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?!

Not really a mispronunciation, but it makes my teeth itch when people say ‘disinterested’ when what they actually mean is ‘uninterested’.

Disinterested means you are neutral and unbiased about something, you have no financial or emotional stake in it.

Uninterested is when you don’t care about something, when it loses your attention.

I hear and read it all the time.

DH and I are both massive pedants 😬 so it’s nice to have someone you can eye-roll with privately.

Because that's how it's pronounced, isn't it?How else is it supposed to be said??

Haha some excellent ones here restauRON also makes me giggle.

To all those offended this was 100% a light hearted post!! I don't actually think those that mispronounce words are idiots...and I also understand hearing problems/accents etc play a part to some extent 🙈🙈

My pet peeves are all over the TV at the moment. Wrath pronounced rath. I think this is standard American English but all the ones I’ve heard saying it are Brits.

Another one which I’ve noticed creeping in is sch instead of stu. It drives me insane - schudents, schudio. Where has it come from?

The only people I’d correct are my DH, children and parents. Unless someone could make themselves sound silly and you can help it. For example, they’re about to give a speech or go to a job interview and it’s a word that’ll definitely come up.

I just want to know if the OP is actually the laughing policeman? lol.

I heard someone pronounce mayonnaise as MYyonaise today im pretty sure it was her accent but it sounded quite endearing tbf

Specific/Pacific don't really bother me as such but specifically and pacifically strangly grates

This distinction wasn't always a rule. Current usage means that the distinction as to "disinterested" is being eroded and may well be gone completely in a few years.

www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/uninterested-or-disinterested

Marcus Aurelius the great philosopher says yes, it's rude to correct them. Instead you use the correct form in front of them, so they learn.

Espresso as EXpresso
Marshmallow as MarshmEllow

I totally correct my DP on these, sorry Marcus. Also when my 6 year old says gev instead of gave but that's not quite along the OPS lines.

Oh and my dp also says restRAUNT when it should be restaurant. It's like, he knows there's an au in there somewhere...I can't be bothered with that one.

Nobody is pointing and laughing at regional dialects or the way English is spoken by people not living in England. Likewise, no doubt most people in England wouldn't much like someone from elsewhere telling them how to pronounce things.

I would, however (and did), complain about a primary school teacher in Bedfordshire who was teaching her class to say 'Haitch'.

Wrath is pronounced rath surely Shirley?

Plus I say shduoodunts etc etc

No I don't pick up people who pronounce words differently from me BUT that extra non-existent syllable drives me quietly nuts. I think its a London thing, maybe not. Conk-er-ete. Ath-er-lete. Wemb-er-ley. Batteries, on the other hand, are definitely batteries. And no to miss- cheve-ee-us. No ee.

It's also the case in most Scottish accents. I say FebRuary and WeDnesday. We used to have activities in English textbooks that asked the pupils to write down the silent letter in these words - I used to just tell them to miss those out!

Any words that begin with wh are pronounced as wh, not w so that caused confusion too.

Wrath. Roth is English. Rath is USA.

And - dear God I need to get off here - restaur-a-teurs not restaur-ont-eurs.

I say lunkshun meat not luncheon and paldbied for piedbald. Also laundry-ette and kaff instead of Cafe. DP's freind pronounces macabre as mack-ah-bruh.

No Londoner that I know, me and my family for example, says conc er reet or wemb er ley

Batteries yes

Most of us shorten things down.

Although as with someone else up above, I cannot stand 'medsin' instead of medicine.

Yes its kaff

As distinguished from cafe with the little 'ay' at the end to denote a high tone establishment

Ah, bellac listen to a sports reporter, it will plague you for evermore.

Does schedule start with a sked sound or a shed sound

Either.

@RaraRachael , that's interesting, I'd forgotten about the "wh" being given the full welly along with the rhotic R.

"I would, however (and did), complain about a primary school teacher in Bedfordshire who was teaching her class to say 'Haitch'"

Why?

Bet the headteacher rolled her eyes after you complained and did the grand total of bugger all about it. Says a lot about you if you actually complained about it, and maybe you need to research the reasoning behind it, which has already been talked about on this thread.

Ex MIL used to say Thee-et-er with the emphasis on "et"

used to drive me insane. but no you never correct

generally instead of genuinely seems to be getting more and more usual. very annoying

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