Is it normal to purposely mispronounce words?

I greatly enjoy porpisely mispronooncing things. X3

I like greeting people with a friendly "good moaning" in the morning.

Normal, and pretty amusing as well

"I bet they wonder, is this guy really an idiot or just funny as fuck?" Or the third option... Neither an idiot nor funny.

I think mispronouncing words can be entertaining, usually as an in-joke amongst friends. As long as you're not one of those people who mispronounces a word just to try and get a reaction, like "Can I have my radioactive pay?" and then you stare at the person with a smile on your face waiting for them to say "Radio... what?" So then you can say, "Oops sorry I meant RETROACTIVE pay! HA!" And then he looks at you awkwardly and you think you're funny. As long as you don't do that, then I'd say it's normal to have fun with language. It's just a form of play :)

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I have a friend with a speech problem and she was very self conscious about it. People would often tease her because she couldn't pronounce words properly. I don't think it's funny.

Abomination!

Why?! That is all I need to know.

Yes, it's entertaining to say words the wrong way, like snipre rifel

I do that too, but only in greek lol (english isn't my first language) I know what you mean, it's fun! :D

I do this sometimes and i love people who do.
Sadly i still havent found a person who says "terlet" in a either steriotipical hillbilly or british accent

I say the letter Z 'zed' as Zee
' American way ' but i am british. does that count ?

I like calling my taquitos talk-E-toes, and I do the same mispronunciation that you do with jalapeño. It's just more fun that way.

Hey, whatever makes you happy. :) Life's about entertaining yourself... it's just you up there in your head.

Yes, the hubs and I say stuff like that all the time, i.e. we might say "incinerate" for "insinuate". But we tend to keep those as our inside jokes. The one or two times I've slipped up and used a mispronunciation in front of an acquaintance or co-worker, they just look at me like I'm an alien. LOL.

If I don't like you, I'll mess your name up on purpose.

I pronounce sandwich *sawhich*, sewwich... trying to type it the way I pronounce it...

I pronounce it normal without the n and d. I do it on purpose because, for some reason, saying "sandwich" seems really... doesn't roll off the tongue for me.

FACT: I sometimes talk like a middle-aged Midwestern lady.

my brother does this all the time. his logic is read the first and last letter and pronounce it however u feel like -.- for example he calls a suppresser 'suspensor' or smtimes add extra letters like calling Puyol 'Puygol'.

You're funny. Don't change. Thw world need people like you. DO THIS the next time you go to a drive through. You'll make that worker's day :)

my friend talks like that :)

I remember that ronnies sketch!!

I know I've already had my say, but I remembered a Two Ronnies sketch which would probably amuse you about a man in a corner shop who mispronounces everything. Like marmalade he pronounces my-malady and to explain what it is he says you have it on toast (which he pronounces toe-assed). Then he asks for a chocolate mousse (cha-kolity mouse). Couldn't find it but I did find one of the Ronnies in a sketch he wrote for himself. Funny stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ0nFQgRApY

It's actually kind of common to do that near me. Both my grandmothers used to do it, and my friends and I do it. Both grandmothers would pronounce old as owled and cold as cowelled. Similarly, words with -ain endings get changed to -an. So a brain is a bran.

We've built on it too and we almost have our own dialect. On top of that and the Manchester rhyming slang (siblings are "skinands" or "oners", money is "bagga") plus local slang (words like feggy, doff, and piffy), we're quite capable of having a long conversation that nobody would understand. And that, of course, is the purpose of it all.