Um…🤔

May 23, 2022
3:29:20am

gurt All-American

Um…🤔

Everyone knows ‘aesthetic’ is pronounced

es-thet-ik

And not

Es- stet-ik….. right?

Because lately humanity has been letting me down.

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Um…🤔

gurt

5/23/22 3:29am

Pronounced at 3:29 am? Yeah, you're going to be let down with a lot of words.

Y05

5/23/22 3:51am

It’s not 3:29 in Australia

gurt

5/23/22 3:56am

It's always 4:20 somewhere!

BYUtka

5/23/22 6:02am

I thought it was 5 o’clock somewhere?

BYU Grounds

5/23/22 6:49am

Time out, some bloke from Australia is telling us how to pronounce words?! Crikey!

RoaroftheCougartails

5/23/22 8:28am

You're worried about that when people are running around ending questions

Mister P

5/23/22 4:44am

The single word response , “riiiight?” Nails on a chalkboard.

deliciousmocha

5/23/22 4:49am

Also it’s ex·ac·er·bate, not ex·as·Ter·bate! Stop adding a T!

MormonThug

5/23/22 5:36am

No joke for awhile I 100% thought there was a T and pronounced it that way 🤦‍♂️

ColonelMustard

5/23/22 1:28pm

This is in the same vein as nuclear vs nuculer. That one makes me want to punch a dog.

Marc Spector

5/23/22 5:38am

Just like “real-a-tur” instead of “real-tur” (realtor)

byuinva

5/23/22 5:57am

Or "jewelry vs. jewlery

CougarScrub

5/23/22 3:34pm

Don’t even get me started on “ek-spesh-el-ly,” “ac-rost,” and “drownd”

byuinva

5/23/22 5:55am

The ac-rost one makes me want to

provoprodigy

5/23/22 8:00am

I’m uh-stat-ik that you agree.

bruincoug

5/23/22 6:10am

Can we start in on the proper use of fewer and less too please?

BamaCoug

5/23/22 6:22am

Most of our church can’t even pronounce contrite correctly

WDaddy

5/23/22 6:34am

Haha, I’ve never even thought about this, but in a church setting it’s always a

Lalau

5/23/22 10:01am

When I hear car dealers talk about fuh-NAN-cing instead of FInancing...

PrimeQuantumDeek

5/23/22 7:13am

What about pre-used cars? Shouldn’t that be the same as new cars? Instead the e

eyes4byu

5/23/22 7:44am

This woman agrees, in excruciating detail.

Florwood

5/23/22 7:38am

As surely as we know creek is crick, hurricane is ur'can and tomato is tumahtoe

BYUFootballisBack

5/23/22 8:57am

or home in on vs. hone in on.

Boxey

5/23/22 9:39am

Lately I have been hearing a lot of Overarching mispronunciations

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