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While English is the most widely spoken language worldwide, it is also full of weird quirks that even native speakers have a hard time figuring out. Some words are spelled the same but pronounced differently, others sound alike yet have completely separate meanings — the list goes on and on.
With so many twists and turns, there’s bound to be some miscommunication, and it often comes from people mishearing things. However, if they're quick-witted, they could avoid embarrassing themselves. But if they're not, their slip-ups might end up online. And that’s exactly what this post is all about.
Recently, Twitter user Andy van Slyke who goes by the handle @im_all_id kicked off a hilarious thread by explaining her flirting blunder. Thousands of people joined in to share funny mishaps of how they misunderstood one another in conversations. We at Bored Panda selected some of the best tweets from the thread, all for your entertainment. So have a look at them right below, upvote the ones that made you laugh, and be sure to share your own stories with us in the comments!
Twitter user Andy van Slyke recently tweeted about her flirting blunder and kicked off a hilarious thread full of stories about how people misheard words in conversations
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Donny Cromwell 3 years ago
???. Tampax is a tampon. A feminine hygiene product.
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Poultry Geist 3 years ago
Hahaha one day at the oil changing place the guy came out and told a lady in his thick Atlanta accent a young man telling an older lady “you need your axel greased ” the lady was like “ what!???” He was like” we need to lube your axel! You know your rear axel” she was so confused I was getting so tickled! I don’t know about cars but I understood what he was saying! I still get tickled ! “ you gotta grease your axel “
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Madeleine Flowers 3 years ago
If someone asks to see my BP *deletes everything immediately*
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Geeki Nikki 3 years ago (edited)
Nurse was like: sigh, not the first time... won't be the last.
Doob 3 years ago
Its kinda her fault though, as she could have just said blood pressure so something like this wouldn't have happened, as B and P sound very similar.
Marco Conti 3 years ago
Being Italian, I have many friends that made similar errors. The most hilarious was this old guy that had been in the US for a long timer asking me who "Jose" was in the national anthem. I was puzzled and I told him "there is no Jose" in the anthem. So he sings "Oh Jose can you see?" That one, he said. That Jose.
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Laura Mende (Human) 3 years ago
That is only a thing when you use Fahrenheit... In Europe we would understand the old fella right away.
Audiologist Dr. Victoria Zambrano stated that it's not uncommon to hear words incorrectly. She explained that hearing involves not only our ears but also our brain. "First, sound waves need to be able to reach our brain through the physical act of hearing. From there, the brain uses the information that has reached it to interpret sound and give it meaning."
When we sometimes mishear certain words, it could be due to a hearing loss condition. Our brain might not receive all the signals it needs to fully understand the incoming language. "To take a page from Dr. Seuss, differentiating words like 'here' from 'there' or 'house' from 'mouse' becomes difficult, if not plain impossible," Zambrano explained.
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Hawkmoon 3 years ago
These b**bs are made for walking and that's just what they'll do. One of these days these b**bs are gonna walk all over you!
Anko Tijman 3 years ago
Can we just all agree that if anyone makes unsolicited comments, you are allowed to slap them in the face?
Bacony Cakes 3 years ago
You're allowed to drive them into the woods and chop them into little bits with an axe.
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DennyS (denzoren) 3 years ago
When they say "we said snake?" you have to keep the answer and just say "yes, I know". Lol
Katie Lutesinger 3 years ago
There's good eatin' on a snake! You just have to cook it right. (True story - I went on a field trip once with a local Aboriginal guy - I'm Australian - and he showed us how to use a piece of grass to make a whistle for attracting snakes. One woman said 'why would you want to do that?!' and I said 'so you can eat 'em, of course!'. Turned out I was right).
Johnny 3 years ago
Either way that's probably a bad thing to do -- a soldier probably shouldn't eat random snacks he finds in the jungle.
purple turtle 3 years ago
Bear Grills is grinning like a proud papa at this response for sure....
