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!

Koala I was talking about this yesterday with some friends and the consensus was that rhyming worry with hurry was a bit bogan or okka with an Australian accent and it was probably a regional thing here? For example if I was going to put on a really Okka accent and say "no worries" I'd say it to rhyme with curries, but if I was putting on a posher accent I'd say it to rhyme with lorries. (No worries with a posh accent sounds weird anyway!)

I don't know - I'll have to start listening more closely. Off to QLD today, so will see if I can get people to say it up there!

Well StoneFoxMama, your mother is obviously a throwback to the good old days of the Queen's English when the upper crust said a sort of throttled "hayome" for home, and so on. They usually half swallowed the E in berry too, saying Glaaastonbry... You obviously come from the top "drawa" (always swallow the last syllable if possible!)

And Nucular for Nuclear - always makes me thing of George W.

My sil asked people from Nottingham if they enjoyed the carnival.

My niece signs off "love from we three". It drives me crackers! She's a highly qualified Oxford academic FFS! IT. IS. NOT. CUTE.

The specific/pacific thing comes up time after time with my students. I try to explain with the relevant verbs but I really think they don't give a stuff. In America of course, it doesn't happen because they give their babies pacifiers and the bad habit doesn't develop. (Leaving out the pacifier issue!)

Yes, Nestles was Nessuls in the last century. They obviously thought the British were too thick to accept an acute accent, so left it out and we all pronounced it as in to nestle down. Still hear old people use that pronunciation.

Oh, and proNOUNciation for pronunciation too, that sets me off!

This thread is ludicorous

Geez, DM refuses to pronounce the e at the end of guacamole and says the j at the beginning of jalapeños instead of the h. Fajita night is a nightmare! My bf is called Justine, we've been friends for over 15 years. My DM still calls her Justin.

Throwachicken I forgot about DHs 'cereals', it's only one box FGS. And 'satchels' instead of sachets. Aaagh!

GrievIous and mischievIous.

Mischeeeev-ee-us drives me mad. Can people not see that there are only three syllables?!

Ok I'm in NI and having trouble distinguishing the difference between the pronunciation of 'sausages' and 'sawsages' ?Is it where the emphasis is?
Can someone tell me how you pronounce meme as in an internet meme as I never say it out loud as don't know how to say it and have heard lots of variations which sound equally silly.

Dunno about meme but I pronounce it sossijjizz.

This is an old thread but have to put this - my mum who I love to bits says Mataland instead of Matalan. Even when in the said store and there is no 'd' to be seen.

Biff, it's sossages.

Sorry, sosssages not sawsages.

And just because I saw the name mentioned earlier up-thread, I hate it when people pronounce Los Angeles as Los Angelees. Only one e towards the end, no need to drag it out ffs.

My friend says 'bassamic' vinegar and sea-a-batta bread. Christ.

I've read the whole thread in the hope that someone other than my DM & DF say moo-ay-zli for muesli & Mar-meet for Marmite? Surely it can't ONLY be them?

My gramp said Quitch instead of quiche, as in "I don't want any of that Quitch muck"...and Nanny used to say I'm a pudding feen (fiend), what lovely liquor (sauce), pissa (pizza), and to top it all...when visiting us in Scotland and being unable to understand the waitress in a café "I'm sorry, dear, I just don't understand your dialect" - we died at this point!

Nanny also called my cousin's husband Hockey (Jorge) and her daughter lived in Hikon (Gijon)...would love to hear her still getting it all wrong now...

..but then Radio Scotland refer to it as Sporting Heehon...so not much better!

My DH says libarian instead of librarian .I am a librarian .We have been married 32years.

To continue the antipodean debate re. worry/sorry/curry etc. - just asked Aussie DH. His worry rhymes with curry - he tried to make it rhyme with sorry just for fun and then went off taking the piss mightily because it just sounds wrong! But he thinks it sounds "English" - no idea why, seeing as I don't say it like that

Must be regional.

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