Ok, since I already burned the biscuits...here is a link to websters
**edited to actually INSERT said link...
http://www.webster.com/dictionary/depot
There are two little volume looking things beside the word. The first one is what my DH says (and where the trains are)...the second one is what the commercials and the REST of the free world says when talking about the big orange box in the sky.
Now I see a limitation to the internet... 
My friend from Jersey City had no idea what I was talking about when i offered here sweet tea. She said it is Tea with Sugar.
And then I had no idea what she meant when she said she was goign to the shore. She meant THE Shore...as Jersey Shore...
And sis we mention Worsh....my MIL worshes the car.
My husband has a few words that he just can not seem to pronounce correctly. He is from California but his mom's side of the family is Portuguese so I think it may have something to do with that.
This one drives me crazy: eyezore. He does not say eyesore, he says "eyezore". I try to explain that something ugly makes your eyes sore from looking at it and he keeps saying eyezore.
I can't think of his other ones right now. His Portuguese grandma says "cook-esh" instead of cookies but I think that is cute.
Just thought of a couple of my dad's - he says Karn instead of Corn and Harse instead of Horse. I think he just does it to be silly.
How about "skoo" for school.
"Warsh" for wash.
"Wrasslin'" for wrestling.
And speaking of "taste of" something, my grandma says "feel of." For example, "That looks like nice fabric. Le'me feel of it."
Also, "smell of". "That milk may be spoilt. Le'me smell of it." Which reminds me -- "spoilt" instead of spoiled is another one!
I'm a Kansas ex-pat... so I can say it: Kansans are the KINGS of funky pronunciations! Any other Jayhawkers out there agree with me?????? BTW: I love and miss you guys so much! Darn tootin'!
my Mawmaw (God rest her soul) only shopped at the WalMark.... she is probably chuckling in heaven right now... crazy ole woman
Oh and I forget to tell you all that my stepdad doesn't rinse the dishes he is going to the wrench the dishes.... hahahahaha
Well, uh, YEAH! What ELSE would he do with the dishes? LOL
Beth in KY
They also constantly refer to prostate (when talking about someone being tested for, or finding out someone has, cancer) as "prostrate".
That is too funny! I work at a store that helps raise money and awareness for Prostate Cancer. A few years ago, just before it first started, the District Manager was visiting our store and was talking about it and he kept calling it "prostrate." It drove me crazy! Then when it actually did start and we were accepting donations, we had to scan this barcode that would add the donation and it came up as "prostrate cancer" I HATED IT! The worst part is that our district manager had nothing to do with adding stuff to the registers, which means there was some other moron who said it that way too! AND to top it all off, our district manager always boasted that he was a "prostrate cancer survivor!"
Hey, I warsh my clothes in a warsher, not a washing machine. And here in Richmond, Ky. you better pronounce it wrasslin' unless you want a beatin'. LOL.
My pet peeve is when certain family members use the word death when discussing their hearing. "I'm death in my right ear". Drives me nuts. Or they say alumnia foil instead of aluminum foil.
HEY Y'ALL
OK I'm "fixin'" to embarrass myself.... Have to tell about my mother-in-law and hope my husband NEVER sees this...
"calinin chair" - recliner
"zink" - sink
"'mote control" - remote control
and my personal favorite
"eternity clothes" - you know, the clothes you wear when you are PREGNANT?
Great woman, wonderful grandmother, and has the biggest heart you could imagine, but grammar, grammar, grammar!!!!
My 2 year old calls icing in the decorator bags "squeeze it" because I always tell her, "Don't squeeze it."
"Mama, I want some squeeze it on finger."
Anyone hear "mines", as in "something that belongs to me"?
"I'm death in my right ear".
OMG My husband says death for hearing and that drives me INSANE!!!
I started hearing this one during the Clarence Thomas trial and ever since it drives me insane:
Harassment pronounced as "HAIR-uss-mint"
That's another one on my list!!! Have you noticed that a lot of words get extra syllables or some "foreign" emphasis once they get on national TV? Like Steffi Graff? With a short A instead of a long A.
I started hearing this one during the Clarence Thomas trial and ever since it drives me insane:
Harassment pronounced as "HAIR-uss-mint"
OMG, my hubby told me to put that one on herewhen I was asking him for ideas on this thread! One "urban legend" we heard was because the news casters didn't want to say "her A$$ ment".
