Several years back, I went to work for a small, family-owned hardware store, where I worked for about a year and a half. For a long time before my going to work there, they had been keeping a list of mispronunciations of products asked for by customers who came into the store, plus mispronunciations of other related things. I had the privilege of adding to that list during my time there. Some of them are downright hilarious, whereas some are just weird. I’ve been planning to post some of those on occasion, and here are the first few of them. Enjoy.
Strews and boats – screws and bolts (this one was rather common)
Dog change – dog chain
Exceptional – receptacle
Garden tilter – garden tiller
Benolia – linoleum
Scream wire – screen wire
Chalking – caulking
Tile gout – tile grout
Crematic tile – ceramic tile
Scrubbery – shrubbery
Manantha paint – enamel paint
Rockwilder – Rottweiler
Tweedle nose pliers – Needle nose pliers
Potty soil – potting soil
Collard pins – cotter pins
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