'Valentimes Day': 25 annoying mispronunciations that might drive you up the wall

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Aug 24, 2025 8:00 PM EDT

There comes a time in every parent's life when they need to tell their child that they're pronouncing "library" incorrectly. It can be really cute when a little kid mispronounces things, but they can't be a cute kid who can't say their "Rs" forever. They need to grow up sometime; otherwise, they'll be an adult who is much maligned for their incorrect pronunciation of things.

Whether you think it's moral or not, we are all judged by the way we speak. That's why parents spend thousands of dollars a year for a speech therapist to shame the lisp out of their sweet little boy. I'm not saying you should code-switch or try to sound like a news anchor from Nebraska so you come off as neutral as possible. I wish we could celebrate all ways of speaking equally, because no way of talking is inherently better than another, despite what I said 20 seconds ago about kids who don't pronounce their "Rs." People who study Linguistics think that there's no one "correct" way of speaking. English teachers believe the exact opposite. The general population is much less forgiving of differences in speech, especially ones that are perceived as "wrong." The people in this thread are perfect examples of that.

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  • 8 hours training for a new job, the girl training me says "pacific" instead of "specific" I quite literally want to peel my eyelids off.
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  • bradinspokane Supposebly
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  • Few_Carrot_3971 Lie-berry
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  • nournnn Would of
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  • patchwork-ghost Valentimes Day
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  • A table topped with a cake and two glasses of wine
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  • Psychedelic_Alchemy I could care less
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  • rillytherapper pasghetti
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  • Relative-Ordinary-64 Irregardless
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  • scubaBiscuit Minus well
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  • Affectionate_Cat2522 · The upmost annoying
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  • ITstaph Pitcher perfect
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  • Stainless Heart Heighth.
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  • Ubivorn Shushi
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  • Sushi on a white ceramic plate
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  • TheDeceiving Pie that makes no cents
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  • PilgrimOz Can I aksk a question?
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  • Broke-n-Tokin Exspecially
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  • WheresFlatJelly I need advise I'm going to the pharmacy to fill my subscription
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  • GaryG7 Or perscription
    via u/GaryG7
  • White and purple medication pills
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  • Echo_Drift Just buy her an expresso.
    via u/Echo_Drift
  • HolySmokes_Dad Jokes From the shop acrost the street?
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  • FucklesTheEchidna My best friend of like 15 years always says "simular" instead of "similar." It drives me up a wall lol
    via u/FucklesTheEchidna
  • notlikethemermaid90 My room mate only just learned (at 28 years old) that it's living vicariously not living bicuriously.
    via u/notlikethemermaid90
  • Unlucky_Effective 152 I mean for all intensive purposes
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  • farkner Well, it is not nucular science!
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  • Nyaho I once dated a girl who thought "just dawned on me” was "just donged on me". She was 35
    via u/Nyaho

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