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

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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 :)

"throff"-sounds as if she was going to spit in it!

"Dressing gowned"-is that being in the state of wearing it?-"I'm dressing gowned!"?

I say buck for book. What other way can you say it?!

My DM drives me bonkers by mispronouncing alcohol as elcohol, and message as massage (not like mass-ahge, just message with the "eh" replaced with an "a")

She also tends to drop her haitches in some particularly odd places, so a boy I went to school with was always "You" instead of "Hugh"

Arf at throff.

That's hilarious.

Are you kidding DropYouSword? I can think of two other ways it's commonly pronounced in England alone.

Treas- macarOns are the sandwich type coloured things they make on GBBO, macarOOns are the coconut covered ones

Sorry,OP How again you pronounce 'restaurant'?

My boss used to correct me on croissant, I said cross-unt which I know is not the correct French, she says it the correct way with a baguette up her arse.

Anyway, just to annoy her I changed to panna-chocca...

I was quietly amused by the staff at the 'Mexican' place at Alton Towers universally pronouncing fajitas as 'vadge-eaters'.

DP, working on the deli counter at a posh shop in Chelsea, used to have a customer who would regularly come in and ask for 'pate' (rhyming with 'late').

"But then nor do I laugh at the Spanish population's inability to say the letter "J", so I think I'll continuing to pronounce it chorit-zo and not feel a twat. I think the Spanish will forgive me."

The Spanish population are perfectly able to pronounce the letter J... in Spanish, as a strong guttural back-of-the-throat consonant, which is how it is correctly pronounced in our country and has been for centuries.

I understand the hilarity at English native speakers pronouncing their own words in an incorrect way. However, I find it quite ironic to laugh at someone who pronounces a foreign word the CORRECT way... Especially when the "laugher" can only express themselves in their own language, and the speaker can maintain a conversation in 5 different languages. It actually happens to me quite often :P.

TobyLerone, I am glad someone else has noticed 'slither'. I sometimes think I have imagined the word 'sliver' as I see it used so seldom. Slither is used (to refer to a thin slice) in newspapers and on TV. I heard Gordon Ramsay saying it.

It is one of the few things that makes me as angry as 'choritzo'.

Trouble with being lighthearted is that sometimes tone-of-voice doesn't come across in text.

English is my parents' 3rd or 4th language, and I get incredibly hacked off when people see fit to be judgemental about their pronunciation, particularly of words that have entered the English language from other languages, so, technically, the English mispronounce them, too.

Not to mention when English-speakers maul words in my mum and my native language, and then insist that we are mispronouncing them!

my parents pronounce bolognaise as bolog -nay. I have no idea if it is correct or not but for some reason it really grinds my gears.

I am trying to train myself out of saying rest-tor-ront

How do we feel about tort-tus versus tor- toyz (tortoise) then?

I was brought up with the former, but the latter makes more phonetic sense. This makes me feel .

It's tort-us. I own one so I can make the rule. Nobody is allowed to say tor-toys any more. Ever.

A total bugbear of mine is actually people pronouncing foods the foreign way when an English equivalent basically exists. Paella, chorizo etc are particular hated ones. You'd sound like a total idiot if you were to say you were off for a weekend to Par-ee etc, so why can we anglicise place names but not foods?? Aargh.

On the other thread on chorizo, most of the pedants were in agreement that anglicisation is fine - chorizo can (or perhaps should) be pronounced choreeso or choreezo in English.

Restraunt

What other ways can book be pronounced?

Surely it depends on the persons accent and where they are from my oh say choclit, necklis, bracelit etc, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter does it? Be thankful these people are around to even say the words.

I'm trying to say that and it doesn't work

Oh right, yes, Liverpool got it now