to think chorit-zo, pit-za, cras-ong and various other pronunciations are just a bit old school?

[lessonsintightropes]

My DM uses all of the above (seriously, pit-za used to be acceptable for pizza some years past) including broccol-I, Keen-yah, rest-au-rong, choc-lit, turq-oissse, etc etc etc.

My DNep and D Niece take the piss out of her tonnes and to be fair it sounds very funny to their London ears. I just think for an old woman who grew up saying things a certain way it would be a bit mean to try and r-educate her.

What do you think? Do we need to try and get DM to say brocco-lee, Ken-yah, rest-oh-ron, choco-lat etc or should we just let it live, and giggle to ourselves? PS totally outing myself to any family members here :)

There's another current thread about why choritzo (Italianisation of a Dpanish word) is so wrong. Two threads in two days about the same thing...

Mangatowts is brilliant!

We're in Germany & that's probably how my two would say it until told, though!

Dad also has Conserva-tiff (Conservative) - in fact any -tive ending becomes a -tiff. And Ok-shun (Auction).

But if I dare drop an H (or anything similar) in his presence he will rudely mutter the "correct" pronunciation under his breath. I often wonder if it's only me that's singled out for that treatment or if he does that with friends or other people he meets in everyday life

My mum alsays refers to California as calee- phone-eye- aay. Drives me nuts.
Along with
Tangy ears tangier
Las ag nee lasagne
Melongitis meningitis
Chim lee chimney

Hmmm. As an older person myself who happens to pronounce the examples OP gave correctly I wonder why so many members of the younger generation don't seem to know that there are 't's in the middle of words such as butter, water, letter etc.

meddie - we were just lamenting that our 7 yo dd has stopped saying "chimlee". I miss it.

DMIL says "protiferoles" which I quite like. DM says all-mond and or-bergine whereas I say ah-mond and oh-bergine. Not actually sure which is correct (my way )

My late mother always said 'admiral-itty' for admiralty and 'tar-a-macadam' for tarmacadm. My best friend who is in her early 50s still says 'chimblee' and I have never corrected her, though I usually say 'chimney' after her, but she's never picked up on it. My current pet peeve is 'brush-etta' instead of 'brusk-etta', but I think the bruschetta pronounciation is going to win out, as even people in restaurants say it that way. An Italian friend practically froths at the mouth when he hears 'brushetta'.

Anybody have a clue as to wher Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood get their pronunciation of macaroon?

I'd love to hear you say rest-oh-ron out loud, op
That'd be an unforgettable elocution lesson for us all.

I was having the turquoise discussion with DP the other day. He says turk-oys and I say turk-woys. Are we both wrong?

Soup, are you one of those people who say "th-yatta"? Or fear-ter?

I used to work in a fabric shop and we used to pass the time by trying to convince customers that incorrect pronunciations of words (especially colours/types of fabric etc) were correct.

We used to say turk-waaaah (turquoise), bee-edge (beige), broke-aid (brocade) and forks (faux) fur.

We also used to use completely made-up acronyms if people asked for advice. Like "You'll need some ATP tape if you want pinch pleats in your curtains" etc.

We were bastards.

Toby, they probably just thought you were really stupid

Skoda My MIL says 'Turk-oise'

We found ourselves highly amusing :o

And to be fair, I live in 'the town the gene pool forgot'.

TobyLerone

I am LOLing at this thread - in a totally non-judgmental way of course.

I am guilty of the Chorizo one (not going to even try the phonetic spelling) I was pulled up on it by the guy behind the deli counter in Sainsbury's. We've since become quite matey [irrelevant]

As you were.

A friend of my mum's insists on calling quiche 'geeesh' (hard g sound)

You said rest-oh-ron?

Guess what? Some people think that's ridiculous too.

It's just words ffs. Do you know what they mean? Yes. That's what matters. Go choreetho, coritzo, cho-reet-zoh, chorit-zoh, whatever. If we understand what you say, it doesn't matter really.

"However I expect that in years to come we will all say tenderhooks as the language evolves and original meanings forgotten "

Hope not-as it doesn't make sense, as there is no such thing as a tenderhook.

Would be as bad as if "should of/would of" became acceptable!

Treas, I think, according to some magazine article I read once, that the macaron is a different, more refined and lovely thing than the common macaroon. Macaron became widely used at the point that they became popular in afternoon teas at terribly nice establishments, or maybe when afternoon teas became fashionable amongst terribly fashionable people, or something.

Skelington.

Umm, I do think that some of the PP might have misread me. I was indeed trying to be lighthearted - fat lot of good that does on here! We all love my DM, she grew up overseas and went to international schools which had very particular ways of saying things that my DNep and DNiece do find funny. We don't mock her. Far from it! But to a 4 and 6 year old her pronunciations are just quite funny when you are used to hearing things a certain way. I think it would be cruel and disrespectful to tell her that people pronounce things differently in younger generations as she'd be embarrassed. Jeez some of the earlier pearl-clutchers need to lighten up FFS!

And just for the record - feel free to mock and laugh - my pronunciations would be -

Pee(t)za - for pizza
Brockolee - broccoli
Ken-yuh - Kenya
Rest-oh-ron(t) - restaurant
Choclut - chocolate (hers really is choc-lit, rhymes with...)
Turk-woyse (I got hers wrong, she says turk-warz) for turquoise

Etc. Was meant to be funny. Will not try this again.

Nooooooo

No bloody T in chorizo! FFS!!

Cho-ree-soh! If you are of Spanish ilk as in Spain, not South American like i am then it's cho-ree-tho.

Oh my friend says fageetas instead if fahitas (sp)