HarriMissesScotland 3 years ago
For some unknown reason, visions of the movie Bananas flashed through my poor brain.
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DragonsCrushesCatsMe 3 years ago
I wouldn't be doing it, instead just look at him in wonder WTF he even said that.
Theoretical Empiricist 3 years ago
And why I, as a nurse (when listening to a patient's lungs", I NEVER say, "OK, now - some nice big breaths..."
Suzanne Clark 3 years ago
Normally I don't have a problem with "foreign accents", having spent years on the phone while working in airline reservations, but doctors with accents can cause some real problems.
Sue Shea 3 years ago
I was in the hospital recovering from serious surgery. Doctor came in and asked if my bowel movements were regular. "No," I responded. "They're more like apple sauce." After a long silence, he asked, "Are you having daily bowel movements?" I would have crawled under my bed if I could have.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
To this day he has no idea why he asked a patient to take some deep breaths and she started poking her boobs
François Carré 3 years ago (edited)
"One of these days these boobs are gonna tickle over you"...
However, misunderstanding words can result in funny accidents, such as the ones you see in this list. They often happen because we don't properly listen or simply hear what we want to hear. According to science journalist Ingrid Wickelgren, the act of listening might seem simple enough, but the situation is usually far more complicated in the real world.
"First, to mentally process the message, the person to whom you are speaking has to be paying attention. Not only may external distractions … divert their minds away from the words, but their own thoughts might also similarly lead them astray. Lost in thought, they are just not hearing you," she wrote.
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Gwenda Christenson 3 years ago
dinner at a southern restaurant, waitress asks "do you want a row?" my dinner companion and I look at each other, very confused... "can you repeat that?" we ask. "do you want a row?" long pause "uh, sure?" .... later she comes back with a basket of ROLLS!
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Gwenda Christenson 3 years ago
at the doc office the other day, "has your insurance changed? no. address? no. emergency contacts? no. birthdate? nope."
Craig Reynolds 3 years ago
I memorize things. I memorized my NJ driver's license number at age 17. At age 20 I was carded while buying beer and he asked me my birthdate, then my height and weight as listed. When I got it all correct he asked me what my driver's license number was and I spieled it off without missing a beat. He does the Pikachu face and asks me to repeat it while he actually looks at my DL. I do and he is still stuck with Pikachu's face, hands me the beer, says keep your money, and walks away. Score...
Miles Mawyer 3 years ago
Hey Tuesday only happens once a week. seems like a good excuse to me!
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Yvonne Dauwalder Balsiger 3 years ago
"Gross" means big, great or tall in German and not at all gross. It's a so-called false friend just like "Mist" which means manure or crap. (In 1965 Rolls Royce marketing department was language savy enough to stop calling the newest model Silver Mist and go for Silver Shadow instead.)
Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
Same with Irish Mist.... It is called Irisch Moos in Germany.... But who wants to smell like moss?
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Upstaged75 3 years ago
LOL, that's my sister in law's last name as well. I was telling a friend that SIL wasn't going to take my brother's name when they got married. Friend asked what the last name was and I told her it was Gross. Her response was "eeeewww, well what is it?" #dumbass I still like to tease her about it.
Annett Nyrud 3 years ago (edited)
But... The English word and the German word are not pronounced the same... If he said the German word, there should be no way you thought he said the English word...
You see, language processing takes a fair amount of thinking. "We use a short-term mental sketch pad, so-called working memory, to hold each word and its meaning in mind long enough to combine it with others," so if the meaning of the words is obscure, the task gets harder.
Moreover, people often fail to express themselves clearly. They might forget to let the listener know about important context, mumble their words, or simply choose the wrong expression. So "even when the other person's brain is ready to listen, the information they need from a speaker is often not all there."
