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?

Up until this evening I thought this word was "paper-view"
Turns out it's pay-per-view

rabbitfoodadvocate I've been saying couture quite like coo-chure (or something like it - with emphasis on the 2nd syllable)

How would you say it?

PP says cuttle-ree is wrong. I think that's how I say it and think it might be remnants of my mother saying some words in a more Irish way (she was 1/2 Irish)

A tangent, but that should you do when you hear someone else mispronounce? Should you take them to one side and tell them, or does it depend on your relationship?

I'm interested in this. Not the same but a friend of a friend uses the word "faggot" occasionally. He's Italian and I'm about 80% he thinks it means 'idiot' but I wasn't sure how to broach it

@GettingBackToMe I believe it's more of a ker-tour type pronunciation. Hard to write phonetically!

Another Kent one - Meopham

My sil consistently says "supposably" instead of supposedly, and "pacifically" instead of specifically. Does my head in! How she got a degree is beyond me.

Oh thanks @Silkei! Will try to amend my pronunciation!

My brother asked me to get him some purple walkers from the shop when I was on my way round to his.
I asked in the shop if they had any
wor-chester sauce crisps in the back, the bloke behind the counter just burst out laughing. I didn't know why until I told my brother and he corrected me.

@Libbylongtree - Mep'am
It's a good point from earlier - why does the lovely Kent have such odd names?! Not spelt oddly, but Badgers Mount and Pratts Bottom

Haitch

This always comes up on these threads.

Haitch is correct in Ireland, and many other English speaking countries.

In Northern Ireland, saying haitch or aitch gives away your cultural background - broadly, protestants say aitch and Catholics haitch.

Judging people for saying haitch is at best narrow-minded. At worst, depending on context, it can be sectarian and/or racist.

Mep'am!

Always thought that cease was pronounced keeze, until I heard someone reading the word aloud in class. So glad I wasn’t chosen to read that particular passage, I’d have looked a right idiot.

LivLemler racist?! Seems a bit of a jump, but interesting though, I was unaware there was an Irish divide over the pronounciation, so good to know.

Surely though you'd think judging someone for any mispronounced words was narrow minded, though? Not just 'haitch'?

SandettieLightVesselAutomatic the equality act definition of racism includes discrimination on grounds of ethnicity and nationality, so anti Irish bias is racist.

And yes, any judging of mispronounced words could be narrow-minded. But haitch isn't a mispronunciation, it's a different pronunciation. Saying something is wrong just because it's Irish (or American, Canadian, Australian etc) has distinctly nasty undertones.

The letter is called Aitch not Haitch.
I dislike the pronunciation Joolery for Jewelry.

Except it's Jewellery

dam autocorrect

Except it's damn

I used to pronounce imbecile to rhyme with turnstile.

I used to pronounce it Invicile

Yore just splitting hares.

I no

Eye no 2?

My fil says “sangwidge”.

Others that grate with me are “mindfield” and “cutting off your nose despite your face”.

In a sort of reversal of the oft-mentioned Hermy-own/Penny-lope/Percy-phone problem, I remember reading Mallory Towers and St Clare’s as a child and being baffled by this game called “LA-cross-ee.” I didn’t realise until I was teaching in the private sector myself... when I discovered the done thing is to call it “lax” anyway!