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!

Ramadam annoys me too. It's Ramadan not Ramadam.

I've known loads of people who've lived in the Middle East or had connections to Islam and they still manage to say Ramadam. And one of them called herself a Journalist.

I've been guilty of saying 'orang-utang' for years! It's actually orang-utan!

(Doh! Should have previewed that before posting) ....* orang- utan !

My DH says Jan a ry instead of January and feb a ry instead of February. Drives me mad.

He's a designer and constantly talks about draw rings....makes my teeth itch!

Has anyone nominated this thread for classics yet? I need this to be in Classics.

No, DH, they're not advocahs, the avocados. Nor are they harrogate beans.

My nan used to eat waffles rhyming with raffles

My DM can't say digital. She has many variations on the theme - dikigicatal, didikatal and my personal favourite dikikidikakal.

She just CAN'T say it. Was mortifying when she had an aerial man over- he corrected her and it just went from bad to worse. He looked at her like she was a loon at which point I had hysterics and had to leave the room.

DS can't say "metabolism". Never has been able to, no matter how many times we have analysed and practised the symbols together, over the years. (He's a young adult, not a small child, btw).

Yesterday, he was telling me why it is good to eat eggs for breakfast, as they help your metal-ila-bil-ism/metal-ibalism/something else equally weird. He attempted it several times, but knew it wasn't going well. He finished off with "Anyway, they're good for you to eat at breakfast".

Of course I didn't show it, but inwardly, my sides were splitting

My DP has some customers who pronounce "digital" with a very hard G , so it becomes "diggital"

That aerial man wasn't him, was it, Milimingebag

Purple, my mum has waffles to rhyme with raffles too, she also has a thing for sorting the word breakfast so she has break fast.

Both her and my mil also suffer with 'inDISgestion'.

My OH says 'jamp,' as in 'She jamped on the trampoline.' His mum says it too. To be fair, they are thickos

And why, oh why do people say 'I'm off to Azdaz' or 'Tescoes', or even 'Lidlz'

ExH used to say 'nesh' instead of 'mesh'- ,wanted to die in B & Q when he asked wire 'NESH'!!.
DM calls yeast -'YEST'- asks at the shop for fresh yest to make bread- and calls my daughter Laura- LAURUHHHH! not A at the end just UHHH!
DP calls a kitchen a scullery-drives me nuts!!

Oh grandmothers. My ever so sophisticated (or so she thought) dear grandmother called quiches, kaysh . Haven't thought about that for years.

MrsNodge, could you clarify how you sat Laura? I've only ever heard it with the a at the end sounding like "uh" like in Diana.

Ex - mil always said 'kitching' and 'garding' for kitchen and garden. Because it's posher you see

Surfs- I just pronunce it normal as in LAURA- I've a geordie accent so laura with an A (like apple- laur'A ') DM< pronounces it Laur 'U' as in 'Up' and that would be same for DianA not DianU!? ha ha may be the accent but no excuses for YEST?? lol

Another one who doesn't get the Laura thing.

Do you mean you pronounce it Laur-ah and she pronounces it Laur -uh? I am southern and would pronounce both Diana and Laura with an uh sound at the end so maybe it's just a regional accent thing?

Just remembered a dear late aunt who had a chimbley rather than a chimney and watched fill ums on TV

Have gamely engaged her in small talk, but am despairing of the cleaning lady's attempts at Cholmondeley and Featherstonhaugh. Dread to think what her Belvoir is like.

Awww, poor old Tent Reznor is too angry to pronounce all the words correctly.

Ooh my nana used to say I was 'tittivating' myself when I was putting make up on. Or taking my time over something 'what are you tittivating about for? Hurry up'.

I once went on holiday with my friend Michelle. We met sotherners who pronounced her name MEE-shell (hard e's) rhymes with wee-shell. Her fecking name is mi-shell, (with the 'mi' sounding the same as 'ti' in tissue). Why do they do this?!