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Many words have multiple accepted (or one accepted and one less accepted, but common) way of pronouncing them. Usually, these differences vary across geographical regions and not from person to person, hence you'll usually only hear one pronunciation being used, but cross over to a different region and you might encounter characters who have their own varied pronunciation for a certain word. The general consensus is that if you encounter somebody say "tomahto" rather than "tomayto" (or vice versa), it is considered rude to point it out, but in fiction for some reason people tend to like commenting, possibly due to the Funny Foreigner trope. In addition, certain words have alternate forms that are considered mispronunciations, such as "nucular" for nuclear. In this case, this trope can be used to identify a character as having Delusions of Eloquence, or to contrast Slobs vs. Snobs. A variation can occur where the trope name is mentioned to indicate two different things seeming almost the same, although often used for laughs, for instance in "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word. Not to be confused with Pretentious Pronunciation, where somebody pronounces something in an uncommon (or even never-before) way in order to make the word sound fancier. Occasionally overlaps with Pronouncing My Name for You, if the speaker clarifies that multiple pronunciations is acceptable. May result in Got Me Doing It. Compare with Viewer Pronunciation Confusion, where there is a specific way to pronounce something, but it's often mispronounced by viewers. |
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Dr. Blowhole in The Penguins of Madagascar pronounces "penguins" as "pengwuins". Kowalski theorizes that he does it just for spite. | |
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Megamind upon being corrected in his pronunciation responds "potato tomato, potato tomato" without changing the pronunciation at all. He tends to do this with a lot of words, like "Ollo" instead of "Hello", "Shool" instead of "School" and "re-VARNGE" instead of "revenge"; presumably because he learnt from reading more than social interaction. His unique pronunciation of "Metro City" (i.e. as if it's all one word that rhymes with "atrocity") becomes important later Titan discovers the "Metro Man" he fought was actually Megamind in disguise because "There's only one person who says Metrocity". | |
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The Smurfs: One story was entirely about the divide between the northern and southern Smurfs and whether "smurf" replaces an adjective or a noun, as a parody of the Separated by a Common Language issues in the strip's native Belgium. | |
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Often used by Anne Robinson when a contestant from Northern England shows up on The Weakest Link (unless that contestant is from her home city, Liverpool). | |
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Rocketship Voyager. Nee'Lix gives the trope straight when introduced to tomatoes for the first time in Voyager's hydroponics garden. | |
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Punky Brewster: Punky pronounces "aunt" as "aahnt" in the animated episode "Punky The Heiress," when she finds out she has an aunt and an uncle. | |
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In Hercules during "Zero to Hero," two of the Muses can't agree on how to pronounce "vase." "And they slapped his face on every vase!" "On every vahs!" | |
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In the Tom and Jerry cartoon, "Springtime for Thomas", Butch the cat reads a fake love letter addressed to him. | |
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In Achewood, there's Teodor's pronunciation of helicopter. | |
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The Simpsons: Moe makes fun of Homer for Frenchly pronouncing garage as "ga-RAJ"note the two most common competing American pronunciations differ mainly by whether or not they sound like they have a D in them. Moe prefers the term "car hole". During the episode when Marge is kidnapped by a biker gang, they quibble over the pronunciation of resume. In this case, both pronunciations are considered correct. Marge Simpson says "foilage" instead of "foliage", as well as "nucular", "excape" and "libary." She also once told Bart to "run like the wined!" Homer correcting his superior officer in the Naval Reserve: "It's pronounced 'nucular'." Kent Brockman says "tax avoision" rather than "tax evasion". Homer also sometimes refers to Lisa's saxophone as "saxomophone". Freddy Quimby throws quite a tantrum if anyone mispronounces "chowder." |
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Fat Friend from the Dr. Tran series says "hev" for have, "melk" for milk, and "pellow" for pillow. | |
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A Chewin' the Fat sketch featured the "actor" Ronald Villiers auditioning for The Matrix. He repeatedly pronounces it "Mah-trix". | |
