One of my family members pronounces grouper, like the fish, as "groper" and it is so uncomfortable when we go to a restaurant.

She also insists on pronouncing kung pao as "kung poo" and sakura as "Shakira."

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I tend to pronounce “paradise” as “paradize” and “aesthetic” as “ayessthetic.”