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Emma Mae Winiarski 3 years ago
I was taking a sip of my soda while reading this and I nearly spit it out! I laughed so hard 😂 😂
TheEndIsNigh 3 years ago
Were you holding a tennis ball while walking your dog? How did tennis balls even come up? Does this guy just go around randomly warning people about his dog stealing tennis balls? Maybe I am way over thinking this 🤔
#11
Hawkmoon 3 years ago
So did he leave because he was vegan and didn't want to wear leather safety boots?
Virginie Michaud 3 years ago
Because he was working in a factory with poor health and safety measures and valued his hearing, I would guess.. 🤷♀️
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Id row 3 years ago
This reminds me of my 80 y/o mom - her hearing aids were faulty and we were at the doctor for another health issue. The nurse asks her, "Any other medications you're on?" And my mom says, "WHAT? WHO AM I SLEEPING WITH?" I almost fell off my chair. I think I may have peed a little I was laughing so hard.
smoothsilkysailor 3 years ago
I need hearing aids. In a phone shop dude asked "do you have a sister?" and I said, "no, but that's my brother over there". He's like okaaay. Turns out he said 'speaker'
DragonsCrushesCatsMe 3 years ago
And so the evolutions of hoomans are all going deaf, sad to say....
Amber Mattingly 3 years ago
So many ppl need to re-read the post. (You know John on the factory floor? He’s vegan) (He is leaving) the misunderstanding was hearing vegan instead of leaving. Lol…
Tequila Mockingbird 3 years ago
“Am I fearing AIDS? Well sure, who isn’t?, but, you know, you gotta live your life…”
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Nooope 3 years ago
Do people actually use the word potty while with adults?.... I'm trying to figure out how she thought they were asking if they needed to go "potty".....even with an accent...... I would look at them weird and be like what?
grotesqueer 3 years ago
It could've been a regional thing. I mean she could have thought that's what they say in Boston.
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While mishearing things in everyday conversations is quite common, song lyrics take it to a whole other level. How many times did you sing out loud at the top of your lungs to your favorite song only to find out you completely missed the right words? If you can’t keep track of the count, don’t worry, you’re not the only one.
These mishaps are often referred to as mondegreens — a word or phrase that results from mishearing or misinterpreting a statement or song lyric. And it's no surprise that these slip-ups are always funny, leaving people surprised they’ve been wrong this whole time. For example, singing "Hold me closer Tony Danza" when the correct lyrics by Elton John are "Hold me closer tiny dancer". Or believing Queen wrote "Saving his life from this warm sausage tea" when it’s in fact "Spare him his life from this monstrosity".
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Geeki Nikki 3 years ago (edited)
What tricks did he show you? Like how to restring a guitar using your shoelaces or something?
commie pinkofag 3 years ago
"What do you do for a living" is tactless, given the degraded state of the American economy. "Can you do any tricks?" is a much better conversation opener.
Malcolm Dobson 3 years ago
I did that once. Had quite a long conversation with the guy before we realised my mistake.
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Vanta Black 3 years ago
"I can even do the splits!" *two hours later* "I swear Doc, I was just doing the splits naked and I accidentally landed on it!"
tirebiter 3 years ago
There's a joke about a jewish man injured in an accident. People are helping him and one asks "are you comfortable?" The man replied "I make a living". I had a heart attack about 10 years ago. On the way to the hospital the EMT asked if I was comfortable. He regretted it a few seconds later.
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Geeki Nikki 3 years ago
Why didn't he question your litter box response? Maybe he did mean a cat...
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
I mean I have a cat that likes to sit on my head/shoulder when I’m curled up on the couch, he keeps my ears very warm 😂
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Id row 3 years ago
When I was 11, my mother and sister sat me down and asked how I'd feel about being an ant. I thought about it and said, "I'd rather be a cat". They meant 'aunt', lol. My sis was pregnant.
Virginie Michaud 3 years ago
Pun for fellow French speakers, sorry.. Il voulait dire un chat-peau! 🤣
The English language is extremely rich in words that simply sound alike which is the perfect ground for such accidents. Also, Dr. Wei Ji Ma, assistant professor of neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas, found in his lip-reading study that it’s much harder to understand what people are saying or singing when they’re not looking at a person's face.
