People mispronouncing words!!!

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Is it rude to correct someone when they clearly mispronounce a word? 😂

I'm not talking about someone having dyslexia struggling to read a word out loud...

Also I'm SO curious to see if others truly don't know that they're saying the most obvious ones incorrectly e.g saying PACIFIC instead of SPECIFIC the mind boggles!! Or EXPRESSO instead of ESPRESSO

Another one which irks me is incorrectly saying DIAZEPAN instead of DIAZEPAM lol this one is so common...or pronouncing VEGAN as if it has an extra "a" after the "e" like VEAGAN 😂🤦🏼‍♀️

Heard someone pronounce the "ch" in ARCHIVE as ar-chive rather than ar-kive Lol I did not have the heart to correct them!

Any other good ones? Do you lot correct the idiots?!

No, I don't correct people.

I find people who use 'lol' in posts far more irritating.

I listen to a crime podcast where the host regularly talks about 'burgleries' - drives me mad!

Alrighty then @DramaAlpaca

People writing 'which' instead of 'that' really irk me.

My dh says sireen instead of siren, Therometer instead of thermometer, Partern instead of parting. He drives me up the fucking wall.

Vegan and veagan sound the same when I say them

People saying espresso or chorizo with a Spanish/Italian/whatever accent when they are English sound stupid imo. But whatever.

For mischievous saying Miss-cheeve-ee-us instead of miss-chevus
Orientated when they need to be saying oriented.
Brought for bought.
They all grate but I'd never be so impolite as to obviously point it out.
I sometimes subtly mirror the correct word later in the conversation though.
Written errors are also annoying but I just accept them as autocorrects. E.g.: bear vs bare, our Vs are, great Vs grate.

I’m not a fan of people dropping the letter g at the end of words.

Beth Rigby interviewing Priti Patel would drive me up the wall.

Don’t get me started on bought vs. brought. I only see and hear this mistake in the UK and it drives me up the wall.

Ive moved to a part of the country where loads of people seem to use the phrase towing and froing by saying 'towing and throwing'

Loads of them do it, I cant work it out. Ive been here 13 years now and more and more people do it all the time

Witherspoons instead of Wetherspoons

MACdonalds instead of McDonald's

My old English teacher pronounced thesaurus as thea-saurus

More spelling words like drawer as draw.

No, I don't correct them unless I'm at work and being paid to.
Nor do I correct the most atrocious grammar I see here on MN.

Tempting though it is.

Orientated is correct in British English.

Boyfriend says batt-er-ries as 3 syllables, I say batt-ries. I've no idea who's wrong but it really irritates me when he says it his way 😂

What? It's not EXPRESSO?

The way to do it is this -

1. If you are long time friends with the person- and I mean decades - you say that "You've heard the word X being pronounced as Y". Then be willing to back track on the pronunciation when they reveal it it is a famous social media person.
2. If you are their partner or spouse and a linguist repeat 1
3. If they are your parent repeat 1.
4. If they are your child who is not going through puberty or not just come out of it repeat 1.

In all other cases keep your mouth firmly shut.

Also you nee to remember some incorrect pronunciations are due to mouth shape e.g. teeth, tongue and/or others due to hearing. So even if you try to correct them there is no way the person can say the word how you think it should be pronounced.

Both are correct.
(Similarly: chocolate, vegetable, dictionary etc)
It's because they each contain a weak, unstressed syllable.

I make loads of these errors

I say orientated because oriented doesnt sound right
I say batteries with 3 syllables

I dont say expresso but I do remember the sketch with David Mitchell where he shoots someone who says it in an office!

I wouldn’t correct anyone, apart from my own children.

@MenaiMna

For mischievous saying Miss-cheeve-ee-us instead of miss-chevus.

Orientated when they need to be saying oriented.

Now I disagree here. I say miss-cheeve-ee-us, and orientated. 'Oriented' is wrong and odd. And miss-cheev-us sounds odd.

DO you say 'I could care less' too?

My DH says Feb-brew-are-ee and rest-er-ron and I'm not sure I would have married him if I'd realised how irritating that would be.

That said I've just had a whole conversation with DS about quilts and kilts which he didn't realise were different things so perhaps I shouldn't have reproduced with DH either.

My OH says loads of things wrong

He pronounces quay like its written. Says data like an american and says nazi in the most ridiculous way.

Batt-rees sounds odd. Batt-er-ies is correct IMO.

I HATE it when people say February as FEBREE instead of FEB-U-ARY.

And JAN-U-REE instead of JAN-U-ARY!