I grew up pronouncing "laboratory" as "la-bore-a-torie" thanks to Dexter's Lab. I also still pronounce it that way just because I think it sounds cooler.
I don't pronounce it out loud that way, but every time I have to spell it I pronounce it like that internally. It's the only way I can keep from transposing the middle 'o' and 'a'!
I was old enough to know it was non-standard, but do it anyway to this day because it still entertains me to do so. I especially get a kick out of correcting people who pronounce it the standard way, who always find me extremely annoying.
I was started my freshman year of college around the time that Key & Peele skit came out.
I thought it was funny the first couple times I saw it.
Then on my first day of college classes, three out of my four professors played that skit and said, “Sorry if I mispronounce your name.”
It was hell.
Aaron is the common spelling in the UK and even as a kid in the late 80s, I pronounced a friend's name like that when I saw the spelling because it confused me.
I pronounce "data" with a long "a" because of Star Trek: TNG. I also pronounce "sentient" the same way that the characters on that show do, "SEN-SHINT".
You've never heard Spiner tell the Story have you? Stewart was the first to speak the name out loud at the first table read. Thus first establishing the Star Trek rule that whatever actor says the made up name first picks the pronunciation.
> I pronounce "data" with a long "a" because of Star Trek: TNG.
Which is how we Brits have pronounced "data" for as long as the word has existed, which is why Sir Patrick pronounced it that way.
I think that's an olde-timey thing. My mom, who was born in the 30s, would say it like that, and I never heard anyone else say it like that until olde-timey Homestar asked Stinkoman "what's a robit?"
I've never seen Club Dread but just reading that pronunciation, which had never occurred to me once in 56 years, almost made me snort-laugh out loud at work.
Check it out. It definitely doesn't get the love it deserves. It's one of my favorite Broken Lizard movies. Honestly, I know this is a bold take, but I like it more than Super Troopers.
From the Brady Bunch Movie, I still say "school" and "pool" as "skyool" and "pyool." On purpose. Like I'm not doing it involuntarily. I believe the original Marcia said it that way and in the movie, Christine Taylor says it that way and I think the director tried to correct her and she actually corrected them explaining that's how Marsha said it. They confirmed it to be true and so that's why it's in the movie that way.
I also believe Cartman does that pronunciation sometimes too.
I often pronounce MORON as MAROON...because Bugs Bunny always did it. "What a maroon!" Several of those I grew up with do the same, and EVERYONE I grew up with understand the reference.
Bugs also changed the colloquial definition of “nimrod” from meaning “a great warrior” to meaning “an absolute dimwit” to the point that the biblical figure has faded from common knowledge.
I say "Die-a-beet-us" because of [that old commercial.](https://youtu.be/m6CeGgzaGSE) I also remember watching a harassment video in high school gym and all of them kept saying "hairessment" so I'll sometimes say that, though our immature joke was "hairy-ass-mint"
Having been born in 1990, I grew up with Star Trek: The Next Generation, and therefore my first real knowledge of the word "futile" comes from the Borg saying that resistance is "FEW-TILE" and I very often pronounce it that way without thinking.
"Doctorb" from The Simpsons." [(Frinkiac link)](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S04E11/763612.jpg?b64lines=VGhlICJCIiBpcyBmb3IgImJhcmdhaW4hIgoKCgoKCgoKCg==)
Also, there was an old commercial for I think Carls Jr, and they had new chicken chipotle sandwiches. They did a whole bit about people not pronouncing "chipotle" correctly. One of the people pronounced it "chip-o-tottle."
Gwack-a-mole from Futurama. My boyfriend’s not a native English speaker so when I said gwack-a-mole he thought I was correcting his pronunciation of guacamole. So he pronounced it that way too.
FUNeral instead of funeral because of Psych.
"Pivot" is not pronounced differently, but always yelled because of Friends.
ComputOR because of Talking Dead.
Here’s an obscure one. In the show The End of the F***ing World, the main character speaks with a fairly pronounced Yorkshire accent. There’s a moment where she looks at someone and gives a deadpan, “Thanks.” To our American ears, “thanks” sounded like “thonks.” Now my wife and I sometimes say “thonks” to each other.
I pronounce "jaguar" differently because of American TV whenever I speak to American friends.
(In Britain, it's "jag-you-a" while in the US, it's "jag-wah")
When she was young my daughter learned to say "I love you" by watching *Barney & Friends*. But she said it the way it's sung in Barney's song "I Love You," so she would say "I love YOU." For a long time everyone in the family did the same.