"Understanding speech can be difficult, especially when it’s noisy," Ma told NBC News. "We found that this process can be helped a lot by looking at the speaker’s face. If you have only sound information, you will sometimes make mistakes. But if you also have the visual information, the brain will combine those two pieces and get a better sense of what’s being said."
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Geeki Nikki 3 years ago
I had a similar mishearing because of a thick accent. Spanish teacher was French and one day he asked us to write the sentence "the beaches are nice..." ofc what we all heard was "b*tches" and ofc we were all in stitches. We finally had to explain it to him and he just laughed along with us!
Kesam 3 years ago
Friend's boss was French and held a speech in front of the entire company. At one point, he said something like "...our competitors f**k us." He meant "...our competitors' focus."
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Sydney Rue 3 years ago
I was in an island in the Caribbean and our tour guide was explaining plants. My mom thought he said koocumba. She asked what that was cause she was very interested to kno. He said they were green and you put them in salad. Turns out he said CUCUMBER
Marco Hub-Dub 3 years ago
While the two hobbies don’t necessarily conflict, eating what has been cooked & cocaine just might.
TyrantrumGogoat 3 years ago
Yeah, I know. They have very thick accents! Sometimes I even misunderstand.
Tigger O 3 years ago (edited)
A fellow-traveller I met in Damascus told me that when in Egypt she'd had a boyfriend who took her home to meet his parents. He'd just left her in the'salon' (living room) when his father walked in, smiled at her and said in a loud voice "B*tch! B*tgh!". She was startled. He repeated himself. she looked for somewhere to run when he approached her - holding out a large bowl - of peaches! "B***h?" he said again, with a welcoming smile.
#17
commie pinkofag 3 years ago
"Get back in your room and practice your Chanukah! I'm not paying for all these lessons so you can play some damned video game."
blugeagua 3 years ago
Actually the CH spelling of it is the true Hebrew form of the word.
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Beeps 3 years ago (edited)
Actually happened to me when I had an ear infection. I asked for a prescription for antibiotics over the phone, and the doctor said he was going to ask me some questions, some of which may seem irrelevant to me. I thought “fair enough” and when he said “which year is it?” I replied: “2021” He said: “WHAT???” And I very confidently replied : “2021. WHY???” And of course he then said: “No. Which ear is it?’
Evan Wills 3 years ago
I have the same problems and I get ear infections chronically, which is quite annoying
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Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
My friend once had to go to A&E because she'd injured her knee. When the check-in asked her which name she gave her surname, Lambert. They'd actually asked which knee. From then onwards her knees were known as Lambert and Butler (a brand of cigarette from back in the day, I'm not sure if they still exist).
Jill Chambers 3 years ago
I had a punctured ear drum, the doctor asked me if I did a lot of diving. It was a couple of days before I worked out he didn't say driving, but not a problem as at that time I wasn't diving or driving.
April Stephens 3 years ago
I also answered questions wrong at the doctor the last time I went because I couldn't hear them. They can sometimes get to mumbling these questions that are routine to them.
Mrs.thetarget 3 years ago
This happens to me a lot. A couple weeks ago at the dentist, "Hi, how are you?" "Hi, I'm 31." 🙃
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Paul C. 3 years ago
Had a colleague say Wilf's mum had arrived, so I said, SO WHAT? Yep, you got it, what he actually said was Wilf's mum had died! Stick a fork in me, I'm done!
