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

[LadyOfTheManor]

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

David Cameron said 'pacifically' when on the Andrew Marr show last Sunday. I vomited into my own mouth a little.

At least it was your own mouth

'thew'

That reminds me of my son when he was a about 8 or 9. I was always on at him not to pick up the bad habits of some of his friends by pronouncing the 'th' sounds as 'f'.

I think I did the job a bit too thoroughly though, because he started saying 'Are you going death?' to anyone who didn't hear him!

The 'thew' man obviously has the same problem - hyper-correction, like people who say Haitch because they think 'Aitch' is talking common.

MIL has trouble with 'wardrobe' and pronounces it 'wardrope', I love her but it makes me cringe a little.

the following drive me barmy:

poitry = poetry
secetary = secretary
garridge = garage
moosic = music

My MIL cannot say the word crisps for some reason. She just can't get her mouth around so many consonants in one syllable. She says 'crsssss'.

Oh yes, and my FIL, bless his heart, says 'see-a-batty' for ciabatte.

sorry I ciabatta. I'm doing it now.

ha ha ha Fellatio. I read it the wrong way the second time. Shame.

my MIL's worst one:

Ipooprofen (Ibruprofen)

I always say Ibuprofen, that's the way it is spelled on my box.

My own one is I cannot say Sudoku, I always say Suduko.Grrr

ChromosoNe.

ChromosNal.

It's chromosome, fgs.

And it isn't a 'pack lunch', it's a packed lunch.

I ALWAYS say Suduko. I can't actually do it let alone say it, and hate everyone who can. If I'm on the train I'll pick up the paper and just put random numbers in the boxes. This makes me feel better for being inadequate.

I scream inwardly whenever MIL anyone says "mischievious". IT'S MISCHIEVOUS!

Just remembered another one - "alot" should be two words not one!

Also when people say "of" instead of "have" as in "should of" I feel the need for unreasonable forehead flicking

Thats it, my inner pedant just woke up

The "of" and "have" irritate me.

Perhaps I'll disregard my "stick on commas" from the book Eats, Shoots & Leaves and just go around flicking people in the forehead. Far more satisfying.

My mum says 'coronary' as 'connery' and 'umbrella' as 'armbrella'. My next door neighbour calls biscuits 'bisticks'...It drives me insane! I also hate when people (mainly on Jeremy Kyle) say 'hospikal' instead of 'hospital'!

YY hate adults who talk about 'popping' anywhere. So horribly cutesy.

I had to beat dh out of saying something like 'thee-ay-ter' for theatre when I first met him. He wasn't quite giving it the full American but on its way and quite wrong.

I do smirk at people who insist words have to be pronounced as they are spelled, though. Quite often they are wrong - established usage is X and they have only seen it written down so say Y out of ignorance, then get all huffy about anyone saying it properly.

Helpfully my mind is blank when it comes to citing any examples. But something like the place near near me called London Colney. As an outsider who moved here (and grew up in the North) I thought it was Coll-nee. Someone told me it is actually coh-nee (no L and strong 'oh' sound). However, I didn't go around sneering at anyone saying 'co-nee'.

My mum says 'coronary' as 'connery' and 'umbrella' as 'armbrella'. My next door neighbour calls biscuits 'bisticks'...It drives me insane! I also hate when people (mainly on Jeremy Kyle) say 'hospikal' instead of 'hospital'!

People who say "aksing", "aksed" or "aks" instead of asking, asked or ask. ARGH!

Weirdfamily- I bow to your superior knowledge!

I've thought of another one - chorizo. I'm sure it's meant to be 'choreetho' as the Spanish say it, but keep hearing 'choreeso' and 'choritzo' on cookery programs.

Ah yes my niece does that, "I aaaaxxxed..."

Leaves me short of a breakdown. Then again I am quite precious about this kind of thing.

I also had a friend who would say 'Be careful! You could drownd!' or 'I was so worried he would drownd himself' etc..

Putting an 's on the end of shop names where there wouldn't normally be one. For eg. Tesco's, Aldi's, Amazon's. I'm very to admit that I did actually have a proper row with a friend over this once (I was 14 in my defence).

Anaesthetic pronounced 'anaes-tetic'

Muslim instead of muslin makes me PMSL.

Oh, and 'tret' instead of 'treated'. I had to go and secretly kick a cupboard at work the other day over that one.