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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7kJRGPgvRQ&ob=av3e "Here comes the wo-ma-NAY-zer!"]

* A certain Spanish language ballad (circa 1997? by Rocio Durcal?) has a verse ending with a phrase to the effect that her tears are stuck in her throat. In Spanish, that's "garganta". There's nothing unusual about the way the word itself is accented, but it's unusual to hear such an unattractive-sounding word placed in full prominence at the climactic point of a musical phrase and backed with lush orchestration, rather than buried in an inconspicuous part of the verse.

* "Pretty Vacant" by [[Sex Pistols]] has the latter word pronounced "VaCANT", making it sound like the word "cunt".

* In "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald", [[Gordon Lightfoot]] pronounces "Detroit" with three syllables--"De-troy-it". Native Detroiters usually pronounce it "da-TROYT." The last "t" is really more of a glottal stop than anything.

* [[Nicki Minaj]] - it varies, but her favorite word to mangle is the simple "me"; she'll stretch it out sideways and somehow make it "mAy" as to make it fit her raps. Most noticeable because she'll use the correct pronuciation in the same song.

* "Unconditionally" by [[Katy Perry]] consistently emphasizes "tion" instead of the standard "di".

 

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