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 :)

I-kee-ya/I-kay-ya maybe it's a to-mei-to/to-ma-to sort of thing. Lol!

Where do we stand on Primark? I say Pry-mark but my Scottish cousin says Pre-mark.

I don't think it matters - you can attempt to say words in their original language, Italian, Swedish or whatever, or you can use the anglicised or americanised version (I would think pizzas came to us from Italy via the USA).
I mean we say Franz not La Frons when we talk about France, so for most words it doesn't matter.

But I always notice glottlestops in people who are trying to, imo, disguise their accents and speak posh, on the other hand T Blair and Mr Milliband do the opposite to sound hip.

I try not to be snobby about language but have come across a number of people recently who say "viss" and "vat" instead of this and that & I find it totally distracting!

That said, DH is always laughing at me as I often use words that I have only seen written down & get them wrong. More well read than well spoken!

Franz? No z when I pronounce it

In Scotland they pronounce Peugeot and Pew-jo

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