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

[LadyOfTheManor]

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

Orange? If it's not 'oringe' how is it? It's not exactly an i, but it's not exactly an a either. Surely you don't run it all together like ornge?

I have a bit of a thing about 'probally'. And my MIL says 'pomfiterole' which amuses me no end.

DH says 'bir' instead of beer. That pisses me right off. I've even caught him trying to correct DS

Place names don't count. Locals are very proud of their odd pronunciations.

Things like 'skellington' and 'off of' are clearly a joke. In my family we all pronounce lasange 'lasarne'. We know it's not correct.

It's not Welsh Lady, it's in Northamptonshire

activate. I explained further on in the thread.

I pronounce it Calm. How else would I pronounce it? There is no R in calm therefore it's not pronounced carm?

I love how you add, "we know it's not correct" ha ha ha.

No I don't say "Orng" but the Americans run it all together....Orrrng.

I manage to pronounce vowels. I'm just that good.

No I know that! I meant if it was a Welsh name it would be said like that. Clearly it's not, so it's probably pronounced like

"Little Village".

Gob-yon? No idea.. just guessing :)

A young peasant man jumped up and down in the pub the other night and shouted PEN-UL-EE about six times when a penal t y was awarded.

Bleugh.

Luckily for him I was really enjoying my long glass of Bacardi and Coke with lots of ice or it would have been poured over his head.

Maybe I'll go with Gob-ee-on then as at least that's right somewhere

With all the Broughton, Woughton, Loughton messing around, you can never be sure what's right round here!

My nan says lasogna for Lasagne, drives me barmy!

At the risk of getting flamed for generalising, I find the extra R in words like CALM is an English thing. Scots don't do it. We do lots of other things though, like really emphasising our Rs in words where they are there, like WORDS lol.

But random Rs in words really, really, REALLY bug me ha ha.

i had a friend who always said historical instead of hysterical.

I hate all the freecyclers constantly asking for chester draws

and people who don'tknow the difference between lend and borrow.

Can I lend it off you?
and Can I have a lend of....
this is scarily common now.

and now my son has started to say I've tooken it instead of taken it. And I will flick him. I will!

Cheers to whoever brought it up but am now trying to say 'carm' and 'calm' differently. ??????? - how can you not make an r sound unless you say 'cam' or 'calem'.

I am making my poor DH very nervous as I am walking in and out of the kitchen saying 'calm' repeatedly and every one sounding exactly the same I might add.

'pacifically' is awful. Makes me sudder.
never heard anyone say pav-a-lova or carm, though.

I used to say skellington as a kid. That was before I could actually read, though

It's like Cam but with a long A. Caaam. Without sounding like you're from Cardiff. You'll get there.

Agree with dearprudence about 'off of' - it's definitely a joke.

pixie - I know what you mean about calm! I think it totally depends on the accent of the speaker. Where I live - central southern England - they would pronounce 'ar' as one sound ('ahh'). I pronounce it as 2 ('arr').

Therefore if I said 'carm' it would sound like 'carrm'. Therefore I say 'calm' and pronounce it 'cahm'.

can i also have a rant at 40 year olds saying 'niiiicccce' and nodding wisely like they are hip 20-somethings. Who incidentally wouldn't say that any more anyway.

Quite funny actually as he is trying to work out what I have spotted in the kitchen that I am trying to stay 'calm' about.

But you kinda would have to be here.

MIL pronounces double Ts as double Ks, so kekkle, bokkle, likkle etc.
Drives me and DH mad. DH always asks her how many Ks are in kettle. She usually replies with three.

Wow- has so much time and effort ever been dedicated to the pronunciation of the word calm before? Methinks not :o

Molly-the familiarity of that made me chuckle.

My beloved deceased Grandmother was from Manchester born and bred and she used to say;

Baby Bokkle
Hospik-ul.

Drove me and my mother batty.

Oh Molly yes - I hate 40 somethings using 'hip' words too.

'Awesome' - er no its not sunset over Lake Tekapo actually its a bloody new mobile phone.

Oh and don't get me started on 'baby-friendly' versions of words that adults use: drinkie, horsie, doggy etc. I could do a whole thread on that!

Plate. I see you mentioned the westcountry earlier? That's where I am as well.

I don't think I speak "proper janner" though.

Actually baby friendly words exist for a reason. It's hard for young children to discern the last syllable and saying 'doggy' emphasises the 'g' sound. I think that's the explanation anyway.

Crate/crative instead of create/creative - drives me nuts!

I also can't stand it when people keep repeating phrases such as;

"at the end of the day"
"basically"
"he turned around and said..."
"y'know"

Gaaaah!

(I don't watch the Jeremy Kyle show, honest!)