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!

Dh says skellington instead of skeleton and frauline instead of feline.

I hear chimley a lot where I live and popular instead of poplar.

Loads of people say "Expresso" when ordering coffee (I don't really care that it should be espresso but some of my coffee snob friends do)

As per a previous poster, London pronunciation of 'ask' as "arks" is just bonkers as many people do seem to think it is "arks" now somehow and even write it this way.

An ex of mine used to pronounce muesli in a way that was very irritating. I think it's pron. "mews-lee" not "moo-zel-ee" - surely?! Amiright?

And @hearts - how do you pronounce February then if not "feb-u-ary"?

Okra.

Everyone I have ever met in my entire life except my mother pronounces it Oak-ra.

Mother calls it Ock-ruh. It makes me want to scream.

Oooh, oneofthosedays and her DH have reminded me, my karate instructor says skeletor instead of skeleton. Which makes me laugh because it reminds me of He-Man.

I think it is Ockruh. And Pitta is Peter (Someone above who knows explained that one yesterday, I think). I learned something there, 'cos I've always said Pitta

And Troll rhymes with roll (and scone rhymes with gone)

I can't get over chefs who mispronounce ingredients. Those who say Cardomon when it should be Cardomom, or Chewmuric instead of TURmeric

Oneofthosedays - Dh says skellington instead of skeleton

When I was a little girl at school, we had to learn a funny poem about a skeleton and it was called "The Skellington". It used to have the entire class in stitches and I have since tried in vain to track it down.

My DM say Le Cruss-ee-ay for Le Creuset and pew-geot for Peugeot....

I'm sure there are more - loads from the DC of course which is quite endearing at the moment, but I'm sure will become wearing in time.

MrsSlocombesPussy me and dh call Sean Connery 'Seen Canary'. Was on a long forgotten comedy show called Naked Video and it's stuck ever since

blimey...I always say cardomon and chewmeric

I heard Sean Bean on an interview once, and he says lots of Americans call him Seen Bean.

Gate - 100 lines for you!!

also also pronounce Okra as OKKrah...I have never heard it pronounced oakkkra

My dh and all his family for that matter seem to think that the High st chain store Boots should be pronounces at Bootses.

DM and DSis talk about eating "a packet of crisP" - drives me insane!

DSis used to say "hittopoppamus," "mazagine," "goggypop" and "gamp post" when she was little. I used to say "flakeemo" instead of flamingo

Similarly, in Wales, a plural-type noun (like trousers or scissors) is referred to as that trousers, or that scissors, rather than "those trousers" (or sometimes even, "that trouser"). I had a friend who used to say, "Oh, that's a lovely shoe". They come in a pair, generally speaking ?

I had a client in the office last week who'd come in to bring us some documents, he told me at least 3 times he couldn't find one of the 'sustificats' we'd asked for.

I would NEVER ask anyone for a 'sustificat', I may, however, have requested a 'certificate'!

This is a timely thread. My ex and I have been discussing school uniform purchases this weekend and he has said 'plimPsolls' about 4 times. He also says 'wardroMe' instead of 'wardrobe'. I gave up arguing over that one a long time ago though! Ditto saying 'brush' instead of 'sweep' for a floor, which also drove me mad but I may be BU about that one. Don't think so though!

To all the people complaining that people pronounce 'pita' (bread) like 'Peter', I am afraid YABU because that is the correct pronunciation.

This is making me itchy reading all of these!

My FIL says Chorzeeo (chorizo) and Reeogee (Rioja) & I once had a friend who used to say odviously (obviously) with much emphasis on the d...

Have a male friend who says every ing word with a hard g (as in golf) on the end e.g. swimming, walking

Aaaargggghhh makes me want to rip all of my hair out.

Btw I say Peeta bread - no r on the end.

Btw I say Peeta bread - no r on the end.
Ahh! That's how I say 'Peter' so I may have misunderstood what people were complaining about Definitely no 'r'

Definitely OKK-rah. Unless you are from Ghana, in which case it is OKK-ro.

In fact, quite a few of these are regional variations: 'brake-fast' for breakfast and 'nugget' for nougat are Northern, 'arks' for ask is a London variant from Caribbean patois. There were more, can't be bothered to scroll back any further.

Some are generational, because pronunciation (not pronounciation, as a friend of mine insists) has changed. My v. elderly friend says 'loggo' for of 'logo', which is strictly correct, but we've all taken up the other way of saying it so now he sounds wrong. Mind you, he still says 'luncheon' without irony.

My sister calls Sean Bean Sin Bin, because he is always the baddie.

I see and hear 'I can't be asked' instead of 'I can't be arsed/assed', quite a lot.

I used to work with a thicko who insisted she was "physic". Like one time we both wore the same colored top and she said we must have been "physic" together.

It especially drove me mad because we worked in a School of Psychology at the time and she could pronounce that alright.

A friend of mine says Mummy cuddled instead of mollycoddled,
goes shopping at Mataland and is always very pacific to take Ibrufen for a headache.

Been chuckling at these even though I haven't managed to R all TFT yet.

I had a work colleague who used to pronounce the 'd' in Wednesday, so used to pronounce it 'Wedendsday'.

But my mum, god bless her, has come out with some classics:

'HeinZSSS baked beans', with a massive emphasis on the Z. I think she tries to channel some kind of guttural Teutonic twang upon the end.

But my mum isn't just a master linguist in German, she also gives the French themselves a run for their money: 'herestauran' is her version of restaurant. 'Mangeto' is her interpretation of mange tout (emphasis on the mange).

She has also attempted to reconstruct Arabic: 'KEEbab' and Greek: 'HOOmoosh'.

I've kind of resigned myself now.