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?

Dh pronounces medicine as med-sin. It drives me' up the wall. I do not know where that one has come from, he seems to have only just started pronouncing it like that recently.

People that say lock instead of loch, aaaaaaaahhhhhh

One of my friends says 'somewhen' to mean 'sometime' and that really annoys me!

Also when i get an email which says 'I justed paided you' from one of my Artistes albeit a young one it has to be said.

An old boyfriend of mine from the Midlands used to replace are with am.

"You're ok am ya?"

I also hate "yous".

"Are yous coming?"

It's the Americans who get me...
Why on earth 'alumin um' ? There IS a second 'i' in there, so how does it help to ignore it?
And I think Americans are inclined to say 'nucular' instead of 'nuclear'.
Time we recolonised, maybe, then we could teach 'em how to speak?

Have had repeated words with DH in the past when I finally got fed up with phrases such as "I'll pick some milk up from the shop on the way home" "Right so you are going to steal it are you or do you possibly mean you will BUY some milk from the shop?" he doesn't do it anymore...

But the one that really, really bugs me and makes me want to scream is MIL saying "Destructions" rather than "Instructions" the first time I heard it I thought she had made a mistake and ignored it but then I that it was intentional, she thinks it's some kind of witty joke - what the heck??? It's like she thinks it's cute or something???? Cute perhaps in a 3 year old, fucking annoying in a 70 year old!! Plus I don't want dc to pick up on it - so next time I hear it I fully intend to do the "ooh Gladys - you need to get your glasses checked it clearly says INstructions not DEstructions, you don't want people thinking you are losing your marbles already and mispronouncing words already do you? DC Grandma's is getting confused - look at the leaflet it clearly says INstructions"

Then I realised ....buggering phone

Beth you'd hate it in my family then!

After me saying I didn't think I did any of the previously mentioned 'head flicking' words/phrases, you've just listed things that happen regularly here.

My mum regularly phones me to 'pick up a pint of milk' and it's a silly affectation that instructions are referred to as 'destructions'.

I'd never given it a second thought.

Grandma IS getting confused..... I am going to shut up now......

Louii - I was corrected by a (Scottish) yr 5 pupil the other day for saying 'lock'

LadyInPink - yy to 'somewhen'! DP does it and insists that it is a proper word. Drives me mad!

Platespinning - ggrr so annoying!!!

Okay i now have to admit to saying i'll pick up some milk and I'm sure i am not alone to admit that and i say i'll get some milk too - is that considered wrong too Beth?

So i am now confused (easily done i assure you) how do you pronounce loch? I have always thought it was pronounced lock so not with a ch sound on the end or is it another entirely different pronounciation??? Someone put me out of my misery pleeease!!!

Beth24 you'd hate our family. We follow destructions with self assembly furniture, have consternation in our steamy bathrooms and we are always casting nasturtiums.

pronunciation of loch is not 'ch' as in 'chips' but a pronounced 'ck' followed by a softened 'hhh' if that makes sense?

It's a rubbish attempt to explain it, but I can't think of another way!

I hate the way health professionals and social workers talk about 'behaviours'. It's behaviour. No S is required. Like sheep and sheep.

Yes, loch should end in a soft, throaty sound not a hard 'ck'.

"Should of" instead of "should have" - and in writing.

"Less than" instead of "fewer than"

and "learn" rather than "teach" as in "I'll learn you to drive" very Kentish, very.....annoying.

Prostrate instead of prostate

Yes I was so pleased when my elderly father recently beat 'prostrate' cancer - because I was starting to think if the disease didnt kill him I would.

Lol sudalive! I work in the nhs and trained medical professionals often say prostrate. Really drives me mad!

Oh thanks re how to pronounce Loch! Yes i understand what you were trying to say and am practising it as i write this. Sounds quite good if i do say so myself

This is a regional problem, but I want to pull my own face off when exP says 'How?' when he's trying to ask why.

Eg, Me: I'm not feeling too great this evening...

Him: How?

He's Scottish btw

Nearly every example on this thread is because of regional accents.
What a boring bloody country it would be if we all spoke cut glass perfect English.
I love all the different ways people talk. That's what gives language it's colour.

Yeah, but 'how' means....you know, HOW.