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Yogi Bear says "av-a-redge" quite distinctly for "average" and "pic-a-nic" instead of "picnic". In the short "Pie-Pirates", when spelling a "Beware of Dog" sign out loud, he pronounces the letter "w" as "a-double-u". | |
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The Community episode "Physical Education" focused on Britta's pronunciation of the word "bagel" as "baggel". | |
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Take Down has a moment of racial tension when white wrestler Kier makes fun of his African-American teammate Macgrudder for how he says "cotton" ("kat'in"), and Macgrudder gets him to back off. | |
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In High Anxiety, Dr. Thorndyke's chauffeur Brophy refers to the hotel they're staying in as "modren". | |
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The song "Me the Mouse and I'm the Duck" from House of Mouse. | |
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Tuatha from The Fallen Gods drops this regularly in episode 2, even when it doesn't actually apply. | |
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Dilbert: Dogbert quoted this in a 1992 strip...to compare stimulating the economy to giving himself a tax break. Seen here. | |
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The children of The Family Circus, most often Jeffy, pronounce some words in a nonstandard way. | |
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Rain Man is, of course, based on a child's pronunciation of "Raymond". | |
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The peculiarly "posh" pronunciation of words used by the Arts Curator in Discworld's Thud! draws a lot of comment from Nobby and Colon particularly, complete with its own lampshade and characteristic merciless mocking. Leads to plenty of exchanges like this: It is very possible Terry was basing the character of Sir Reynold Stitched on real-life TV and heavy-newspaper arts pundit Sir Brian Sewell, who really does talk like that. Just Google on his TV appearances on heavy arty programmes like the South Bank Show and all will be made manifest. Similarly, in Jingo, one of the things that infuriates Sam Vimes about Lord Rust is that the man pronounces "years" as "hyahs". Hand hsevheral hbooks have hcommented hon the hway Mrs Hwhitlow hspeaks hwhen hsuffering hfrom hclass hconciousness. Leading to a maid using the word "spat", Mrs Whitlow corrects this to "hexpectorated", and the genuinely posh (but very much backwoods country gent) Ridcully calls it "gobbin'". |
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The Powerpuff Girls, in "Powerpuff Bluff," two of the male criminals disguised (rather crudely) as the Powerpuff Girls notice a vase, and the one disguised as Blossom points out "Look at this vase!" using the long "a" sound. The crook disguised as Buttercup corrects, "I think it's pronounced 'vahse.'" The vase ends up smashed, when the first crook says "I think it's pronounced... 'broken!'" and deliberately breaks it. | |
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In the James Bond novel Nobody Lives for Ever, it's mentioned that Bond's landlady has a problem with the m-n pairing, referring to something as "crinimal". | |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim: A quick gag at the start of Season 2 establishes that the Tallest have a long-standing argument over the proper way to pronounce "caramel". Red thinks it's "car-a-mel", while Purple is sure it's "car-mel". | |
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While Uranus is often pronounced as "your anus", the characters in Ready Jet Go! insist it is called "your-eh-nus", which is actually the correct way to pronounce it, making this a weird example of the trope. | |
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Madam & Eve: The Trope Namer song gets adapted in this strip,◊ with three verses' worth of names. | |
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Similarly, in Jingo, one of the things that infuriates Sam Vimes about Lord Rust is that the man pronounces "years" as "hyahs". | |
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In a 1963 prime time telecast of The Price Is Right, Bill Cullen is describing a Chevrolet Impala a contestant won as a bonus prize and pronounces it "Im-PAY-la." | |
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In The Pink Panther (2006), Inspector Jacques Clouseau would like to buy a "damburger" and would also like to rent a "rhume" for the night and pick up a "massage" at the front desk of a hotel. It's worth noting that he didn't do this in the original film, as the original Clouseau's pronounciation became ever more outrageous over the course of the original film series. | |
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Norbert from The Angry Beavers likes to draw out syllables, saying "mee-oo-vee" for "movie" to name one example. | |
