Al Pacino has ruined my day

[OfCourse]

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!

Please ignore my inability to spell inability.

Annie, I quite like inabolity, I think it could catch on.

I have friends who say 'properly' or proberly' instead of probably...

DM pronounces breakfast as " brakefast". She didn't do it when I was a child but has started this in the last decade. It makes me wince. Also DF has started saying " tharsday" for "Thursday". No idea why.

One more nutty variation and it's the nursing home for both of them, I swear.

penny pasta.
No mother, not penny pasta, penne pasta.

bites own tongue to stop the rage

InculKate - LOL! That reminds me of trying to teach DD1 to pronounce our dog's name!

DD1: Puppy!
Me: Say "pea"
DD1: Pea
Me: Say "nut"
DD1: Nut
Me: Say "Peanut"
DD1: Puppy!

i thought he had made another high profile movie now that would have ruined my day! (joking )

i hate pacifically too and can i lend something (no you can borrow it) borrow me that? (smash head off wall)

Butterfly, I can sympathise with your ex-MIL over Nestle - that's how they used to pronounce it in the adverts!

prosecco to proseccio, loved sumbarine! x

I really love this thread title. I think it's one of my favourite ever.

reminds me of the eyerac/iraq debates my dh had with the people he served with americans pronounce it differently to british and he gets all about it he was speaking online the other day telling them they have no idea how to pronounce shit the american replied we call it shite over here sarge

i thought his xbox was going to hit the wall

Bunny everyone knows Loughborough is pronounced Luga Buruga - don't they?

I know someone who say basmatic vinegar for balsamic vinegar and also chilli bolognese for what exactly I don't know surely it's one or the other not both.

I once worked with someone who repeatedly referred to "Conoration Street" which led me, for some reason, into uncontrollable hysterics - the mortifying kind where you can't stop yourself and have to pretend to drop something and laugh-hide under a table.

Same person also says ki-a-batch-a for ciabatta.

Thanks very much. You've all given me some excellent ideas for more mispronounced words to wind the DCs up.

My darling son said 'barbrube' for rhubard', and 'Francy Nancy' for 'Frank Sinatra' (I am a huge fan). Mind you, he was around four at the time - he's now 46 and we still tease him about it.

my grandmother, (the mad old bat) changes everything. She knows people with Al Simons disease and we often take the kids to Tiger Ust! (Toys r Us)
she regularly changes the spellings of people's names and then ponders whether they are related to other people with the new name!
She drives me round the twist!

Dh can't say syringe, but says shringe.
Ds says tragety instead of tragedy. I keep correcting him, I'm sure he gets it wrong now on purpose.

My grandmother used to say pitza, but I think this was how they heard it pronounced in Italy, so that's what she called it.

Someone I know says kwin-oh-lah (quinoa)
See-a-batter (ciabatta) is another

FFS I thought this was going to be a thread about Al Pacino and I could show off that I met him twice.

Oh, wait.....