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 read the first couple of pages but not all so apologies if already mentioned.
How about virtually all radio and tv presenters with their "chewbe" and Schewdent"
for Tube and Student,
Why? How can it have happened?

Esklee ay ter
Spatch lee er

no RRiocks - not arske, arKSe. Like arx.
Bloody annoying.

sorry - spotted the rogue 'i' in your name just as I hit post

Yes can anyone enlighten us as to why "arks" is used?

Tutty pegs is common up North.

Without further a-dew (ado)
Pret a manger (as in baby Jesus in the manger)
Adding r's at the end of words where there isn't one
Pour, Poor, Paw all sounding exactly the same - they are 3 distinct sounds!!
I've did and I done
Sang-witch for sandwich

Grrrrrrrrr

Barth instead of Bath - of course it is an accent but still annoying. I remember going to a bath nrecastle rugby match and it was hilarious hearing - barth, barth, barth chanting.

What is "nrecastle" and how does one pronounce it?

re: Bath I think the people who (presumably) live there are allowed to decide the pronuncation of their own city's name, don't you?

Even though I say bath (for washing) and path myself, not baahth and paahth like a southener.

I don't understand how any of you are pronouncing calm. I may just not use the word anymore. I have tried saying it without an r and it hurts my jaw.

re: arks - I might be wrong about this but I have an idea that it's the Jamaican way of saying it (ask) - which of course is street cool in the Greater London area.

and the following all have the same sound ending:

law
lore
snore
paw
pour
poor

calm and farm rhyme

ham and palm don't though

(unless you are Scottish. Probably)

Jamie Oliver said choclit about a thousand times today...

www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=poor&submit=Submit

NadiaWadia - they only sound the same in some regional accents! poor and pour can be very different in some areas; equally people who pronounce the 'r' more clearly in speech are going to say lore and law differently.
Farm and calm has already been dealt with further upthread.

I don't pronounce the 'r's very clearly and therefore in MY accent, your post would be correct - but I have enough knowledge of other accents to know that it isn't the case for everyone.

You can say calm with a sort of tongue-swallowing l in the middle but it's a bit forced for some people - for others, it's normal!!

Picking on regional pronunciation, even if you don't understand that is what it is, is poor show.

Picking on incorrect pronunciation is ok though .

I'm not picking on it! I said unless you're Scottish, didn't I?

WTF doe a sizeable number of the population totally unable to pronounce the word DRAWING without sticking in an additional R i.e. DRAW-RING.

It makes me mad

I love Scottish accents, they're beautiful!
My post was tongue-in-cheek (pronounced 'tong'!)

but someone (PotPourri?) has said that poor, paw and pour all have distinct sounds, without acknowledging that in 'standard' English this is absolutely not true.

Of course I don't know what PotPourri's own accent is.

So I really don't think I am the one saying that other peoples' pronunciations are 'wrong'.

Personally I don't speak RP, just (slightly) Midlands-accented English, with short 'a' s where possible!

Yes I believe it is a way of self-reinforcing a stereotype. Victimhood if you wish. ie "I am perfectly aware that this is wrong use of language but I choose to do it because it serves to define you, the white people, and me, the black people, as different.
Racist language if you wish.
Maybe. Maybe not.
Cue the white self-hating liberals who believe in ethnic cleansing of British cities (but not Sarajevo, no, no and thrice no), but because I am white, privileged, went to Oxbridge and write for the Guardian and hate myself because of the way I was brought up, I shall champion the rights of the downtrodden peoples of the earth to assuage my guilt and I shall feel good about it, because I am good really and it always feels good to have pricks to kick against and even though I love the black peoples and think everyone of those black people I meet in the Guardian offices is really nice and why can?t everyone get on. I do like Hampstead because the crime rate is pretty low for London dontcherknow and Mummy doesn?t worry about me too much. You know I really don?t understand why the real people laugh at Emma Thompson who said that Exeter is too white, but do they in fact? I only heard a rumour, cos? actually I don?t know any real people, only those people who inhabit my world and if they said something like Peckham is too black then they are just evil and not nice like me at all. (forty years later in an ivy clad house in the Cotswolds a lonely old woman strokes her cat, sips her wine and wonders why she never understood that weirdo Daftpunk)

well I did wonder - hence I only put the instead of the rant I was about to post!

On QI last night Monsieur Fry was mocking Birmingham....

He was telling a joke about a "Kipper tie"...I missed the joke entirely but it roughly translated to a Brummie saying;

"Cup of tea".

This amused me.

ARepleteHmmSkiNun Thu 20-Jan-11 01:01:52
I enjoyed that immensely. I think you will get some flack though in a minute or two, but you may get away with it cos the usual suspects are over on another thread discussing how offended thay are about some stupid Irish Tinker Wedding programme.

I can't stand criss instead of crisps, Lickle instead of little, and hospical instead of hospital!!

So irritating!

Have we had 'texes'? As in some old woman in a tracksuit on Jeremy Kyle: 'I only get 30 texes a month', 'he used to send me texes'.

Gaaaaahhh!