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!

Yeah, you see, I'm prepared to accept that the English for 'choreetho' is 'chorietzo'. I know how the Spanish pronounce it; just as I know how the Parisians pronounce Paris.

But, when speaking English, Paris has an 's' and the same principle applies to chorizo. But not jalapeño, which should always start with an 'h'.

Aks instead of ask

Atherlete

Laura Norder.

Apologies if this has already been mentioned but the confused usage of "generally" and "genuinely" drives me nuts! It becomes a sort of hybrid word "genually". As in "I genually didn't expect that!" or "I genually order a crispy base" etc etc

My DH says Rashmanikov for Rachmaninoff and... I can hardly type this...he says tret as a past tense of treat. "they tret him really badly".

I was reminded of another bizarre conversation with a friend over a book....the book in question is A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Friend - So have you read A Thousand Splendid Sunshines again yet?
Me - Yes I have read A Thousand Spendid SUNS for the third time the other day
Friend - Is A Thousand Splendid SunSHINES your favourite or did you prefer Kite Runner
Me - Oh A Thousand Splendid SUNS is definately my favourite what about you
Friend - Yes I agree A Thousand Splendid SunSHINES was definately my favourite too

And it went on like that for another 10 minutes or so with both of us valiantly battling on with our own version of the book's title. It was quite bizarre and I still don't understand why I didn't just say something about her getting the title wrong...

Charlie ...I have always said "tret" for the past tense of treat as does everyone I know

probably a regional 'thing'

Ah I think it is Gatekeeper as I am a soft southerner and DH is from oop North. He HATES the way I say "grass" and I always correct him when he calls lunch "dinner". He loves that!

My mother says folofol instead of falafel. Apparently it looks like it should be pronounced that way

I now say skelington and sustificate. I blame Steve Wright.

I have several examples from friends, colleagues and family!

Bokkle and likkle instead of bottle and little

Moyder instead of mither

Alldi instead of Aldi (even the advert says Aldi so that should be a clue)

Slither instead of sliver

Ovulate instead of oscillate

Per Uno instead of Per Una

Dunham Mill instead of Dunelm Mill

Frommie bergaires instead of fromage frais

Calling someone Caroline instead of Carolyn (they are different names FFS! That's like calling someone Samantha instead of Nigel!)

"Supernanny" Jo Frost's use of asseptable instead of acceptable

Shrowsbury instead of Shrewsbury

Oh and smothercate instead of smother or suffocate

Sorry one last one!

Written pronounced to rhyme with rotten

My DGM had a very Hyacinth Bouquet-esque affected accent. She used to pronounce margarine with a hard G - so the margar- part rhymed with "lager".

She also used to pronounce pizza as pizzer, so it sort of rhymed with whizzer.

We lived in Oxford and when she answered the phone she would say "Hellair... Aaaauux-fud [then the number]. She said "naice" in a non-ironic way.

It drove DM and I mad.

So, why the actual Jeff has my DM started with funny pronunciations in her twilight years?! For example, she pronounces Waitrose as either Wayrose or with a sort of funny gutteral t, almost cockney. Her accent is generally quite neutral and not faux posh like DGM's was. Baffling.

"damp squid " anyone?

Ohh just remembered another one! One of my friends turned up at a dinner party a little late and announced "Thank goodness I finally made it, I'm absolutely ravishing!"
Ummm, I think you might be ravenous Libby!?

More of my DM's

Assessories instead of Accessories

Pheromes instead of Pheromones

Laired instead of Layered (you've had your hair laired)

A friend says Wai'rose - she speaks really correctly otherwise

weeble as far as I am aware Shrewsbury should be pronounced Shrowsbury as that is how it used to be spelled..one of those 'quaint' English quirks

Charlie def. a regional thing as I am a Northener as well

SaggyAndLucy

"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!"

A Spanish speaker would not say "cor ee tho". In Spanish, "ch" is always like the English "ch" in "chips". You might be getting mixed up with Italian, which pronounces "ch" as "k".

Definitely Shrowsbury.

My siblings and I say Wai'rose-it's a joke that stuck.

Remembered another one: my father always says ark enemy instead of arch enemy. It's very strange.

Archangel is pronounced 'ark' so he is just following that

Surfsup1 your post reminded me of a woman I used to work with who would frequently say things like "Is it lunchtime yet? I'm ravished!" but she was definitely blending 'famished' and 'ravenous' for comic effect. Also at a neighbour's I was offered some food by the host who said "Can apes?" rather than "Canapés?", but again this was done tongue in cheek and he knew full well the proper pronunciation. I wonder though, how many people have said things like this in jest, assuming it will be taken as such, not realising that the other person thinks they're being serious and now regards them as stupid - or at least, unedumacated.

Ah right Gatekeeper and AbbieHoffmansAfro thanks for the info! Learn something every day! :)

surfsup that 'ravishing' reminded me of that show Kath & Kim and when Kim says she wants to be 'effluent' . Oh you are effluent Kim.

DH say t'rard for tirade

I shouted at the TV tonight after a woman said mis-cheevy-us. Where is she getting the ee sound from?!?

My ex-mil says pitsa and also Broccol-eye. And moo-ezlee for muesli.