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?

ExMIL drives me nuts. She says coy-in for coin and profit-roal for profiterole Her and XH both say pacifically, ink instead of ing and drop their ts and hs.

or my name as pav-a-lov. they have no clue. not read the thread in its entirety. it is too goddamn long.

Crutch instead of Crotch.

Bokkle instead of Bottle

Goverment

Enviromental

Mat-yoo-ah (mature). There's a woman's voice which reminds Australian TV audiences that such and such a film is for mat-yoo-a audiences. I'll say, it, she sounds like a right bogan.

a lovely friend of mine pointed out how annoying the way Tess Daly says couples on strictly is and now she has pointed it out to me it drives me mad.

I havent read the whole thread and wont, it will make me notice the way people say stuff

likkle (little) or bokkle (bottle)

Ha, my sister and I annoy each other by saying 'cupples' a la Tess Daly.

Thanks, looblylu, for an attempt at the Asos condrum - still in the jury room, though, I'm afraid! Ass-ohs? Ay-sohs? Ass-oss; Ah-sohs; Ay-soss ... If I could be bothered to find out, it'd probably turn out to have been invented as pronounceable in every language

Confuddled, I was trying so hard not to post that! It's how they caught that Ripper guy, wasn't it? He knew how to pronounce Caldmore. I went to school in [that town] - and still snicker when anybody talks about a certain ancient concept of spiritually balanced reincarnation Especially as they usually misinterpret the concept

When he were a little baby and others ... Most British dialects are true to older versions of the language/s, so an awful lot of the above posts are more snobbish than correct. 'Were' was the past, third person singular and plural of 'to be' in some version or other. We did that at school (in the Midlands, natch).

Lotster, I'm loving PROMPTO! Have adopted it for personal use!

my teens all say May-urr instead of Mayor
wth is that ??? I blame the simpsons

as seen on screen

ass oss

Thanks. I still don't get the 'seen on screen' bit - maybe I should play the videos? Have now inetrnalised 'Ass-oss' :)

Oi'm failinG shameD naiow Oi've killeD the threaD ... AnyboDee fancy a Courray?

I have had not one but two teachers that said 'thung' for tongue (okay so one of them was just a yoga teacher, but the other was teaching us A-Levels ffs)

Friend's mum says 'ickier' for ikea, I quite like that :o

canaypes instead of canape (with accent but don't know how to put it on on MN

Slippy instead of slippery - have banned MightyMights or whatever it is called because she keeps on saying this.

expiration date rather than expiry date: for credit/debit card orders. It's probably not wrong, but it annoys me!

Ye gads! I am over 40 and say whatever I feel like saying.

"give me something Pacific"

No..... it is not an ocean it is "specific"

And do not ask for my PIN Number. It is simply my PIN.

Getting irate now.

Breathe. Breathe Breathe.

My husbands Granny insists on ARTitect instead of architect - even drives our 11 year old mad!

not a pronounciation but i hate when people use "learn" instead of "teach". e.g Im thinking of getting someone to learn me how to drive WTF???

DH calls spaghetti pisgetti. really???? you are a grown man perfectly capable of saying spaghetti.

My mother, who usually speaks perfectly, used to pronounce the L in Walkman. No idea what that was about.

Yes I am quite old.

I need to punch people who say ALL-mond.

hugh-muss .... a middle eastern chick pea/tahini based paste
or-burr-djean .... a shiny purple skinned vegetable
cor-djet.... a small member of the marrow family

I'd love to correct the culprit

"My DH pronounces every letter of jewellery, like it's a 4 syllable word. It should be a short, snappy 'joolry' " At least he doesn't say 'jooleree' like that Godawful presenter that programme 'Car Booty' (I think it was called) which is no longer on. (Probably axed due to publice outrage at her mispronunciations)

Another common error by TV presenters is 'vunnrabul' where they mean vulnerable. Whoever started missing out the first L should be shot.

Incidentally, re crutch versus crotch- it used to be a crutch here. Crotch only started being used commonly fairly recently. (I can remember using the word cructh when I was younger)