Felkey Felkey 3 years ago
I just made this worse by reading it as "Milf's mum had arrived"
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DuchessDegu 3 years ago (edited)
The opposite happened to me, this elderly gentleman I've seen a few times but never spoken to one day came right over to me, held my hand and said (very heavy Eastern European accent - it's relevant) "Max dead" - Max lived in the same block of flats, I didn't know him well but we spoke a few times - and of course I said "oh I'm so sorry". Gentleman looked at me a bit baffled and said again "Max dead" and again I said "that's awful, how did it happen?". Gentleman even more confused said "No, I am Max FATHER!" 🙃
Anyone-for-tea? 3 years ago
I was walking with someone I didn’t know on an organised holiday, she said my dog died in Feb, I said I am so sorry, the loss of a pet is so hard, they really are part of the family. She looked at me again and said, no, my dad. 😬😳
April Stephens 3 years ago
Me too. It was an honest mistake and I guess it could have been worse, but still. I would want to evaporate into thin air.
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One time a dude came in the liquor store talkin about how they found a body by a walking path... Well it was by a friends house and he happeend to tae pictures so here I am ready for this convo getting to the picture.... Dudes still talkin and Im like I got a picture, as Im turning the phone around asking if he wanted to see he gets to the part of the story where he says "it was my friends son"..... well too late now, I asked... "So still wanna see the picture?"
Ma revealed that the study participants got the words right only 10 percent of the time when listening. Seeing a person's lips move improved understanding of the words up to 60 percent. "What seems to be happening with misunderstood song lyrics is that what you hear is not always reliable," the professor said. "It’s noisy, the singer is singing fast, he’s not articulating well or maybe he has an accent. The sound information is uncertain, that’s step one."
While many of the situations you read while scrolling through this list did not involve any noisy surroundings, people still seem to have a tendency to mishear things. Whether they did not listen closely enough or were just a tad distracted, we're sure happy they decided to share their funny tales with everyone online.
#20
Tim 3 years ago
I misheard a vet once. This was during the height of the pandemic, so they took your animal inside, did the exam, and the doctor came outside to talk to me. He asked "are you Otis' dad?" and I heard "Your Otis is dead." I went, "WHAT?!"
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Ross Warren 3 years ago
Especially when you have been buying beer from the same place for the last 5 years.
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Jennifer Graham 3 years ago
Whats with the commentary after a point? I mean the one written by BP. Soooo unnecessary, not a TEDtalk just let us laugh man.
Mika N 3 years ago
I'm so used to just scrolling past those, almost forgot they're there!
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Francisco Manuel Teruel Gutiérrez 3 years ago
Listen to people is not a banal skill, actually.
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Nathaniel 3 years ago
The search and rescue team came back after 24 hours, defeated, unable to find the tampon.
Vanta Black 3 years ago
"Now where on Earth is it? God it's so big in here I can fit my head inside..."
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
Referring to another entry in this list, maybe it was one you had to hammer in?
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
K but for real I lost one once and that was the most terrifying 6 hours of my life until it poked its little turtle head out again.
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#25
Kimberly Young 3 years ago
Being embarrassed into avoiding skin cancer? I see this as a total win!
Mike Rodrick 3 years ago
What's worse is that we used something called suntan oil. Now it's sunscreen.
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Verena Abt 3 years ago
It would have been polite to say: But obviously you're hot in any way, shape or form.
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Francisco Manuel Teruel Gutiérrez 3 years ago
When a person is kind, is kind even in auto mode.
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Anikulapo 3 years ago (edited)
A cute girl started a conversation with me. As soon as I heard where she was from I stood up and walked away. Half a mile down the road I came back down to Earth: ‘What the bleep did I just do?!? Wtf was that?? Why did I leave? I HAVE NO IDEA”
Nitro Codes 3 years ago
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (GASP) mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
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Yettichild 3 years ago
He thought she spelled the (presumably) Swedish last name correctly because she might be Swedish, so asked. She didn't make that connection and just thought he asked is she was Swedish because they were good spellers.
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Morgan Simpson 3 years ago
It was more a misunderstanding than mishearing. They understood it to mean they were Swedish because they’re good at spelling rather than the name being Swedish and would be easy to spell for a Swedish person. It could be viewed as mishearing if you view it as hearing it a different way than intended.
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Karen Clark 3 years ago
Don't even get me started! I love listening to accents different than my own. (We all have them, folks). Get me around a Southerner or a Scot and all I wanna do is listen to the talk. A Spanish accent is very romantic, too!
