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?

Samwidge is my husband's preferred pronunciation!

Amateur is my favourite mispronunciation. If I hear someone say 'ama - cher' my punching fist gets restless.

It annoys me too, and there seems to be a trend of saying s as sh. As in 'Lasht year'.
I also dislike sickth

Sangwidge is just accent though, surely? My Glaswegian flatmate would have a sangwich for her break-fast. It wasn’t until I’d heard her strange (to me) way of saying breakfast that I appreciated the actual meaning of the word! I’d never even thought about it before.

I dislike the pronunciation Joolery for Jewelry

I caught myself saying "joolry" the other day. Even worse!

My friend says hosp-ical instead of hospital.

I've always wondered why. Surely everyone has seen the word hospital written down and knows it has a T in it.

@HalfBloodPrincess well your DP can calm down as those are regional variations

@flumpybear BELVOIR IS PRONOUNCED BEAVER?? Wtf

I also know a lot of people who mispronounce Marylebone- when they live there. One of them refused to believe me that it is marl-eh-bone because the bus robot voice doesn't say that 🙄🙄🙄 the robot voice pronounces many many words incorrectly.

@BlackPrism I’m a Londoner, he’s Welsh, so I’m surprised it’s all we disagree on.

(Although We have had quite a few disagreements about how to teach ds the correct pronunciation of ‘tooth’ though 🤣)

Haha I’m from Plaistow. Want to punch the tannoy whenever it says “plaaay- stow”

How about Pasture-ised (or pashderised) milk

Take your sat nav to Wales. It has terrible trouble pronouncing the place names.

My Dad used to get loads of place names wrong, eg Chicago (Chi not Shi), Arkansas he used to rhyme with Kansas.

Ooh, we need examples, iklboo.
I often hear howlers like Betsy Coyd, Caple Coo-rig, Lan Wurst...

And please, Plaid Cymru is NOT pronounced Plide Koomry. It's pronouced Plide Come-ry (nearly). I'm looking at you Jenny Murray.

Surely Epilogue is Eppy-log??

Ours pronounced Caerwys as 'car-wise' and Denbigh as Denbig. I was dying to take it to Llanfair

I once listened to the ward clerk go round all the patients asking them if they’d like mine-strown soup for lunch the next day

The train voice used to say Ard Gay when approaching Ardgay. Don’t know if it still does

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Ooh, thanks iklboo. Care-wiss is horrible if you speak welsh but Car-wise is funny. I used to work with people who said they lived in Kugg-early.
Not heard Denbig before, I've heard Roo-thin, but the one I hate the most is Rudlund

(if you're wondering, anyone, Ruthin is pronounced Ri-thin, Denbigh Denby, Rhuddlan is Rhudd(rhymes with 'with' )-Lan.
Caergwrle and Caerwys don't have easy transliterations.

Creme Egg. I always say it like Cream Egg!

Creme egg is cream egg if you mean the Cadbury sweet

Creme Egg. I always say it like Cream Egg!

Errrr, is there another way to say it?!

Crem euff? ;)

The cream pronunciation must be correct, there's no accent on Creme.