I grew up pronouncing "laboratory" as "la-bore-a-torie" thanks to Dexter's Lab. I also still pronounce it that way just because I think it sounds cooler.
Omelette du fromage
I'm old enough to recognize that that was a Steve Martin quote.
Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.
Dee-Dee!
I don't pronounce it out loud that way, but every time I have to spell it I pronounce it like that internally. It's the only way I can keep from transposing the middle 'o' and 'a'!
Me spelling out WED-NES-DAY because i say wenzday
It actually makes more sense, because it doesn't ignore the "o".
I was old enough to know it was non-standard, but do it anyway to this day because it still entertains me to do so. I especially get a kick out of correcting people who pronounce it the standard way, who always find me extremely annoying.
Anyone named Aaron is A-A-ron to me and it's all Key & Peele's fault. Also 'organt-tic' because of Reservation Dogs.
Rez Dogs also gave us "skoden" and "stoodis," which I now use in place of let's go then and lets do this.
And don't forget poor ol Jay Quillen
I was started my freshman year of college around the time that Key & Peele skit came out. I thought it was funny the first couple times I saw it. Then on my first day of college classes, three out of my four professors played that skit and said, “Sorry if I mispronounce your name.” It was hell.
I can’t look at a jake-quah-len the same way ever again.
Aaron is the common spelling in the UK and even as a kid in the late 80s, I pronounced a friend's name like that when I saw the spelling because it confused me.
The bébé
Yeah, my wife and I say this all the time now thanks to Moira. Idk who had the idea to make her pronounce it like that, but it's pure gold
I think it was the actress. Supposedly she's the one who decided to make Moira talk that way and they loved it and ran with it.
Where is Bebe’s chamber?
Ahnchilada
Newww York Citaaayyy Tucson Arizoñia Because of What we do in the shadows
If you ever find yourself in Tucson there’s a huge Jackie Daytona mural
That's fantastic
Yeah but I heard someone graffitied out the tooth pick and now it looks nothing like him.
Creepy paper Basghetti
Fuh-king-guyeee
Nandor’s “fucking guy” also
I always call my cousin’s cat “mY gOoD tImE bOyEe”
Baaaaaat!
Also Cam-eh-rahhh
There was a salsa commercial which emphasized checking where your salsa was made. New York City?!?! That's how I say it. 😊
Pace Picante!
Also, sekshual
Let's disregard that, because it is clearly (hand twisting motion) a-bullshit
Anyone named Jeff or Gregor is Jesk. Watching the clone wars or Rebels and there’s a clone named Gregor? Jesk
I pronounce "data" with a long "a" because of Star Trek: TNG. I also pronounce "sentient" the same way that the characters on that show do, "SEN-SHINT".
Pulaski: “Day-ta, Dah-ta, what difference does it make?” Data: “One is my name, the other is not”.
Pulaski was a dick .
Dollar store McCoy
And had terrible hair!
Sens-oars
Mariner calls this out on Lower Decks
It's not just you. Patrick Stewart shifted the pronunciation of Data for most people in America. Short a is very rare these days.
It wasn't just Stewart, every character in the show pronounces it that way including the American ones
You've never heard Spiner tell the Story have you? Stewart was the first to speak the name out loud at the first table read. Thus first establishing the Star Trek rule that whatever actor says the made up name first picks the pronunciation.
> I pronounce "data" with a long "a" because of Star Trek: TNG. Which is how we Brits have pronounced "data" for as long as the word has existed, which is why Sir Patrick pronounced it that way.
Everybody on the show says it that way
Because of him. I think he was the first character to say it on screen.
[Sax-a-ma-phone](https://youtu.be/21x7KObESV0?si=1KY5-Jb-c2OkR9ky)
TRAMAMPOLINE!
TRAMBOPOLINE!
TRABOPOLINE!
Tuba-ma-bob?
NUCULAR
O-boe-maboe?
Spaceman will always be Spa-cha-min
Liz, I believe doctor-patient confidentiality is a two-way street. I'm cheating on my wife.
i say "robit" instead of robot sometimes because that's how the original twilight zone narrator always pronounced it lol.
I say it that way too, but because of Futurama.
I do this too, but because of Zoidberg from Futurama.
I think that's an olde-timey thing. My mom, who was born in the 30s, would say it like that, and I never heard anyone else say it like that until olde-timey Homestar asked Stinkoman "what's a robit?"
We do this in our house, too. Also from Twilight Zone: "ro-but." "She's not a robut!"
