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?

'Ideal' instead of 'idea'.

Also, there is a large discount store locally called 'Rajani's'.

Everyone, but everyone in the whole damned city, except presumably Mr and Mrs Rajani and myself, pronounces it 'RANjanis'.

GRRRRR.

samwidge instead of sandwich

Ecseema instead of eczema (silent e in middle)
Hate BBc pronouncers who pretend H is a vowel. "An horrible" instead of "a horrible" etc.

The ones that wind me up:

expresso instead of espresso

marshmellow instead of marshmallow (I seem to remember an entire thread on that one!)

oh, and my Mum does the Mataland thing too

in norn iron everyone says per scriptions not prescriptions
it's even on a television advertisement for using the local chemist network

2rebecca, actually to say 'an horrible' or 'a horrible' are both correct English, funnily enough.

It's more common now to say 'a hotel' rather than 'an hotel' but it's ancient English, used from when the 'H' was usually dropped out of the word

But I can understand why you hate it!

You're getting a bit OCD about calm/carm back there, I think. But on the subject of 'r's popping up where they don't belong, I have a thing about 'prostrate' for prostate.

My MIL is from NI and says 'whore' for 'her'. Or maybe it's just when she means me.

Quick question:

Lidl ~ is it Leed-ell or Lid-ell?

"Except" instead of "accept"
"Presume" when it should be "assume"
"your" instead of "you're"
Endless bloody commas everywhere when totally unnecessary.
Ditto dashes. What happened to colons?
Not using spell checkers. I can't spell very well either but I check!

Gissabreak yes I'm from Bristol - and you're right, it is the local dialect. I think the reason 'ideal' drives me mad is that I have a couple of friends who will even write it that way!

One of my favourite NI words is "thon." A whole new directional word! (Goes with that, there etc.)

Also, "amn't I," very useful.

Oh! Oh! The worst one:

"Guesstimate!!!!"

NO!

It is either a guess or an estimate.

Gahhh!

i try to be accepting as dd is dyslexic so try not to be snobby about WORDS. but, as I'm here...

not sounding the g in ing - goin. heard a news presenter doing it once (wtf??)

MAJOR irritant: wander and wonder pronounced the same. even Stephen Fry does it [gasp]

then there's chimley for chimney

at "flick people in the forehead"

I have a friend who says, and writes, dubious as jubious- drives me wild!

Scott Mills on Radio 1...'off of' instead of 'from' or 'off'
"And next we have so and so off of Y programme"

ARGH

Deciduousblonde -Lidl is pronounced with a long e sound , as in "seed".

Half of DPs family originate from Germany where Lidl began, so we take it upon ourselves to educate people one by one in the correct pronunciation .

Most people in the UK say Lid-ull though so we've got a long way to go in re-educating everyone!

My dh's sister says "Meeerer" instead of "Mirror" and my db's girlfriend says "Oringe" instead of "Orange".

"Para-set-a-mol" annoys me though...I've always said it "para-seet-a-mol"

i hate people who say pacific for specific! it drives me MENTAL. I do say fil-um for film and wo-rum for worm but im scottish so i cant say it the proper way..
There's also a think in my area for pree mark or pr-eye-mark for Primark.

I hate it when people say PIN number - as in personal identification number number

Also people who say hysterical instead of hilarious.

The worst though was a colleague who used to say "nusually" instead of "usually"

Clara The radio as we had down here for Primark when they were recruiting, pronounced it 'Pree-mark'

the meow im a para ceetamol person too. My dp says ornge instead of orange. it just all rolls together as if there is no vowels at all. Madness. My aunt also says SANG-WIDGE!!eh???

see thats what i call it..preemark but then sometimes on the tv people call it Preye mark..its all confusing!!

There is an area of Chelmsford called Moulsham. When I arrived in Chelmsford (new to Essex) I would pronounce it as it looks - Mool-sham. Eveyone else says Mole-sham. They are just plain wrong, but I ended up doing it too.

There is also a village called Terling, and all the proper tweed shooting coat types and the Terling village mafia call it 'Tarling' while the rest of the uninformed world calls it Terling. It's like a secret handshake - separates the men from the boys.