Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about words Americans commonly mispronounce and hear from a listener who is passionate about the way she thinks the word sauna should be pronounced.
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00:00uh let's go to nina who's with us here good morning nina hi hi we're talking about the
00:11words americans often mispronounce yes sauna it is not sauna it is sauna and it's a finnish word
00:20and the uh fins and the up are just irritated about the whole thing oh so there is a small
00:28there's a small group of finnish people in michigan in the up the entire up is oh wow so they are not
00:39yes they are everyone knows this is not all finished they are they're all they're all finished
00:46some of them are norwegian yes i don't talk to them though but the word is i won't speak to them
00:52it is sauna not sauna sauna sauna i'd like to go into the sauna sauna sauna sauna yes get it right
01:03okay let's hear hold on you stay with us while we hear how google wants to say it yeah get it right
01:08sauna sauna sauna sauna sauna sauna sauna sauna it's sauna oh man you guys are wrong it is not
01:20it is not it's sauna it's sauna it's sauna god bless america you won't take this word from us
01:30she's fired up you're not gonna it's not your word it's not your word yeah sauna it's not your word
01:39do you guys have a sauna sauna sauna do you guys have a sauna all the things in the world this is what
01:48she's mad about you're so upset you're so upset she's representing the whole upper peninsula dave
01:57she's got a lot of people behind her i do hundreds yes hundreds hundreds yep all right well we're gonna
02:08hop in the sauna you have a great day yeah let's go josh around in the sauna oh my god all right nina
02:16passionate nina there yeah never so much passion over one word yeah it's true
02:21like that was the last that was the last time she was gonna deal with that yeah oh yeah
02:27the sauna crimes in the up no sauna sauna oh my god amazing so that would be a great example like
02:40of a word that it's too late for you you should have tried to fix it a long time ago yeah because
02:46america says sauna because we say sauna and it's sauna and it's everywhere it's sauna except for in the
02:52up and you have no chance to take it back they are they just sit around have meetings about how
02:56that's it yep it'll be it's a small dying community of people that say sauna there's 35 percent of
03:04finished people up in the up yeah yeah not 100 like she claimed 100 crazy lady um mick in waterford
03:11what is mick hey what's going on guys i was uh i got audi i got so tired of hearing people say audi
03:19so i changed my license plate to owde and it just forces them to say it yeah that's a that's a tough
03:25one for a lot of people i think all of the audi a lot of the car companies is that way it's like
03:31porsche or is it porsche you know like so it's hyundai like sunday audi and audi like you're hurt
03:39yeah audi yeah you it turns out americans can't really handle foreign words i don't
03:49know if it's about can't handle won't handle right we want it our way and i'm gonna say
03:56careful audi i do realize that i may put a stank on stuff when i order it because i feel like i'm
04:03trying to say it right you definitely do you definitely like i'll have the shrimp
04:06oh my god you know to me that's like like when you're not italian and you go to an italian
04:14joint and you start putting on yeah exactly
04:17they give them it all you know they're flicking the teeth at them
04:27can i ask you a question how is the uh how is the uh
04:31we just closed what we just we just shut down no we just shut down the covid okay then just a quick
04:42shrimp barbiata oh can you do can you do that no how about some uh arancini can you oh my god
04:50that's quite rude you just gave me the get out of here now when you're back here like if you're
04:56in the u.s or in canada or whatever do you do you say prego prego just like you're in italy
05:03like oh my gosh it's like the last thing i had to pronounce with some fanciness to it was
05:12there's at chipotle they got this thing called guajarillo steak
05:16almost yep they were like we know what you want yep as long as they know what you want
05:30guajarillo guajarillo yeah man it's tough but i don't think mexico i do i'll put some spanish
05:38thing on the tooth though i do but i don't even realize i'm doing it you guys know i'm like a
05:45sponge so if i speak to someone with an accent i pick up their accent and they think i'm mocking
05:49them but it's just i don't even realize i'm doing right your brain is just like to the south you
05:53speak yeah yeah the southern yeah howdy y'all y'all y'all y'all come back now no i mean even there
06:01are times when we're just coming back from break where dave will say some stuff that i'm like that is
06:05is southern yeah reading to everybody that he is saying i will say like i'll put like effort into
06:12trying to culturally pronounce stuff right out of like respect for the culture yeah yes like that's
06:20i i don't add the extra here's what i think the problem is we think it's being culturally accepted
06:30to like i'm gonna really try and put some stank on this and i think everyone in the culture is like
06:36stop you know what i mean like they're like it's not offensive just like just say it like you'd say
06:42just say it like you'd say it yeah i mean mine was my i was at chipotle so it's not like i was
06:49there was cultural right yeah oh no no i was like guajarillo you mean the guajarillo
06:55yeah yeah you probably said it better than the word i'll get you that guajarillo sure oh that's new
07:04it's delicious yeah
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