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)

Also, double negatives drive me INSANE!

“Don’t give me no peas”

makes me feel like piling an entire bag of peas onto their plates.

Whit 😂
Never heard this word in all my time mixing with relatives etc from all parts of Scotland, explain more 😂

Metson for medicine - looking at you BBC newsreaders!

People who think that "brought" (to bring something) is the same as "bought" (to buy something).

I brought a new coat in the shop = wrong! I bought this coat with me = wrong!

Oh, he knew - he was taking the mick out of the many that didn't.

Yes, I meant hamburger, referring to people's misconceptions that there is ham in it.

Clearly hamburger gets its name from the German city in which it originates - Hamburg.

Yes, my colleague from Ireland says it.

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

@Bouledeneige - this post of yours is rather opaque. Can you expand?

I know someone who says broccolai instead of broccoli.

Seems to have no insight whatsoever into the fact that she says it differently to everyone else 😂

Agreed. Sometimes people speak in vernacular, it doesn't mean they don't actually understand the correct grammar - many would be able to write perfectly.

It's just regional/ colloquial and is part of the colour of language.

Draw instead of drawers

Any of Australian pronunciations

@PeachCastle I think the medicine one is an affectation maybe? It's posh to drop the middle syllable

"Squashed it" instead of "quashed it" On love island this year they kept saying they had squashed this that and the other , it's QUASHED !!!

Yes but we are not all Scottish. Doesn't make it wrong.

Yorkshire by any chance? I'd say there is a tiny hint of a glottal stop in couldn't when it wounds almost like cunt.

When they started teachign phonics I did think, "Oh teachers in Yorkshire will have fun"

Saying ‘a’ when it should be ‘an’. I was listening to a podcast the other day where someone referred to ‘a email’.

Similarly, I don’t like pronouncing ‘the’ as thuh email instead of thee email, but that’s totally standard for anyone under a certain age (and in broadcasting, it seems) so can’t call it a mispronunciation. Not sure I could cope with ‘an’ falling as well!

Yy think you're right about the glottal stop, I've been alternating saying couldn't and cunt 😂 and there's definitely a difference. Subtle, though.
No, not yorkshire, greater Manchester.
There are cunts spread over a wide geographical area 🤔

Miss- CHEE-Vee-us, instead of mis-chiv-us for mischievous. What makes it even more irritating is that the Miss-CHEE-Vee-us camp are invariably super-aggressively convinced that they are right and everyone else is stupid, as if theyre unaware of accents being a thing.
Also "saNGweechis" for sandwiches. I dont know why I find it irritating.

Has anyone educated us as to pronunciation of focaccia yet?

Yes, I did . It's fokatcha. The 'i' doesn't make a sound, it's just there to soften the cc to a 'ch' sound. So, not 'fokatchya' or 'foka-chee-a', just 'fokatcha'.

It's silent syllables. It's not "posh" particularly. The poster isn't hearing "metsin", they're hearing "medsin" but, as per pps, a voiced /d/ preceding an unvoiced /s/ can lose some of its acoustic strength and sound more like its weaker sibling /t/.
See also chocolate, vegetable, comfortable etc.

Makes my teeth itch when people add random prepositions.

Draws instead of drawers. More noticeable when written but it drives me nuts.

Also should of instead of should have - see it a lot on this.

Confusion of advice/advise - v common on MN.

And stationery/stationary - just seen several times on another thread.
StationEry - papEr
A stationAry cAr.

Have always pronounced it fokacheea. Absolutely mortified and horrified to find its actually fokatcha.

I’d also say “Ah dinnae” or “he disnae” (west of Scotland influence) but there are Scots who’d use div and divnae, like those who speak Doric.