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 friend's mum pronounced pizza with a soft z, as in buzzer.

My FIL has suddenly started saying ridiK-ul-lous with a hard K sound. Made me wince every time.

I always say 'take over' instead of 'overtake' though, so I should probably shut up correcting other people.

My DH says BAGMIGTON. It's badminton, there isn't one G let alone two of the wee shites in the word!

Wouldn't be much of an issue, but we went to the BAGMINGTON at the commonwealth games so I had to hear him say it over and over again! Even the children were correcting him!

my other half keeps calling Russ Abbott 'Ross' - it's not an everyday irritation but GOD STOP DOING THAT.

people who say 'nugget' instead of nougat

My Dm has got weirdo the older she gets. She's very into her:

Frites (just say fucking chips or fries, we're in McDs in Folkestone, not Paris).

Paaaaasta (like 'parsley)

Laaa-tay (latte, obviously)

Busalorna (Barcelona, don't know where she got that from)

Cab-arge (cabbage)

But a dear friend pronounces apostrophe:
a-puh-STROW-fee

It's too delightful to correct

JCDenton pronouncing funeral as fewndral is very, very common here in the bit of NE England where I live, esp amongst older people. Me and dh always call it such to each other.
'Blog' is another one for 'block'; my dear Uncle Joe always said that his 'gutters were blogged' in the winter

I have had to contend with advocado and gazpachio recently.

I'm not sure if BIL is being ironic or not when he talks about "Kyabatta" bread.

at 'frites'.

If she was really fancy she'd say 'pommes frites'.

Haha I didn't realise that's how it was pronounced! In my defence I am 25 and these adverts were long before my time x

I worked with someone who said they had eaten fanjitas with guetamala. If you are too stupid to pronounce it you shouldn't be eating it

Butterfly I remember the "Nessels" ads, I thought people were being pretentious when they started calling it "Nestlay"

My DM (in her 80s) is getting erratic with her pronunciation, I wonder if we will all do that with age. Drives me mad that a friend's son is called Kieran, she always says his name as Kier-RON with a real emphasis on the ron no matter how many times it is pointed out.
MIL refers to her painkillers as Ibubruferon which infuriates me irrationally

I bet it wasn't even Al Passeno. I bet she got him muddled up with Robert de Kneero.

Wrongful use of pacific should be regarded as a crime.

my friend pronounces "pouffe" "pouff-ay"

i suspect the latter is quite common and not incorrect, but it sounds hilariously hyacinth bucket to my ears

Ha! I am vindicated Annie
My Dad used to live in the ME, so I probably got it from him.
I do say Pennay though..

I should have titled it Al Paseeno ....

Someone upthread said her mum says penny pasta instead of penne, my DM Says she's had PEN pasta for dinner.

My friend says del Monte instead of diamante. I don't correct her because it makes me smile to think of her fancy new top with chunks of pineapple on it!

I listened recently to someone who pronounced larynx as larynix. Granted, not a common word in ordinary conversation, but these were lectures given by a professor of anthropology.

My GCSE biology teacher said 'larnyx'. And oystrogen.

Dd says ambliance instead of ambulance but as she's 6 it's quite cute. She knows full we what the right pronunciation is but I think she thrives a little on the attention it gets her....

One of our nurse-tutors used to talk about anti-bot-ics, instead of antibiotics, and emphasised the middle syllable of abdomen, so it was ab-DOUGH-men.

Dh says drownded. Drives me insane.

My fave was back when blonde kensit one got with an oasis brother and pronounced it bur- narge.

SummerSazz - now that is bizarre! I worked as a TA for several years when my children were young. One of the teachers was giving a lesson one day to a class of Reception children, and the word "ambulance" came up several times (must have been along the theme of "people who help us" - type thing). She kept on saying Ambliance. I didn't say anything, but she must have noticed the expression on my face and eventually did ask me if she was mis-pronouncing it? (Thankfully) as then I was able to tell her quite freely that she was . She was a lovely girl and we got on well, and we had a giggle about it, before anyone accuses me of being horrid!!