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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!

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wowfudge · 02/09/2014 11:15

I started a course of online lectures last night. The tutor, who is very stern, pronounces the word secretary 'sekutary' with no 'r' in the middle. As this is a course about company secretarial work, you can imagine how many times he mispronounced this...... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

HouseAtreides · 02/09/2014 12:11

Trestle and Trellis. DH gets them mixed up all the time. So does my friend. And I have to stop and think before I attempt to say either, to make sure I have the right one.
DH was putting up a trellis for a honeysuckle this summer; I think out of the 15 or so times he had to say the word, he said Trestle at least 12 of them.

DoctorTwo · 02/09/2014 13:17

can you pass me a Muslim

I have an inappropriate image in my head now, thanks. :o

calculatorsatdawn · 02/09/2014 13:18

At karaoke a friend of mine always does The Killers ' Somebody Told Me' and pronounces the 'r' in February.

gobbynorthernbird · 02/09/2014 13:30

Prior to DH and I meeting he lived in a house with a julienne balcony. I'm not entirely sure what he's planning on doing with his new Juliet peeler.

YouTheCat · 02/09/2014 13:44

My ex would say 'pourquoi' when giving me something, thinking he was being ever so cosmopolitan and saying 'for you'. It didn't matter that I have an A level in French scraped an E , he was certain I was wrong and carries on using it to this day.

I think it's a good enough reason for him to be the ex, though there were plenty of other reasons.

squoosh · 02/09/2014 13:46

Very Delboy Trotter!

poorbutrich · 02/09/2014 13:47

My FIL corrected my pronunciation of Renault to "Ren-alt" and frequently says "k-naps" for canapes...

poorbutrich · 02/09/2014 13:47

My FIL corrected my pronunciation of Renault to "Ren-alt" and frequently says "k-naps" for canapes...

Idontneedanotherhero · 02/09/2014 13:48

My mum pronounces TreSemme shampoo as "traysommes" in a crap French accent!! It drives me potty!!

futtle · 02/09/2014 13:51

My MIL asks for slithers of cake, and goes for appointments to her 'thysio'.

WhatchaMaCalllit · 02/09/2014 13:52

I know a lot of people that grew up watching Blue Peter and as a result pronouce the word

"Drawing" as

"drawring"

As for the person who mentioned on the first page about Loughbourough being pronounced Lock-borough, can I ask whether the person saying it as Lock and not Loff was Irish? The Irish word for lake is lough and is pronounced as lock.

I still don't get how the word lieutenant is pronounced Leftenant (excuse the spelling). That one wrecks my head Smile

OooOooTheMonkey · 02/09/2014 13:52

I have a friend who calls it a "dressing gowned" too. Also DP says "acrosst" when he means across. Hmm
I thought Moët was pronounced Moay, and liquorice with an ish on the end!!! Blush

SistersOfPercy · 02/09/2014 13:52

My Mum says 'Dove it' rather than Duvet. Drives me mad.

EmberElftree · 02/09/2014 13:52

LOL YouTheCat that is brilliant wot a fanny!

My mum cries "c'est moi" in a loud sparkly tone while flinging her hands into the air when a server asks "who's having the chicken" or whatever she's eating at the time.

They always look at her like she is insane she is

We are all like

Idontneedanotherhero · 02/09/2014 13:54

Clearly I'm a fool but how the hell IS Moët pronounced if it isn't Moay??

EmberElftree · 02/09/2014 13:55

Aaarrrgh WhatchaMaCallit "drawring" has given me goosebumps Angry

Even worse when the g is hard "drawrinG"

PetulaGordino · 02/09/2014 13:56

mo-ett

the tréma affects the pronunciation

Idontneedanotherhero · 02/09/2014 13:56

Ooh just googled it you learn something new every day! blushes

KatoPotato · 02/09/2014 13:57

Hold on now. I need some clarifications please, how are we pronouncing:

Peugeot (I've heard PEW-JO and Purrr-jo)
Penne Pasta - PenNAY?

squoosh · 02/09/2014 13:58

I love all the French speakers, lending a dash of s'fistikation to everyone's day! Grin

EmberElftree · 02/09/2014 13:59

Because of the umlaut the 2 dots above the T - Moet is German in origin.

Mo-ay would be the French pronunciation (with the 2 dots)

EmberElftree · 02/09/2014 14:02

I meant without the 2 dots!

Penne with a flat e on the end - like Benny but flatter iyswim

I say poo-zjo but my DH says pergee-o

redpickle · 02/09/2014 14:04

DM says: Alstation (alsation), brickfast (breakfast), pottttt pourrrriiiiii (pot pouri), creme fray (creme fraiche)

ILs say many, many things weirdly (and deliberately to be annoying) highlights are mozzzzzzarella, losogne (lasagne)' jewbye (Dubai), St loooseeahhh (St Lucia)

And, and if thats not annoying enough, they repeat comedy catch phrases A LOT and get them wrong. Remember The Fast Show? The man who used be incredibly lucky e.g "popped up to my loft and found a box of undiscovered Shakespearean sonnets, sold them for millions.....which was nice". ILs will watch it, then repeat it saying "...and that was nice" He doesn't fucking say "and that was nice" the fucking catch phrase is "which was nice" a tiny silly detail but important if you are going to use the catch phrase throughout the 90s and into 20 fucking 14 argggggghhhhhh

redpickle · 02/09/2014 14:05

Oh and they call penne fucking pen...argghhhhh