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)

@ElthamLemur he lived on the Boarders so maybe a bit of both. Was definitely a v in it though.

Borrowing someone money instead of lending someone money!

Finish a sentence on a slow Butssss…. as if it’s leading somewhere but never finish.

ffs it's dialect. It's no more made up than any other word. Your poor partner having to out up with you.

"Div" does exist. My PILs used it sometimes. "I div" for "I do" and "Div ye?" for "Do you?". SW Scotland.

It's not that common but it's not a made-up word.

Yes, I used to write to an American lady who would write 'use to' where I would put 'used to'. I counted her as intelligent and literate, very, but she did that one thing which I noticed. I have definitely seen it written on Mumsnet posts which might well have been from the UK - one I'm sure is in the UK, so it might be a US to UK fairly modern change.

Imperfect tense : I was walking, I used to walk, you were walking, you used to walk, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

@DinnaeFashYersel you are correct of course; wok and walk are pronounced the same.

Went to a panto once and they had a pun about an "orange wok"

FFS. I’m watching Celebrity Masterchef and Dianne Buswell has just been talking about her Italian family and saying she’s going to make broosketta. Cut to John Torode doing a piece to camera about how he hopes Dianne’s brooshetta will be up to scratch. Seriously John?

Oh dear!

et cetera pronounced eksetera

Unindated instead of inundated.

Chimley instead of chimney.

Yes, I'm looking at you, my dear Irish friends.

And don't get me started on changing "th" into"t". I do not have a single toot in my mouth, but I've plenty of teeth. (But I think that's to do with the accent rather than anything made up or mistaken).

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh !!

This is a hilarious thread. Let’s face it, for those who learned to speak the ‘language’ of the UK from generations back
or those new to the UK ,we all speak what is rightly or wrongly known as the English language. I can’t see this changing any time soon & why should it.

Has anyone educated us as to pronunciation of focaccia yet? Saw way up thread that I've apparently been pronouncing it incorrectly as fo-cash-ya.

To be fair, Fuck-at-ya should off had is’ own fred.
Is you in agreeance?

You're doing a sterling job!

Unfortunately some posters still need to be educated.

My friend is from Sunderland and says ‘tret’ to mean past tense of treat instantly of treated. It doesn’t annoy me but I always wonder if it’s just her or a Sunderland thing.

*instead of treated

Focaccia = Fockatcha

Or rather, fockatchya

Divnae is perfectly understood and used in many parts of Scotland. It's not made up. It's Scots.

I loves MN 😂

My new team member - exackly - several times a day. She's lovely so ignore it

Chester draws

A neighbour used to say many malapropisms. My favourite was switching extortionate for contortionist when moaning about the prices in a restaurant 😆.