Pronounciations on purpose because they are fun

Its common for people to pronounce the store "Target" as if it was a French word, like "Tarjey" And I had a phase where I'd pronounce "sorry" like a Canadian, "sore-y"

Microwave as "mee-cro-wah-vay"

When people pronounce “concierge” as “con-see-air,” I like to ask them if they park their lar car in a hu gara.

Classic Monty Python pronunciation of Knight as “Ca-nig-et”

I have kept some of my son's very-young son's mispronunciations (for 30 years).    one of his friends is still "Twelsea" to me.  orange is "ornch!". and from fish called Wanda:  dee-ranged.   as in "are you completely dee-ranged?"

Where I’m from, sometimes the accent of the Queen’s English is used in phrases to kind of make fun of someone being a little bit posh or arrogant. Same for French accent.

I hit the Ts in words like “button” pretty hard sometimes because I got too annoyed by people pronouncing it “buddins” when trying to look up arcade stick reviews, lol. And to annoy my nephew I pronounce words like “issue” as “iss-you”.

My boyfriend does this so often with random words I often can’t tell what he’s saying. One that’s stuck around for the both of us as an inside joke is pronouncing “juice” as “ja-hoose”. One classic internet meme from the days of Vine is pronouncing “fresh avacado” as “free-shuh VA-cuh doo.

Since this is a learning sub: Your question should be either "what do you mispronounce on purpose?" or "what mispronunciations do you use on purpose?" (though the first one sounds more natural). Your title could also be worded "Intentional (mis)pronunciations"--the current structure sounds awkward as a native speaker. Pronounciation is not a real word (it's a mistake that combines "to pronounce" and "pronunciation"). Saying "pronunciation" simply refers to how someone pronounces a word, without any negative connotation (doesn't indicate improper/incorrect pronunciation).

Dumbass as dum-bass

A friend of mine pronounces Chipotle (the Mexican fast food chain) to rhyme with "total".

My family pronounces Chipotle as [t͡ʃɪ'pɑɾɫ̩] *(chi-POD-ll)*, rhymes with bottle

We avoid profanities by mispronouncing them. Bitch becomes bee-ahtch; shit becomes shite or shiza, fuck becomes puck. Well, in reality when we’re among family and friends we just say whatever the puck we want, but in politer society we try not to offend.

I do this with countless words. A couple of my favorite things to do is adding either “ski” or “erdoodles” to the word “brick” (which is slang for cold at least where I live we say it, you wouldn’t here it in a professional or academic context, unless they’re talking about an actual brick) so I’ll say brickski or brickerdoodles. Tbh I’ll add “ski” to just about any word that it feels like it works for. Sometimes I’ll pronounce “house” as “hoose” (like moose or goose) or pluralize houses as hice (like mouse and mice) or pluralize moose as meese (like geese) Tbh there’s way too many to even think of them all, especially since a lot of the time it will be something one thinks of on the fly and just says in the moment because it sounds funny

A lot of Spanish words just pronouncing them with English phonetics. Like pronouncing the double L in tortilla and quesadilla. Also, I pronounce avocado like that vine where the girl says “freeshavacadoo”

My sister used to live in an area with a lot of sheep, and we got into the habit of calling them "sheeps." I still have to check myself to make sure that I'm saying the right word among regular people. (We also do this with "shrimps")

I frequently pronounce know as kuh-noh

in a really southern drawl, I'll say "well" as more like "whaaaaaaale"

res-tow-raunt (tow like "ow") fay-rm or mayr-ket And for those that know, "if that isn't the...epitome of...hyperbole" lol Also, TRID has me saying "banano" now

Back when Vine was alive, this was [one guy's entire thing](https://youtu.be/71hHly2AMeM).

We love to put the em-FASS-is on the wrong syll-AH-ble

Jalapeño as juh-LOP-in-oh

I have an aunt who learnt English as a second language and applied general English pronunciation rules to the word connoisseur. Now that is what we all call it. Con-noisy-ur

Skizzers for scissors.

I came across someone leaning English that was shocked that "spouse" rhymes with "house". They'd thought it was pronounced like "spooz". So now I call my husband my spooz for giggles.

i say "boner (petite)" instead of "bon appetit" to annoy those around me

Chandelier as shan-deli-air

*pronunciations My family pronounces knife humorously as “ka-niffy.” Of course, the K actually was vocalized long ago. We also repeat the Bugs Bunny joke of saying “maroon” for “moron.” As in, “What a maroon!”

It's fun to pronounce words that end in "cles" like they are famous ancient Greeks (ending in a "kleese" sound). So, Hercules/Heracles, Sophocles, articles, bicycles, icicles, vehicles.

Hiiiiiiiiieeeee (long, nasal i)

Pronunciations

Pluralizing "Prius" as "Prii" and "campus" as "campi".