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Black Widow (2021) has a scene where Natasha tries to push for how the Hungarians pronounce their capital (Buda-PESHT) while Mason just goes for the English wayo. | |
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BBC radio comedy show Son of Cliché subverted this, in a sketch where the two singers performing "Let's call the whole thing off" go to the producer complaining the song doesn't make sense. One, an American, complains the lines are nonsense - she proves her point by singing You say tomayto and I say tomayto, using the "tomayto" pronunciation throughout. Her English co-singer similarly says You say poh-tay-to and I say poh-tay-to is just as silly. He frankly can't see the point of the song either... British people do say pot-ay-to (and tom-ah-to) though; nobody actually says pot-ah-to! |
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Hayley on American Dad! pronounces "aunt" like "aahnt", rather than "ant". This does not go unnoticed by her mother or her aunt. | |
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Lampooned in The Colour of Magic film, as Twoflower (who is played by Sean Astin, who also played Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings film) goes completely overboard with the pronunciation of "potatoes". | |
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The Moon is Blue: | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Pintel and Ragetti debate the pronunciation of "kraken." Pintel says it to rhyme with "taken," Ragetti approximately says "crackin'." | |
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A Seinfeld episode involves George breaking up with his girlfriend because she's pretentious, pronouncing words such as "pap-ee-ay maché" instead of "paper mach-ay" (because it's from papier-mâché, so she is right). | |
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Our Miss Brooks: Notable in "Hello Mr. Chips", where an English headmaster, a Quintessential British Gentleman, visits Madison High School. His pronounciation varies greatly from that of the regular characters. So much so, that it's a Running Gag throughout the episode. | |
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The Goodies A Running Gag in "Bunfight at the O.K. Tearooms" has the characters arguing over the correct pronunciation of 'scone'; with one pronouncing it 'sc-ON' and the other 'sc-OWN'. (In truth, both are accepted regional pronunciations.) The trope namer gets a mention in "Clown Virus" when the US military hire the Goodies to dispose of a large cannister of perfectly harmless substance. |
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In Drake & Josh, Walter constantly mispronouncing "touché" and "capice" was made into a running gag. | |
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The Star Trek peculiarity, shared by Spock and Worf, in the way words such as "honor" and "valor" are pronounced - emphasis firmly on the second syllable which is emphatically drawn out (Ho-NORRRR, va-LORRR) | |
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in Will & Grace, Karen references the trope in her own unique way, calling it "You say potato, I say vodka". | |
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In Hot Rod, Rod tells his crew that his safety word is "huwisky". His stepbrother wants to know why he's pronouncing "whiskey" so weirdly, which leads to Rod pronouncing a string of words starting with 'wh' (and one that just starts with 'w') in the same way until his stepbrother gives up. According to the director's commentary, this was inspired by a skit on Gang Starr's album Moment of Truth. |
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Bugs Bunny is fond of odd pronunciations. "Maroon" for "moron" is perhaps the best known. Part of it is his accent, but much of it seems to be affectation. His thrown gauntlet to the knight in "Knight-mare Hare": | |
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In one episode of 30 Rock, Liz pronounces camera as "cahmerah", and is unsure whether she's saying it weirdly or not. Also: "This is always hard to say: You have die-AB-uh-dees?" | |
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One episode of Back to the Future has several characters get distracted by Doc's insistence on saying "po-tah-to." | |
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The King of Queens: Doug gets in an argument with Arthur when Arthur asks for the "catsup" (which is an acceptable variation of "ketchup", just not to Doug). Of course, Doug is one to talk, considering the way he talks: "Sanitasheeown." "I'm the 'onioniown' guy!" In another episode, Carrie makes fun of Doug's pronounciation of "Worcester Sauce". Except she says the "correct" pronunciation is to mumble it so nobody's sure what you've said. |
