Grr

United States
August 16, 2007 12:31am CST
Ok, I have to ask . . . does it annoy anyone else when somebody mispronounces a word? It happened today and it seems to be something that I can't seem to forget. I feel horrible and nit-picky about it but how is it possible to mispronounce Basil?
3 responses
@EZhang (165)
• Singapore
20 Aug 07
It depends on how they misspelled the word. Back during the Tsunami incident on Boxing Day, this news channel invited an expert to elaborate/explain the effects of the tsunami, what will happen, what can be expect, blah blah blah. And this expert (a female) pronounced "Tsunami" as "Sz-nami". Not only was I not pissed off or angry, in fact, I find it so funny that she used the word "disaster" to substitute the word "tsunami" instead. What a bummer, and I thought I could laugh a little longer at somebody's expense...
• Philippines
16 Aug 07
Basil, it is really easy to pronounce. don't feel about it, nobody's perfect. Try to correct that person in a nice way so that's now he/she can learned how to pronounce it correctly.
• Canada
16 Aug 07
im not that annoyed when someone mispronounces a word... as long as they don't do it over and over again after i corrected the,m