This has been featured on many other weblogs but I thought I might as well jump on the bandwagon.
My favourites.
| card shark | cardsharp | Cardsharps probably won't eat you alive, though they are adept at cutting your purse strings. |
| elec'toral | e'lectoral | The accent is on the second, not the third, syllable and there is no [i] in it (not "electorial"). |
| For all intensive purposes | For all intents and purposes | The younger generation is mispronouncing this phrase so intensively that it has become popular both as a mispronunciation and misspelling. |
| Heineken remover | Heimlich manoeuvre | This term is mispronounced many different ways. This is just the funniest one we have heard. This manoeuvre was named for US surgeon Henry Jay Heimlich (1920- ). |
| sherbert | sherbet | Some of the same people who do not like two [r]s in their words can't help repeating the one in this word. |
| volumptuous | voluptuous | Some voluptuous women may be lumpy, but please avoid this Freudian slip that apprises them of it. |
