To want to poke people in the eye when they say 'FAJEETAH'

[AngelWreakinHavoc]

This is one of those daft things that really annoys me . Why can so many people not pronounce the word fajita correctly!

Over the last 2 weeks 3 people have said this and it is adult people surely if my 6 yr old can say it then the rest of the world can? or aibu?

The final straw was today in the supermarket when the woman serving said 'Ohh You are having FAJEETAHS for tea, i just wanted to scream ITS FAHEETAH!!!!!

Obviously I didnt and politely replies 'yes I am'

YANBU
BUT
It really annoys me when people who are not French/Italian/Spanish etc over pronounce Anglicised French/Italian/Spanish etc words/phrases just to show how aware they are of their French/Italian/Spanish origins.

I dont mean just saying them properly, I mean the whole Deb arrrrr c le!
thing.

On a different theme - I knew this woman who insisted on saying Poc a harness when saying Pochantes. SHe would say it really loudly then glare at you just daring you to say 'its Po ca hon tus'.

I never took the bait. It used to drive her insane

And Paninnis are always Poonahnies round here

I used to childmind for a woman who couldn't say "crisps" she used to say Cri-bits"

My OH says 'dungereens' 've (the)' ' blanklet' and 'Carnation Street'

Its a wonder he is still breathing frankly

I hate it when people can't pronounce other people's names properly even when it has been pointed out to them MANY times - such as José.

The phoneme /euil/ (represented by the graphemes /euil/ or /euille/) doesn't exist in English. Try uh-yu very quickly with a very short "u" in both cases.

Mille = meel

I went to a very nice restaurant with my mum once and she ordered the turbot, but she asked for turbo. I think she thought it was French.

I had to take her out the back and shoot her, obviously.

Fajitas, jalapenos and tortilla (as in gorilla not tor TEE YA) misprounced drives me wild especially when they are fairly common place. FIL pronounces ciabatta 'KEY a batta' but he's old so I can forgive that!

we call it fan-ginas here, you know, like vagina... cos we're really mature :o

My late and much missed great aunt (granns sister) used to have some hilarious mispronunciations. She called a

Gateaux a "ja-toox".
Quiche was a quee (like in queen) shay and the family favourite

Crap = crepe

It's tag-lee-a-telli that makes me want to murder someone.

If you feel at all concerned about pronouncing Moet et Chandon, it's pronounced Bo-lin-ger if you're buying it for me.......

but that's another one that makes me feel a bit poncey saying tallee-a-telli

I'd do it all proper in an Italian restaurant but for those informal at-home suppers I'd say the G.

I really get irritated when people say nuggit for nougat.

My uber correct friend that I mentioned earlier, even pronounces Ikea as though she's Swedish, Ik (rhymes with tick) - ay-ah.

Ffs.

saying "sexsual" instead of "sexshual" .... newreader said it one night listening to news and me and dp turned around, rewound sky plus and played it again, saying WTF did she say?

i hate tissoo and issssoe also.

dp oftens like to throw big words into conversations to annoy me lol and often says facetious .... i then use this word in the right context but pronounce it fahitas to annoy him! lol

Do you say meel? I say mee. Am I wrong? I say mee feuyee^. Actually I don't, at all but that is the closest I can come to spelling my phonetic interpretation of it.

i hate asking for sauvignon blanc and pronouncing it correctly in front of mates cos i sound like a toolbag so i just point to menu and say "that please".

I love Mille Feuille, but it's such a mare to pronounce that I only ever order it in patisseries where I can just point and say "one of those please".

And for anyone who was on the other thread and was wondering, that is a First World Problem

Why? Sauvignon blanc is easy to say!

God- how do you pronounce Sauvignon blanc wrong? [sheltered emoticon].

Actually following on from my previous post, it should be pronounced Cloudy Bay.

because if i said it right i'd be laughed at and told "tis far from sauvignon blanc you were reared" lol ... am irish and also say sangwidges. i have to belt dp ever time he says he "learnt" someone how to do this that and the other.

SO VING YON BLON(K)

with a French accent. Yon is a bit nasal. Don't pronounce the K really.

have heard it called savynon blank

Actually no k at all is best.

lol Mardybra thats how i would say it

Very well travelled and Phd educated FIL says key-bab instead of keh-bab, and has pompadoms with curry. Oh and despite knowing the words to millions of Italian operas he asks for a see-ah-batta instead of ciabatta. But I love him dearly and have only ever corrected him when I've been drunk.