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!

DD used to say ambleeance when she was little, god I miss that. I cant see how its Pacinos fault tho, he probably gets just as pissed as you at people mispronouncing his name

Ds2 used to say "trouswers" .. and he recently has started saying it correctly. I'm just a bit sad about that.

Oh! These are so funny, and we all know someone who does it!

My FiL (Bless his Soul) has some real crackers. Pronounces Jacuzzi as Dacuzzi. We live near a town, the name of which begins with Row, but he pronounces it as Rail.
SiL puts extra syllables in some of her words. So "Put it over there" becomes "Put it over thayer" with the emphasise on the first syllable. I really do have to grit my teeth. And at the end of a telephone conversation, she'll say "Baaah" (like a sheep) instead of 'Bye'

When children do it, it is really cute and amusing, but adults? It is strange (although I will never pick them up on it, as that would be rude, but it does inwardly make my hair stand on end) and I really have to grit my teeth).

I'm sure we all say or write things that offend someone's senses.

Marshmellow, instead of Marshmallow

Pmsl at bagminton

My DH thought facsimile was pronounced "fax-si-SMEEL" , I laughed for about an hour after correcting him.

Another teacher used to pronounce 'coin' as 'coyen'. I've never heard anyone else do that. It was very hard to bear when assisting with a money-maths lesson. My tooth enamel suffered that year!

Dh says

Comdoms
Terraced instead of terrace
Obeeste

Fucking irritating

Dh says narely instead of nearly - only picked him up on it recently and he swore he was saying it correctly

DP says 'Mine' with a D on the end, like 'Mind'.

Drives me crazy, but not really a reason to kill him proper dead, is it?

I remember when it was Nessels

My mother says 'praw-line' for 'praline' my MIL too.
And onerous instead of onus. Ie the onerous is on me.

DH used to say architrove instead of architrave. He was a bit sheepish when I proved him wrong as he is a know-it-all, especially about DIY!

On a boat tour on the Thames the tour guide kept saying 'WestMINister' you'd think if it was your job to tell people about Westminster you'd be able to pronounce it properly!

Oh, all of my DH family -him included say sar-and-sar instead of so and so.

Iamblossom you must be married to my DH!

I try so hard to not want to kill him dead when he does this.

He also say Valentimes

I cant stand it when dh checks if it's recycling or refuge week for the waste collection. I say refuse every time but he just ignores me.

Thanks for that doctorlawn, best laugh I've had all day. Love mitchell and Webb.
I live in London and several friends say 'aarks' instead of 'ask' - drives me bonkers.

Ex-DP says budgerigard with a d on the end.

And called a toucan a pecan. Swore blind it was pecan. Soon shut up when he googled it to prove me wrong!

How many people say Los Vegas instead of Las Vegas?
It is Los Angeles, but LAS Vegas, for goodness' sake

At school, lots of children couldn't say "chimney". It was, for a lot of them "chimbley". I never understood it even then, at the age of 8.

My teacher in Y3 (first year juniors as was...) didn't understand why were all tittering at her pronunciation of sausages - sawsages.

Yep, the adverts did used to tell us it was Nessels. Nestlay sounded weird for years.

I have heard the pronunciation of "sawsages" and "brakefast" on the programme "Four in a Bed" a couple of times, and did a double-take.

MIL says reeeeee-peat instead of repeat..... as in "there are so many reeeeee-peats on the telly". she is lovely but it makes my teeth itch...

also Chee-ar-bat-za bread instead of ciabatta and Rick Wakeman instead of Alan Rickman - as in "You know who I mean that Rick Wakeman who was in Harry Potter" (would have been a slightly different film!)

Lots of Americans say "liberry" instead of library. Shudder.
My dad says ruff instead of roof. A lot of his generation from where he is from end days of the week with -dee instead of -day. Tuesdee. Fridee. And so on.

Oh and how could I forget Feb-u-erry.

Double shudder.

We have ongoing arguments over the word troll. Troll to rhyme with roll or trol ? Any answers ?

Oh lord, my lovely friend is the queen of malapropisms.
And I never say anything because she already thinks I'm too pedantic for my own good
Some examples...
Volumptuous. There is no M in it!!!
And she uses that word regularly to describe Kirsty Allthrop. It's Allsopp, dammit. Allsopp!!!
And when we're walking through the countryside, those aren't styes we climb over, they're stiles!!! Styes are in gammy eyes!!
Oh there are so many more. So, so, so many more.