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 DH says 'glubwein' instead of 'gluhwein'. It's because in Germany they often write it in italics, so the h can look like a b. For years he refused to believe me though.

I was so happy the day he read the line from the poem on the Statue of Liberty as 'give me your tired, your poor, your buddled masses'.

Aaaahh...I laughed until I couldn't breathe and have been reminding him of it daily for about six months now

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

That's a great example of a corruption becoming common usage because it still makes sense as a turn of phrase.

This article is really interesting. It explains how common mistakes contribute to the evolution of language.

The poisonous snake used to be called a nadder until people started writing it down wrong.

And the word used to be thuner before people started putting a d in the middle.

My DH says 'glubwein' instead of 'gluhwein'. It's because in Germany they often write it in italics, so the h can look like a b

I used to live in a little town in Germany called Grosssachsen. (Yes, three "s's"). A double "s" in German has it's own little symbol, which looks like a "b", so Grosssachsen looks like Grobsachsen. I still call it that sometimes, when I'm feeling silly, even though I know it's not right.

I know - immature

I haven't read the whole thread but just wanted to get this off my chest.

"MarshmEllow". the only thing yuckier than marshmallows is saying that. everyone around me does it.

Also please clear up how should I pronounce my car. Both words please. I mumble at the moment which makes it difficult ordering parts!

"SEAT Ibiza"

Sayat Eyebeetha

(And I mentioned the marshmEllow earlier too - drives me potty, can't believe how many people do it.

my mother says vaaaahwse for vase

smashes all vases in existence

Thanks Evans, I'm with you then on the marshmallows.

bonefire for bonfire

per scription for prescription

marshmallow has me confused as I say mahshmallow.......no r sound more an h sound tbh

I think the reply to 'Can I lend a fiver from you?' should be 'Certainly - when do you want it back?'

Was watching a Rick Stein cookery clip the other day, where he went on a little sea-fishing trip with some chums, one of whom kept referring to the pasties Mr Stein had made as "parsties". I could almost feel the reverberations on my kitchen floor of RS jumping up and down in rage at it. Funny . . .

bomfire and pantomine (Grr)

I've had to stop reading now as I'm about to spit my lunch over the keyboard and people at work are giving me funny looks.

In our house the game is Bammington, it must be the most mispronounced game of all.

DH is dyslexic so I'm not allowed to be pedantic on spelling, and if I mention pronunciation too, it's all part of the Great Conspiracy Of English Language Against Him.

I agree surely some of these are dialect which is quite nice really.

I had a friend once who used to say plarstic and elarstic. I took the mick out of that a fair few times before he changed his ways.

My late mother-in-law used to say 'velcrove' instead of velcro. Made me want to rip my ears off. Also, 'choiropractor' instead of chiropractor. I always had to resist the urge to ask her what songs her choir was practoring.

My limited knowledge of Italian suggests that it should be 'pit-za', because if you have doubled consonants in Italian you pronounce both of them. Likewise, penne should be 'pen-ne' because pene means penis.

I live in the US, my ex works at a nuclear facility, and I don't know anybody who says 'nucular'. It's considered a mispronunciation here as well. It's not nu-clear though, it's nu-cle-ar.

One of DM's friends was very pleased when they brought out hair mousse but always referred to it as "hair mousey".

MIL always said "meen-you" for menu. Until hearing her use it I'd forgotten a gym teacher said that too back in my schooldays.

GoBigOrange, are you American?

If so, you're right about okra; but if your mother is English, then she's correct.

Similarly troll rhymes with hole in the US, but with alcohol in the UK.

DD used to call cinemas "similar". She used to say "I would like to go to the similar today and watch a movie!" Drove me potty. It is cinema and film! She doesn't say it any more, she has been educated.

rye-zling instead of ree-zling (for riesling)

I work in an area where the majority of people pronounce kettle as kekkle.

They also pronounce bottle of bokkle.

This drives me insane, especially as I work in children's services so often visit homes to be met by "I'll just put the kekkle on to make the baby's bokkle".

A lot of people in this area also say fower for four and mower for more.
They often say Nay instead of No.

My manager also says pacific instead of specific.

Where in the world is kekkle and bokkle considered the norm?

Note to self: do not go there.

What about that gardener Diarmuid Gavin who pronounces foliage as foal-age. WTF. How has nobody had a quiet word?
I also know a very nice woman who says advocado but...
I am guilty of saying bombfire as I like how it sounds

DH goes shoe shopping at Brantanemos. It drives me mad but he's got me saying it now.

Nougat always used to be pronounced nuggat in the UK when I was growing up, just as Nestles was Nessles. It's very difficult to change after 50 years.

I totally agree with "expresso" instead of "espresso", it drives me completely mental.

Another is "ibrufen" for "ibuprofen", it makes my teeth itch. I worked in a pharmacy when I was 17 and I hated it but my current boss says it too and it takes everything in me not to throttle her.

Yes, but is it eye-BOO-pro-fen or eye-boo-PRO-fen? Or something else altogether? I need to know.