What would you say to a friend/colleague who pointed out, kindly

[MadameCastafiore]

That you were mispronouncing a foreign word?

Just wondered if I am touchy or this is another time when she says something to me and I should stand up for myself?

Well, at work we all howled when a (educated and worldly wise) collegue mispronouced a common foreign food.

We all now refer to it as that colleague did, but she's a good sport. (Or maybe she now hates us all )

Lol at porn, no I meant as in Sean Penn. So Penne proniunced penn.

I say gilet to rhyme with millet JUST to piss my daughter off.

I have an app called howjsay and have just learnt how you say 'meme''

I can take requests if you want

"mongey toots"

ok the penne/sean thing

someone upthread said their relative pronounces the word 'penne' as if they are saying the word pen (what you write with ) but the poster used the actor Sean Penn (sp?) as a reference instead but thought it was enough to just use his first name and that people would get what she meant.

she wasn't saying that Sean is prounounced like 'penne' (the pasta) or that 'penne' is pronounced like porn or anything like that.

xpost with getorf

Fucking norah I have just noticed that mumsnet has an etiquette topic.

Just for us budding Hyacinths.

i kno i know it was ZABAGLIONE

If someone pointed out to me that I mispronounced something I'd laugh and ask them if it were really true and then thank them.

Why be nasty and defensive???????

Turniphead I say it like Rise-ling, but I'm also interested to know if that's correct!

how do you say meme? i say meem, is that right?

My app doesn't know Reisling
It's not that good obviously

How do you say gilet?

Thank you boo - please can you accompany me in my daily life so you can explain things to people when they look at the things have just said all the bloody time

I have a friend who calls Euros Eurios. I know what she means and think correcting her would be rude as it would make her feel embarrassed. If you knew what she meant then YWBU to have corrected her.

Yes it's meem

Oh yes, bruschetta is a good one that many people mispronounce; it should be 'brusketta' not ' bruchetta'.

Sorry - thought I was in AIBU.

Rees-ling.

Jilly Goolden told me.

Gilet is jeelay

jeelay

bruscketta

adn its LEDERHOSE - not hosen. trousers are SINGULAR in german

and here is my sisters favourite.

right
say "powder compact"
NOTE emphasis on pronouncing of compact.

now say compact disc

what the fuck happens?

In general I'd like to know if I was mispronouncing a word, because there are quite a few words that I know only through reading them and haven't really heard in RL

But if you are insisting that I say a word how it is pronounced by native speakers in a sentence of that language when there is an accepted anglicisation of the word, you need to chill out.

Or was it tagliatelle?

thanks dolly

getorf i would love to accompany you in your daily life- we could be the pronunciation police, OP could join us