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?

Similarly I get annoyed when people call the news the noose.
Jonathan Ross does it. There's no need.

Grace - I would say ah-sos since the full name is as seen on screen so the A comes from the word As.

Being Welsh I occasionally let slip a "where are you to?" which my husband despises.

I have however informed him that I need to add an extra "to" where I can to compensate for him dropping them.

Give it me instead of Give it to me for example

I just had an email from someone saying something needed to be done "prompto"

Oh, and I hate it when people pronouce Schedule as "skedule", grrrr, it is not the English way!

One more, my northern in-laws say "buttcher" instead of butcher, more amusing than irritating though

planetearth you wouldn't have thought so but there are quite a few similar vowel sounds. I have only realised this in recent years as my BIL is from Wakefield.

hate when folk say ink instead of ing at the end of words eg somethink wrong here.

'Aestetic' for 'aesthetic' (flicks DP on forehead, repeatedly).

Mind you, I am from Shropshire/Welsh borders so say:
'tuth' for 'tooth', and
'sospan' instead of 'saucepan' (flicks self on forehead)

Can someone explain 'futility room'?

I've seen it on here loads of times but always assumed people were calling it that as a joke, ie it's futile because it's hardly ever used ... or it's futile to think you can fight the laundry ... but it never occurred to me that it was just because some people are so unbelievably stupid that they think it's actually called that.

Please tell me I was right the first time.

Actually I can clear up the ALUMINUM vs ALUMINIUM debate.

Although the first chemist to create small amounts of it were Danish then German, it was first manufactured by an American, Charles Martin Hall who probably quite enjoyed sticking two fingers up at the probable ensuing outcry at the lack of an 'i' from the Royal Society or whoever!

Lotster - it's skedule because it's from the greek, not a french origin word.

It's quite comon in Suffolk/Norfolk to hear people saying noos, moosic, toosday, compooter etc. But the most shocking thing, is that in church they sit on poos!

SoMuch -
My fave Norfolkian saying is "I'm now goent a the perb"

Schmee - I know there are two accepted pronunciations, but the commonly accepted pronunciation in the UK (and apparently some parts of Southern America) is with the "Sch" god damn it!

I get irritate by Americanisms. I actually heard my niece tell my sister she needed to "take out the trash" the other day. Arrgh! Too much iCarly methinks

Haven't read the whole thread so I may not be the first with this, but......'vunrable' instead of 'vulnerable'. Gets me every time.

OK, have now read whole thread and hoorah! for SoMuchToBits, who agrees with me about 'vulnerable'.

Just remembered: 'Scalec-trix', when it's actually 'Scalextric'. Much harder to say the second way but that's the correct way!

next time someone says burgulry instead of burglary I will go round and do their house.

Losing the L so words like 'middle' are said more like 'middu'. I think it's a London thing because the cast of Eastenders do it.

Ooh, I just have to bite my tongue when someone says 'ett' instead of 'ate'!!

And the most vexing of all is the old 'were/was' swap...

"We was walking through the shops"....

"When he were a little baby"...

It grates my ears!!

Lol evenkeel, Scalectrix annoys me too!

Haven't read all the thread, but my Mil constantly says words incorrectly, I've given up trying to correct her now.

Sosspans (saucepans)
Preemark (primark)
Delicatishon (delicatessan)
February
Tarara (tiara)

Not to mention the wrong use of ate/eat affect/effect and the God-awful wrong spelling of there/their/they're.

'Mute point' instead of 'moot point' - aaaghh!

I think a lot of it is a matter of opinion. I pronounce the "sch" in schedule as I would in "scholarship" or "scheme"..

And I would find it really really weird to pronounce "ate" how it's written (rather than "et"), but that's just how I was brought up.

Got to embrace the English language and thank the lord that it still has some diversity.

Um Partyof52010 that is the right way to say February and if you had read the whole thread then others would disagree with you and say preemark is the right way to say primark although i have always pronounced it primark like you

There was a woman at work who said car-nee-an instead of cardigan. It used to drive me mental.

Sorry, made an error! I meant to say, Febooary instead of February

As far as I know, with the Primark/Preemark thing its to do with where you live. But everyone 'round here' says Primark!