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

lmao it's me

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.

Weird hill to even have a gentle discomfort on, let alone die on.

I know this person and I hate it.

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

My brother used to call them feces pieces, and yes, it rhymed.

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

Rhesus peices

The funny thing I've found is that they don't even realize they're doing it. So I ask them how to say the name "Reese" and they'll do it right. Then I'll ask what the possessive form of the name is and they'll say it correctly. The lightbulb moment is always really funny, but they still decide to be a fuckass and say it wrong anyway.

Cool whip

what is a diminutive lol

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".

It sounds better. Fight me

Gerrymander should be more like 'gary' than 'jerry'.

Halley's comet's namesake pronounced it more like hall-y if I recall right.

Think of it as a nickname

I'll just leave this here

yeah, same goes for "sherbert" people!

the apostrophe is silent

I did know someone named Reesee. And a person named Reesé too