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?!

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

My regional American accent features the wh being pronounced; the wine-whine merger is complete in most of the US, except for parts of the Southeast where I am from.

Sked for Americans and shed for Brits.

I remember when my dad bless him ordered an Expresso as he thought it would be served quicker

Watching a quiz show and the host said one of the prizes was a trip to Haiti and she pronounced it ‘ha-eaty’.

It’s burglaries in the uk too. I think op may have just outed themselves as someone to face the wrath of the pedants.

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.t

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

But people do point and laugh at regional dialects!

And Mumsnet isn't just for people living in England. There are many varieties of English spoken throughout the world today and many speakers of American English, Irish English, Australian English etc post on these boards.

The people mocking the haitch pronunciation, for example, are seemingly unaware that it's the correct pronunciation for many people in Northern Ireland - you don't even have to go outside the UK and still people are being mocked and 'corrected'.

Reproval on here isn't generally confined or directed to the residents of Bedfordshire 🤷‍♀️

I went for a wonder round ( wander)
I would be weary of doing that ( wary)
Worst of all is that people think they own a chest of draws or kitchen draw instead of drawers.

Idyllic being pronounced 'eye-dill-ik' really bugs me. It's a short 'I' - 'id-ill-ik'. I think people assume that it has some connection to the word 'ideal' and that's where the mistake comes in. But it's an unconnected word.

When Italian coffee shops hit London in the 60s though, people called it expresso. It was the English pronunciation.

Iv instead of I've when writing. Sets my teeth on edge!!!!

Bookkle and hospickle give me the rage. Along with pacificly.

Both are correct and both transcriptions are given in dictionaries. British English has historically favoured the /I/ pronunciation while US English the /ai/.

If everyone suddenly started pronouncing everything perfectly, spelling perfectly and using flawless grammar, what would people have to feel superior about? The mispronouncers are performing a public service.

My colleagues are currently driving me up the wall by pronouncing Tortoise 'Toytoise'

I baffled colleagues a few years ago when they discovered I have always thought it was pronounced tor-toys @Toddlerteaplease - how would you go with that!

MY MUM SAYS THIS

drives me absolutely crazy

I pronounce it as tor-toys. We did Alice in Wonderland as a school play and there's a joke where they ask why they call the teacher tortoise - because he taught us. Fine if you pronounce it toh-tiss but the joke fell completely flat.

Hy-eet-i was standard pronunciation for Haiti until a few years ago.

But 'burglaries' is a real word? What do you think they should be saying?

On the topic of crime podcasts, the one I listen to has the hosts saying 'whenever' when they mean 'when'

Eg 'she started crying whenever she realised he had died'

Drives me mad. They even addressed it in one episode because they'd apparently received numerous emails about it 😂 but still continue to use it incorrectly.

In the US, we say "burglarized" instead of the British English "burgled," but I think "burglaries" is used in both.

How are we supposed to say it now, then? Hay-tee?

Yup. Don't know when or how it came about but whenever I hear it spoken these days it's Hay-tee.

Idiots? Really? Is this what you need to feel good about yourself?

Unpleasant.

I might think it but I wouldn't start a thread about it.

But they're different parts of speech. Burgled and burglarised are both verbs, a burglary is a noun so as long as the podcaster is using it in the right way they can crack on!

Btw I'm from a separate country where we also say burglarised (American pronunciation with British spelling 😂)

You can correct very close family members like children, spouse, and possibly parents if you have that sort of easy relationship. You keep your mouth shut with everyone else.