Hubby was a good-will ambassador to Jamaica in the 70's. He pointed to the ocean and asked a native how to pronouce the name of the ocean. The native looked at him odd and said, "cara-BE-un". Hubby said, "I know some people who say "cah-RIB-e-on". The native said, "Yes .... we know!" in a tone of voice that indicated he thought those who said it wrong were putting on airs about it, too!
A couple others
My dad likes to order chicken fageeters from a tex/mex restaurant. He just doesn't get the pronounciation.
My aunt puts ordthonics (orthodics) in her shoes
My mom complains about the threads (treads) on her tires and shoes.
In memory of my grandmother-in-law we take tyrenol for our headaches!
Ok 
This one is for all of you but especially Dolfin. You said your grandson calls "it a biscuit"? When my son was three yrs old (he's twelve now and still can't pronounce words that have an "s" and another consonant together 
) he used to say spoon - "POON". 
AND he'd say "hortey" for horsey. I tried to start having him say horse but it would come out "WHOre" 
I immediately told him to go back to "hortey"!
THen (for Indydebi and Dolfin) When my kids were around I didn't want to say the word "idiota" ((Spanish) for idiot -pronounced ee-thyoh-ta)) in front of them so I started saying Ray Liota. I still do even though they know the real word. ex. iNo seas Ray Liota!
Finally, for mdutcher, I live in Tx and we went to a Mexican restaurant for tacos and they had "Weeneh w/ Egg" as a taco choice! We say Weeneh (weiner) but just being goofy! 
i am notorious for saying bad things and making up words... i always say lets go have a subway or lets eat a mcdonalds ... i make up words by mistake i work at a bread bakery and told a customer that a certain loaf was the multi-est grain of bread we had....
i hate when people say BAGel and when people younger then me call me dear or hun or sweetie.... its so patronising (sp)
I am really cracking up reading these posts - yes, Rachel Ray is sooooooo annoying and I too hate the term "yummo".
My hubby is from India and some of the terms he uses are different as well and we both tend to mispronounce the other's language at times in a funny way - - for instance, instead of stifle (pronounced with a long "i" as in ice) he will say "stiffle" which just kills me. In his mother tongue the word for slow / slowly is "nidana" but I tend to say "nidhaanaa" which means dead - my FIL cracks up everytime and reminds me not to go THAT slow, LOL....
Also a really good one is a private joke between us mostly - you know that commercial for Kay Jewelers that says "every kiss begins with Kay" ?
Well, we crack up every single time we hear it since kay in his language means sex, specifically the F-word, so we laugh and say no, every kay begins with kiss! 
Monica, this really cracked me up: "A girl at my work let it be known that she hates the word "nostril", so we now work it into every possible conversation." How do you keep a straight face? LOL...
Lynda-bob your killing me, I think I'm having a depends moment!!!!
My grandson is 5 and I really have no idea why he calls it a biscuit and I'm kinda afraid to ask. The subject came up when we were discussing the diffrence between boys and girls. He said boys have penis's and girls have biscuits.
Well I gotta go worsh the dishes, put my choose on, go to Walmark and pick up some sody pop and weenuhs and maybe get a little K from my honey!!
Lynda-bob your killing me, I think I'm having a depends moment!!!!
My grandson is 5 and I really have no idea why he calls it a biscuit and I'm kinda afraid to ask. The subject came up when we were discussing the diffrence between boys and girls. He said boys have penis's and girls have biscuits.
Well I gotta go worsh the dishes, put my choose on, go to Walmark and pick up some sody pop and weenuhs and maybe get a little K from my honey!!
LOL!
dolfin - remember now, u gotta start off with a kiss before u get to the kay...
You guys are hilarious! I just read the first and last page of this thread but now I think I am going to have to read all the in between.
Okay, my sister might kill me for this as she also is a member here. Anyway as long as we are discussing words that are forked up by other people. My sister says "Marcedes instead of Mercedes" also "Fabreeze instead of Febreze" oh oh oh, one more. "Monzerella instead of Mozerella"!
YIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
That drives me insane but God love her she's my sister.
I can't stand the word "moist."
So far I haven't heard anyone say "fondue" for "fondant," but now I won't be surprised when it happens.
I am freakin' crackin' up over here!!!!! My sides actually hurt!!!!! I am saying the word and yeah, I don't like it either.
Amy
[quote="Charb31"]This is funny (the topic) so I just have to add to it. I have a horrible phrase that I use..I try REALLY hard NOT to, but it just comes out. If I have an itch (say..on my back) I will ask hubby to "itch my back". It drives him nutty!! But he says it's kinda cute, and that he'll get over it.[/quote
That is so funny!!! My husband does the same thing. He'll say "Can you itch my scratch!!" What a dork but I love him.
