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

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

I'm going to have to record myself because I am sure I am very lazy with my speech. I'm pretty sure I don't do anything mentioned other than "ay?" though but I wonder what I do that goes unnoticed....be interesting to find out.

Record it and post it for me to judge. Then I can dole out the flicking in accordance with who lives the closest to you. :o

is it ofTEN or ofen?

@ *LOMT

Firstforthough I am sat here trying it both ways and can't recall which way I actually say it. Now neither way sounds right - gah!

I don't pronounce the T. I think that's more of an American thing.

I think both are accepted though....does somebody want to Google it?! How sad are we?!

Google schmoogle.

I'm off t'bed

I always thought the 't' was silent but I'm a northener so have always said 'offen'. its probably wrong ???

Am too lazy to read the whole thread so this may have already been mentioned: now I'm in Australia, I have to put up with the newsreaders (even) saying things like "know-un" for known. That really does irritate.

Fil-um for film seems quite common here too.

"Broccol-eye" makes me see red - thankfully DH doesn't do that, he says broccoli properly .

Oh filum is an Irish thing aswell.

Yes, I remember that from watching Why Don't You from NI when I was a child - that doesn't bother me at all.

Did I mention (again) that Aussies mostly say "haitch" for "aitch" as well?

scaryhairycat posted about repeated words/phrases such as "at the end of the day" and "basically"

One of my pet hates (usually heard when something-ologists or doctors are interviewed on Radio 4), is when an interviewer asks about how their project / study was carried out...

"So, we ...."

Where did this "Scientific SO..." idea come from. I've not transcribed any interviews but I swear this will be my 2011 'New Year Resolution' - to collect as many examples as possible.

No doubt scientists will claim it is just evolution of the English language while I think it is some affliction they have.

SudalivefromHMP - I'm a northener so have always said 'offen'.

I was born down south, and taught to say often.

Have you seen any of the Thomas Cook holiday ads where some male and female voices talk about "it", but only on the final one said by the female does she enunciate the 't' properly - the rest miss that clarity (and I shout "the word is IT" at the TV)

I can be a raging pedant when the mood takes me, but my DS1 is considerably worse. I was called into his class to speak to his teacher two weeks ago. He had corrected her in front of the whole class for using a double negative. He is 8 years old. He told me that if he hadn't corrected her, he would have been forced to shove her in the storage cupboard. .

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chimdey

spaghetti - sketti

beeth - beef

when people replace double o with a u fud cuk buk etc it drives me mad!

mind you i cant say egg yolk properly i pronounce it egg york and it drives my dh mad but i literally can not do it my mouth will not say it the right way no matter how hard i try.
I sometimes say skellington too

buk ? How else can one pronounce book ?

food- yes but dont say book like food. like bewk

rhyme it with joke..you dont say jork do you? lol

I cant get my mouth around biology book, just cant say it.

up north a lot of people will say book with an "oo" rather than buck..

i know someone who says bisketti instead of spaghetti.

buke instead of book?

that is that man on the buke show that is

Artic/Arctic

and also over-use of 'generic' to mean general.

ugh

My DD1 used to say pesketti for spagetti and hostabal for hospital, but she was very young at the time and we all thought it was adorable.