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 :)

My BFF says the 'L's in 'tortillas'. She is otherwise very clever.

fageetas sounds like an alternative word for fanjos

Although my sister and I say 'fajitas' phonetically, usually with a glottal stop in place of the 't'. And jal-A-pen-ohs. Because we think we're funny.

How do you pronounce brocade then?

Help me out with Ibiza please

I'm never going to go there but I've been driving one for months and making people cringe by my various attempts to pronounce it. Guy at the garage confidently calls it "your Ibb-ee-tha" - is he right?

I know its not quite the same thing as affected speech but my dc has 2 lovely ones I didn't want to correct 'similar' for cinema and 'radi date or' for radiator.

Aww lessons , it was funny! Don't be disheartened.

Broc (as in broccoli) - aid.

I think I alternate between Ibb-eetha and Eye-beetha for Ibiza, but I think the former is closer to being correct.

It's eye-bee-tha isn't it?

No no no. Its Eye-beef-a. Essex girl

I'm almost certain that Spanish speakers say it more like Ibb-eetha. But I don't speak Spanish.

I know thenightsky does sound like that

Thanks LatinforTelly. Nice to see my sense of humour isn't entirely misplaced on MN!

Flatmum and Fossil Broe-cayde for me, and Ibb-eetha for me.

My best mispronunciation was, as a wee one, when I'd read in a Jackie Collins novel (at 13, bit precocious) saw the word gazebo. In the car with DM, DDad and sibs, on seeing one, said "is that a gaze-bow"? DM, without missing a beat, said, "darling I don't think it's a gay's bar, there aren't many of them in the countryside. I think there are more in the city." Rest of family dumbfounded, DSis in silent hysterics.

I don't mind old lady pronunciation - it's quite sweet. What I find irrationally irritating is the current fashion for hypercorrection, which seems to be an attempt by the speaker to sound posher than they are. I've heard several people (young women, as it happens), doing this on the radio recently.

I'm talking about people who say "buck" for "book", and pronounce the "u" sound in "butcher" in the same way as you'd pronounce the "u" in "up". Also the habit of certain Americans of pronouncing "pasta" as "posda". I once had an American lady refer to my car (at that time I had a Mazda MX5, known as a Miatta in the US), as a "Mozdoh Miaahtaa".

I think it'd the fact that the speaker in those examples is making a concerted attempt to sound gentrified/educated that I find annoying.

Whenever I see 'mini-series' written as 'miniseries', my brain says it to sort of rhyme with 'miseries'.

Oh yes buck for book and cuck for cook gives me the heebie jeebies.

Oh god, I have a friend who says dressing gownd, too. She also says "a slither of cake".

It makes me murderous.

As does tiss-yew and iss-yew.

I have always pronounced nougat as "nugget"

I only found this was fantastically wrong about a year ago when I was offered a choc and replied "Not for me thanks, I'm not keen on nugget"

Oh the shame. Apparently it's nooo-gar.

Ah yes. Katisha, "Sewell Speak" (not sure how to convey the pronunciation phonetically) - after Brian Sewell. Aaarggghh!

The young barista where I used to work used to ask if people wanted throff on their coffee!

Wars have started over nuggat vs nooogar...I think it's a regional thing.

Friend of a friend pronounces patio to rhyme with ratio.