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?!

Sorry Veni, just seen that you have mentioned the film.

It is the other way round. Espresso is the correct term and always has been. People in the U.K, some of them, mistakenly think it’s expresso -linking it in their head to express, as in speed. Espresso means forced. The coffee is forced through. It has nothing to do with speed. Spelling it as expresso is like writing boyz instead of boys. Save expresso for an express train.

I pronounce mcflurry as mac-flu-ree. Also cushion. Dh says cuh-shone. I say cushing. It annoys him. It annoys him more now DD says it like me 😁

Tumeric. It's turmeric, and the "r" is sounded.

I'd date the rise of "tumeric" to the last ten years.

Following from turmeric, paprika. It should be PAP-ri-ka, not pa-PREE-ka. I only found that out relatively recently.

More spelling words like drawer as draw.

Same but the one that gets on my nerves most is then and than. They're two different words with two different meanings if you say "I'm taller then you" it makes no sense whatsoever.

I see that online ALL the time and it drives me mad since the sentence now has different or no meaning because of that one word.

In connected speech an unstressed syllable is often elided.
"medicine"= /ˈmed(ə)sən/
The sounds in brackets mean they can, and often are, omitted. If you pronounce them, "medicine" has 3 syllables, if you don't, it has 2. Both are correct.
"batteries"= /ˈbæt(ə)riz/ Same thing. Can be pronounced with 2, or 3 syllables.

You're confusing spelling with sound.

I wondered how long it would be before this week's "let's point and laugh at those who don't speak like me" threw this one out.
I suggest you look up the shibboleths of Northern Irish sectarianism before pronouncing (no pun intended) on the virtues of aitch/haitch. And keep your mouth firmly shut on the matter if you ever go there.

The explanation as to why the mistake is made is very banal.
In English, there's the word "express".
We are used to the word "express"
We are used to lots of words that begin with "ex"
We hear, and start using a foreign word which is similar, but not the same, and apply our internal knowledge about our own language to it.
Nothing at all to do with inferring meaning.

The etymology of "express" is the same as "espressare" = to press out. The "fast" meaning came later.

My MIL told me one day that she wasn’t feeling well. She was describing her symptoms and said she felt like ‘reaching’. I asked her what was she ‘reaching’ for and she replied, ‘because I feel sick’. The look of confusion on both of our faces in that moment must have been a picture. I asked her if she meant if she felt like ‘retching’ (pronounced similarly to wretching). We then had a good old back and forth about the pronunciation of ‘retching’ until she had to leave the room to be sick. I still don’t know who’s right. She felt instantly better for being sick.

Retching is right.

It’s a mispronunciation of what is an Italian term for coffee - espresso.

@halfsiesonapotnoodle Thank you - I thought I had it right but she got me thinking there for a second….!

But then we get choklit (esp from Greg Wallace)!

Our school Elocution teacher told us that "chocolate" has three syllables.

It does if you want it to.
It has two if that's what you prefer. I think dictionaries give both transcriptions. We certainly teach that both are correct.

Hearing loss can lead to mispronounced words, especially if you've never heard them being spoken and are pronouncing them the way they're spelt.

It would be rude, yes. Especially since you already know what is literally meant.

Sometimes it's accents that maw works sound mispronounced. So yes I think it's rude to correct someone. It just makes the person doing the correcting sound like an ass.

If you are worried about being rude, I would say It's pretty rude to call people who mispronounce words "the idiots".

we say this as a family in-joke and try very hard to not let strangers overhear in case they think we’re thick. Also pronouncing hors d’ouvres to rhyme with horse-doofers.

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Goodness me, there’s a lot of “I am right and anyone who does something differently is WRONG” around here

There's a pub near here called the Barley Mow.

One of my neighbours pronounces the Mow to rhyme with cow.

You'd hate me, I regularly mispronounce some of those and frequently use made up words, well sort of mash ups. Dyslexic, no problem reading words out though it's a pretty broad thing.

Fortunately my friends are more tolerant.

More spelling words like drawer as draw.

This is a mistake that only non-rhotic speakers make. Those of us who sound that final "r" generally know to tack it on to the spelling.

I genuinely can't think of any other way to pronounce it

If you google the word and listen to the British and American pronunciations, they both sound like BUR-gler-eez.