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?

Nowhere - thst's just how you say it.
Samwij.

If you are going to bother to say saNwij you might as well go the whole hog and say sand-wich.

It is annoying when people say learning curb, rather than learning curve.

OK this one annoys me - REEsearch, instead of reSEARCH.

To all non-Scots; saying Auld Lang Syne as Zine rather than Sine....tis a soft S!!! Even Scottish TV presenters are starting to say Zine. Drives me bonkers and makes me shout out loud at the telly/radio....good job it's only used to distraction once a year

libary, nucular, marshmellow, knetting (for knitting), aks/aksed etc, I arn't/I amn't...what's wrong with I'm not!!

regional dialects are fine though, like the irish meeeer/scottish mirrur.

Gets flicking finger ready....

anybody mentioned PoinTsetter

No, it is a poin-settia.

LimburgseVlaai, I thought it was pronounced "bucket"?

One of my pet hates, which seems quite common on MN, is "women" as a singular. Only see it written, I'd slap anyone who said "a women" IRL!

Another one that gets me is when people say vunnerable - it's vulnerable. So many people say vunnerable though.

And my ds says sangwich and Brangston pickle, but also says strenth and lenth! What's that all about?

Sorry, that should have been dh, not ds!

And vul nerable. My typing is awful today!

My favourite is another Bristol pronunciation - the name Petra becomes 'Petrol' in Bristolian :o

I don't believe it - how many posts on this thread and no one has mentioned that pungent vegetable that is the first ingredient in so many dishes . . .

yes I mean the Ung-yon

my dp says sumpthink, always! and I have to bite my tongue and remember all her truly marvellous qualities ...

Oh and 'summat' instead of something.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Controversy pronounced

Contro-ver-see instead of Controv-ersee

I also hate the vowelisation of H-words, ("an historic occasion") although DH tries to tell me that's correct English (I don't believe him).

DH also insists a town near where I grew up is pronounced "Morr-a-ton" despite it having been "More-ton" all my life...

Near where we live now is a village called Theydon Bois. I assumed it had a French orgin and pronounced it Theydon Bwa (as in Bois = French word for Woods).

Oh no. It's called Thaydon Boyce.

(FN, I have never actually heard Moulsham in Chelmsford pronounced, I always thought it was the same as you!)

My boss says tissyou for tissue. I say tishyou. I don't know what correct, nor do I care coz tissyou drives ne mad! She's a lovely woman but that one word drives me mad!!!

Fith instead of fifth.

Ooh, tissyou makes me feel a bit queasy, it's a bit like seeyoot.

Who does the little titles for the DIscussions of the Day?

Pav-a-lovian response :o

It depends on the pronunciation of the H word, some need an "an" and some need "a". It is indeed correct English.

ahem tiss-you is the correct pronunciation, tishoo is the erm "common" pronunciation.

< changes name to BrianSewell >

Ooh 14 pages to reply to - where to start?!

I am VERY fussy about written English, but less so about spoken language as I like how it changes. But I HATE using text as a verb without conjugating it...

"she text me this morning" GRRRRR.

I KNOW it's a new word, but presumably so was phone once upon a time and we manage to put that into the past tense. If you're using it as verb, then USE IT AS A VERB. For some reason no one has a problem saying they've Googled something...

Also hate Haitch. Yuk.

And my son says "amn't I" and I can't correct him, because it makes so much sense. Yesterday he said: "I'm going to have a Spiderman birthday cake, amn't I?" "Aren't I" sounds horrible.

I'll shut up now, but also wanted to add that Americans spell aluminium without the second 'I' so actually, they're saying it right. For them.

The first 'g' in 'minging' is SILENT, Hollyoaks actors.

Ha Ha. I love this country. Balloon I think "tiss-you" is common- too Hyancith Bucket. The same is true for "sandwich" rather than "samwij".

I hate "sekkertry", REEEsearch and EEther.

My further pet hate is that many people seem to have lost the ability to use the past tense (or the present for that matter): "Last Tuesday, I goes into the shop and I says to her....."

Someone has already commented on the awful Thompson advertisement

REEEEpeat is another one.
My dad says Pittza instead of Pizza.
Myself and yourself is used all of the time now in an attempt to sound intelligent.