"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?

@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! What a mean spirited thread.

@Kithic
Charade pronounced as sha-rad, not aha-raid

Aha-raad (bloody autocorrect)

😳 Sha-raad

@MeltedCheeseonTop

MIL calls Ciabatta See-A-Batta

Mine calls it ja-patta. Took us a while to work out that she wasn't after an Indian flatbread to accompany her pasta.

And MIL's most recent was offering DD a bottle of JLo. She had orange and passion fruit or mango and apple varieties in stock

@Blueeyedgirl21

Gatorade to rhyme with charade is genuinely funny though 😬

How s it supposed to be pronounced then?

Gator-ade rhymes with char-ade, I don’t get how it’s meant to be pronounced if not this way.

Well I guess the reading= mispronunciations applys to me re the cherade pronunciation.

@Afonavon

Well I guess the reading= mispronunciations applys to me re the cherade pronunciation.

Me again!

Just looked it up, and realised the the American pronunciation is char-ade rhymng with Gatorade. I was raised by an American Dad, so there we go.

@EIIa

Despite having lived in Spain for years and repeatedly having guests...

My sister still calls paella pie-Ella and talks about koritzo (chorizo)
😂😂

I reeeaaaally hope you don’t drop ‘pie eh uh’ into an English conversation. I would spit my wine out….

MIL says 'fruneral' instead of funeral

My dad’s wife calls her grandson Alfie “Arfy”
Not an accent thing as her daughter with the same accent is capable of pronouncing it correctly. Just baffles me.

@Holly60, but why would someone deliberately mispronounce a word to spare the feelings of someone else?

@shreddednips

And 'Gatorade' to rhyme with 'charade'

I'm now wondering which one of these I'm saying wrong

I say the last syllable of both like "aid". Is that not right?

I say char-ard so someone pronouncing Gatorade as Gator-ard is funny

@BashfulClam

You just gave me a happy my granny used to say beege. Would give my all to hear her say it just once more.

Gatorade rhymes with lemonade

Charade rhymes with lard in this country

In America it would also rhyme with lemonade

@FitYeDaeinYeMadRadge I’ll get my mum to record it in her broad Ayrshire accent. She said ‘aw that hoose doactir does is stick up mirrors and paint everywhere beege!’

@BashfulClam
She’s not far wrong though wi her review o the Hoose Doctor

@FitYeDaeinYeMadRadge true, she’s no. I just burst out laughing though.

@Soubriquet

Gatorade rhymes with lemonade

Charade rhymes with lard in this country

In America it would also rhyme with lemonade

I'm so confused by the whole Gatorade thing and feel I'm the only one who doesn't get it 😆. Charade, Gatorade and lemonade all end in the same song here and I'm not in America?!

Char-ard here.

So gator-ard sounds stupid.

Why is everyone so confused

@cheesemarmitepanini

Char-ard here.

So gator-ard sounds stupid.

Why is everyone so confused

Maybe because many of us don't say char-ard. Not sure where you've found an extra R from 😆. I say char ayde like gator ayde and lemon ayde

Bit like grass, glass, bath, charade, transport (long a) etc etc etc etc

Anyway, I'm still amused by 'min-yons' and have adopted this at home

Charade, gatorade and lemonade all end the same in Scotland.