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 dd used to do the "TH for F" thing, I used to think it was so cute - especially thrench and thrankenstein!!

On place names we have here a distington - which is pronounced dizzentun, a mirhouse pronounce my-russ, and a woodhouse pronounced wooduss

Febuary.

Wensday.

Stummick.

i feel the same if someone says ' I brought a new dress for the party' instead of 'I bought a new dress for the party' Argh!

I hate 'I text him and said', as though 'text' as in 'text message' doesn't conjugate. It's even worse when the 't' at the end is silent, as in 'I tex him and said'.

OK, 'text' as a verb is a neologism, but language has tenses for a reason

My darling mother says "Text-tud-ed". Yes that's right,

"She textuded me this..."

I am with you on the text/texted thing.

Problem is I know I must by the law of averages say things wrong, but think I am right, so no doubt really annoy others with my sloppy articulation ha ha.

A guy at work says chimbly (chimney)

(Not sure why we're talking about chimneys on such a regular basis )

Another colleague will say 'We bet plan by...' meaning 'we exceeded the plan by...'

Tempeture (temperature)

and back to the OP, the pavalova thing drove me crackers on the christmas cookery programmes recently, I'd never noticed it previously

Oh dear...I say Wensday.

I also "pop" a lot.

Norbert ~ thank you! that's how I pronounce Lidl, and everyone likes to 'correct' me by saying ''It's LID-ELL'' errr, no it's not :)

I just looked it up, Weird Family. It's an accepted way of saying it, so I should STFU.

I had it drummed into me to say Wed'nz-di. The fact that I seem to be the only person I've ever met who says it this way should really have alerted me the facts, eh?

Have we had 'pacific' as 'specific', yet?

Probably - haven't read the entire thread yet!

The OED says it's Wensday too.

My MIL always texts 'be carfuel' when we drive home, always makes me snigger.

I have just been reminded of my ex MIL.

She drove me mad with ''Broccol-eye' and 'meenopause'

There are others, but I think I have probably bleached my brain in order to get rid of them.

'them' instead of 'those'. I spend 6 hours of my day with a colleague who says this and by the end of the day I want to KILL!

She also says 'I don't want none of that' and 'If you don't do XXX you ain't having no YYY'

I KNOW it's unspeakably rude to correct an adult but now and then I can't resist saying, 'oh you want some then?'

Considering my inner pedant is itching to take the classroom stapler and fix her to the wall, she's lucky that's ALL I do...

Ashley from Corrie saying 'Hospikal'

I'm from his neck o'the woods, people round here also say things like, kekkle and bokkle.

There's a couple of phrases that make me want to not only flick but rather worryingly butt people in the forehead (anger management?? )

Nesh - meaning you feel the cold or it is cold eg "I'm a bit nesh"

Feared - used to say you are scared eg "Well as I walked up the street there was a bloke behind me and I was really feared"

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I wish I could type the scream that is trying to escape from my mouth right now!!!!

Nesh and feared are northern dialect, although nesh used to have the implication of being a wuss in my neck of the woods.

NacMacFeegle - I say both 'thon' and 'amn't'.

I'm Scottish and I think technically, amn't is correct - you'd say I am not, not I are not - so the abbreviation amn't is right. (So there).

'Feared', or more correctly 'feart' is preferable to 'frit' (WTF?)

Oh, and if 'R' is added to calm, I'd pronounce it carrrrrrrrrum

I think it harks back to the Lancashire roots of my town, the people who use those phrase are from the older families, whereas somebody like me who has moved to the area (grown up here, but not a 'native' so to speak) would never use the phrases.

It is like nails down a blackboard to me, I can't stand it, sounds like made up words!

'miwk'
'beautifoow'
'acceptiboow'
'sikth'
'anaethetist'
'libry'
'wensday'
'Febury'
'secketery'
'marshmellow'
'aksed'

So, so many...

saying stair and scissor instead of stairs and scissors
double negatives annoy me intensely too
also love place names that are nothing like ie milngavie pronounced milguy
or kirkcudbright + kircoobrie

my dad says quicks inatead of quiches though that makes me smile

also have some old aunts with no TV or radio so get lots of amusement from their reporting of news items the very best was the ex israeli PM ariel sharon. like a washing powder followed by girls name

DH from north of scotland and finds the whole grarss barth laurgh (grass bath laugh)thing highly amusing

Drop tea? Yes, I think I could learn to hate that more and more!

Ahh my Grandmother's speciality was taking out Ts and replacing them with Ks.

Hospikal. Eeeeeeeeeek!

I hate 'hey?' or 'ay?' instead of 'what{did you say}'

My dad always used to reply 'cows eat it , horses sleep in it'.

so then we would say 'pardon' cos we were working class peasants !