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 ex refuses to say 'trousers', it has to be 'trousis'. He knows he's doing it, and that just drives me even more crazy.

I used to work with a girl who pronounced 'physio' 'thysio'. ARRRRGH! The worst thing was we worked in a bloody physio department!

Hospikal instead of hospital.

Ex-bil and Ashley from Corrie say it so it may be a Manchester thing but it makes me shudder.

Sangwidges.

curated instead of created

and nucular instead of nuclear, but i see someone's beaten me to that one.

DP insists on saying 'skelectal' when referring to someone skinny
Drives me fucking batshit.

aPixieInMyCaramelLatte Sat 15-Jan-11 07:51:01
Or calm as carm?

how else would you pronounce it?
c-ar-m

Cerstificate, that's annoying too.

I think most people know how to pronounce the name of the town they live in OP

How would you lot pronounce Towcester?

While we're at it, say Magdelen

There are 3 villages near me called Broughton, Loughton and Woughton.

They are pronounced Broughton = Brought-on, Loughton = Lau-ton and Woughton = Wuff-ton

My person bugbear is people who say brought when they mean bought and anyone who says "I done it" when they mean I did it or I have done it bloody MIL

And Sean Bean

One of my exes used to say Pellow for pillow too, it drove me batty. He also used to say "Can you borrow me a fiver?" instead of lend.
Prosperity instead of posterity.

Towcester is Toaster Pocket :)

I love Kirstie Allsopp but she is always saying 'create' as 'crate'. I imagine her in a warehouse stuffing patchwork cushions and stained glass into wooden boxes and driving a fork lift.

Agree on "pacific" and "nucular"! My DS does say "ambleeance" but it sounds quite sweet as he's only 6 and has a slight lisp anyway; maybe I need to start gently guiding out of that one though.

Also have heard "piannah" for "piano" . Bit too music-hall methinks.

My one word to make me want to 'flick a head' is sumfink instead of something. Ffs there are 3 things wrong with that word!!!!!! Someone I used to work with used to say it ALL the time

I'm sure the right way to say primark is pr-ee-mark but if you said it that way where I live you would get strange looks! (it's pr-eye-mark here although northern friends of mine say it the "correct" way so maybe it's a southern thing?)

My Dh and family always stick a D onthe end of gown ie."Did you like your new dressing gownd Maras?"

My mother is on for the whole "an otel". I know it is a correct form but it makes me a bit .

It's all down to how the French use it. Which is fine, but we don't alter every other word due to it's European roots.

It annoys me also in places like Pembrokeshire you pronounce the "Shire" like "Shy-er". In Warwickshire it is prounounced Worrick-shur. Is that my accent or is that correct...or is it horses for courses, a bit like "glaaaaaaass" and "gLASs"?

I hate the "Pr-eye-mark" thing also. I pronounce it PREE-mark.

Well I know that, Blatherskite

North Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire has some cracking place names that are just unpronounceable by anybody but the yokels locals

I'd like to add in the past 30 minutes my dh was on the phone to my FIL, here is how the conversation went;

DH: "Hi dad, are you dropping Mum off at Tesco or are you staying with her?"

FIL: answered

DH: "Oh you stays with her do you?".

Makes me wonder if he lets loose like this when he thinks I'm out of ear shot.

Advocado
Expresso
Somethink and or Somfink

And the f sound in place of the th... go home and practise and do not leave your home until you can hear the diFFerence, see you CAN do it, it's not a speech impediment, just laziness.

"Ibruprofen" for ibuprofen
"allergicked" for allergic
"prostrate" for prostate
"perscription" for prescription
"noo-monia" for pneumonia
"intrestines" for intestines
"meegraine" for migraine
"paraceetamol" for paracetamol
"chronic" when they mean bad
"acute" when they mean bad!

the list goes on...

I think we have the Yanks from over the pond (only their sheer arrogance can count the Atlantic ocean as a pond) to thank for the removal of vowels from orange.

Orng juice indeed

paracetamol IS pronounced paraceetamol though
(at least it is by all the medics I work with )

I like this site

Here's one for you Pocket How on earth do you pronounce Yardley Gobion?

Go-Bee-on sounds wrong

A young peasant man in the pub jumped up and down and shouted
Pen-ul-ie when a penalty was awarded.

Bleugh. How he didnt end up wearing my drink, I'll never know.

If it was Welsh, it would be Gob-EE-on. Thankfully I'm not Welsh so I don't have to own up to that schoolboy error of mis-pronounciation!

Typos do NOT count.