Joel Strauss 3 years ago
Apparently we do! I was working a four hour flight in first class, and was shmoozing with the passengers. One lady told me I had a California accent. I replied that I didn't know there was such a thing. "Oh, well, my hairdresser is from California," she replied. "You sound just like him!" Had to go in the galley I was laughing so hard!
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My great grandmother, who wasn't great with English, called my Mom's mom while she was watching my Mom. She was in a terrible state, screaming "the baby (my mom) ate all the pills! She ate all the pills" turns out she was preparing dinner, and my mom had eaten all the potato peels. One our family's favorite stories.
Marvelous Rex 3 years ago
Lol ugh Southern accents. Some people sound like they are trying to speak just after having major dental surgery. My first day in a call center, I got a customer who called in from some place in Georgia. I don't know what language it was but it sure wasn't English. I could glean "Georgia" but the first part was something along the lines of "Fahvul". After 3 times, I finally asked my manager and she got on the call. Turns out, mush mouth was trying to say "Fayetteville".
Thomas Sweda 3 years ago
1957. Army base in Georgia. Coke machine took 6 cents. Guy from Dothan , Alabama asked me for a “Pinny” I’m from the Midwest. Took me me 5 minutes to figure it out, and almost got punched !
Jill Chambers 3 years ago
A skin peel may be a beauty treatment for humans but its a flea treatment for dogs!
cristy ballard 3 years ago
Sooo. I don't understand this one because "peel" and "pill" sound the same to me. I am from US Georgia, though. How are these two words pronounced by other people?
Shannon Gerry 3 years ago
I guess I'll list some other words that have the same "il" sound as "pill" in my (Cornish, English, British) accent. Till, until, swill, fill, bill, chill, hill, brilliant. To me all those words have the same "il" and would never have the "eel" sound.
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Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
“Go steady” is some old school lingo! Kinda cool :)
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Trophy Husband 3 years ago
Everyone in 6th grade is confused all the time. So no real change for him.
Nadja Lambacher 3 years ago
"going steady" means being in a relationship.
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Nathaniel 3 years ago
"Woo EEE ooh whee" Said the whale feeling utterly alone and abandoned in the back garden.
T5n 3 years ago
Better than the one that fell alongside the bowl of petunias.
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Al Christensen 3 years ago
I had a classmate from Texas in grade school. One day he asked if he could borrow my pin. I told him I didn't have one. He pointed at my hand, "Yes you do." It took a moment to decode that he was saying "pen."
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Adam Williams 3 years ago
I am not a complicated man, either of those outcomes would make me happy.
Mr Zipperface 3 years ago
„Some friends of mine asked me if I wanted to go to a strip club, and I didn't… want to go. But I ended up going, 'cause—back me up on this, fellas—once you've seen one woman naked, you… wanna see the rest of 'em naked. It can be an old biker chick, you know they're gonna hang down to here. "Wanna see my titties!?" "Yeah, I do!" [cringes] "All right, that's enough, roll 'em back up!" [imitates her rolling her breasts back up and sealing them in place. ] The things that make you go [shudders]“ — Ron White Source: https://quotepark.com/quotes/1826595-ron-white-some-friends-of-mine-asked-me-if-i-wanted-to-go-to/
Frauke Knothe 3 years ago
So he really thought it'd be realistic a woman asking him that ...? 🤨
BasedWang12 3 years ago (edited)
lol I can just imagine the sheer excitement that they never thought they would ever feel and just blurting that out........and all of that turning to hell
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#34
Let’s All Just Try And Be Decent 3 years ago
Why did he want to know that though... can fully understand not knowing what the question was because that is such a weird thing to ask in that context
Mr Zipperface 3 years ago
He was the band manager, it would be a legitimate question relating to the band's image, wholesome/alternative etc.
