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?

My MIL said 'kitching' for kitchen, 'garding' for garden; so much more ladylike and reefined you see.

I can't stand 'fower' as they say in Plymouf- one two three fower...

Supposebly instead of supposedly

Oh a girl i knew who I was pregnant with at same time kept saying she was 3 months (at 12wks) and 4 months (at 16wks) etc and so when i pointed out that 3 months is actually 13 wks otherwise we would be having a 10 month pregnancy she said 'oh i do my months different to you' WTF, i don't decide the calendar does!!!

Not sure if it has been posted yet, but sekkertree. My friend is a secretary to someone important. She describes herself as Dr X's sekk-er-tree. It makes me want to throw something at her head.
DH always emphasises the last 'g' on a word, so he goes singing and dancing and prancing and pimping. He is a Manc.

Check before you post. He certainly doesn't go pimping. I meant that he actually says the g as a sort of seperate word. Me and DD rip the piss out of him for it.

I learned English as a foreign language, so I won't/can't pick on English people about how they pronounce words, but I do get seriosly peeved with things like "I weren't", "you wasn't", "we wasn't"...

It took me 10 minutes to learn the verb, and I wasn't even living in England!!!!

Choc-lit, and people who say oo for u, as in moosic, compooter.

My mum say vorse instead of vase. Have no idea why. She sounds like Brian Sewell for just that one word and the rest of the time is perfectly normal.

And for some reason DS2 (7) has always said growen instead of grown. No idea where he got that one from.

This whole thread is right up my street and I could go on for days, but just on Lidl and Lid-ull vs Leed-ull: the latter may be technically correct, but until you start saying Folks-vargen and Mare-tsay-dez Bents you oughtn't let it get to you.

Although, having said that, I do tend to shout at people you say they drive an Ordi...

LewsDad - while we are on cars can I just add it is Porsch-a not Porsche.

my mother again

HEW muss - hummous
Eye care - Ikea
amongst all the other hugely annoying sayings that she has adopted! I also go insane when she refers to or horses and dogs as "the chestnut thing" or "the young one" "the little thing" or "the young black thing" (between us we have 2 black labs, one mini terrier and three horses in varying shade of chestnut) or even worse asks if I can pick up "thingie from the place".

Acutally no - even worse is that I am turning into her

kreecher- reminds of one of my brothers. He says sekkertree (the only one of 6 of us who does) and also 'nukilar' for nuclear. Fortunately for him he lives in Australia so cannot be flicked on the forehead.

Niecie - I'll see your 'Porsch' and raise you an 'Austin Martin'

Ok, here's one for you all. How do you pronounce:

Mandatory.

Having used it in 2 separate industries, they vary differently. I got picked up on it in my current job and it actually upset me the way it was done - "what did you just say? (Guffaw) How weird is that (Guffaw)"

So, after years of working in the aerospace industry I say "Man-date-or-e"

In my current position other people pronounce it "Mand-at-ree".

If it turns out I am wrong, fair enough, however I will continue to use it in work PURELY to annoy the colleague who was so rude to me!

*vary differently? Instead of varying the same?

I say MAN-da-tree, as per the dictionary, but I don't think it's, um... mandatory.

Thee-a-saurus for thesaurus
hommos for hummus
Narrins oatcakes (Nairns)
homeo-therapy for homeopathy
'fine dining experience' = anything other than a caff

and that's just my boss! and dont get me started on her mad ideas about politics/benefits/organic veg

I saw man-da-tory

Ah, see what you did there LewsDad ha ha!

I wonder if it's an Americanism - as in there are 2 ways it can be pronounced (eg aluminium and lieutenant)

I have read the entire thread (or participated in it at least) and don't think anybody has mentioned:

"The Asdas" as in "I'm going to the Asdas" I think it's a local thing to some family friends but it does make me cringe when they say it.

Mand-at-tree here too.

I wonder if man-date-or-ee is another Americanism like skeduled/sheduled?

x-cross post about Americanism

not quite the same but it really annoys me when people use 'his' instead of 'he's'! It's totally irrational but it makes my blood boil- 'his not feeling too well today' grrrrrrrrrrrr.

I hate it when people say (or write) 'brought' when they mean 'bought'.

Niecie it's looking like I am definitely in the minority.

My stubborness (is that even a word, if not it is now) dictates I shall continue to use it in said colleagues presence!

shewhoshallnotbenamed - I have confused myself now. I have heard both at work, and I think in slightly different contexts, but when I come to try and define those contexts I find I can't so maybe it is just an Americanism.

The Americanism which annoys me most is s-eye-mul-taneously (simultaneously) - I know it's just an accent thing really, but it grates.

I use 'specific' a lot in writing and almost never when speaking - because I can't say it properly and DH has given me a complex by picking me up on it every time. I have no idea why I find it hard, though (and at least I know it's wrong..)