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The mountain range on the eastern side of the U.S. is the 'apple-at'chans'. At least nearly everyone from the southern end of them say it that way (source: I'm from there).
'Apple-ay-shuns' is just as strange as saying 'Nor-folk'. Immediate indicator of you're an outsider.
I pronounce dragon as dragòn, if you know what I mean.
Two immediately come to mind.
First is "Comfortable". I pronounce each part of the word: "COME-for-tuh-bull". Many people give me weird looks and insist on "Comf-turr-bull".
The other is more niche and has to do with League of Legends.
There is a champion whose theme is moonlight. His backstory is that he belongs to a moon cult who opposes a group that is am Order of the Sun type group. This character is an edgelord whose whole thing is darkness and midnight etc etc.
His name is a combination of the Greek "Ap" meaning "furthest from" and "Helios" meaning the sun. His name is Greek for "the one furthest from the sun" in this moon cult.
In Greek, "ph" does not make the "fuh" sound. His name should rightly be pronounced "App-Hee-lee-ose"
But all the casters and developers call him "Uhh-fell-ee-ose" and it drives me absolutely insane.
Garage.
GraJ
Catch shit for it all the time, but at this point I think it's more like a harmless Easter egg.
My grandma rolls the R in "Three", and it's become a game to get her to say it. She handles it with great humor.
I'm cool to have my own version of that.
I used to pronounce "adjacent" as adjuhsent.
You know the famous mage from Forgotten Realms? I pronounce their name "EL-ah-min-ster"
Oh, I also have a terrible Boston accent so I nearly caused an HR incident when talking about "hooked horrors" aka "hookt ho-ahs" or as my coworker heard "hooked whores". Horror is the best word to check for a Boston accent with.
I pronounce azure as “uh jzer” with emphasis on the second syllable and most other people say “aa jzer” with emphasis on the first.
I tend to say Wensleydale, Tuesleydale and Thursleydale as the days of the week. It started as a thing I said to myself because I found it funny, but occasionally I'll slip and say one of them out loud when I'm tired.
My SO's family all like to pronounce "mauve" in a weird way, so I say it every chance I get to perturb them.
Baggel for Bagel.
Baggel and Beggel drive me nuts! Bay-gull or GTFO :)
Laypis
The blue stuff you mine in minecraft.
I'm Dutch. I pronounce the -en at de ends of words, including the n. If you don't know, that's like 10% of all Dutch words
Bala-tro, not Ba-lottro.
I purposely pronouce "download" like dunlaad to annoy my SO.
