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?!

It’s not a word. It’s espresso. With an S. No X. Both in writing and in speech.

'The Beast' from The Chaser always says "firty-free fousand pounds"

*chase!

There's a few of these, such as the hyperbole/ hyper-bowl example, that are likely from someone reading, rather than hearing the word.

Judging someone for their pronunciation is bad enough in general, but it seems particularly unfair when it seems likely they've developed their vocabulary through reading because they haven't got the background where they would hear the words used.

If you can understand what they're saying, the most you should do is use the word as naturally as possible in front of them. Anything else (unless it's your own child or someone you're teaching, when it should be done discretely and kindly ) seems like an attempt to put someone back in their place.

@PurpleButterflyWings I say Febyerry

Crikey am going to stop speaking to anyone and use sign language instead !

@Dreikanter Thats it!

I don’t know the correct way - but when he says it grrrr

@DinosaurPotato

Somewhat racist to dismiss what the Portuguese and Brazilians call that type of coffee.

Ditto to @SundayTeatime

Sometimes it's to do with regional accents how people pronounce words. I'm from N.ireland but it's always irritated me that people in the South of England pronounce pattern without the r sound, like patten. Also irritating when newsreader don't get pronounce place names correctly .

@VeniVidiWeeWee we are taking about UK pronunciation though? I'm not sure how it is said in Portugese-speaking countries. I have however asked my Brazilian friend and he said he says espresso.

They don’t. Portuguese would call an espresso bica. Type in expresso, it’ll correct to espresso, with lots of articles explaining.

There's a few of these, such as the hyperbole/ hyper-bowl example, that are likely from someone reading, rather than hearing the word.

I have been guilty of this with hyperbole and crudités, many years ago.

Espresso doesn't contain an 'x' though. I've worked in a Portuguese restaurant and not one person pronounced it 'expresso'.

I have difficulty saying "Th" and always have. It isn't deliberate.

Googling says bica is for Lisbon only. Certainly my experience is that expresso is generally used.

Try searching expresso Portuguese and Brazil.

You will find results.

I wouldn't correct someone in real life, but I do get a burning desire to throw things at the television when voice-over artists on science and nature programmes are unable to pronounce 'nuclear' or 'anemone' properly.

As for charity adverts which pronounce 'research' incorrectly - well... they're not getting a donation from me.

I live in Portugal so let me enlighten the confused ones regarding Portuguese. Espresso does not exist in Portuguese at all. A small coffee (in a regular espresso cup) is either a bica (down south Portugal) or just café in Portugal (up north) and in Brazil. I've lived in Brazil and never heard anyone call coffee an espresso. However the word expresso is real and it means super fast, it has nothing to do with coffee. There's the "expresso" bus/train which goes between towns and doesn't stop at any villages inbetween. It can also relate to sth which is put into formal and clear words.
Now that's been cleared, OP I find that the lower my ferritin level gets the more I mess up my words. I'll write sth, go back after a while to read it and it's like I have dyslexia. When I talk I mix words that sound similar but are not related in meaning, or I mix words that relate to the same context but are not synonymous. It's really strange and I haven't been able to get a clear explanation for this yet or fix it, so maybe you shouldn't be so judgmental...? Not all people who can't get the right words out are stupid or uneducated.

www.bienmanger.com/buy-coffees/origin-coffee-brazil/preparation-expresso/

Please see above.

Also, the 1959 film, Expresso Bongo.

That website calls the coffee espresso, though.

Nucular instead of nuclear is the one that drives me mad, it's not even just a mispronunciation, it's a totally different word!

I suggest you avoid many parts of Scotland then... here we also say Jai for J which I hear is almost as irritating as saying haitch

Sorry, are you using an English website as your source for Portuguese...? There are "máquinas expresso" or "cafeteiras" which are coffee makers for espresso but the "expresso" here has to do with the coffee makers not with the actual size of the mug which is how it's used in English. Correct me if I'm wrong but an espresso is a small cup and it has nothing to do with where/how you make it.

Expresso has been used in the UK for years. Some of us will remember the film
Expresso Bongo starring Cliff Richard. I'm sure it's only been pronounced espresso until fairly recently, i.e. last 5-6 years.

What about the people who say pronounciation instead of pronunciation? :D

I lived in the UK over 10 years ago and I called an espresso... an espresso. Never heard anyone call it an expresso tbh!