Not me, but a friend of mine pronounces rhinoceros as if it rhymes with dinosaur-us.
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I dont have any problems saying Albuquerque but I can't stop calling it "yabba-yerkee"
I say the word pecan differently depending on what I'm talking about. If it's just the pecan itself I say it like pea-con. If it's a pecan pie I say it pea-can. Not sure why. I also live in a place with a bunch of pecan orchards so the word comes up fairly frequently.
I have two:
I pronounce the d in Wednesday. Like wedns-day.
Vagaries - vag-air-ees. I think this is an Irish thing.
I pronounce milk like melk. Is it wrong, definitely but I’m not gonna change it at this point
Congrats, you now speak Dutch!
PIH-cawn instead of PEE-can for pecan. CAR-mel instead of KARA-mel for caramel. AWN-t instead of ANT for aunt. VAH-se instead of VAY-se for vase.
Which ones are right/wrong could probably start another Civil War
escape for me, I tend to say it differently every time I say it. No idea why
So I just realized a few years ago that “join” is one syllable like “coin.” Should make sense, right?
I’d always pronounced it “joy-in.” I still have to consciously change my pronunciation to say it right.
I also learned a couple months ago that I trill the ‘r’ in “three.” I don’t really know how to make the “thr” sound without a slight trill. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yes but I do this on purpose. Mazda with a flat A like in Aztec. Bag is bayg, measure is maysure. My long Os are longer like Psy saying ope in Gangnam style or like the movie Fargo. Snow is Snew with an Irish accent like Ygritte. There are too many more to recount, about every fourth sentence on average I pronounce a word wrong on purpose, it has become my dialect.