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!

My mum was surprised when I went to a pilates class, she thought it was pronounced pie-layts. So glad lots of people mentioned mischevious - gets right on my wick. Annoys me when people itch themselves, instead of scratching, too.

Not a pronunciation as such but someone I work with says "alls" instead of "all" My blood pressure suffers! As in-

"Alls I wanted was some peace and quiet"
"Alls I said to her was...."
"Alls you have to do is..."

Yes well....Alls you have to do is stop saying bloody alls before I staple your lips together

I have a friend who regularly casts 'nasturtiums' and insists that a peony is pronounced peaOny... And when I was at school my BF used to put things on her windowstill, no amount of trying to get her to look in the dictionary would dissuade her, and DH apparently has a 'skellington'... Arrh!

anonimum "I have a friend who regularly casts 'nasturtiums'"

A lot of people say 'nasturtiums' instead of 'aspersions' jokingly, and would be horrified if anyone thought that they really didn't know any better. Maybe your friend is doing that.

A friend of mine once referred to a leopard as a LEE-oh-pard.

And another one apparently wore 'stiloettes' out at night.

Not sure how to write this one down... My PsIL pronounce Prezzo (the pizza place) as Prezzo with a zzz sound, rather than Pretzo - think saying 'pizza' like 'pizzuh' rather than 'peetza'. Makes my teeth itch every time...

Ex colleague used to saw beauriful instead of beautiful. Made me want to smack her as I found it so annoying. Like aks instead of ask, wtf?

Having said that, I can't say falafel without making it sound like fluffle

Lickle
Skellington
Somethink

All from sil. gnashes teeth

I heard 'bokkle' a lot where I went to school. And "risspec'"

My late Dad couldn't say 'secretary' (always 'sekkitary')
My late Mum couldn't say lots of things. Chimney ('chimbley'), Thief ("Feeth), Froth (Throff), and the name of a teacher - his surname was Cunnington. On the plus side, she was quite innocent and genuinely didn't know that Cuntingham could have sounded rude.

I can let most things go but people deliberately dropping T's and H's (or sounding them where they don't exist) annoy me.

Best I saw recently was on an online selling site where someone was looking for 'Saink like Happyland'. Took me ages to work out Saink = something.

Chorizo.

It's not 'cho-reetzo', it's 'choritho'.

My favourite crazy pronunciation comes from my DH's lovely aunt: "cy-a-ba'a" for ciabatta.

It drives me NUTS when you say something like 'I lost my purse yesterday' and people reply 'Is it?', rather than 'Did you?' (Especially when the person in question is a university lecturer who has just started using this as a weird affectation...)

ILs say 'Mondee', 'Tuesdee', etc. but I think I might be guilty of saying 'garage' in the wrong way.... I say 'garej' but rather suspect it should be more like 'garadge'.

The things that make me cringe are 'pacific', 'nucular' and 'mis-cheevious'.

Its Choreezo if you speak Latin American Spanish though.

Koala update on my investigation into the Australian pronunciation of worry!
I take back what I said before (which on rereading actually sounded kind of knobbish which wasn't what I meant anyway).
I was amazed, over the weekend, at often people actually say "no worries" so I think I got a decent sample pool, and I came to the conclusion that it's generally pretty hard to tell if people are saying it to rhyme with hurry or sorry because Australian vowel sounds are kind of swallowed anyway!?
Even when I asked friends and one said sorry and one said hurry, they actually sounded pretty much the same when they said worry!
More confused than ever.

Ooh, 'John Lewises' and 'Markses' also get on my nerves.

Haha! No worries. I'm kind of laughing at your confusion , but I do know exactly what you mean about us 'swallowing' our vowels...everything comes out that flat nasal sound?

I still think that 'worry' can't rhyme with 'sorry', and it's the spelling that's throwing you off. 'Worry' should really be spelled 'wurry', I guess

As an ex-ESL teacher, I can also say it's why English pronunciation can be so tricky for non-native speakers. The spelling often makes no sense!

I can see that it would be 'choreezo' in Latin/South America, but it's the way that a lot of English people have turned it into 'chore-EEET-tso' that is really weird.

Actually, yes, Choritzo, or Choreeetzo does get on my wick too.Especially as my mother who LOVES ro overpronounce furrin words insists on calling it this. Either Spanish pronunciation is correct.

If you say choritzo or choreetzo you are wrong.

If you say choreetho you are right, but you risk looking like a pretentious arse.

It's a dilemma to be sure.

Koala
So glad I don't have to learn English as a second language!!
I found this little snippet which helps alleviate my concern that I might be either hearing impaired or slightly mad! There are people studying this stuff - how extraordinary!
Worry Wurry

'Choritho' all the way! I am prepared to risk sounding like a pretentious arse.

I was in a restaurant over the weekend where they had a selection of dips as starters. I heard 3 different people order "tazeeky"!?

I think Don'tDrink has a good point re "Choritho". Similar issues surround croissants.

Oh, Surfsup1, that is interesting! I had no idea that was becoming a thing - thanks for the link!

Yes, weirdness is now a trend!

its "chor ee zo" or "chor ee tzo" round here!
We may be wrong but I'm sorry, but unless you're Spanish, "cor ee" tho is proper wanky!