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Tracy Danis 3 years ago
My dad would always say “age before beauty when opening a door”. I never paid any attention until I held a door open for an elderly couple once. The man laughed when he saw the horror on my face when I realized what I had said.
Valley Girl 3 years ago
I did this when I got flowers delivered on my birthday a few years ago
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Hobby Hopper 3 years ago
Pet names from strangers make me uncomfortable. It feels patronizing and insincere.
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Lawrencium 3 years ago
Why is there a play button if it's just an image?? I spent far too much time trying to click it and wondering why it wasn't working...
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Micah 3 years ago
This isn't a case of being misheard, but I have a friend who used the words "coat hanger" instead of "cliffhanger" up until I corrected him. No one in his life had corrected him about it before.
Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
Sounds like his whole life was just one big coat hanger. “Will he ever learn the proper phrase? Tune in next week!”
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Bexx 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 3 years ago
Or cocaine! (Idk why that was my first impression lol)
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Alexis minnix 3 years ago
My first thought was “do you want some coochie” but quickie makes more sense
Geeki Nikki 3 years ago (edited)
Me neither. Errr maybe do you want some booty? But idk.
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Beth S 3 years ago
This is a common occurrence in my life because I have the lovely sounds of tinnitus serenading my ears because my hearing is in decline. It has made for for interesting and embarrassing situations.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
Same team Beth, I didn't realize how def I was until people started wearing masks. I had no idea I was reading lips. In bed I always ask my wife “do you hear that” Tinnitus
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Claire Stanfield 3 years ago
Misheard a coworker asking if I was married [in Spanish, estas casada?], and responded, "yeah, a little" [si, un poquito] because I heard 'are you tired' [estas cansada?]. The look on his face!!!
Melo Dy 3 years ago
He was probably thinking “you can do that part time?! Which religion?!”
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A Jones 3 years ago
I got in trouble in HS due to my accent. I made a comment about something being "corny". Guess which word they thought I said. Thankfully they allowed me to appeal the case (we need more abilities to appeal things in pub school, the whole no-tolerance thing is BS). I've gotten better on my English pronunciations since then. lol
Res Earch 3 years ago
I have been staring at this for 5 minutes and I genuinely cannot think of an accent that would make that a derogatory word unless there's some slur I'm unaware of.
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Sterrinatu 3 years ago
I was helping a friend cut fire wood at his cabin. After we were all sitting around having a beer when he asked if I pooped. I was like ya... this morning...why do you need to know that??? Then I realized he asked if I WAS pooped.... as in tired. We still laugh at that all the time!
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I was walking a dog named Kai, who can be aggressive with other dogs. We went into the street to avoid a man and his dogs, and when Kai got extra naughty and started snarling, I snapped, “Kai!” The man awkwardly said, “Hi,” wondering, I think, why this stranger just yelled an angry hello at him.
Wm Paul Robinson 3 years ago
Not really on subject of original thread, but dogs. My dad's last late wee poodle was called Dancer. At Christmas he would dress up as Santa for his friends' kids. Just about to get into the car on Christmas Eve the waff ran off. Santa ran around the neighbourhood shouting Dancer, and half the neighbourhood kids thought Father Christmas had lost one of his reindeer.
Load More Replies... Oscar Joseph Ben-Ary 3 years ago
This has happened to me before what happened is that a Spanish friend came to a party and at one point we started talking about parents but because of her accent we thought she said parrots, so we asked "can your parrots talk?" She replied "yes? They can speak English and Spanish" so us thinking that she was talking about parrots went "wooooow! That's crazy" it continued like this for a while until we figured it out.
Mari 3 years ago
Haha My SIL is Greek and it happens to us quite a lot to misunderstand eachother because of the accent.
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nini 3 years ago
I was hanging up clothes on our balcony, when my neighbour said " Smells nice". I found it a little strange, but I still thanked her. She then continued "Yes, it's already warm enough for all your clothes to dry." I the realised that she was talking of the weather before, and basically told me "It's drying nicely." (In our language, it sounds very similar). So I just thanked her that my clothes were drying 😂🙈
Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago
Why is the thing you mishear always more interesting than the thing they actually said?
