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

[LadyOfTheManor]

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

I think the poster meant "it really winds me up". Missing the "it" really winds me up.

1. Seeing as someone else has mentioned it: 'lounge' is a horrid, horrid word. You are not in a pub. Please use 'living room' instead.

1. 'Slippy' instead of 'slippery'.

1. Me 'Would you like some cake?'

Friend: 'Just a slither.' Me [stabbing her in forehead with fork]: It's 'sliver'; you're not an effing snake.

Hambag

skellington for skeleton
axe for ask
buz for bus
tuth for tooth
filum for film
tong for tongue (I am Northern we say tung, and when I hear tong I want to kill...)
sorry...[puts soapbox away]

but seriously, calm IS pronounced carm. Anything else would sound mental!

Hairy TruckDriver,

The whole of Scotland manages to say 'calm' without pronouncing the 'l' and with no sign of an 'r'. Why on earth would you stick in an 'r'? Same happens with 'law', pronounced 'lor' by lots of English people.

Scottish people say 'filum' which (i'm guessing) might reflect the fact that they say the 'l' at the back of the mouth whereas some others say it at the front, nearer the 'm'.

I don't really care about pronounciation, except for that very irritating 'lor' thing that you hear on the telly all the time. I'm much more bothered by people saying 'less' when they mean 'fewer', 'good' when they mean 'well', 'jealous' when they mean envious', and so on. All of the mis-used words already have meanings and we lose clarity of meaning if we use one word to mean both 'envious' and 'jealous', or both 'imply' and 'infer'.

Ooh. I would definitely say 'slippy'. I suspect that 'slippery' is English English.

I also once wrote an email to some people giving travel directions and mentioning the 'windy' road. One of them, who was English, wrote back to ask how I knew so far in advance what the weather would be like. (Translation: winding)

Delia Smith's insistence on 'HOO-MOOSE' simultaneously amuses and enrages me, and leaves me feeling far from calm (which I pronounce, incidentally, without any trace of an 'l')

Nougat as nugget drives me effin bonkers. And secksh-oo-al for sexual makes my skin crawl. DH says sangwich for sandwich and munster instead of monster which makes me vvv .

If DS grows up talking like DH then I will probably divorce them both.

oooh evenkeel, yes hoo-moos irritates the shite out of me too. even worse, my dad says hugh-muss!!! aaaggghh

Drawring a pitcher.
My mother says BOL-ero and creme fraysh.
My father is the only person I have ever heard pronounce the p in raspberries.

And DH insists on saying tong for tongue (it's TUNG!).

Hugh-muss and slither of cake are familiar teeth-grinding triggers too.

Heeyyyy! Watchit! Nothing wrong with a caaaarm caaardiff accent!

pastadiva, how did you marry him!!! TONG!!! aaaagggghhhhhhh.

Luckily it's not a word that comes up often in conversation!

But I thought of another which is asking a question without using 'Are....?'
i.e. 'You ready for lunch yet?'
Grr.

Oh yes, also irritating.

Am confused.....how do you say calm without an r? Cam???

sirohada....LOVE IT!! You're right, nothing wrong with a bit caaardiff (even tho the 'port is obv better than the 'diff! )

choclit
i hate it when people say tissssue instead of tishoo, and that's wrong! flick my forehead!!

I have done my upmost to read this whole thread before posting, being on tenderhooks the whole way, hoping I'd get to post something that hasn't already been said.

The name Sara(h) is a lovely name but I have a real problem saying Saaaaaara! I'm not being unreasonable however because unless its spelt with 7 a's, or I have a sinus problem, I'd be quite happy to pronounce it like that.

I also hate it when people say jealous instead of envious, and random instead of strange, they don't have the same meanings! They're different words!

how about when people say "tooseday " as opposed to "tuesday" makes me cringe !

or "noddingham " instead of nottingham ,

uuurghhhh gosh yes , like "im so jelous" etc etc
and yes "random" dont get me started x

Interesting thing with Sara(h) is the correct spelling is Sara but the Brits pronounced it hard so the h was added to soften it. So now we have two different pronunciations Sara and Sarah, usually to do with the spelling but I do have a traditionally spelt Sara.

Ladyinpink, it's because she's working in lunar months, a 28 day cycle. Calendar months as far as pregnancy goes don't make much sense. Traditional wisdom actually puts pregnancy at 15 days longer than 40 weeks because it goes by the lunar cycle. It's a much healthier way to date pregnancy and I live in hope that one day we'll change to it.

I get irate when I hear comatose pronounced as 'comatosed' - "I was so tired I was just comatosed on the sofa last night". That's a joint first with "My husband's a terrible hypochondriact" which also drives me to distraction!!

Oh and how about "mortified" when they really mean "devastated", e.g. "I was mortified when my dog died."

YANBU

A girl at work used to pronounce and spell triathlon triathAlon. Used to really annoy me as thats the field we worked in she used to have to say it and write it a lot.