Don't say it like that. Say it like this!

[ginnycreeper5]

Buffet

Booh fay sounds wrong and pretentious. It should be Buh fay.

(even if the first version is correct. it sounds wrong/stupid or stoopid

Which pronunciations annoy you?

As well as a lot of the ones already mentioned there's 'kestionaire', because questionnaire is common apparently - that was from my not-really-as-posh-as-it-pretended-to-be school.

My Yorkshire grandma always used to say break-fast. Dad does a bit too (he's lived dahn sarf for a long time now though!), but his more obvious ones now are still saying mort-gage instead of morgij, and wed-ens-day.

Broccoleye and yo-ghurt are my current bugbears.
I have to live with haitch, it's endemic in Australia, I taught DS1 to say aitch but he gets corrected at school. :(

My MIL always says "pivet" when she means privet. It's pRivet.

The bought/brought thing makes me cross, as does the loose/lose thing (although that's a spelling error rather than a speech one).

Evans

Grumpy Thread

Oooh, thank you Scone. I note it involves everything grumpy-related, not just pronunciations. rubs hands with glee Will don my Victor Meldrew hat and pop in later (hehehe)

thumbwitch try living in Essex - the past participle of the verb 'to bring' seems to be brung

Pork has an 'oh' sound so like door. Fork has an 'aw sound so like walk. They don't rhyme in my accent lol

So, "poak" and "doe" you mean? That makes no sense at all.

Pork, fork, walk, talk - all rhyme, notwithstanding the spelling.

(As I'm typing, I'm pronouncing, just to check I'm right. My mouth is stuck in cat-bum mode now, finding it tricky drinking my coffee)

Dojo- was that ER? I spent years thinking she was Carrie Weaver !!

Pork and walk rhyme at this desk too!

It's worry not wurry
It's fo-red not fore-head
It's scone not scon
It's way-trose not wait-rose
H is aitch not h-aitch
Expresso is Espresso
It's animal and remember not aminal and renember
I also say tung for tongue

Took me ages to work out that Gram is not an American name, but Graham pronounced differently!

Has anyone said 'comma-TEE' for 'committee' (my mother)?
Seckitary
Febyury
Croissant as KWASS-ong, with 'kwass' rhyming with 'crass'

And two Irish ones:

Please god can someone get the BBC pronunciation unit to tell newsreaders that the Irish prime minister equivalent (Taoiseach) is not the 'tee-sack' but 'THEE-shuch' with the 'th' sound from the beginning of 'thou' and the 'ch' sound from the end of 'loch'?

Also, panellists on Mock the Week, listen to the way Dara O'Briain pronounces his first name - it's not 'Daaara' with a long 'a', it's 'Dara', snappy and short with both 'a' sounds the same as in 'Apple'. I assume he's given up on getting people to do the soft 'D' at the start...

YY to Mis-chee-vee-us

Where I live (but not where I'm from), people say

Skew-erl for School
Heey-er for Here

They never say the word 'those', it's always 'them'. And they also never 'saw' anything, they 'seen' it. Another thing is saying 'was /is' when they should say 'were/are'

my yank stepmother used to call pasta

"P A R R R R STA" and worse: "parmesan' she pronounced
"PARMISHANNN".

It made me want to slap her firmly across the face.

But then I suffer from doubt around the pronunciation of 'restaurant' because I've lived in the states were pronunciation is sometimes ancient and straight from olde Englande.

BitOut, yup, 'brung' is the regional variation.
Have you come across, 'He learned me to read' yet?

Hush, is that as in, 'Them boys what Oi seen when we was go-en up moi gran's'? Suffolk?

I was bilingual at primary school: DM on my back from 'not speaking properly' and classmates on it for 'talken posh'. I had to remember to switch over when I passed from home to pavement, and vice versa.

Bay-sil for basil. Why do Americans say it like that?

There is a wonderful Eddie Izzard sketch, comparing the US and the UK, which ends with 'You say ERBS and we say HERBS, because it's got a fucking H in it...'

Your American stepmother pronounced pasta with four "r's" in it. Really? I have never heard any American do that or anything close to it.

MehsMum hell yes I've heard that!

Also Americans say Or-AG-a-no instead or Ora-GA-no don't they? And dill weed insstead of dill? They need elp with their erbs!

I hate it when people say icecream with the emphasis on the cream part of the word.
eg ''iceCREAM''

The emphasis should be on ice, because you are describing the type of cream it is.
It should be ''ICEcream''

gives me the rage

OP I nearly crash the car in rage when I hear one of the Radio 2 travel girl say WOL-verhampton instaed of Wolver-HAMP-ton

I could scream with rage!

Australians say pah-sta, whereas in Britain it has a short "a" sound.

Of course, for Italians, both "a"s make the same sound - more like "uh", so neither is right, really.

Only1scoop I once had a waiter clutch my hands because I was the first person that day who hadn't asked him for an "expresso". He seemed quite overcome!

BitOut 'ell with erbs'

'Glay-cier' also annoys the hell out of me. It's gla-cier. Short 'A'.
That includes you, my children

BOOP, I hate it when people say Mel-BOURNE. It's MEL-bn.

My mum, bless her, used to say "an hotel" (silent h) because she was trying to be posh. She had her own voice and a naice telephone voice.

(We never ever went to an [h]otel/a hotel ever, as we couldn't have afforded such a thing, but that didn't stop her.)

An [h]otel is like nails on a black board to me.