Most stupid mispronunciations and just weird words people say

[HumanDoing]

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)

The mistake I keep seeing recently is 'then' instead of 'than' - e.g. 'He's older then me.' It's everywhere, and I'm sure I hadn't come across it until a few years ago!

😂😂😂

I’ve took them instead of I’ve taken them.
I’ve saw it instead of I’ve seen it.
Likkle instead of little.

Free instead of three. Firtee free

Fink / think

Fort / thought

No! Your accent doesn't excuse this lazy pronunciation

@highlandcoo when I order bruschetta in my local cafe, the young woman serving always tries to "correct" me to "brew-shetta". She obviously doesn't know that a ch in Italian is a hard k sound. It drives me mad but I would feel very pedantic correcting her.
I might cave one day and tell her. I'm sure I'm not the only customer who winces when she says so.

"Haitch" instead of "Aitch" when pronouncing the letter "H". Do the same people say "W" as "Wubble-yew"?

And then a Mumsnet trend is to say "women" instead of "woman" for some reason - not sure if this is due to predictive text?

Oh and also sticking a "k" on the end of words that end with "ing" - "sumfink" etc.

I also thought it was pre-Madonna for the same reason, and Prima-Donna doesn't make sense to me.

Already covered haitch upthread - it's also correct. The standard (formal) use in Ireland.

I say coleslaw too 🙈

Yous instead of you, ‘how are all of yous doing?’ Makes my teeth itch.

Ha, I say this. Never thought of it as cunt, though, just the way I say couldn't in my accent. A lot of these are just accents. Probably sounds like I'm saying 'could of' but it's actually could've

I also thought it was pre-Madonna for the same reason, and Prima-Donna doesn't make sense to me.

It only doesn't make sense if you don't bother finding out what it actually means!

@highlandcoo when I order bruschetta in my local cafe, the young woman serving always tries to "correct" me to "brew-shetta". She obviously doesn't know that a ch in Italian is a hard k sound. It drives me mad but I would feel very pedantic correcting her. I might cave one day and tell her.

You should! She clearly has no qualms about 'correcting' you!

She’s probably not correcting you, just repeating the order back and using her usual way of saying it.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/haitch-or-aitch-pronunciation-letter-h-old-english-a8393766.html

Long but interesting. From "haitch has the pedigree..." onwards especially relevant. As is the part about "haitch" being standard in some Englishes.

You can edit your posts now!

Thanks 👍

I didn't know this! I can't see an option to do this on my phone?

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/site_stuff/4878600-update-from-mnhq-new-edit-feature?page=6&reply=128642253

Read a holiday trip report yesterday where a family had to debark from an aircraft. You disembark form an aircraft you debark a dog. 😄

Invite instead of invitation. Generally instead of Genuinely

I don’t know if it’s a scouse thing, but several scouse friends of mine call it ‘brufen’. I don’t know why if annoys me so much!

Click on the three dots at the bottom right of your post, edit is near the bottom of the options in the pop up :)

Englishes
Aargh 😱