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)

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!

Brufen is a brand name. It's a bit like saying I'll take some sudafed or nurofen. It was (might still be) very very common in hospital prescribing so all the doctors and nurse I know refer to Brufen.

I'm not going to explain haitch again because how many times?! Suffice it to say it's the correct pronunciation in Hiberno English.

That was my point - Irish and Scottish posters never expect everyone to use the same words we do, or declare other words incorrect, the difference is just accepted. But the (perfectly correct) way we speak is slagged off at least once a week on here.

So perhaps we should start collecting the use of cupboard or naughty, and request posters say press and bold.

Put them in the bold press every time they say aitch.

Where did I slag you off - I was merely stating a fact. You may be directing your annoyance at the wrong person!

I didn't say you slagged me off, just that you missed the point I was making about the thread (and many others like it).

You lumped me in with those who’ve slagged off difference word usages. I have never and would never do that as I have friends from all over the English speaking world who obviously have different names for everyday items. And by the way, I agreed with your original point

My parents used to run a centre that provided respite care for disabled children. I am a professional woman in my late-30s.

I have very, very, very recently found out the correct term is "respite", not "rest bite".

I thought it was "rest bite care" because people got a bite-sized bit of rest from their caring duties.

I have a colleague who has many of these eg pacific instead of specific, but the weirdest is dorichios for doritos.

Of a similar vein, does anyone know why thong is singular but knickers are plural, as in a pair of knickers? Why don't we say "knicker"?

How are you supposed to say it? I though it was fok-atch-ee-uh.

the one that gets me is weather reporters on TV talking about temchuz. It's temperatures. It has more than two syllables!

It may have been mentioned and I’ve missed it but mischeevious makes me want to scream!

Surprised this hasn’t been posted already

It's quite confusing though, Lucia in
Italian is pronounced as Loo-Chee-ah, not Loo-Kee-ah.

Oh I seeee. They use it for all ibuprofen, but that explains it, thank you.

I do inwardly snigger whenever Australians refer to thongs (flip flops).

Oh I love this though!

I don’t think you know how accents work…this is some classic south east London pronunciation.

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/multilingual/world_englishes/index.html#:~:text=The%20term%20World%20Englishes%20refers,background%2C%20function%2C%20and%20influence.

It's a linguistic term not generally causing shocked faces.

Lucia =c + i = ch
Bruschetta= c+ h= k

I don't think you can on your phone. But on a PC its an option when you click the 3 dots at bottom right of a post. It's great - I am and awful one for typos.

Thanks so much for the explanation, I did wonder if the vowel or consonant before the c h made a difference.

Years ago an extended family member used to say ‘Axe minister carpet’ instead of Axminster carpet similarly she used say ‘The National West minister Bank’ amongst other malaprops. Drove me mad!!

How are you supposed to say it? I though it was fok-atch-ee-uh.

No, it's fok-atch-ah. The purpose of the 'i' is to make the 'c' into a soft 'ch', rather than a hard 'k'. The 'i' doesn't make a sound itself. Same with ciabatta - pronounced 'chabatta', not 'chee a batta'.

Yes you can do it on the mobile site on your phone, just not on the app.