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* ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'': Of the many, many infamously bad aspects of the English voice acting, Mega Man mis-pronounces Bass (with the same "a" as in "bath", rather than with a long "a"), leading to the MemeticMutation "Bass is NOT a fish!".

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'': Of the many, many infamously bad aspects of the English voice acting, Mega Man mis-pronounces Bass (with the same "a" as in "bath", rather than with a long "a"), leading to the MemeticMutation "Bass is NOT a fish!".

* The opening song to ''VideoGame/Persona3'', combined with JapaneseRanguage. "My GHOST-ry sha-DOW", "When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars" has "Ba-BY stay WITH me" and "Feeling hap-PY, so close".

* Meta example for ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Due to the unusual spelling of Kaworu's name,]] many English-speaking fans tend to pronounce it differently than another person who shares his name. It's supposed to be pronounced the same way as someone with the name Kaoru ("Kar-ru") but most people tend to say it as "Kar-wru" or "Ka-wru". It seems that they can't get over the w, really the middle part of his name should be silent. This was then enforced by Studio Khara in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', wherein Kaworu pronounces his own name with a very slight but noticeable emphasis on the "w", as though to further drive home his strangeness.

* The ''Anime/CodeGeass'' picture drama ''Miraculous Birthday'' has a funny gag where Lelouch incorrectly teaches the student council to say "Yes, your ma-JEST-y" repeatedly.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "When You Dish Upon A Star", Homer mistakenly pronounces Creator/KimBasinger's last name as "Bass (like the fish)-in-ger" (with a hard G) instead of "Bay-sin-ger" (with a soft G).

** And don't even start talking about Chinese with its tones or Japanese, where the stress can fall on many syllables or nowhere in the word.

* The TitleTrack to the Music/{{Jamiroquai}} album ''Automaton'' has it consistently misemphasised; "autoMAton" (au-to-may-ton, as if robotically pronouncing syllables one by one which, given the song and its video, is rather fitting) instead of "auTOMaton" (au-tomma-ton).

* ''Film/TheRoom'': Anything that comes out of Tommy Wiseau's mouth is like this. It's actually his real accent.

* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': Daffy Duck's CatchPhrase of "You're despicable!" with accent on the second syllable of the latter word was originally a case of this -- at the time the cartoons aired, the generally agreed-upon pronunciation put the accent on the first syllable, and it's meant to show (depending on the cartoon) that Daffy either [[CloudCuckooLander has a few screws loose]] or is [[SmallNameBigEgo not as great as he likes to imagine himself]]. The popularity of the cartoons, combined with the word's relative lack of use in other contexts, resulted in the pronunciation shifting, this trope fading, and the phrase in general falling into SeinfeldIsUnfunny.

* Creator/JamieVsTheVoid: Encouraged by Jamie when revealing their new channel name at the time, [=WowRightMeow=], in "Why I changed my Name.":

* In many American movies, American actors pronounce UsefulNotes/{{Melbourne}}, the Victorian capital city, as ''melbORNE'' instead of ''[=MELBen=]'' (or -- more accurately -- ''[=MALBen=]'') as used by the locals. Her Majesty the Queen also used to do this, using the traditional pronunciation of the English title, but has in recent years adopted the 'correct' pronunciation when referring to the Victorian city.

* Similarly, the city of Glasgow, Scotland is pronounced "Glaz-go" (or "'''[[BraveScot GLESGA!]]'''") by natives, not "Glass-gow".

* On "Don't Kill the Whale," by Music/{{Yes}}, Jon Anderson sings: "If time will AY-low, we will judge all who came."

* Andy Gibb: The chorus to Sha-DOW Dan-CING!!!

* "Genius Of Love" by the Tom Tom Club. "No one can sing / Quite like Smokey, Smokey Ro-BIN-son."

* Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'' has a few, most notably "[[BlackSheepHit Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2]]" ("No dark sar-CAS-um") and "Hey You".

* Verse three of Tim Curry's ''I Do The Rock'' has the line "Einstein's celebrating ten de-CADES but I'm afraid philoso-PHY is just too much responsibility for me."

* {{Music/Alanis Morissette}} does this a lot. "An un-for-TUN-ate slight," from "Uninvited."

* "Gas Pedal" by Sage the Gemini ft. Iamsu! pronounces the word "bakery" in a way that rhymes it with "Tyler Perry" and "lookin' scary": "BAY-kery." The very next line is an immediate self correcting "Oops, ba-KER-y."

* Lloyd Cole: "It took a lost wee-KEND in a HO-tel in AM-sterdam..." (OK, the last one is technically correct, but a native might say Amster-DAM.)

Because we put the [[TropeNamer acCENT upon the wrong sylLABle]]\\

* Creator/EddieIzzard used this to illustrate how awkward it is when Myth/{{Robin Hood}}s have American accents. "Where is the Maid [=MarEYEan=]? And the Sheriff of [=NottingHAM=]? I live in [=SherWOOD ForEST=]!"
* Creator/MitchHedberg liked to stress the second part of a compound noun. "... sounded an awful lot like car [=HORNS=]"; "you are never blocking a fire [=EXIT=]".

** The Daleks in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks "The Daleks"]] pronounce Susan's name when she writes the letter to the Thals as "SOO-SAN." Mentioned here because it drives her into peals of laughter, prompting them to demand what laughter ''is.''

* In ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', Freeza's father King Cold calls Earth "EE-arth", and is confused when he's told that's pronounced "urth": "Really? But there's an A in it! I'm just going to keep calling it EE-arth."
** Similarly, Vegeta mentions that full-blooded Saiyans have [[AnimeHair static hairdos]], but can grow bee-airds, and moo-sta-chez, [[https://youtu.be/hle2-bGDh10 which soon became]] a StupidStatementDanceMix.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AGoofyMovie'', WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} does it as part of a PainfulRhyme while singing, "Nobody Else But You":

** Zecora does this occasionally to [[PainfulRhyme get her rhymes to work]]. "Mon''STER''" in "Secret of My Excess" is particularly painful.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994': In [[VillainSong "Be Prepared"]]: "deCADES of denial." As usual, [[PainfulRhyme the pronunciation was forced in order to fit the melody]].

* ''Film/TheAvengers2012'': Tony Stark mentions the video game ''VideoGame/{{Galaga}}'' with the stress in the first syllable, the original developers stress the middle one: [[http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/blog/Entries/2012/7/14_Entry_1.html "ga-LAG-a."]] Both pronunciations are common.

* The flamingo in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne 2'''s ShowWithinAShow, ''Address Unknown''. Justified because the flamingo's dialogue is the dialogue spoken backwards, then played in reverse.