Pronunciation and Other Vocabularian Oddities

[Thyme]

Thyme making a thread? He must be really bored.

Anyway, pretty generic thread here. Post strange habits you have when speaking or writing and some examples of words you tend to pronounce strangely.

[spoiler]yes classic i totally stole this thread from hen [/spoiler]

So, one thing that's particular in my case is that I don't actually speak English that much. At my job, I had a coworker who was from Florida and spoke only English, so that was ONE opportunity to use, but other than that I pretty much never speak it. When I do speak it, or when I'm just reading out loud, there are some words I thought I pronounced correctly until I actually heard someone else pronounce it. Some of these words I still pronounce like that.

Chandelier: This word exists in French, so I pretty much thought it would be pronounced the same way as in French, but with an English accent: chan-duh-liay.

Cabinet: Same as above: ca-bee-nay.

Chocolate: I tend to pronounce that second o.

Bear: Like beer.

Though: thoo

Mic: Well... I pronounce it as it looks like, forgetting that it's an abbreviation of MIKE-rophone.

Tackle: tay-kul

Anti-: I'm confused about this prefix. It seems sometimes it's "antee" and some other times it's "an-tie", but... well, I always use the second one.

Fatal: fa-dal

As for silly habits in my written English, I tend to use the words "well" (as an interjection), "actually" "really" and "somewhat" quite a lot. Sometimes I forget some pretty common words and I need to ask people to help me find them.

Something tells me I also use commas too much.

When I speak in French, I tend to use a lot of English words. The Quebec jargon already has a lot of English words, like functional objects ending with -er (toaster, blender, muffler, tire) and... well, most things having to do with cars, but I tend to use them even more, and a bit randomly. Speaking of which, "random" is a word I use a lot and most people I talk to don't even know what it means. Same for "awesome" and "badass".

[Classic]

You mean like when I say "New-clee-air" for nuclear? 

[Thyme]

You mean like when I say "New-clee-air" for nuclear? 

Yes.

I prefer that pronunciation, to be honest. I don't use it, but it sounds better.

[Classic]

Yes.

I prefer that pronunciation, to be honest. I don't use it, but it sounds better.

Most Texans pronounce it "New-kyew-ler"...

So when I say "New-clee-air"...I'll have to repeat it several times before they realize I'm saying nuclear. 

[YPrrrr]

I think your commas are fine, but I've been known to overuse them as well, so idk

Apparently I tend to cut off the second g in "going" when I'm talking fast... This causes my floormates to speak in a southern accent when doing impressions of me

[FAMY2]

Since talking to Hyper and going to Australia I tend to use these

Mum for mom. Like the flower.

No worries. Flight attendants say that a lot.

Take away for take out.

Koala. NO BEAR AT THE END.

Wag for skipping work or school.

[Classic]

I think your commas are fine, but I've been known to overuse them as well, so idk

Apparently I tend to cut off the second g in "going" when I'm talking fast... This causes my floormates to speak in a southern accent when doing impressions of me

I don't have a heavy southern accent, so I end up making fun of my friends.  

[Thyme]

Koala. NO BEAR AT THE END.

I do that too. That's how it's said in French.

[YPrrrr]

I don't have a heavy southern accent, so I end up making fun of my friends.  

Texas has its own accent anyway... distinguished from that of the deep south. They make me sound like I'm from South Carolina

Koala. NO BEAR AT THE END.

Good, because it's not a bear... Apparently they consider pandas to be bears again though

[Classic]

Texas has its own accent anyway... distinguished from that of the deep south. They make me sound like I'm from South Carolina

Aubrey, we just need to have a phone conversation one day. You'll hear what I mean. 

[ME##]

Aluminium as opposed to aluminum.

[Thyme]

Aluminium as opposed to aluminum.

There's a certain language in which it's pronounced that way.

GUESS WHICH ONE

[ME##]

There's a certain language in which it's pronounced that way.

GUESS WHICH ONE

Le français ?

[bluaki]

Chocolate: I tend to pronounce that second o.

Uh, quite a few native English speakers pronounce the second o in chocolate as far as I know.

There's a certain language in which it's pronounced that way.

GUESS WHICH ONE

Any language other than American English, perhaps? I don't know much about any other languages but I at least know it's pronounced with the extra i in Japanese and I'm fairly sure the British would keep to the -ium sounds of all the other metals when they keep the i that America removes. And considering who posted this quoted message, I'd assume French does as well.

I like to start sentences with 'and', I use commas a lot, and I do some other weird things especially when typing that I can't particularly think of now. Oh and I also seemingly-randomly change between British and American spelling, though I tend to stay at British most of the time.
For the longest time I thought "Molybdium" is pronounced like molly-buh(with vowel barely audible)-dium, but apparently it's moe-lib-dium

[Thyme]

Uh, quite a few native English speakers pronounce the second o in chocolate as far as I know.

Possible. Most people I hear pronounce it "chock-lit", though. This includes television and movies.

[spoiler] Uh *poke*[/spoiler]