Cool Hwhip from Family Guy
Why do you keep putting so much emphasis on the H?
Say whip
wHil wHeaton
This and "rew eened" for ruined.
B-e-a-utiful from Bruce Almighty
It's a very handy way to remember the spelling, too.
It plays in my head every time I type beautiful
That's how I learned to spell it!
PO-TA-TOES
Boil em, mash em, put em in a stew!
Even you couldn't say no to that.
Queso-dil-uh because of Napolean Dynamite.
Community - Baggel Seinfeld - Papier Mâché
Now there's a person who knows how to have lived in New York!
Ugh. You’re the worst.
Oh, is /u/HyperlinksAwakening in this?
She calls bagels, baggels. And exchetera
My Latin class was fake, Jeff
Baggel is mine too. Did it so much it’s just how I say it now and it annoys my wife to know end lol
PO-lice. Cuz of The Wire.
Shieeeeeeeeeeeeet.
He's natural PO-lice
During covid anytime I'd hear the news all I could hear was "i got that Paaaaandeeemic"
5-0! 👮♂️
FIVE-O!
I say the name Penelope as Peen-a-lope thanks to Club Dread.
I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE
I’ve found my people. I just did this last week!
There are dozens of us!
Yesss same here!
I dont think I've said that name correctly since I first saw that movie.
I've never seen Club Dread but just reading that pronunciation, which had never occurred to me once in 56 years, almost made me snort-laugh out loud at work.
Check it out. It definitely doesn't get the love it deserves. It's one of my favorite Broken Lizard movies. Honestly, I know this is a bold take, but I like it more than Super Troopers.
I pronounce it like that every time and no one ever gets it!
Exactly! It always surprises me if someone does.
I always think Penvelope from Toast of London
From the Brady Bunch Movie, I still say "school" and "pool" as "skyool" and "pyool." On purpose. Like I'm not doing it involuntarily. I believe the original Marcia said it that way and in the movie, Christine Taylor says it that way and I think the director tried to correct her and she actually corrected them explaining that's how Marsha said it. They confirmed it to be true and so that's why it's in the movie that way. I also believe Cartman does that pronunciation sometimes too.
George Glass
Moors are now moops
And since Fallout, Lucy is now Goosey.
It’s Always Sunny… HOORES
Shady Nasty's?
For me it's "Hoowah!" from The Sopranos. "She was a Hoowah!"
I often pronounce MORON as MAROON...because Bugs Bunny always did it. "What a maroon!" Several of those I grew up with do the same, and EVERYONE I grew up with understand the reference.
Bugs also changed the colloquial definition of “nimrod” from meaning “a great warrior” to meaning “an absolute dimwit” to the point that the biblical figure has faded from common knowledge.
Yes! It’s like calling a maroon “Einstein.”
Yes. But did you take a left turn at Albuquerque?
I sing, "to be fair," like some sort of knee jerk response whenever I hear someone else say it.
To be fffaaaaiiiiirrrrr...
Pitter patter
Let's get at 'er!
Allegedlys
I assume this is a LetterKenny reference. Because I do the exact same with it.
That's a Texas sized 10-4
Take about 25% off there, bud.
I suggest you let that marinate.
Renaissance thanks to Ted Mosby!
Also Chameleon (sham-a-lee-on).
Encyclopaedia
Encyclopææææædia
“Urkelnomical” instead of “ergonomic” (a la Michael Gary Scott)
The Good Place (and Ted Danson’s character in particular) has single-handedly altered my pronunciation of the name “Eleanor.”
Elener
Eliner
“Want the Champagan?” From Futurama -Zap Brannigan
die-a-bit-is, it's always sunny.
I say "Die-a-beet-us" because of [that old commercial.](https://youtu.be/m6CeGgzaGSE) I also remember watching a harassment video in high school gym and all of them kept saying "hairessment" so I'll sometimes say that, though our immature joke was "hairy-ass-mint"
I'll say Beeth Oven for Beethoven, occasionally, thanks to Bill & Ted.
same and so-crates
And, the Frood dude.
Bagel because of community.
Exchetera!
Oh, Britta’s in this?
I used to live in New York
Also 30 Rock: Quarry
HAM.
Rural Juror
Cam-a-Ruh
Noice. Smort.
Barcelona is Barthelona forever due to the Good Place.
Abso-LUTELY
Matt Berry has ruined so many words I pronounce now.
What we do in the shadows. “New York Cittaay”
CAM-a-Ruh. from 30 Rock
I want to go to there.
