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

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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?

Yes yes. 'Erb 'Atred!

We always say basil and oragano with an Americal accent in this house. Just because we can

While we're on the subject of cities, its not New Or-LEANS. It's New OR-lins or, for some, New OR-lee-uhns.

Scone, I blame the Animals.

Someone I know pronounces lasagne LOS-ON-YA but that's not the way you say it!

I've just thought of another - although this is very regional.

Some of you may have seen items on the news broadcast from the National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas. This is not pronounced Al-ree-wasss. It is All-ree-woz.

Boils my blood every time I hear it .

While we're on the subject of cities, its not New Or-LEANS. It's New OR-lins or, for some, New OR-lee-uhns.

Scone, I blame the Animals.

at LadyWellian. But they pronounce it correctly when they are not rhyming it with "bluejeans."

ILoveApples: so you say that Italians would pronounce ciabatta as "CHEE-a-BAT-a" with a very long "chee" before the "a" sound?

I've never heard it pronounced like that by anyone Italian.

"Cia" in Italian is always pronounced almost like "cha" in English. Or at least a very very VERY quick "chee-a" so that it does sound like "cha".

My mum and sister say it like "cheer batter" - the cheer bit is dragged out too much.

My pet hate used to be saying "myself" when you mean I/you or me/you, eg myself and my bestie went to the cinema, or I am sending yourself a letter.

I'm not keen on bestie (I always want to say beastie) but my new pet hate is saying that you are excited "for" something when you mean that you are excited "about" it or that you are looking forward to it.

As for pronouncing things, I'm with the person further up who hates "lartay" for latte.

Evan they might rhyme in your accent but I don't really understand how people can think they rhyme when some have an 'r' in. Even if you don't pronounce it can you not hear it in other accents?

For me it would be: pork, fork, walk, talk - pore-ck, forr-k, wock, tock.

Simon Cowell does the whole somethinK, anythinK thing.

I hate 'noo' for 'new'

Drawer and draw are pronounced the same way though

(I've got into rows about that one before)

Drawer and draw are pronounced the same way though

Not in rhotic accents, like mine. It is two syllables, with final r pronounced, so draw-er.

Ooh just remembered another one! Dh and I got married in the Caribbean and at our romantic dinner a deux the day after we got married, some knobhead at a nearby table ruined the atmosphere by berating the poor staff for not serving a proper Saaarrtayyy. "Daniel's had chicken saaaarrrtayyy all over the world, haven't you, Daniel, and this isn't it. tell your chef that he needs to learn how to cook a proper saaaartayyyyy. Take it back. Tell them, Daniel, it's not nice, is it?" On and on he went. Daniel was around 9 and had been left all alone in the hotel next door while his parents ate on their own quite a way away. He was in his pyjamas and would have had to walk about 5 mins from one hotel to the other in the dark and past 2 security gates with guards with guns in the process. Poor, poor Daniel, I often wonder how that poor boy grew up with having such a pair of twats for parents who didn't want their own kid to bother them at their meal, and then made a massive deal about his saaaarrrtaayyy, making a show of him in the process.

Sor-fen for soften.

I had a boyfriend who corrected me every time I said the word. He was ex public school and sure he knew best.

Scone - it was probably you I was disagreeing with last time!

WAs it Super Nanny that used to say 'that's unasseptable behaviour?'

Nancy66, yes, I think so, but there were also a few Scottish people pointing out that draw and drawer were pronounced differently in their accents.

Mumsnet is a very non-rhotic-centric place. .

What about Marylebone?

I have family that grew up there and they (and their friends) pronounce it 'Marraben' with the final 'en' like 'listen' and 'kitten'.

Everyone else pronounces it 'Marlebone' (no y).

Is it a generational thing or what?

Oops, Curly, I misread your post. You are quite right with the pronunciation of ciabatta.

Now, don't get me started on tagliatelle...

Mil says see ay bat za.. Instead of ciabatta Wrong on so many levels. ( my Italian friend pronounces it very, very beautifully ... cha BA (pause) Ta )

Why do so many people say tex-Ed instead of texted

Sometimes in the supermarket I'll ask OH to get the "armonds" and he looks at the shelf and then says, "sorry hun, they've only got 'allmonds' will they do"

People walking by have this sort of look

We should really find a hobby.

Some of these are brilliant! My dear grandad was born oop North but spent most of his life darn sarf... Hence a strange accent hybrid he tried to pass onto us much to my mum's disgust! so we had:

Sallid (salad)
Oosses or gee gees (horses)
It do (it does)
Dicky birds &
Babby /ickle babbies
Chuffers (trains)

Amongst many others! Miss him everyday

hoobypickypicky - I can definitely hear the difference between poor and pore; moor and more. It's poo-er and moo-er where there's a double "o" and the shorter sound for pore and more. Think of Moorish (North African) and more-ish - tasty and irresistible. In these parts - SW London, instead of "no" the younger generation say "nigh" - rhymes with "sky", but more drawn-out. Shudders

Well Lost now you mention it, it is Marry le bone, NOT Marleybone. All you have to do is listen to the Tube announcers. That one really pisses me off. People who say Marleybone just haven't bothered to fecking read the fecking word. It's not generational, it's just dumb.

Yoze-a-mite for Yosemite
Also regularly hear of people doing "Smoking Sensation" courses

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