Valentine with Valentime

Today is Valentine's Day Feb 14th, 2019.
Happy Valentine's Day!

Wow, I have not written anything in my blog for almost 2 years already.
Today, I am not going to write about what else I have done to be a better person.  Just would like to share something fun from the radio I listened to yesterday.

The radio host asked listeners to call in and tell him "What words people say and make you feel kind of annoyed or funny."  For him, the word was "Valentine's Day" as he said he heard many people pronounced "Valentime's Day", you see the "m" there. 

Here are a few words mentioned in his show:
1. Valentine - why call it "Valentime"
2. Iran - it is not "ai-ran"
3. Iraq - it is not "ai-raq"
4. Irregardless - this is not a word at all
5. Nuclear - pls it is not nukular as the former president Bush said
6. Vacuum
7. Guitar 

Too bad I needed to step out from my car to buy grocery so, I missed lots of fun and many more words.  

Coming back home that day, when thinking about that, I could think about couple words that people pronounce them their own way as they do not know exactly how native speakers say those words.  

Here are a couple of them:
1. Huawei - Americans pronounce this word in many ways; วาเว ว๊าเหว่ with the leading H sound that almost cannot hear.  I have to ask my Chinese friend to teach me how to say it right.
2. Netflix - I believe people here say เนทฟลิกซ์ but a YouTube show host in Thailand says เหน็ดฟลิกซ์  This sounds funny to me. You know เหน็ด and เนท are not the same.
3. IKEA - Americans say "ai-kea".  Swedish, the home country of IKEA say อิเกีย
4. Amazon - Americans say เอมาซอน but Thai people say อะ เม ซอน
5. Vicks Vaporub - instead of เวเปอรับ, Thai people say วาเปอรับ

What else you can think about?   Please share the fun.