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John Candy and Eugene Levy as Yosh and Stan Schmenge do this on SCTV. Each of them pronounced their last name slightly different (which was part of the joke). Candy pronounced it "Shmen-gee", while Levy's pronunciation sounded more like "Schman-gee." | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000. They love to deliberately mispronounce names. For instance, Tom Servo said: "Chai Chainote as in chai tea Rodreh-gweez". That specific example is of course a shout-out to Les Nessman's pronounciation of the name in WKRP in Cincinnati |
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In Aviary Attorney, Falcon will do this if you press a particular piece of testimony while cross-examining Volerti the rooster. | |
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In the 'Odd Moments in History' segment of Odd Squad, the world's fighting over the pronunciation angers the tomatoes. In 1951, the tomatoes separate from their vines and fly to the tropical island of Galapanogostoflonfleesilvaniaopolis. Odd Squad agrees to help, on the condition that they be pronounced "to-mee-tos." | |
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An event in Crusader Kings III has the player character and someone in their court debating whether "gibbet" starts with a hard or soft G sound. In a clear nod to the "gif" debate, the other character insists that the person who coined the term pronounced it with a soft G. | |
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On Rugrats, Tommy pronounces "animals" as "am-mi-nals". | |
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RiffTrax was quick to pounce on Indiana Jones' use of the term "nucular" in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: | |
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Futurama: Zapp Brannigan enjoys drinking "champaggin" and eating "guacamowl". Bender does the same mistake with "guacamole" when showing off his "flawless" Spanish accent. And on "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid", Fry confronts the Giant Brain in the "libary". The same episode had Fry trap the Giant Brain's mind in a book he wrote (badly) himself. |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: "PO-TAY-TOES!" Lampooned in The Colour of Magic film, as Twoflower (who is played by Sean Astin, who also played Sam Gamgee in The Lord of the Rings film) goes completely overboard with the pronunciation of "potatoes". |
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The Ollie & Moon Show: The episode "Italian Gelato Twist", shows that Ollie pronounces "tomato" as "to-may-to", while Moon prefers to pronounce it as "to-mah-to". | |
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In Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God, Thoth constantly corrects his peers on their pronunciation of the word "pizza" (the English "pit-za", as opposed to "piza" which is more common with Japanese voice actors' tongues). | |
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In one episode of Wheel of Fortune, host Pat Sajak pointed out that then-announcer Charlie O'Donnel says "ca-RIB-be-an" while Pat says "CARE-uh-be-an". He then added that he says "Wheel of Fortune" while Charlie says, quote, "Wheeeeeeeeeeel of Fortune" (the way that Charlie used to announce the intro). | |
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In one FoxTrot strip, Andy expresses her annoyance with someone on TV saying "realitor" instead of "realtor", to which Jason replies "Wow, you're really going nucular" to deliberately wind her up. | |
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On The IT Crowd, Jen pronounces "computer" with the emphasis on the first syllable (rather than as more commonly on the second syllable). This serves to highlight her lack of expertise and interest in the area. | |
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In The Hangover, the future brother-in-law pronounces "ree-tard" as "re-taard". | |
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Knuffle Bunny: In the sequel, Trixie's rival Sonia pronounces Knuffle Bunny's name like "Nuffle," infuriating Trixie, who pronounces it as "Kuh-nuffle." | |
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On The Proud Family, Sticky pronounces "yacht" as "yatch". | |
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Elmyra Duff also pronounced it "aminals". On Animaniacs, Mr. Director discussed it. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: "Karate Choppers" The Trope Namer is referenced on "Fear of a Krabby Patty", when Plankton engages SpongeBob in a Word Association Test but SpongeBob just keeps repeating what Plankton says. When told to say something different, this happens. |
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In El Goonish Shive, there is a quick gag where two hypothetical non-human species wage war over how to pronounce "potato". | |
