Anyone else know they pronounce certain words wrong but just can’t change?

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Lighthearted but I know I say certain words wrong but the ‘correct’ way just does not sound/feel right in my mouth to say lol

a few examples
-expresso…I know there’s no X but I just can’t say it espresso as it sounds wrong to me.
-words like diagnoses/crises…I know that’s how the plural is said but in my head it should be crisises, diagnosises. To be fair I avoid saying those ones because I know how ridiculous it is saying it wrong in my profession.

im sure there’s more but that’s the main 2 I can think of.

anyone else?

We need a word with those in charge of drug naming!

I always say "adage" to rhyme with Nigel Farage, after someone told me decades ago that was the correct pronunciation. But almost everyone else says it to rhyme with "manage". I suspect the person who corrected me was talking through his arnus, but I now can't get out of the habit.

"Sikth" and other lazy pronunciations like "temporally" for "temporarily" (these are two different words with completely different meanings) annoy me. The one that really, really infuriates me though, is "decayed" used in place of "decade". The stress should be on the first syllable: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/english/decade.

my fave: cloppy-DOG-rel - clopidogrel

The number of GPs who say cloppy-doggerel instead of clopidogrel astonishes me. Quite a few also drop at least one r from propranolol.

My mother always refers to the Co-op as the Co-per-A-tiv. I don’t know if that’s an older west coast Scottish thing. She also always pronounced covid as Caw-vid, no idea on that one.

My DC don't like the way I say Shein, the online store. I say SHE-UN, they claim it's SHEEN. It doesn't matter whether I'm wrong, now I enjoy seeing their teenager faces every time I say it.

Something about people saying appreciate, tissues etc with the ‘s’ sound’ rather than ‘sh’ makes me shudder.

Sex-SU-al 🤮

Thats how I say it

A lot of these posts are what I say!!!

Yes me too, it makes me cringe but I dont know why, its a me problem I know that

Also to pick up on someone earlier, I say joolry

If you have a lisp and the way your particular mouth and tongue works, sikth or as I say it sixs, is not lazy, its just the way it comes out your mouth

I do the Wednesday one and their are a few long ones I trip over but my favourites are my DH's ones. He knows Quinoa is keen-woir but insists on saying quin-o-woa but the word Lieutenant, he was once told the Americans say Lef-ten-ant so he says Let-ten-nant. His hobby means he hears and sees the word a reasonable amount of times but he still can't say it the correct way! Drives me crazy 🤪

I say jool-er-ry for jewellery but I would also say Crown Jools. I'm now wondering if I should say jew-wel-er-ry but it doesn't sound right.

I pronounce sloth wrong. My kids are always telling me off and I can't even remember now if it's slohth or slowth.

Was taught aitch at school and it's how my parents say it. My children's primary school taught haitch though and I had to correct them many times. They say aitch now. I know haitch is correct dialect in Ireland but in South East England it seems to be considered a bit "common" (sorry).

I have always said par-ah-seet-oh-moll though I seem to be in the minority in the south. My dad was a pharmacist though and he says it so I assumed his way was right. (From Kent.)

Had a posh teacher who used to say wed-ns-day, with the D clearly pronounced. We all remarked on it as it seemed unusual.

I've noticed my children pronounce a lot of words the American way like pry-vacy. I think it's probably all the You Tube and Ti kTok they watch.

Someone up thread mentioned pronunciation dyslexia. I've heard it's real thing. My adult son really struggles to say perception (he says prerception) and also brought for bought. He knows these are wrong, says he has the correct sound in his head, can write the words correctly but when he speaks the extra R just sneaks in before he can stop it.

Interested to know what are the reasons in Ireland? I also hate the sudden proliferation of this, especially as I work in the NHS! Line of Duty just did my head in the end!

Monty Don does that, I assumed it was a regional accent thing.

My DH took ages to get hydroxychloroquine right, then they put him on something different 🤣

Isn't the 'd' in Wednesday supposed to be silent though?

Clique. I say click, apparently I'm wrong but click just sounds better to me

It’s not so much reasons, it’s just that haitch is the standard form here. It’s the one taught in schools and considered the correct form in Hiberno-English.

In Northern Ireland the pronunciation of haitch/aitch is (or at least was) a shibboleth, so I think that’s what pp was referring to.

The pronunciation (I think) is cleek. So cliquey would be pronounced cleeky. Not click and clicky.

My real bugbear is that the "wrong" pronunciation also begets the wrong spelling. Someone was complaining on a local parenting FB group recently about "clicky mums" in the school playground. It made me think of a bunch of women going around clicking their tongues or snapping their red heels together like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.

Yes, it is. Clique is French. Hence why we pronounce 'Clinique' as 'Clineek', not 'Clinick'.

I once chaired a project group developing a system for assessing impact in a particular sector. One of the key measures ended up being reciprocity. Every time I said it out loud there were a few added syllables.

The 99% of the population who think that Bought and Brought mean the same thing/are interchangeable /do not understand the fact that:-

Brought = Bring
Bought = Buy

This is so easy for me, just like sauce and source or whether and weather would be, but I can not judge because affect/effect, passed and past and trying to figure out if we are infallible or not screws me over 🤣