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 one of those words, burg-la-ries or burgle-rees. Like library. Li-bree or Li-bra-ree. Secretary, Sec-ruh-terry or Sec-uh-terry. Some people can't/don't pronounce the difficult R.

Yes. In fact, the noun "burglary/burglaries" came first. The verb forms were back-formed from the noun, and as sometimes happens, American English went one way and British English went another.

There's a place in north east England called Barley Mow which does rhyme with cow, there's a pub there called the Barley Mow too. Maybe she knows that area and assumed that's the way it's always pronounced?

Some people there, usually older people, will say Mow to rhyme with cow, but most people say mow to rhyme with low and only Barley Mow rhymes with cow.

I hope that makes some sense, too many mows and cows!

I'm Scottish and I've only ever heard it pronounced here as tor-toys. I only realised a few years ago that some people say tor-tiss; it was a post on social media and the consensus in the comments seemed to be a north vs south thing, though I can't be sure!

Rediculous instead of ridiculous. I've seen and heard this a fair bit, both written and spoken.