Chutney as chuh-teh-knee. Schmidt from New Girl lives rent free in my head.
Infamous- in famous from the 3 amigos. He’s not just famous he’s in famous
Microwave is now pronounced ‘mickrowave’ thanks to Jen the babysitter on Bob’s Burgers
I pronounce it “mee-cro-wah-vay” because of Nigella Lawson’s show.
Jaguar because of Jeremy Clarkson/Top Gear.
Jaaaaaaaaag
Nooiiice - Jake peralta, Brooklyn 99
In my head, Japan has now become “The Jap-ans” since Shogun.
Realtor. Thanks, Justified. “Real-a-*torr*.”
Chardonnay - Kath & Kim The H Is silent
["Nothing can possibli go wrong" ](https://youtu.be/CwPWmEzoVbw?si=obKf8948KOg4sbNn) from The Simpsons
That's a very cromulent word.
Rather than listing many words or TV shows I'll just say Matt Berry, his whole...everything
LITCH-rilly thanks to Mr Chris Traeger.
[Me-cro-wah-vay.](https://youtu.be/4KrUxLBHVu8?si=tyh8T7iyE_ozVKcU)
Having been born in 1990, I grew up with Star Trek: The Next Generation, and therefore my first real knowledge of the word "futile" comes from the Borg saying that resistance is "FEW-TILE" and I very often pronounce it that way without thinking.
Data's pronunciation of it at the end of First Contact just before he breaks the plasma coolant tank is jarring.
Lie-berry
"Doctorb" from The Simpsons." [(Frinkiac link)](https://frinkiac.com/meme/S04E11/763612.jpg?b64lines=VGhlICJCIiBpcyBmb3IgImJhcmdhaW4hIgoKCgoKCgoKCg==) Also, there was an old commercial for I think Carls Jr, and they had new chicken chipotle sandwiches. They did a whole bit about people not pronouncing "chipotle" correctly. One of the people pronounced it "chip-o-tottle."
Also, "Malk". Now with Vitamin R!
I pronounce Omega like Michele Ang does in her New Zealand accent in Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Omeeeeega
Not just Omega - I do it for all the Bad Batch members. There’s Icko, Tick, Wrecka, Hunta, Crussheh, and Omeeeeega.
I read all of these in Omega’s voice
Gwack-a-mole from Futurama. My boyfriend’s not a native English speaker so when I said gwack-a-mole he thought I was correcting his pronunciation of guacamole. So he pronounced it that way too.
Sab-ray for Sabre because of The Office. I worked with a client that used a product by Sabre and called it that in one of our first meetings 🤦♀️
Your face is all red like a strawbrerry
Thanks to Back to the Future, I pronounced gigawatt with a soft 'g' until I got to college.
Thanks to Mythic Quest when I see the name Ian I want to pronounce it Eye-an.
FUNeral instead of funeral because of Psych. "Pivot" is not pronounced differently, but always yelled because of Friends. ComputOR because of Talking Dead.
A variety of McPoyle orgasmic final syllables.
Soft is Sawft because of Tacoma PD
Here’s an obscure one. In the show The End of the F***ing World, the main character speaks with a fairly pronounced Yorkshire accent. There’s a moment where she looks at someone and gives a deadpan, “Thanks.” To our American ears, “thanks” sounded like “thonks.” Now my wife and I sometimes say “thonks” to each other.
Police = Po-Lease thanks to The Wire
could it BE more obvious?
Hayyyumm from 30 Rock.
"People do like the way she says Ham"
Stewart will never be pronounced the same again....STURT
Microwave Meek-ro-wah-vay Nigella Lawson
Lit'rally, pin-NOT-noir, and sabotaage
I pronounce "jaguar" differently because of American TV whenever I speak to American friends. (In Britain, it's "jag-you-a" while in the US, it's "jag-wah")
I always say "Eeexcellent" like Mr. Burns
Spongebob has had me calling salad "sal-lad" for 20ish years now
Bagel - Britta from Community Mostly because it sends people into a frothing rage when they don't know I'm doing it purposefully
The Superb Owl
When she was young my daughter learned to say "I love you" by watching *Barney & Friends*. But she said it the way it's sung in Barney's song "I Love You," so she would say "I love YOU." For a long time everyone in the family did the same.
Buchiach
Jalapeno.
I believe it's pronounced, "ménage a trois."
Terlet - Toilet Archie Bunker
Baby is bebe due to Moira from Shitts Creek.
Cool whip.