"That Griggio stuff"

[DuchessOfDisaster]

One of my friends always preferred rose wine, semi-sweet or sweeter wines. I forgot that and one day when I went over for supper took a bottle of Pinot Grigio. She liked it and started to buy it for herself.

Now, she refers to it as "that Griggio stuff" (pronounced with a hard g!) It's embarrassingly amusing!

Do you have any mates that say things like this?

@Gubanc

Well... most people order a lattey in a coffee shop.

Yes, also in Italy. What with it being the correct pronunciation and all. Obviously, you'd only get a glass of milk, but there's nothing wrong with that pronunciation.

My mum say miss-cheev-ee-ous for mischievous which she likes to say a lot when referring to my DC.
I know it’s quite a common mispronunciation (or miss-pronounce-iation ) but it gets my goat every time

Never heard that in Italy.

@Gubanc

Never heard that in Italy.

Roughly transcribed, Italians pronounce "latte" as "lattay" (slightly shorter, more clipped final sound than an English "ay" would be, but only minutely) I guess that's how your "lattey" would be pronounced?

Whatever. The English pronounce it completely differently from Italians.

@Gubanc

Whatever. The English pronounce it completely differently from Italians.

Yes, probably some of them do. I was referring to the pronunciation you gave as being incorrect, which actually isn't. Though I'd still say it's one of the Italian words that English speakers tend not to get wrong. Other than semantically.

@Eminybob

My mum say miss-cheev-ee-ous for mischievous which she likes to say a lot when referring to my DC. I know it’s quite a common mispronunciation (or miss-pronounce-iation ) but it gets my goat every time

My phonology examiner said "pronounce-iation" and I was "why did I even bother studying this shit if you can just choose the version you want!"

My mum called the colour beige ‘beege’.Mil has her own names for a lot of things:
Dunelm-Dunlin
Ibuprofen-ibufoben
Clarins-Clairns
Ponden Mills-Pod-den mills

I worked with a girl who got nice ‘sasparrillo’s’ (pronounced exactly like that) from Spain. It was a pair of Espadrilles.

@BashfulClam

My mum called the colour beige ‘beege’.Mil has her own names for a lot of things: Dunelm-Dunlin Ibuprofen-ibufoben Clarins-Clairns Ponden Mills-Pod-den mills

I worked with a girl who got nice ‘sasparrillo’s’ (pronounced exactly like that) from Spain. It was a pair of Espadrilles.

I noticed a fellow teacher's makeup looked amazing, and asked what brand she used. She kept saying something like "Clarranne" (she'd gone to a bilingual French-English school) and it took me ages to work out she meant Clarins. It's interesting I think which foreign words get quickly assimilated and which still cause problems. It must be nearly 30 years since Delia first used chorizo and she still anglicises it.

I can't think of anything pacific at the moment to contribute.

I think the British thing of deliberately mispronouncing foreign words is pathetic.

Yes, also in Italy. What with it being the correct pronunciation and all.
Obviously, you'd only get a glass of milk, but there's nothing wrong with that pronunciation.
That's exactly what happened to my SIL's friend when they were staying at Lake Como. She was quite surprised!

The Royal Society for Pismorunciation.

On the flip side I sometimes roll my eyes at people who use the right term in an obnoxious way. For example, I know someone who smugly asks for a panino rather than a panini as he knows it's technically correct. I think it makes him sound like an arse. The person behind the counter gives not a shit about your showing off, pal.

NDN has a cleaning company an often talks of her 'mibo-fibre cloths' - microfibre cloth
My aunt says 'coyun' instead of coin
Cousin wanted to call her ds 'chawes' (couldn't say Charles) He was named differently when her husband told her they'll name him it if she could say it without the voice of the queen... we live in Scotland with Fife accents. She couldn't say it

My DM talks about “conovirus”

I always muddle myself when ordering a calzone.
Is it?
I doubt what I've said each time so say cal-zony then cal-zone so they know what I'm talking about (I hope?)

Bolero jacket pronounced boll(like doll) -uh-row. Also have a family member who puts the hard G in grigio and the only time I corrected him (when a waitress had no idea what he was asking for) he got really shirty and said "well that's how I say it".

Aww and my nana always used to say pee-zah with a soft z

@BashfulClam My lovely late dad had loads of these. He couldn't get to grips with Banoffee pie at all (and he loved it) so it was always referred to as bananaoff. Still makes me

@HPLikecraft

My DH was talking with DD about Afghanistan - a bit of history and the current situation.

He knows more than I do, so I didn't want to complain but he kept saying "Tally-ban" and "Afghany-stan" . Made me cringe!

Is he Scottish? That would be normal here. Could go on all day about oh we words too. My brain struggles to allow me to pronounce Paella anything other than pay ella. There's loads of proper British words that are non phonetic that I automatically read as they sound too and have to manually translate in my head 😆

Geamh... (sorry can't reply to your post on my phone) my way of mispronouncing it was referring to the way I hear it being said in England rhyming with 'lay' .
If you google 'latte Italian pronunciation' you'll hear the proper way of saying it which is a different and shorter sound.

Aw also my granny cooking ‘spaghetti ball-og-nees’

MIL

Money - mon-gey
Bus - buzz

So. Fucking. Annoying.

I do know someone who does duh-COOP-idge (decoupage) as a hobby.