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!

"lots of Americans"?? I've never heard that. A bit of a blanket statement, eh?

meh.

I saw him yesterday he did look rather 'mature' in real life though......

DH says chimley. I googled it and showed him he was wrong, he would not accept it and now sings chim chimalee to annoy me. He also calls coasters tea cosys.
I have a hard life.

Oh, just remembered - I have a friend who insists on calling Lorraine Pascale (TV Cook) Lorraine Pasquale (as in Joe Pasquale). I am itching to correct her every time, but don't

Polishes Halo

FIL thought I was a secki-terry for years (I work in an office based profession so of COURSE I must be someone's secretary. And not highly qualified in a high pressure role. Oh no. Not for wimmin that!).

MIL on the other hand gets away with all hers cos she's lovely.

Peripherals - choux pastry filled with cream
Anti-flammables - painkillers for swollen joints
Dembenenhams - shop normally called Debenhams

And a colleague may order a draclia DVD from a cackalog. As long as her chimbley isn't blocked.

Oh my goodness, Iklboo - do we share a FiL??

My friend is convinced that a hydrangea is a higherdrangea! She also likes reading holiday brotchures. She used to think that place in Cornwall was Ploperro - but I've sorted that

My in-laws still call any electricity provider The Electric Light Company.

No electricity company has been called that since MY grandparents were children (and that really is going back a few years)!!

Oh, I've got to put the rabbits to bed and get the washing in, but this is too funny to tear myself away.

No, I must go .........

DSis says molestered and molesterer, drives me batty! Am in my 30's and have only just noticed as don't have cause to say the words much, she was telling me about a friend of a friend, drove me mad! DH will say he's feeing moreish if he's pecking, he won't believe me when I say that it's the thing you're eating that's moreish, not you! And he says copable for culpable. Does my head in, I have to deliberately mispronounce millennium to get my own back!

I have taken to saying turnbines for turbines because my son age 3 says it like that and it tickles me . He's right though, they do turn.

XH used to say Bagwett instead of baguette.

And hypochondriact.

My solicitor made me put other stuff in the divorce petition though

In the carpentry business, I think there is a way of pronouncing wood measurements, for instance 4 x 4, (meaning 4 by 4, often pronounced 4b4 (or 2b2, etc, gentle on the b). FiL always has to say it as 4 beee 4 or 2 beee 2. Far too much emphasisis on the "beee".

Also, once we were having a Sunday afternoon conversation. In-laws often tell us all sorts of things about people we simply don't know and have never heard of, so didn't think too much of it at first. This particular conversation was going on and on, and the name Jenny kept popping up. I asked "Who is Jenny, by the way?". Turns out FiL was saying "generally".

I did feel silly. But when someone can't pronounce every third or fourth word, it is quite hard to keep up with the conversation. It's like trying to tune into a foreign language sometimes.

DHs ones:
Budgerigard,
Guitar (catarrh)
Chimley (and he's a builder!)

My ones:
Skekington
Dressingownd

My dear old nan used to say 'news paper kosac' (kiosk), 'merin-gyoo' (meringue), and 'qwichee' (quiche)

My Dad used to say meringyoo too!
And gaytex for gateaux

I think he was trying to be humorous, but it was still annoying.

My Welsh Nanna used to pronounce wasp as wasp (instead of wosp)

Sorry - that should have been w a sp

Rollermum "My FIL has suddenly started saying ridiK-ul-lous with a hard K sound" I don't get it...

My MIL is a great one for this. My particular favourite is mursley for muesli. She also does the Quinn-oh-ah thing, but I think that is forgivable. She leaves the motorway at take off points rather than junctions.

I am northern so have short vowels, whereas she naturally uses long vowels. When speaking to me though she will change to my way of speaking; for instance she will say path where she would naturally say parth. I know she does it with the very best of intentions, and I should see it as a compliment, but it really annoys me [grins].

ShopGirl - I just realised the other day I say reeeeee-peat, but only in relation to shows on television. I don't know why!

Toucan/pecan made me

I dont get the "ridiK-ul-lous" either - how should it be pronounced?

I wonder if the "Ridiculous" thing means with the emphasis on the third syllable U, rather than the "k". ie, Ridickerless rather than Ridic you lous
Possibly?

When DH takes the kids swimming he always tells me how much they enjoyed going down the floons

A friend of mine once wrote the word "spatulator" instead of "spatula" and it's so fantastic that I still use it.