These Are The Most Mispronounced Words In New Jersey

Here is a small sample of words that get mispronounced constantly in New Jersey. Check it out to see if you are part of the problem.

We do a lot of things very well in New Jersey. It just happens that pronouncing certain words is not one of them.

New Jersey Is The Capital  Of Mispronunciation

The funny thing is most New Jersey residents either don't care about the pronunciation, think it's right, or even embrace the wrongness.

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The mispronunciation epidemic is not limited to simple words, either. Town names are in the crosshairs as well.

In fairness, the mispronounced town names tend to come from tourists, but that is not always the case.

The Words We Mispronounce In New Jersey

Most words New Jersey residents mispronounce (and use most frequently) seem to center around the "aw" sound.

We love to live or dine on the water in the Garden State, or as we say, we love to live on the "wawh-ter".

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New Jersey residents also enjoy starting a day with a piping hot cup of coffee, or as we refer to it, "caw-fee".

New Jersey Tourists Mispronounce Words Too

We do all these things in the Garden State before we head out to get our shopping done at the local "mawl".

Here are some of the town names that get butchered, mostly by visitors to New Jersey, but sometimes a resident stumbles on them.

There's Avon-by-the-Sea, with a short "a" not a long one. Forked River is FOR-kid, and it's not Manala "pan", it's Manala "pin".

And remember, if you hear someone pronouncing something wrong, pull them on the side and "tawk" to them.