Ironically one of the highest-profile people to say it wrong is Travis Kelce, who routinely says it incorrectly on his podcast, even when Reese’s became a sponsor of his podcast.

It’s extra ironic because his own name became commonly mispronounced by announcers and the general public. Almost every reference to him pronounces it “Kel SEE” but his name is more correctly said with a hard stop as in the word “rice”.

I’m upvoting both because I agree with you and because I believe we’re petty enough to still be in the minority. I think this is an unpopular opinion because most people don’t care.

I could have sworn that they pronounced it “Reesees” in the commercials, so I went to double check and I was wrong. All official commercials that I’ve found they pronounce it “Reese’s”. This has me wondering where I heard the “Reesees” pronunciation. It must be some social thing, a dialect or accent around where I’ve grown up, or even just linguistic drift. Etymology is weird like that.

I know this person and I hate it.

Reesee, or reesey is an actual name. Iirc, resie or ressie is pronounced the same, though I’m not sure which spelling is correct, or if they’re variants of the same, or if I’m rmemerbing the spelling entirely wrong.

And you’d be amazed what kind of pronunciations seemingly mundane names can have. Steele, I’ve seen pronounced still multiple times by different families. Lambert has three that I’ve run into.

Also, the reesee’s peecees thing started as a form of word play and spread from there, it didn’t start as a mispronounciation. That was… aaahhhhh, in the early eighties? Might have been mid eighties that it got fairly popular among kids. But it started after the ET movie. Before that, it was not something I ever heard, though it is possible it happened before then outside of my area. Now, I can’t find a clip that supports my memory, but I remember et saying Reese’s pieces either in the movie, or a commercial or something.

However, that’s where the weird pronunciation came from in my area, kids saying it in an ET mimicking voice. I strongly suspect that this was not the only place it happened.

However, Reesees’s cups was an occasional pronunciation before that, or at least my memory is of it being used in my early childhood, say late seventies to early eighties, by adults. Thing is, it was done as an exaggerated thing by my family, not as the actual pronunciation. I’m not aware if they were poking fun at people that did say it that way, or if it was just fun word play (my family runs high to that kind is linguistic tomfoolery). The family members prone to it are too dead to ask, so I’m left with only recollection in that regard.

As a side note, when you can’t make an unpopular opinion post without insulting people, it just makes you seem like an asshole. Are you an asshole? If not, maybe reconsider your posting habits. If so, carry on ()*()!

People who pronounce it as “Reesee’s” invariably seem to be the same ones who mispronounce things like “pellow” or “malk.” Just utterly useless people.

Now talk about people who pluralize mass nouns with an S; like happies, harms, mails and e-mails. Because the 4th grade was so long ago.

You must love it when people say the word /ˈnukjəlɚ/.

Rhesus peices

Cool whip

Yeah those peanut butter cups really make my type 2 diabeeteez hurt but still better than having type 1 diabeetus and having to take a shot of lantisss (spelled lantus but have never heard a dr or pharmacist call it anything but lantiss.

Edit: Its the primary reason i switched to using Rezvxzoglgxzoglr

Im not sure how to vote. I just don’t feel anyone could possibly care enough for it to be popular or unpopular. I mean I guess unpopular but not so much because others disagree. More no one cares. I mean in the us people are being grabbed off the streets.

I’ll do you one better…People that say REESEES PEESEES.

lmao it’s me

I’ll just leave this here

I thought the point of pronouncing it like that was because it was dumb