though. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbutton Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 We say the "typical" ones too. We do a lot of silly stuff like saying the K in knife. We have some really odd ones, such as "eagle" for armpit (no good explanation!). My big corruption that is regional (where I'm from, not where I live) and ingrained rather than intentional is "crick" for "creek." People speak much more standard English where I'm from than where I live (it's all over the board here from perfect speech to "is that actually English?"), but that is one that can really pin down where I'm from in the right company. My older kiddo has always enjoyed mimicking accents, and he's having fun talking like he's from Duck Dynasty right now. :ohmy: My littler one has trouble with auditory processing, so he tends to pronounce some words the same that are not the same--thin/then/than are all often said with some strange non-vowel he made up. Now that he's reading, he's trying to clean these up on his own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbutton Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 We say sockies and shoe-ies and feets. :-) I corrected just about everything else, though. :-) Yeah, we like feets too--they hold our toesies in place. Sometimes we add -es to things like Gollum--"nasty Hobbitses." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 As you guys mention more, I realize how many words we actually purposely butcher. Feets, or foots. Prouncing the K in knife and/or shortening the i. Pass me the kuhniff, please. :) Jammies. Changing words - you're velcro, instead of welcome. I'm sure there are many more. BUT, this is at home, with the family. We are all perfectly able and willing to use proper English around other humans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Critterfixer Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 guh-nat (for gnats), and occasionally I do treat knife in the same way. All bees are bee-friends. The only thing we are lazy with is " to smug", or "smugging." My hFA son coined the term to verb-form the giving of a smug smile. As in "He's smugging, Mom!" He is also responsible for calling spiders "moes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 This really isn't a 'lazy' one, but my teens will stay say "Amn't I?" meaning "am I not?" because it makes sense and there is no reason am can't form a contraction, and aren't I is awkward and annoying. But jeet? is definitely lazy talk for did you eat? and we will use others like jams for pajamas, but no unusual ones that I can think of offhand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alenee Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 I can't remember the exact words from the conversation the other day but it was a question my dd was asking and she used two shortened words like 'totes' & 'adorbs' for totally and adorable. I replied, "You want to ask that again using real words?" The kids know this drives me nuts so now they do it on purpose. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Well, for a good idea of ours, watch some Jeff Foxworthy videos, lol. "Jeet yet?" - Did you eat yet? "Yon't to?" or "Wanna" - Do you want to? "Whacha doin?" "gul" for going to "You gul go with me?" (No idea where that came from, lol) "dju" for did you We often joke about how people who don't speak English as a first language, but do know it, would still not understand what we were saying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pawz4me Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Well, for a good idea of ours, watch some Jeff Foxworthy videos, lol. "Jeet yet?" - Did you eat yet? "Yon't to?" or "Wanna" - Do you want to? "Whacha doin?" "gul" for going to "You gul go with me?" (No idea where that came from, lol) "dju" for did you We often joke about how people who don't speak English as a first language, but do know it, would still not understand what we were saying. Those are good examples of things we say. And to the list I would add "doncha" for "Don't you." As in "Doncha want some more tea?" I'm sure there are LOTS of others. But they seem so normal it doesn't even occur to me that they're really not. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjffkj Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Hmm even after reading what everyone else says I can only think of one that I say. I call pajamas jams and because of that my children call them jams also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjffkj Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Oh and diapers are dipes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 When I was growing up, folks in my neck of the woods would say "yins" as in "Are yins going to the store?". I think it's a western PA thing. My dad still says it. When we lived in Tennessee for a year, people said something similar but more like 'you-uns' or 'yoons.' Drove me crazy. Because it wasn't, y'know, the slang I was used to! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 We use the typical shortcuts--gonna, wanna, etc.--along with occasional Hobbit talk--feetses, toeses. Mostly I shorten place names: berry = library, Kroge = Kroger, Wally's = Walmart. Because that extra syllable is just too much, y'know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeschoolingHearts&Minds Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Ponytail holders are "hair ups," because that's what DD10 call them when she was 2 and it stuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 "Fiddy" cents instead of fifty cents. We have a card game that's like UNO, except with money amounts on the cards (Exact Change), and every time I proudly play a "fiddy cent" card, DS6 gets mad and refuses to play until I properly say "fifty". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsrevmeg Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 My husband says sount instead of sounded and fount instead of found. It drives me bonkers. He used to refer to the steering wheel as the stirring wheel. He has stopped that one, but replaced it with the other two. :cursing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanier.1765 Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 We are more in the "on purpose" category. For example, we say abby normal instead of abnormal. It's a Young Frankenstein reference but I'm sure we get weird looks from others when we do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Rose Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 Yes, but we call it Southern Dialect. Fixinta: I'm fixing (about) to make dinner. Kilt: He just about kilt me with his crazy driving. You get the pictcha (picture). Wudder: what are you doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKim Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 My husband says sount instead of sounded and fount instead of found. It drives me bonkers. He used to refer to the steering wheel as the stirring wheel. He has stopped that one, but replaced it with the other two. :cursing: Lol. Mine says "swolt" for swelled or swollen. He hit his thumb with the hammer and it "swolt up." Drives me crazy too!! One we do on purpose is "turdable" for terrible. I think one of the kids started it when the were little, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 This happens in other languages too. French "je ne sais pas" often ends up more like "shais pas". This is what my French teacher said. It sounds weird to me when people enunciate each part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lollie010 Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Well, for a good idea of ours, watch some Jeff Foxworthy videos, lol. "Jeet yet?" - Did you eat yet? "Yon't to?" or "Wanna" - Do you want to? "Whacha doin?" "gul" for going to "You gul go with me?" (No idea where that came from, lol) "dju" for did you We often joke about how people who don't speak English as a first language, but do know it, would still not understand what we were saying. Lol. You'd fit right in around here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan in TN Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Thought of more concerning pets - fishyboo and froggyboo, bunny bun bun (or bunny foo foo) Real names are The Doctor (fish), Merlin (frog), Pipkin and Hazel (rabbits). Sometimes it takes too much effort to come up with their real names. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Thought of more concerning pets - fishyboo and froggyboo, bunny bun bun (or bunny foo foo) Real names are The Doctor (fish), Merlin (frog), Pipkin and Hazel (rabbits). Sometimes it takes too much effort to come up with their real names. :D My dd always asks me about pet names--for all those imaginary pets we have. She thinks it's super silly that I would name a pet rabbit Bun Bun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 Thought of more concerning pets - fishyboo and froggyboo, bunny bun bun (or bunny foo foo) Real names are The Doctor (fish), Merlin (frog), Pipkin and Hazel (rabbits). Sometimes it takes too much effort to come up with their real names. :D I do that with my kids. Of course the made up names are often longer than their real ones! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ocelotmom Posted July 10, 2014 Share Posted July 10, 2014 This really isn't a 'lazy' one, but my teens will stay say "Amn't I?" meaning "am I not?" because it makes sense and there is no reason am can't form a contraction, and aren't I is awkward and annoying. But jeet? is definitely lazy talk for did you eat? and we will use others like jams for pajamas, but no unusual ones that I can think of offhand. One of mine used to say amn't when she was around 3. "I amn't a baby!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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