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

[ginnycreeper5]

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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?

Ah, but the train announcers, when you come into the mainline station, pronounce it Marleybone! (adds further confusion to the mix).

Going back a bit...

**Dojo

Why would 'As much as' be incorrect? I have had a quick google which seems to suggest that 'much as' is actually a shortening of 'as much as' rather than a more correct version, but I know what you mean about how it sounds and I am wondering why.

I'm not sure why. What I think has happened is that people have confused it with the use of a simile (she was as pretty as a picture) but it isn't a simile, it's a description (pretty as she was, she didn't get the modelling job). It's getting so common that it has apparently been accepted as correct by modern dictionaries. Still hurts my ears though!

My child's class teacher approached me last week stating "it's yourself I'd like to speak to". This is the person teaching my child grammar

ginnythecreeper I don't agree. It is "ice CREAM" because.... that's just what it is! Though maybe it's just one of those scon/scone things where it varies.

My mum says "ICE cream" and so does a very posh friend and it makes me fume. Friend also says "HIDE-and-seek" instead of "hide-and-SEEK"

And it's "MILK shake" mum not "milk SHAKE" aaarrrrgggghhh

'korter' instead of 'kworter' for quarter. The announcer on the Apprentice says 'korter million pound prize' and I shout at the tele each week!

Not pronunciation, but I hate the modern trend of saying 'try and (do something)', it's 'try to...'.

Yes to drawer/draw. I pronounce the r very clearly. Scottish accent.

I was horrified when DD came home with a phonics sheet in reception with the word car pronounced k-ah.

I found myself ranting about the r. 'But there's an r in there. It's k-ar'. She just looked confused.

It's rich TEA biscuit, isn't it? Not rich tea BIScuit. Have only heard one family say it like that but I nearly laughed. Irrational, I know.

Oh and scone rhymes with gone. Anything else is faux-posh and totally wrong.

I've always pronounced scone like bone (working class, London upbringing). To me, scone rhyming with gone, sounds faux-posh!

Scone rhymes with bone in our house too - Dad from Yorkshire, Mum from London, no disagreement. Get to Australia and Aussie MIL wants to call it a scon. Nae luck missus, it's a scone in this house!

Rich Tea is the name of the biscuit. A tea biscuit of generic type will be a TEA biscuit. A Rich Tea will be a Rich tea BIScuit, IMO. (Yes, I have just sat here sounding them out! )

My nickname is a reference to Scotland, where I learned to pronounce scone, not in any way a reference to social class. I'm American. We don't have class.

It's not universally pronounced scon in Scotland either though, I'm sure. I have a Glaswegian friend who says scone (rhymes with bone). It's one of those things - it's not even regional any more - or class - it's just what you're brought up with, I think.

I have often heard 'parsta' here in Devon, I assumed it was regional. The same people would also say 'parsty' instead of pasty.

Now I'm wondering about a word I hear pronounced two ways. Is this regional? Some people pronounce auction as 'orkshun', and some as ockshun'. Which is right?

And it's "MILK shake" mum not "milk SHAKE" aaarrrrgggghhh

No it should be milk SHAKE! Your mum is right

The shake is the descriptive part and describes the state of the milk, so therefore should be emphasised.

Same with cream. Cream is cream, but if you freeze it it becomes ICE cream.

Any teachers/language experts out there?

How to pronounce:

milkshake. is it MILKshake or milkSHAKE?
icecream is it ICEcream or iceCREAM?
hotdogs HOTdogs or hotDOGS?

Life is confusing

MILKshake
ICEcream
HOTdogs

the shake is made from milk as opposed to anything else, the shake part is the noun, the milk is the descriptor, IMO. Opposite to yours, ginny!

Hmm ginny I think you're on a hiding to nothing with all this logic :o

There is simply a right way and a wrong way yours are wrong

walk, pork, fork and talk all rhyme in my accent...

I haven't read the full thread, so apologies if it's a repeat, but saying sangwich instead of sandwich drives me bonkers.

MILKshake
ICEcream
HOTdogs

In the US, these are universal pronunciations: no regional variations.

MILKshake
ICEcream
HOTdogs

the shake is made from milk as opposed to anything else, the shake part is the noun, the milk is the descriptor, IMO. Opposite to yours, ginny! grin

Thumbwitch, I got the ICEcream one right! (1 out of 3 isn't too bad

It's Scone like Bone where I am in rural Ireland

My english friends often stick r's in where there are none

And referring to the ground (ie outdoors) as the floor

and around here people pronounce Scallops as Scollops - it's an A not an O.
I will avoid scAllops rather than hear anyone say ScOllops

Los Angeles = Los An-jer-lus not Los An-jer-leeees

Um, there is no "r" sound in Angeles.