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?

with you on the 'pop' edam - re pop up onto the couch (GP) - gruesome

also haitch instead of aitch.

You caught me .

or the totally WEIRD way weather people on the telly speak, swallowing endless words. re northern ireland becomes nor-n-eye

When I went for a smear test a couple of months ago, the nurse said...

"Just pop behind the screen and pop your knickers off".

I did as requested. She tapped the bed and said;

"Just pop yourself on here while I fill in the paperwork".

And she was about 100 years old.

It just isn't right.

no honey, YOU caught ME

I caught you following me. Busted!

Round here (East Mids) people seem to say 'bold' when they mean 'bald'. And I can't stand 'at the minute' - it's 'at the moment' FGS!

Daisy - was this up North? "Tret" instead of "treated" would be dialect where I come from.

Nadia, yes DH says 'bold' for 'bald' and he's from E. Mids. Drives me mad!

Also hate 'sekkertary' for 'secretary'.

"sangwich" I know 2 people who say that and it bugs the life out of me. I don't understand why they feel the need to add in a G that doesnt exist

No, not up north and not said by somebody nothern.

Migraine is meegraine, unless you're American.
In my part of the world people have started saying defi-night-ly.

My mother says potatoos. And chickun. And coy-un for coin.

Calm doesn't have an r in it. Or an l. It has a long a.

Dobernum istead of Doberman
ordament instead of ornament

oh and DP says "etable" instead of "edible", he gets really anoyed when I correct him.

"Prehaps" instead of "Perhaps".
"Off" instead of "From", e.g. "I got the money off Edward." UGH!

Drawring
Triath-a-lon
Hampster

pocketmouse it's pronounced 'maudlin' in Oxford but i only know that because DH went to college there

samwich - sandwich
juvet - duvet (that's my mum) ggrr it grates on my brain
sommink - something

I could go on but think it's all been covered.

Oh and my DD is the same as someone's son up thread with pronouncing 'th' for any word that has a 'f' sound as she knows it annoys me when children say 'f' for 'th'. One hymn at school went something along the lines of 'we thank him for his favours' and she made such an effort to say thavours with her tongue stuck right out - so cute and so funny.

must say i am bemused by the calm thing

what's the difference between 'ar' and a long a??

I can't pronounce milk, it always comes out as "miwk".

Drives dh bonkers but he pronounces exactly as "ezsackly" which drives me mad!

catissleepy, one says ar and one says a

these are funny but another one is definATEly instead of definitely grrrr!

My mum always pronounces poem as poyum. It makes me want to kill her.

Titsalina I live really near you! We have those same villages and it's bloody annoying when everyone pronounces them differently.

Also, my brother says 'pellow' for 'pillow' too! He doesn't think it's pronounced that way, he just can't say it properly for some reason.

catissleepy, in some regions/dialects/accents, ar is pronounced as in arum, that is, you can hear the r sound. EG as some of the Scots speakers on this thread have said, when they say worm it sounds like wor-um to RP speakers.
So if you write ar to indicate a long a, some people are going to think you mean the r is/should be audible.

One that is really getting on my wick is privacy with a long 'eye' sound. It's a short sodding 'i' sound. We are not ruddy Americans! (Nothing against Americans as such, just don't see why we have to give up our own language because they speak their own version of it.)