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

[LadyOfTheManor]

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

oh while i am among friends...can I add adults using 'cheeky' too. You are going for a drink, not a cheeky pint.
Have a glass of wine, at any time of day if you want - you are an adult. It is not a ''cheeky glass of vino''

And if you want to concoct a vile cocktail of alcopops, fine, but do not expect me to laugh at your wit, calling it a cheeky vimto.

Sorry, re the carm, cam, calm thing, but I genuinely don't know how you cannot say it without the r? Surely it is more work to put a random R in to the word, than it is to just say caam?

Bumper - fair enough then. Still grates a bit though!

Molly - yes, I hate that too!

Pixie - I am indeed, and while my accent has mellowed a lot oi still pronounce my 'r's proper loike, oi do.

Standard pronunciation of calm

\ka:m\

\a:\ as in vroom vroom, my \ka:\ is a Multipla.

Yea, I know what you mean like, innit....

Who was Pavlova ? I know he had a dog

Ah, but I say Ka 'kah' and car 'carr'. That's how I distinguish between the 2! Definitely an accent thing.

Ah, misunderstood for a minute there...

Bloody hell, my DH drive me mad when he says bespeckled when he means bespectacled. I have corrected him umpteen times now and he still bloody does it!

How about all those people south of about Leicester who can't say anything with an 'u' in the middle and who stick in extra 'r's such as bas for bus and Barth for bath.

Temertures for temperatures. Weather forecasters are often guilty of this one. :)

DH refers to his work bag as a rooksack. I told him to fook off.

Kilconquhar in Fife is Kin-nuch-er, which the ch pronounced as in "loch"

How about scones? I never know how you're meant to say that

Scone to rhyme with bone.

Kind of. Lol

That's certainly how it looks but loads of people say scon to rhyme with gone

Oooh Molly. You have hit on another pet hate!
Cute speak by adults.

I hate it when people say "pop"all the time; as in "can you just pop it on my desk, then I will pop off and meet the Hubby for a cheeky glass of wine."

Or more likely a spritzer.

This is the verbal equivalent of putting little circles over your I's.

Noooooo! "Scone" rhymes with con
Although I think its a North/ South thing...

Or is it 'It scone' for 'it's gone?'

With 'calm' you have to say it with a long 'a' don't you, even if you're a northener, so it comes out like 'caahm'
but that doesn't mean you're putting an 'r' in it! How else could you pronounce it?

I find this website very useful:

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

I also have an acquaintance on my Facebook who writes 'thew' instead of few - as in 'I will be having a thew drinks tonight'.

He's done it many times so it's not a typo...

AArgh my link didn't work - still - copy and paste to browser or something? (I am not very computer literate)

It is scone to rhyme with bone, I think. Iyt's the 'magic e' innit.

Gordon Ramsey is one of the worst people for mis-pronunciations: Somethink, nothink, olive all....

My ex SIL used to make me want to rip her spleen out when she'd say her phone was 'rinning' instead of ringing.

A divorce and years of therapy still hasn't contained my angry twitch

ha ha ha! I hate the whole "cheeky" rigmarole too.

Or how old(er) people tend to over use "so"...he is "soooo" handsome/rich/clever/ANNOYING.

That was a hideous American trait that died out with the youth when I was a teenager, how on earth are middle-agers still saying it?

I also think anyone over the age of 21 caught drinking Alcopops should be shot at dawn.

Scone for me, is rhymed with "gone", I feel a tad pretentious calling it a scone to rhyme with bone. Still I live in Wales now, we call them Welshcakes. Much easier.