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

[LadyOfTheManor]

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

Well does it really matter? mummery you use the word yeah instead of yes. Doing so is wrong if we're going to be picky, but we're not are we?

Yeah, we get the "How?" thing from DD. DH and I are not Scottish but live in Scotland, and we do tease her a bit about "How?"

My ex-MIL says loads of things "wrong".

She disciple-ins children.

Eats Hi-a-why-an salad

Pav-a-lova

Bi-stro

Bokkle?!?!?

It's a bottle, you fucking great morons!!!!

Mmmm I was trying to play devils advocate but "bokkle", what the fuck? How can't people talk proper?

at lochnessmumster!

Babi rather than baby!

LochNessMumster - it's a Northern England/Manchester thing, I think.

AAAAAArgh!!!!!

Sudo-cream.

No, you moron, it's SUDOCREM

My dad always called MFI 'MI5'

And he wasn't kidding...

In this area of Scotland people often say "how" when they mean "why", as in "how are you doing that?" when they want to know why I am doing something, or just "how?". Took me a while to get the hang of this as I kept explaining how I was doing stuff and getting vacant stares.

oops, just noticed someone else has had this problem.

Thanks for explaining the 'How?' thing. Worth knowing for anyone not Scottish and planning to visit or live there.

Never seen it mentioned before, but then again, have not come across some of the amazing collection of errors before, and this should go into the MN classics as a thread to give people a 'happy boost' - just cannot stop laughing at some of the things seen here.

Oldmumsy, similar here! Do you also have a futility room?

The one that struck me when I lived in Scotland (and it's a regional variation rather than wrong, obviously) was 'stay', as in 'Where do you stay?' to mean 'live'. I was baffled, as it seems so impermanent. It took me a while to realise that I wasn't talking to itinerant workers when people told me what part of town they 'stayed' in.

In mummery's how scottish thread the husband is possibly using how correctly, although it's not great grammer. If you ask someone how they are not feeling well then you mean "in what way are you not feeling well" ie what symptoms do you have. This is different to why you are not feeling well, and if it's the beginning of an illness you may not know why you are unwell, but be able to describe how you are unwell.

My SIL drives me potty as she can't say 'ing', so I have to listen to her talking about her dd's new 'swin' or her 'stoppin bfin' or what she's 'cookin'...you get the picture!

DH can't say IBUPROFEN. He says IBROFEN.
GAHH!!!!
He also says IGORANT not IGNORANT.

2rebecca when some asks me how when they mean why I sometimes deliberately explain how.

I don't bat an eyelid at 'where do you stay?'

I say lots of things that get bemused looks from DP when I say some things. I am left standing there wondering what I have just said because it doesn't register what I have said.

I know someone who gets these two mixed up:

Except for

Apart from

Annoying teenager: I have done my homework except from the maths

Me: it's for not from

Annoying teenager: I have done my homework apart for the maths

10 years I have been correcting him on it

oh and he says, tomorrow, follow, and borrow

Tumurow

fullow

and burrow

gggrrrr

bas-MAR-ti rice. Grrrrr, no! It's pronounced BAAS-ma-ti.

My sister - anythingK, nothingK, somethingK !

this sort of thing p's me off too, I've even heard Pav-ER-lova around here .....yet the same idiots will happily correct the correctly pronounced flat lowercase U in bus etc

I wonder though how many realise their kids education might suffer for it.....I had an interesting eye opener with an older boy at DD's school, whilst taking a craft club....said boy wanted to write a word on his work (can't remember what ask me to do it for him, but as I would do with DD, I encouraged him to do it himself.....got him to "sound it out" first & then realised why the poor kid couldn't spell it & was embarrassed to try:( ....he couldn't say it properly either .....having pronounced it correctly for him, turned out he could write it easily, & was chuffed to bits with himself for doing so