Irritating pronounciation

[percheron67]

I have just seen the Tesco steak ad and wish that the woman talking would not use a glottal stop in the middle of words. Perhaps this is regional but it sounds very lazy.

[MeanTangerine]

*pronunciation

[PurpleFlower1983]

Have to admit I find poor spelling more irritating.

[Merryoldgoat]

MeanTangerine beat me to it.

[LadyOdd]

My friend always says baguette as bag et. Tbh makes me love her more!

[ReggieKrayDoYouKnowMyName]

As someone with an estuary accent living in the estuary region, I can’t get too het up about the odd glottal stop, but do get annoyed if someone’s just lazily doing it because they’re not opening their mouth wide enough.

The one I hate is “almond” pronounced “aLmond”.... it’s pronounced bloody bastard “aRmond” and it says so in the bloody bastard dictionary.

[HoneyBadgerApparently]

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

[MonaLisaSimpson]

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

This. Plus who doesn't pronounce the L in almond??

[dontticklethetoad]

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

Perhaps bagwette?

[FlibbertyGiblets]

Bag et.

Aw mund.

[Merryoldgoat]

The L in almond is silent and it gives me rage when people pronounce it.

www.dictionary.com/browse/almond?s=t

[RedDwarves]

Nothing shits me more than "neg-oh-SEE-ay-shun" for negotiation. Where on fuck's earth are you pulling an S from?!

[RedDwarves]

Plus who doesn't pronounce the L in almond??

Many people, in the same way that salmon is "sammon" not "sal-mon".

[daisyinatree]

Which ad? Do you have a link?

[Merryoldgoat]

YES RedDwarves!

Fucking Theresa May says it all the time and it makes me feel stabby.

I realise I’m lucky to have such trivial problems.

[Merryoldgoat]

@LadyOdd - how SHOULD she say baguette?

Is she saying BAG-et rather than bag-ET?

[LipstickHandbagCoffee]

Everyone knows the best mn pronunciation bunfight is Evelyn
Inevitably someone rocks up to say ever- linn...

[daisyinatree]

Re the pronunciation of ALMOND...

Who would say AWmund? Sounds like a completely different word!

I say it as al-mund Defo pronounce the L.

The way SALMON is pronounced is irrelevant.

[RedDwarves]

The way SALMON is pronounced is irrelevant.

Except that it's not.

[LipstickHandbagCoffee]

Almond
No I don’t emphasise the l
Ahh.mund as in ahhmund latte please

[Merryoldgoat]

@daisyinatree

Look at my link - you can actually listen to the audio file - it’s clearly a silent ‘L’.

[Eemamc]

Almond fits in with palm, balm and alms, their all have an ar sound, the l is not pronounced. It really winds me up.

[Eemamc]

Ok, so I just watched the ad... it’s Sarah Millican narrating. I’m failing to see the problem OP? What is it that you don’t like about the way she speaks?

[Greenyogagirl]

It’s just different accents and speech patterns mixed with the ability now to watch tv/Internet of people around the world, the ability to travel more etc nobody speaks ‘perfectly’
What annoys me is when Americans prounce Herbs as Urbs.

[WaxOnFeckOff]

Almond fits in with palm, balm and alms, their all have an ar sound, the l is not pronounced. It really winds me up.

Yes, you don't say the L but you also don't replace it with an R.

[daisyinatree]

@merryoldgoat

And look at MY link. The L is clearly pronounced.

There is no right or wrong, and anyone who thinks the way they pronounce it, is the 'correct' way, is breathtakingly arrogant.

Personally I think 'ahhhmund' and ARmund sound ludicrous, but I would not be so arrogant as to say you were pronouncing it 'incorrectly, because I don't pronounce it that way!

And IMO, the way salmon is pronounced has fuckall to do with the way almond is pronounced, no matter how you insist it does @reddwarves

Now how about you stop presenting your opinions as facts? It's making you look a bit twattish.