Wm Paul Robinson 3 years ago
No idea but you're right Kermit. Oh merde now I'm mishearing with me eyes!
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Rita Haddad 3 years ago
This one time i loudly answered ‘you too’ to the voice inside my head saying ‘tell the cashier have a nice day’ in front of the cashier who hasn’t said a word.
Beth S 3 years ago
This is a common occurrence in my life because I have the lovely sounds of tinnitus serenading my ears because my hearing is in decline. It has made for for interesting and embarrassing situations.
Miguel justino C 3 years ago
Same team Beth, I didn't realize how def I was until people started wearing masks. I had no idea I was reading lips. In bed I always ask my wife “do you hear that” Tinnitus
Load More Replies... Claire Stanfield 3 years ago
Misheard a coworker asking if I was married [in Spanish, estas casada?], and responded, "yeah, a little" [si, un poquito] because I heard 'are you tired' [estas cansada?]. The look on his face!!!
Melo Dy 3 years ago
He was probably thinking “you can do that part time?! Which religion?!”
Load More Replies... A Jones 3 years ago
I got in trouble in HS due to my accent. I made a comment about something being "corny". Guess which word they thought I said. Thankfully they allowed me to appeal the case (we need more abilities to appeal things in pub school, the whole no-tolerance thing is BS). I've gotten better on my English pronunciations since then. lol
Res Earch 3 years ago
I have been staring at this for 5 minutes and I genuinely cannot think of an accent that would make that a derogatory word unless there's some slur I'm unaware of.
Load More Replies... Sterrinatu 3 years ago
I was helping a friend cut fire wood at his cabin. After we were all sitting around having a beer when he asked if I pooped. I was like ya... this morning...why do you need to know that??? Then I realized he asked if I WAS pooped.... as in tired. We still laugh at that all the time!
UpQuarkDownQuark 3 years ago
I was walking a dog named Kai, who can be aggressive with other dogs. We went into the street to avoid a man and his dogs, and when Kai got extra naughty and started snarling, I snapped, “Kai!” The man awkwardly said, “Hi,” wondering, I think, why this stranger just yelled an angry hello at him.
Wm Paul Robinson 3 years ago
Not really on subject of original thread, but dogs. My dad's last late wee poodle was called Dancer. At Christmas he would dress up as Santa for his friends' kids. Just about to get into the car on Christmas Eve the waff ran off. Santa ran around the neighbourhood shouting Dancer, and half the neighbourhood kids thought Father Christmas had lost one of his reindeer.
Load More Replies... Oscar Joseph Ben-Ary 3 years ago
This has happened to me before what happened is that a Spanish friend came to a party and at one point we started talking about parents but because of her accent we thought she said parrots, so we asked "can your parrots talk?" She replied "yes? They can speak English and Spanish" so us thinking that she was talking about parrots went "wooooow! That's crazy" it continued like this for a while until we figured it out.
Mari 3 years ago
Haha My SIL is Greek and it happens to us quite a lot to misunderstand eachother because of the accent.
Load More Replies... nini 3 years ago
I was hanging up clothes on our balcony, when my neighbour said " Smells nice". I found it a little strange, but I still thanked her. She then continued "Yes, it's already warm enough for all your clothes to dry." I the realised that she was talking of the weather before, and basically told me "It's drying nicely." (In our language, it sounds very similar). So I just thanked her that my clothes were drying 😂🙈
Emmett O'Brian 3 years ago
Why is the thing you mishear always more interesting than the thing they actually said?
Wm Paul Robinson 3 years ago
No idea but you're right Kermit. Oh merde now I'm mishearing with me eyes!
Load More Replies... Rita Haddad 3 years ago
This one time i loudly answered ‘you too’ to the voice inside my head saying ‘tell the cashier have a nice day’ in front of the cashier who hasn’t said a word.
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