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?

Scallops IS pronounced scollops!

A high ranking copper I used to know pronounced it Burgalree instead of burglary. He was head of the burglary squad too. And boy did it piss me off when people said they'd had their houses robbed!

SantasLittleMonkeyButler I think we may come from very near each other (although I don't live there now). I lived in the village next to the one where all the toilets (pronounced correctly I hope) were made.
I hate when someone puts an -oun- in pronunciation. It's proNUNciation.

Hate it* I hate missing words too...

I hate 'scollops' too.

I hate "i was sat on the bus'

His hair needs cutting.

This shirt needs washing.

The last three are my beloved dh and family.

scOllops is more correct than scAllops - the double l makes it -all- not -al-

I don't take a cal on the telephone... I don't have a cal in scallop...

Los Angeles = LA or La la land

Scone is pronounced like stone, phone, moan.

Bath is barth, path is parth, pass is parse. Pasta is like hasta.

MehsMum nope, a LONG way from Suffolk. People will say 'I've got them ones' or 'them ones over they-er'.

Every time I hear someone say Hee-yer I want to ask them why they don't apply the same rules to There and say They-er.

I am originally working class London and Scone rhymes with stone for me, everyone here though says it to rhyme with gone and think my way is posh. Where I grew up if you said Scone (gone), you were really posh.

Ooh missing words I forgot to mention that, it gives me the rage

'Give it me'
'I'm going the shop/park'

....aargh there should be 'to' in these sentences.

Hush, hm, curious...
The real Suffolk test, I suppose, are words like, well, loike. And broight. And light. All with a rising inflection, so sometimes the only way to spot that a sentence is a question is because it has 'then' tacked onto the end:
'Yew turn them loights on over they-yer, then?'

'Los' Vegas - it's LAS Vegas!!!!

Also, when people pronounce Southampton and Northampton as South-Hampton and North-Hampton. They'd have two "H's" in them if that was right

Unless your American then it's 'Los'

It's Las. Feminine plural form of 'the', because Vegas (meaning 'meadows') is feminine plural. Los would refer to a masculine plural noun like Angeles. You don't pronounce them the same- that just doesn't make sense.

This women was talking about Primark and kept saying Preeemark. Felt like telling her to S.T.F.U, and say in properly.
It's Primark. It's never been and never will be Preeemark.
I hate it when people try to be different.

The scallops/scollops thing is the same as falcon/folcon. Should be folcon.

I once knew someone who was an annoying knob who said 'Ordi' instead of Audi. Excruciating.

And another couple which irritate the hell out of me:

Prive-acy instead of priv-acy
And
Subside-ence instead of subsid-ence.

And then there's harass and harassment with the stress in the wrong place.....argh

Arkansas
pronounced
"Ar Kan Ziss"

Sobbing emoticon.

Also Michigan pronounced Mi ch'gan

Sounds awful to me.

I apologize if its already been mentioned, but I haven't read all pages of the thread.

My dh and I have agreed to disagree on the pronunciation of nougat.

I pronounce it noo-gar

He says its nugget

I should add that dh is a Geordie... if that matters any.

Who is right??

DP Call Ricky Gervais, Ricky Gervay I could happily strangle him.

Locals round here say borry instead of borrow, armonia instead of ammonia, ye sen/me en instead of yourself, myself.

I say extra-ordinary and onvelope, which my DP/DD think is me trying to be posh.

DSis says parth for path and glars for glass, but often gets them mixed up because she's a bit of a posh try hard (e.g. could you take this glars of water up the path?)

MiL says "I was harrished" - it's not even a word. Think she means "harrassed", but she uses it (pronounced wrongly) when everything's getting to her/on top of her and she's feeling a bit on the edge.

I've heard other people her age and older use it like that too, where I'm from.

The a in bath, grass, path etc is the same as in cat.

nooooo - we laugh with my youngest DD - she sounds or-flee awfully posh sometimes (age 12 - don't know where she gets it)

but her toy girarffe enjoys having a barth wearing his scarf and having a larf..

erudite
is surely pronounced e - ru - dite

NOT for pity's sake "e REE OO dite"

Have mercy!

Haven't had time to read the whole thread but my DH and MIL say acrossed instead of across. Gives me the rage I tells ya! Where did they even get that from?

aksed instead of asked is a common one round here, and brought instead of bought. ahhhhhhhhh!