Mispronounced words

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I have embarrassingly only just realised that "ballache" isn't pronounced ballash... obviously I know the word ballache but I'd always pictured it in my mind as two words or at least hyphenated.

Are there any words that you mispronounce due to only having seen it written down and not said aloud?

Forum pronounced 'for-room' drives me mad! Met two people that do it (I work somewhere where we have various forums so I hear this A LOT).

Aww, he sounds good fun :) Never a dull moment!

Steve Wright drives me mad with his mispronunciation of pronunciation where he says 'pro nounce iation' if that makes sense.

DS's classics are:

Beethoven: bee tho ven
Epilogue: ee pee log

I hate it when people say mischeivious instead of mischievous. There is no third i people!

@DappledThings

Someone I know consistently says ‘Bur-mun-um’ when referring to Birmingham.

I sometimes say it like this as a joke. It's an exaggerated way of saying it in a Brummie accent. Don't use that pronunciation seriously though.

Ahhhh I see! Thanks for that, I didn’t know... he genuinely thinks he’s correct though!

‘Coronation’ milk. We were celebrating the coronation with a group of five year olds and one of the mums said ‘we’ll need to get some coronation milk!’

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StealthPolarBear I think the poster meant that you can pronounce it pay-stee as well as pass-tee as in the word to mean the pallor and texture of someone's face like in pasty faced."

Of course thank you!

I say St pancreas, mil said it once and I was amused. I have probably started to do it routinely. Oops. Luckily it's not somewhere I go often.

@3out He is brilliant fun 😂 I'm studying for an interview atm and he's trying to work out the phrase failing to prepare is preparing to fail. He'll never get there 😋

😂😂 I’m picturing a very confused man!

Good luck with the interview!

My friend, who is a personal trainer, says "skelington" for "skeleton". I can't bring myself to tell her.

I'm fairly sure Brummies pronounce the 'g' in Birmingham. The g being over-articulated in an 'ng' is a real Brummie trait. 'Bur-mun-um’ might be Black Country? Might need to seek out someone from there now and see!

My driving instructor says Par-i-ell for parallel. Considering he must say it a million times a day I am surprised he hasn't got it right yet.

If someone can pronounce this that isn't from Kent, I'll eat my hat.

Trottiscliffe

It’s Trossley, or something like that?

Trolley?

Yup. Trossley! My husband is from up north and really takes the piss out of unpronounceable Kent place names. Another one is Wrotham.

Oh also, Malling

Black Country people also strongly pronounce the G sound too. The word "singing" is always a giveaway of West Midlands origins

There’s a place in West Yorkshire spelt Slaithwaite. It isn’t pronounced like that though. If you’re local, it’s Slough-it.

"Disorientated" really irks me, because it's so widespread. It's "disoriented", people!

No, it isn't! The correct word is "disorientated".

Slough like sluff or slough like slow (as in brow)?

Sluff. The ough sound has so many variations though.

Tough
Plough
Cough
Though
Thought
And that's just off the top of my head. The English language is a marvellous but tricky beast!

Some words locally with the ough end rhyme with loch (not lock). It’s a tricky one!

Snakes slough (sluff) their skins, the town is Slough pronounced ow , slow is pronounced sloe. And a sloe actually is a hedgerow (oe) fruit.
—wish I hadn’t started that—