The word New Jersey residents butcher when they try to pronounce

Which word do you think is the most mispronounced word in New Jersey? The list is long, but which word is at the top?

The Most Mispronounced Word In New Jersey

There are so many words I hear mispronounced throughout a typical New Jersey day, but there is one word that gets on my nerves more than any of the others.

I was waiting for my slices to warm up at a local pizzeria the other day when a woman walked in to order a pie.

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She asked if she could have the pizza with "light mah-tza-rell-ah". First of all, what true New Jersey pizza lover, short of a dietary reason, would want light mozzarella?

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Secondly, why do some people insist on saying it that way? Put your heart into it, and say "muhts-ah-DELL-Ah".

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I can live with New Jersey residents saying water and coffee wrong (I do it myself), but the mozzarella pronunciation is very grating (see what I did there)?

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Regardless, I asked New Jersey residents to name the word they hear mispronounced most often in the Garden State, and here are the three most popular answers I got.

The Most Mispronounced Words In New Jersey

The top answer we got was water (waw-ter), followed by coffee (caw-fee), but I feel like those words are in the same mispronunciation category, so let's count that a tie for first place.

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Are you in the mood for your favorite type of coffee? Then, as Diane C. said, why don't you have an "ex-press-oh"? We'll make espresso a top-two most mispronounced New Jersey word.

The word that takes the #3 spot on the list is a town name. Did you grow up in "Nork"? People from Newark insist that' correct, but we'll let you debate that.

There are thousands of other fun ones, but those three were the ones New Jersey residents voted for the most.