to want to flick people in the forehead when they...

[LadyOfTheManor]

pronounce Pavlova as Pav-a-lova. Really winds me up. How dare they?

Or calm as carm?

Yes. Another one. I just presume they are morons who don't know the spelling (or sometimes to meaning) of the words they are throwing around. Really annoys me, i saw a woman on CDWM the other night who made about 10 Pavlova meringues because she kept getting them wrong and she said the word Pav-a-lova about twenty thousand times in the space of 60 seconds. I had to turn it over as she was just irritating me. That and her roots.

*the meaning. Eurgh it's early.

YANBU it really annoys me too.

I wouldn't have been able to watch it either.

Like supernanny and her asseptable. Argggg.

ooh yeah... people I know say Skellington instead of skeleton. Argh ...makes me shudder!

Adding extra syllables into words is called "epenthesis". Do not ask me how I can remember this but have forgotten the name of the mother hosting this afternoon's birthday party.

Ha ha ha, "asseptible" yes, I hear her saying that. It's more annoying because it appears her accent "allows" for it. When realistically it shouldn't.

Skellington is equally as frustrating, what is the matter with people?

skellington is funny

How do you pronounce calm then? I think you'll find most people keep the L silent, or at least very subtle.

Agree in principle about mispronunciation generally though. It really irks me.

I say it with a silent L as oppose to throwing an R into the mix. More of a Caaaaam (without sounding like I come from South Wales-or teaching yoga).

my h twitches when people say fustrated instead of frustrated

listen and you'll notice lots do it

my mother has no concept of eat and ate arrggghhh
also pacifically
also saf- e- ty for safety

isn't carm a bit maggie thatcher mangled elocution indicator alert

Eurgh "pacifically" really really really annoys me. If you have the balls to correct, like I do, and say, "don't you mean specifically?" they insist that's what they said.

Off with their heads.

Nuculer instead of nuclear

Ambleeance instead of ambulance

Birminham instead of Birmingham.

AAAARRRGH!!!

Ah well, I DO live in Coventry, I suppose

Fil-um instead of film??

Arxed instead of asked??

Yes Sleepy I do make small, very small, allowances for accents, but as your in Coventry and therefore the Midlands, you are not excused :o

Nuculer is terrible! Thankfully I've only heard that on films.

There's a place near the Midlands, I think near Telford spelt "Lillieshall" (Lillies Hall?) but when the local folk say it they say;

Lill-ish-al. SO even if it were Lillie-shall and not Lillies Hall, it's still said the wrong way.

LMFAO!!!! pronouncing it with a silent L or saying "Caaaaaaaaaaaam" can only produce an R sound

No it doesn't. If you go from the A straight the M you miss the R. It's hard but I've practised :o

you must be the only person in the world who can do it and I'm betting you sound that daft, nobody will be able to understand you anyway

LOTM you are mad. You either pronounce the L or you don't. If you are a southerner the A is a long A anyway. No R anywhere to be seen or heard.

My mother can't say ear, she says year and yearings instead. It drives me mad.

And when people say gibberish with a hard g rather than a j.

It is spelled Lilleshall. No I in the middle.

It is pronounced Lill ish all.

My Forehead Flicking finger comes out for Tuth instead of Tooth (unless it's an accent obv) - i think it's some sort of fashion thing

I can say calm without an r sound so LOTM is not the only one.

My XSIL will say she is going to Mataland, emphasis on the d. I just want to scream.