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Al Pacino has ruined my day

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OfCourse · 31/08/2014 15:15

DM rang last night and told me she had watched a film starring Al Paseeno -that's how she pronounced his name. DM has done this before, and I told her it's not 'Al Paseeno, it's Al Pachino'. So I told her again last night it's Al fucking Pachino.

DM is all narky with me today because I corrected her speech. Well, I said, when you call him 'Al Paseeno' it makes my teeth itch; which is apparently not good enough defence for correcting her and highly bad manners.

She has other words which I don't correct, keybab is one example.

I ended up apologising!

OP posts:
badtime · 01/09/2014 17:09

Bonefire? Perscription?

RonaldMcDonald, you wouldn't be from a certain wee country, would you?

WitchWay · 01/09/2014 19:10

Littleprincess DF118 is Dihydrocodeine. Votarol is Diclofenac.

WitchWay · 01/09/2014 19:10

*Voltarol

Thumbwitch · 02/09/2014 05:51

My nanna, god love her, used to drop the 'a' off the end of names - so Princess Diana was Princess Diane, and in your example, WorkingBling, Nicole would have been all right but if she'd actually been called Nicola, she'd have ended up as Nicole. Kathleen would be pronounced with the emphasis on the EEN - so KathLEEN.
Velcro was velcrose to her.

Another one who wants to know what is wrong with ridikulous - no one pronounces the c as a soft c, surely?!

Surfsup1 · 02/09/2014 07:02

My children both say fuman instead of human. I can't bring myself to correct them it's just so cute!

DH says Wimpledon instead of Wimbledon and I have no qualms about correcting them

The one that always gets me is people who pronounce Moet (the bubbles) as Mo-ay instead of Mo-ett. I think they think they sound posh but it's just wrong!

Surfsup1 · 02/09/2014 07:04

Ooh and I also have friends who live right near the river Thames and pronounce the th as you would in thing.

EmberElftree · 02/09/2014 07:39

How about our debate over liquorice? My DH pronounces it likorish aaaaaargghh and it makes my eyeballs itch.

I say likoris as it ends in -ice not -ish.

Hmmm wonder why we even have this debate as we never eat the stuff...

chocolatemademefat · 02/09/2014 07:55

My MIL used to proudly tell everyone how she loved padoori when she meant pakora. She was a formula one fan and loved watching the grand pricks.

AlpacaMyBags · 02/09/2014 07:57

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FacebookWillEatItself · 02/09/2014 08:04

my friend can't say crisps

She says crsssss

And growing up in south east London I had a friend who used to say dressing gaaand

FacebookWillEatItself · 02/09/2014 08:06

Jamie Oliver said marshmellow last night. Marshmellow really winds me up.

EmberElftree · 02/09/2014 08:06

Hahaha chocolate padoori wtf! Am laughing every time I say it :o)

Surfsup1 · 02/09/2014 08:13

'arks' for ask is a London variant from Caribbean patois.

Except it's really common here in Australia and there's not a lot of Caribbean patois to be heard around here.

Rollermum · 02/09/2014 08:28

I didn't explain ridiKulous v well.

He says 'ridiK-cullous' rather than 'ridik-cue-less'. So like a syllable is lost and the K is overly strong.

JustAShopGirl · 02/09/2014 08:34

ridiKullous - is a spell in Harry Potter - you hear it more often nowadays...

Rollermum · 02/09/2014 08:37

Ha! Yes of course - I don't think that's where he got it from.

Just thought of another one - my mum says 'stuff' for about five minutes Smile 'ssssstufffffffffff'.

coralanne · 02/09/2014 08:37

When my DM worked as a TA her work colleague told a visitor that all the teachers were on an intercourse day. (It was an in service day)

Surfsup1 · 02/09/2014 08:45

This one may have been covered already, but it drives me nuts when people use "text" in the past tense. For example "He text me his number so I called him".

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 02/09/2014 08:58

FiL says "I see you yesterday in town" instead of "I saw you yesterday"Confused
Wrong tense.

CalamityKate1 · 02/09/2014 09:12

What gets my goat is newsreaders who can't pronounce nuclear. It's not new-cu-lar FFS. You're on bloody TELLY. Get it right Angry

Also heard on TV recently - mischievous pronounced as miss-chee-vee-uss.

Oh and TV wildlife experts who say "orang utang". There's no G on the end. You're meant to be an expert. Sort yourself out.

EvansOvalPiesYumYum · 02/09/2014 09:21

Yep, 'miss-chee-vee-uss' is very annoying. As is "mur-i-al" for mural. SiL is dreadful for adding extra syllables to words. (And leaving out necessary syllables in other words, strangely).

Surfsup1 · 02/09/2014 09:37

I live in Straya and I am Strayan. Wink

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 02/09/2014 09:45

My DH calls Westfield (shopping centre) Westerfield. It's doing my head in!

SmallBee · 02/09/2014 10:49

The one that really gets on my nerves it something I say. I promise I know the difference, I just have a mental block on the two words!

I cannot say muslin, I ALWAYS end up saying Muslim. It's awful & really embarrassing. Example

Me to DH: DD is a bit snotty, can you pass me a Muslim so I can wipe her face?

Blush I just say cloth now.

DH says 'tidy you over' when he means 'tide you over' but after this long I've just let it slide.

RubbishRobotFromTheDawnOfTime · 02/09/2014 11:13

There's a lot of confusion arising from the Scots pronouncing the letter r at the end of words and the English not!

Pitta is said peeta which is not the same as Peter as that has an "r" at the end.

Drawer and draw do not sound the same as drawer has an "r" at the end.

Aright?