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slowbeef of Retsupurae fame calls the main character of Donkey Kong "Mary-oh", even correcting himself when he says it normally. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Sounds of Silence", Autumn Blaze is The Exile, and a little desperate for contact with someone else. When Autumn meets Applejack, she admits there are a few words that she has trouble pronouncing because of how little she uses them. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: When Raymond Luxury Yacht is introduced on a chat show, he insists it's not his name. | |
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Ruphand: An Apothecary's Adventure: When first meeting Sir Vantus, Brill and him talk about how to pronounce "Malixinne": | |
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South Park: The planetarium manager in the episode "Cheesy Poofs" has a rare disorder that doesn't allow him to pronounce the t in "planetarium", although he seems to have no problem pronouncing it elsewhere. When Al Gore shows up looking for ManBearPig, a Running Gag has him pronouncing "serious"/"seriously" as "serial". In South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut, the Americans make fun of how Canadians pronounce "about" to sound like "a-boot." When Mr. Garrison tries to scare all the "rich" people out of town in "Here Comes the Neighborhood", the "richers" scream when they see their neighbors in ghost sheets and say: "South Park is hainted!" |
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Similar to the How I Met Your Mother example above, a running gag in the T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Doom-mates" is that somebody keeps mispronouncing the word "chameleon". | |
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In one Hancock's Half Hour episode where Tony was planning to emigrate, he was continually mispronouncing Canada (he said it as if it rhymed with Grenada) despite everyone's attempts to correct him. | |
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The 2 Stupid Dogs episode "Trash Day" has the Little Dog at one point trying to barter with the Big Dog over a discarded toilet seat, offering him a vase as a trade. The Little Dog pronounces it with a long "a" sound, as "vayse." But the Big Dog insists he wants the toilet seat, and that it's pronounced with a short "a" sound, as "vahse." Both dogs argue over the pronunciation of "vase" for a while ("Vayse!" "Vahse." "Vayse!" "Vahse.") But the argument ends when the vase ends up broken from their fighting. | |
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Homestar Runner: Part of Coach Z's shtick is saying words weird due to his bizarre, vaguely-Midwestern accent: | |
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From JulianSmith.tv: "Give the man a glass of malk!" | |
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Common in the Winnie the Pooh stories, being based on the playacting of a little boy. Notable examples include Woozles (weasels), Heffalumps (elephants), Jagulars (jaguars), Tigger (tiger) and Winnie the Pooh himself (based on Winnipeg, a bear at the London Zoo). | |
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In one Family Guy episode, Stewie pronounces 'Cool Whip' as 'cool-huwip'. Brian tries fruitlessly to explain that it sounds weird, leading to Stewie using other w-silent-h words with the same weird pronunciation, totally unaware that he's doing it. It's all been 'reweened'. Another Family Guy moment inverted this, with Peter making fun of a Lois for saying "nuclear" instead of "nucular", adding that "the 'S' is silent". Oddly enough, this was from before George W. Bush became president. |
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Ted on How I Met Your Mother has his own pretentious way of pronouncing several words. But his pronunciation of "encyclopædia" warranted comment from other characters. "En-cyc-lo-PAY-dia" because of the æ. As well as chameleon (shamil-e-on). |
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Legion: In "Chapter 22", when Gabrielle (a Romani) pronounces tomato as "to-may-to," Charles Xavier (an Englishman) remarks that the correct pronunciation among Brits is "to-mah-to." | |
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On Avenue 5, the resident Upper-Class Twit at one point says "tomahto tomahto", and when called on it, responds | |
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Friends: in the What If? episode, Ross insists on calling karate "kaah-raah-Tay" instead of the U.S.-normal "kuh-rah-dee." There's also Chandler's pronunciation of the "whipped" onomatopoeia/gesture as "Whoop-pah!" (with the rest of the cast favouring "hwu-cher!"). | |
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One strip of It's Walky! features the eponym cracking up because of how a British character pronounces his name. | |
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That specific example is of course a shout-out to Les Nessman's pronounciation of the name in WKRP in Cincinnati | |
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