Al Pacino has ruined my day

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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!

A certain family member...

Advocado - avocado
Ordi - audi
Mataland - matalan
Helen - My friend named Ellen (no it's fucking Ellen, i'm not just being lazy and dropping the H for the fucking last time)

An elderly friend used to say 'Bag-you-ettes' for Baguettes and my Grand mother had 'Prostrate' problems - which was wrong on many levels. My other Grandma was 'Psytic'...

OxfordBags I am trying to imagine what the birth registrar's face was like.... "Errr could you spell that again please...."

MIL used to do my head in by referring to crotch (ie crotch snaps on a baby's vest) as the crutch. I would rant and rave about how a crutch is something you have when you break your leg, quite different to a crotch!! I looked it up to prove my point. Turns put that crutch IS in fact an older English way of referring to a crotch. Well that shut me up....

I still think it's crotch not crutch

There is a tv chef here in Ireland who made my skin itch by pronouncing paprika as "parr-pricker". Surely everyone says "papreeka"???

Ohh, I have loads of these, my DM can't say anything right.

Ibrurofen = Ibuprofen
Ebait = Ebay
Dolameeya = Dolimio
Bootsies = Boots the Chemist
Kylie = Carly

The worst thing is that she says them all with such conviction that sometimes I wonder if I've been wrong for the past 36 years.

This thread is the best! I have regularly been laughing out loud throughout the day at work!
I have a few gems from my DH that make me want to rip his eyes out!
Naam (Naan bread)
Pompadoms (Poppadoms)
Ketchup (catch up) - I mean WTF!

One of my absolute "nails down a blackboard" is my MIL who says "I done that", "She done that" - there are SO many things wrong with that!!

I once had a work colleague called S Atkinson and my DH for years called him S Atkins, I once screamed at him it's ATKINSON you fucking KNOB!!!

However, I have been known to have a few myself and for years I though the car SEAT was the same as the thing you sat on! Southwark to me was South Walk! Bicester was how it's spelt and Hermione was Hermeeown until I saw the film!!

My ex mil did every single one of these I think.
But my favourite.... Ahem.....
Nice new perfume for her birthday, yep, exfil had bought her a lovely bottle of "anus anus"

Hahahahahah, Choochoo That made me splutter

My dsd used to say biscetti instead of spaghetti. It was really cute so we all started saying it. Had to stop when she reached 14 and teach how to pronounce it properly, it was verging on cruel.

My sister used to say pisketti - we still say it now, and we're in our 40s/50s.

These are making me hyperventilate!

Instead of "height" DH says "Heigth" only he's a cockney so the pronunciation extends to "Hoit-ff" (sorry, that's the best way I can spell it phonetically)

I have corrected him in the past but he shrugs it off. The compulsion to scream "FOR THE UMPTEEMTH TIME IT'S HEIGHTTTTTTTTT" is overwhelming.

My Mum used to drive me mad with her pronunciation of mortgage - mort, to rhyme with sort, followed by gage, to rhyme with wage. She somehow managed to get both syllables wrong! This made me grind my teeth, especially since she was a French graduate who should have known the derivation of the word.

Grr if we're talking consonant clusters, adding random extra h's drives me nuts

SHtoopid for example. Agree about SIKTH - Chris Evans does it - aargh - he also says SHOOGE for Huge - GRRRR

Anne Robinson pronounces "thousand" as "sowsantt" (possibly because she's had so many facial enhancements, she can't move her mouth properly any longer)

people who say "arks" for ask drive me insane...
I used to work with a young woman who used to ask people if they wanted THROF on their coffee!

My grandparents also say fewndral and pronounce book and cook as bewk and cewk. Sends me potty (also NE area)!

Brilliant thread. DH got wound up by his parents a few years ago when they suddenly started pronouncing some words strangely. MorTgage particularly annoyed him. FIL also took to calling a crane a cran.

My Gran was great for mispronouncing names. She had a good friend called Mrs Ackyson (Atkinson), I musy have been lare teens before I realised Ackyson wasn't her actual name. She also used to say youzooal for usual.

My Mum pronounces some names strangely to me. Michelle becomes Meeeshell, and Nathan has a the th sound. I don't understand how you can call someone that when nobody else says it that way.

How else do you say Nathan?

Oh I see, she has changed the th sound - sorry, I haven't had my cup of tea yet.

Indeed!!!!

Speaking of muslin/muslim, I've heard so many people pronounce muslin with the "u" sound similar "oo" as good, that I'm starting to worry that my annoyance might be unjustified and I might be in the wrong!?
I say muslin with an "u" as in Mum or mug.

Can anyone clarify for me?

But what about muslin? As in the things your swaddle a baby in?