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?!

Geez some people have issues, my Ds has a speech issue with CH due his his palate, so maybe it's not being a dumbarse for some people. However I do laugh when DS corrects Dh when he says bo..le 🍼

@IstayedForTheFeminism haha with vegan/veagan think of it as the difference between "beacon" and "bacon"

Could not agree more with the accents on chorizo (choritho I keep hearing on tv) We don't all get on a plane to Pa-rie (if we're heading to Paris!!)

OH does this as well, muddling up wary and weary

But another one that I see a lot and hear a lot is people muddling up wondering and wandering. Drives me bonkers

But that's how it's pronounced.

Oriented is twat-speak.
Oriented is American English.

Sorry still can't work out what you mean.
Vegan is said so the ve rhymes with pea/pee.
Vea also rhymes with pea/pee

Surely the bacon/beacon only works if you pronounce Vegan and vay-gan like bacon is bay-con.

@PurpleButterflyWings 😂😂😂 excellent..I often use the PAREEEE argument to people using accents

Oh god yes, wander and wonder. Also, people saying back and fore. You mean back and forTH.

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

February is correct. The ris not silent. Restaurant is also OK, though, like Paris, the English pronunciation is also OK.

It’s annoying. Is it as annoying as someone starting a thread on MN that’s been done 47 million times before? I couldn’t say.

@IstayedForTheFeminism I've a terrible northern Irish accent which is only confusing matters 😂

I live in an area of the US where there are a lot of Spanish speakers. Here we use the Latin American pronunciation "cho-Ree-so."

DS2 "wrote" a book once. (It was the plot to Titanic.)
Jack and Rose wondered around the ship a lot. But in his defence he was about 6/7.

Yawn 🥱

Did they wonder if it would ever sink?

I find Forvo is quite useful for checking pronunciations of words like Rioja and chorizo.

I wish I knew what happened to it so I could check!

I had to sit through a presentation with someone who said nucular instead of nuclear. It was the main topic of the presentation and it drove me to distraction! I couldn’t hear anything but this mispronounced word!

Loads of people at work drive me mad saying 'illegible' when it should be 'eligible. It's like they can't hear the difference

I gritted my teeth at the audiobook of "A Gentleman in Moscow". The protagonist, a Russian Count would have had French as his daily language. yet still the reader pronounces 'penchant to rhyme with hen-pant instead of the French pon-shon The other one he does is to say "tolling" like "rolling". I've still got nine chapters to go.

But all the people I know do say 'fakhita' and 'khalapeno' - I've never heard them, or 'rioja' for that matter, pronounced with a British 'j' sound. Maybe I have heard 'jalapeno' with a 'j' but never 'fajita'.

Bit confused about the tolling?

Toiling?

Or tolling of the bell? In which case for me it rhymes with rolling

And 'tolling' does rhyme with 'rolling' standard in British English, though I agree about 'penchant'. Ask not for whom the bell tolls (rhyming with 'toles'), it tolls for thee.

I have another, there is a historian on the telly, hasnt done any programmes for a while but he did one on the Normans and others.

He pronounces known as 'know-en'

Drives me mad

While I'm here I should say that I'd never correct someone's pronunciation, it's rude, and recognise that language changes, e.g. Paree/ParIS.