Amy
Okay, I've got one...my Dad, for some WEIRD reason, ends several place names in "ah". I lived in Hawaii for several years, but if my Dad spoke about where I lived he'd tell people I was in "Hawai-ah". And one of my closest friends is from, in my Dad's words, "Ohi-ah". Drives me crazy!
I could not stop giggling at the things indydebi wrote, I was reading it to DH and we were both cracking up!
And Jen, we only tease you because we love you! lol
That's funny because my Grandfather, lives in Kansas, says "Miamah" instead of Miami. He used to watch the show "Miamah Vice"!
Amy
We've got TONS of them back home in NW PA...my Hubby loves to tease my family and I about them, and since I joined the Navy I stopped saying a lot of them to stop the teasing! lol
---Redd up: to clean or straighten up (Ex: We have company coming over, go redd up your room.)
---Crick: creek
---Kife: to steal, or to borrow without asking (Ex: That girl just kifed my pen! Or... Hey, I kifed the stapler from your desk, I'll bring it back when I'm done!)
---Biff: to fall, usually in a dramatic manner (Ex: She tripped at the top of the stairs and totally biffed!)
---Oleo: margerine
---Chipped ham, or chip-chopped ham: finely-cut deli ham, which my family tends to drench in bbq sauce and eat like sloppy joes.
---Lickin' : spanking (Ex: If you kids don't calm down your all gonna get lickins!)
---Kranz: crayons
---Jaggers, jiggers, or jaggerbushes: any plant with thorns
---Gobs: Two "cakey" chocolate cookies with bc filling between
---Hoagie: sub, hero, submarine, anything else that you call a really big sandwich!
---Flip-flops: sandals, thongs, or, in Hawaii, slippuhs!
---Conniption fit: tantrum? (Ex: Okay, calm down, there's no reason to throw a conniption fit!)
---Gumband: rubber band, elastic band
---Grinny: chipmunk (I have no idea where this one came from, but my Grandmother says it, and it cracks me up!)
---Doohicky: random object (Ex: Could you hand me that doohicky over there on the table?)
---Dog box: dog house (The first time I ever said this, I though DH was going to have me committed! LOL)
---Clodhoppers: boots or big shoes (Ex: Ken left his clodhoppers in front of the door again!)
---Bawdle: bottle (Just an accent thing, I guess, but my DH loves this one, too!)
---Ignernt: perverted
---Spicket: faucet
---Tossle cap: knit cap, for wearing in cold weather
---Ungion: onion (Have no idea where that "G" comes from, but I hear people say it all the time!)
---Wedgie: A "hoagie" made with pizza crust instead of a roll.
I'm sure there are tons more, and I'm sure I'll continue to add to this list! lol
BTW.....Are Pennsylvanians the only people who refer to their state by the postal abbreviation?!? I know others type it, but we use it in converations! I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "Back in AZ" or "I'm driving to TX this weekend", but I think nothing of saying, "I'll be out of town next weekend, I'm going to PA"! lol
BTW.....Are Pennsylvanians the only people who refer to their state by the postal abbreviation?!? I know others type it, but we use it in converations! I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "Back in AZ" or "I'm driving to TX this weekend", but I think nothing of saying, "I'll be out of town next weekend, I'm going to PA"! lol
Southeastern PA here! Anyone else mention pronouncing creek as crick, it's the one philly accent faux pas I can't shake!
OMG, this thread is sooooo funny. One that I didn't see mentioned yet is the word sack instead of bag. That one plucks a nerve for me along with pop instead of soda.
My father is one who likes to add the letter R to words such as Frederal Government and worsh. He's from one of them hollers in the VA mountains, you know, down yonder. I never have figured out where yonder is and what a holler is.
Some of these posts remind me of the old Sniglets books, does anyone remember these? It was a funny dictionary of sorts, made up words for things that didn't have a name or something like that. I'll have to look some up.
And back to the orginal post of this, I did have a customer who called fondant fondue too. No matter how many times I repeated it, she couldn't get it right. I chalked it up to the fact that we work in a factory and have masks over our faces and sometimes it's hard to hear people clearly.
OH, just thought of some from my DH. Icing is icining (found out later that he got this from his mom), and you don't aerate the lawn, you airyate it. I know there's more, but I was laughing so hard through the whole thread that I've forgotten by now.
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