Most stupid mispronunciations and just weird words people say

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Them instead of those - them shoes
Pacific instead of specific
Should of instead of should have
Agreemence and agreeance instead of agreement
Chorizmo instead of charisma (the guy at work actually said it, pronounced it like a sausage)

I see a lot where people miss out the endings of words too. A lot of we were suppose to instead of supposed to.

Like Italians then.

Like Italians then.

No, I think the poster meant her friend says 'foka chee a* but it wasn't very clear from the phonetic rendering.

That's you not hearing the /d/ in close proximity to the /t/. People are pronouncing it, it just loses (acoustically) much of its strength as English doesn't generally weight end word sounds as much as beginning word sounds. The /d/ and /t/ effectively being the same sound, but with one voiced and one unvoiced make this phenomenon particularly noticeable. Both sounds are there, it's just that the /t/ is more easily heard. (say "good girl" really quickly. Same phenomenon. The /d/ gets "lost". It's there, but has lost much of its strength because of the following /g/

I see 'yous' has come up. We say 'yous' in NI. I say it myself. But I know not to write it down in a formal context. We also say 'yous'uns', as in you ones or you lot. I like it, but then I'm a huge fan of regional slang and variations. I love accents and love hearing the differences (and similarities) in how people from various regions express themselves.

@WhenIWasAFieldMyself I think I've been enjoying your work on these threads for many's a year under several different usernames for each of us

Ah, ok. Still not a bad rendering considering most Brits attempts to do "foreign" 😂

Likewise! ❤️ I always breathe a sigh of relief when I see your name.

Crips instead of crisps

Must come up with a standard reply, giving out (!) about people saying naughty when they mean bold, cupboard when it's a press, take when they mean bring etc. Would save time

Mischeevious 🙄 It's pronounced MISS chiv uus.

But the best known brand is Brufen so I can see why someone would mix it up, the Dr has said the generic name and the pharmacy has given Brufen.

Another pet hate, the misuse of 'myself'. I asked a friend why she used that, she thioought it was bussiness jargon.

No don't ask someone to .'contact myself', ask them to 'contact me'.

Slightly changing the subject, I only realised that “squint” to mean crooked (rather than the eye condition) is not really used in England, despite having lived in England most of my adult life. I noticed Patrick Grant use it on Sewing Bee the other week, he’s from Edinburgh I think

What??? This is news. Squint is a great word to use. Or if it's really crooked, squinty.

How would the English refer to the Squinty Bridge?

@WhenIWasAFieldMyself I meant the written words on Mumsnet not spoken words.

In that case there are loads of examples on this thread which could fall under the same umbrella in your opinion. I suppose you had to pick on one & just to add, I still hate 'could of' in writen language as do countless others.

Plug for socket, socket for plug; borrow for lend

In London/southern England we would say cupboard. I only know a press is a cupboard because of Maeve Binchy novels

Well, many of us haven't, but are still keen to learn the right way of speaking and writing words. It's not just something you learn once, it's ongoing throughout life.

Agree with Marshmallow.To judge something & to be irritated by something are two different things👍

Possibly it would be better not to call pronunciation mistakes 'stupid mispronunciations' as per thread title.

People who say that they "borrowed something to someone" meaning they lent it. Makes my teeth itch.

Them instead of those - them shoes
That's the vernacular in some places. Get over it.

Typo ‘Written’ to save time for those who feel the need to bring it up 😂

@JaneJeffer I live in a completely different area to where I was brought up and when I first moved here 30 ish years ago, I was a bit 'oh that sounds awful' when I heard this. Now I say it myself because it's just the way people here talk. I still have my original accent but have picked up lots of these local terms so I probably sound very odd to some people!

I probably sound very odd to some people!
Them people, eh?