"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?

My bestie says "mouse turd" instead of mustard

@torquewench

My bestie says "mouse turd" instead of mustard

I'm worried this will never be unseen

This reminds me of an episode of Great News where the old school news anchor refers to having interviewed “Peen-elope Cruzz” (Penelope Cruz). It made me laugh a lot😬

I was pronouncing Covid with a short 'o' sound until another family member pointed it out to me tbf though due to severe anxiety I had been avoiding all pandemic related news and had only ever seen the word written down. She made me feel a right wally though the way she mocked me over a family FaceTime.

My sons dad mispronounces things on a daily basis and it makes my day (in a nice way). There are too many to remember them all but things like 'iburofen' 'once smitten twice shy' ..and one of my favourites is that 'west end girls' song from the 80s he would sing along to the radio 'in a west end town in a denemwaaahh' ...I had to listen to the singers closely before I realised it was 'dead end world' 🤣 but I still love to sing that line!

Michael Gove wants you to pronounce Covid with a short o so it doesn't sound like his name. It's how he always says it. So at least you're making someone happy!

I have a friend who pronounces 'breakfast' as 'breakfrast', with an 'r' in the middle. And another friend who can't ever say 'spaghetti', she says 'buscetti'. Both drive me nuts.

Ooh, years ago I was gently corrected by my SIL when I pronounced the Gris in Pinot Gris phonetically.

In my defence I did Spanish not French at school, but I still wince when I remember it.

Once smitten twice shy is excellent @Raggedyanabell

@Belleager

Once smitten twice shy is excellent *@Raggedyanabell*

😁

For all our fall outs he really does make me laugh!

@LargeBouquet

I know somebody who pronounced Yves Saint Laurent as Yervez sant lorrent.

I'm going to call him that from now on.

I say it too 🤣

I know it's not the same as when an adult mispronounces it but when my little boy says buscetti instead of spaghetti, I love it so much...it makes me want to squish his face 😆
I regularly make buscetti and meatballs or buscetti bolognese just to hear him say it 😁

@BigWhooper

Michael Gove wants you to pronounce Covid with a short o so it doesn't sound like his name. It's how he always says it. So at least you're making someone happy!

Haha well at least I'm not completely alone on that then 😅

Min-yun is right isn’t it ?! I’ve a strong Manchester accent though so people who ‘speak proper’ probably think every thing I say is wrong

If I heard someone say ‘choreetho’ and they weren’t either a fluent Spanish speaker ie. Native speaker or lives there a long time, I’d think ‘absolute wanker’ I’m afraid

Mil has a few 'acrost' for across, 'subamarine' (yes, singing yellow subamarine 😐), and she calls Whitley Neil gin Whiteley Neil. DH says cullender (for colander), and I once knew someone who said breaksfast.

Re chorizo, I pronounce it with a soft z, if it's meant to be choritzo or choritho I just can't bring myself to say it either of those ways!

My mother says triceratops in a way I've never heard anyone say it before. I rather wonder if she's saying it right and everyone else is saying it wrong because she says it with such emphasis, as though she knows something I don't and is trying to correct me.

She says it 'triss-ra-tops' with a short 'i' as in 'igloo'.

She also says 'having a Caesar' instead of having a Caesarean section.

And 'Gatorade' to rhyme with 'charade'

My sister always says what's it according rather than regarding.

My grandma loved watching Agatha Christie's Poirot - but she couldn't say it and called him Pyro.

Even though she watched it every time it was on the TV and I'm sure they said his name a few times in it.

I decided to teach her how to say it one day and she thought she had it - and announced triumphantly, "Pwar- rar!"

He went back to being Pyro by the week after

Gatorade to rhyme with charade is genuinely funny though 😬

@shreddednips

She also says 'having a Caesar' instead of having a Caesarean section.

That’s kind of brilliant.

Why is paella pronounced the Spanish way pretentious but tortilla is just normal ?

Should we all say tortilla with an L sound?

@Popitdontstopit

What's that meme I've seen, "never mock someone for mispronouncing a word, as it means they learned it by reading". Something like that anyway.

Love this!

You might like to know that calzone actually means trouser leg- hard to say how it became a foldover pizza!

Because a trouser leg is all the way round?

@Blueeyedgirl21

Gatorade to rhyme with charade is genuinely funny though 😬

Is it?

Gay ter aid ?