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How many people do I hear saying expresso?!!!

It really grates me although I can sorta see why people make the mistake...

Am I the only one??!!

Nope it really annoys me too.

YANBU.

I hate it when people say things wrong.

"I'm going to Tescos"

It's TESCO. There is no S. FFS the writing about the doors couldn't be big enough. But then, I am in a shitty mood and these things annoy me more if I'm already irritable.

Me too. Hate it.

Not helped though by the fact that I have a tassimo coffee machine and the espresso pods say eXpresso on them. I assume it's some kind of branding exercise but it bugs me! ESpresso.

i think you all need to take a chill pill

Oh god Tescos annoys me too. Along with Asdas and John Lewis's.

And it is pronounced BrusKetta not Bru-Shetta! That winds me up no end!!!

Had a friend who would say 'Im going to The Asda!!!!!!' Arrrrrrrrrgh!!

Maybe Sainsbury's causes the confusion. you know what maybe it comes from the days when local butchers/grocers would be the person's name so to say you were going to Smith's for example would make sense. Sainsbury's still follows that.

I dunno. Just a possible explanation!!

ungyin instead of onion i cringe every time i hear it but then it does bring back bad memories for me so maybe thats why

i find it more annoying when people get openly annoyed by someone not pronouncing something correctly or spelling something wrong........

I agree with all of the above.

What about when people say they got something from 'Marksis', <so wrong, I don't even know how to spell it>

ungyin!!! AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!!

DH says Birnunum for Birmingham. The fact that I have not throttled him yet is probably due to the fact that we live nowhere near it and have very little reason to talk about it.

Yip, espresso and nope, YANBU.

oh, and when did we introduce an 'r' into 'latte'?

it isn't 'la-r-tte'. Just a nice, unmolested latte.

gracie.

There is an M&S in Leeds with a sign saying "Expresso Bar" inside the store. It really irritates me.

I even heard Saint Delia call it expresso on one her cookery progs!

If you feel that way, you'll love this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3y0CD2CoCs

(That Mitchell and Webb Look)

ahem

YANBU. Both eXpresso and bruSHetta wind me up. Then again, we live about 15 mins from the Italian border so these two mistakes are made only by tourists and new residents.

how? Just how?? How on earth did you dig up a year old thread about the word 'expresso'? How....??

Huh I just started this thread!

Dee are you Dr Who?? I think you are getting confused my lurve!

Oh sorry now I see you meant lambeths link!!!

have (yet) another Baileys

Interesting link lambeth - bizarre how this thread went down the same path as well - bruschetta etc. interesting!

<hic>

but no-one noticed the ironic 'grazie' deliberate error......

has a coffee with a French friend last Saturday - she just had to correct ALL of the mis-spellings on the types of croissants advertised in the cafe....she was wonderful company.....