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)

According to DP, we kept getting a tube to St Pancreas yesterday 😅😅

Yes, the TH sound is elided.

My manager (London born and bred) always calls it St Pancreas and maintains it's like a secret signal to other "proper" Londoners.
(I'm from Nottingham so, despite having spent more hours than I count within its walls, both old and new) have no idea if that's true!

That's just a matter of general cadence in American accents.

Just remembered something funny! We had a teacher who used to pronounce encyclopaedia as 'en-sick' rather than 'cyc' like cycle. She also used to say million like 'millen'. We used to try to phrase questions so she would have to use these words like 'where would I find that information Miss' or 'would you day he has thousands of thousands of pounds or..' 😁happy memories

I bought a bagel once and the person at the counter called it a bag-el as in hand 'bag'.

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

Laudro but the original Italian is Espresso. Expresso though often used is the wrong term - it's an anglicisation.

mathanxiety that's not the received pronunciation though. I'm afraid you're wrong there.

Thatsshallot1967 my DS went to St Marylebone School in Marylebone but everyone, including the teachers, called it Mar-Le-bone. If you look it up in a pronunciation dictionary I think that's correct Ma-Luh-bn. So close to accurate.

All the ‘shtr’ instead of ‘str’ - it’s everywhere now. Shtrong, shtruggle, Aushtralia…

What's received pronunciation got to do with right and wrong?

@ShatTheOffice , I used to see ‘rest bite’ all the time on a forum for carers of people with dementia. The poor things were usually desperate for a ‘bite’ of ‘rest’.

That is cute!

I have a friend that just says opposed to instead of as apposed to, drives me nuts.

Another one calls a pillow, a pellow.

Guy on one of the Lucy Letby news coverage kept saying insHulin instead of insulin.

Ashume instead of assume is another one that grates.

Gosh when we were going through Brexit that was one of my pet hates, the number of people who said Breggsit - two LBC newscasters being the worst offenders!

My friend says 'for prosperity' instead of 'for posterity'. Makes me cringe!

My partners is divnae instead of don't.
As in " Do you know where the car keys are ? "
" No I divnae " Grrrrrrr !
He's actually quite an intelligent man . But that made up word !!
If I correct him, he thinks it's funny .

@Zippitydoodaa my stepdad always said divnae for don't. He was Scottish.

MischievEous

That drives me mad

Or Miss-che-fiss which I admit I do a bit (Irish).

Scots say “dinnae” without the “v”. But I think that “Divvent” is a Geordie thing?

@ElthamLemur

Agree.

As in Dinnae Fash Yersel

I'll bet this has already been said:

"Assetable" By supernanny:

"It's really not Assetable for Maisie to eat her nuggets on top of that ladder Julie. Put her on the naughty step until her behaviour is more Assetable!"