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?

my dh says
"Go to the Doctors"

Not "go to the doctor"

Don't make me go to a delegation of bloody doctors! Just the one doctor will do me.

Ahhhh - I say "go to the doctor's..." as in doctor's surgery? One doctor in their workplace..

People say Pry-mark nowadays, but it was Pree-mark on the TV ads when I was little.

Sorry Nolonger! I feel awful now!
But I bet when you say it you don't sound like an eejit.
He sounds like he doesn't know whether he means the doctors or the doctor's.

I object to his pluralisation on account of its unspecific meaning. I want him to relay which he means! I only ever want to go to see the doctor singular.

(anal retentive pedant emoticon)
apologies!!

sorry for 'unspecific' that is Awful.

I go to the doctor's, the chemist's, the greengrocer's, the butcher's, the fishmonger's etc.

I had a full on row with my mum in the supermarket over her pronouncing Rioja - she wouldn't accept it was Riocca: 'there's a J in it!'. Same thing for Merlot (Mer-lot to rhyme with shot).

At school the girl in our group who always thought she was a cut above us announced she would have pate as a starter on a meal out but said it to sound like late.

I say gi to the doctor's as well. (and the chemist. And Sainsburys. and the fishmongers). Go to the doctor sounds a bit odd to me

However, I go to the dentist. No 's' there

Remember not renember

Thought of this thread earlier when my mum said Rest-rawwnt :o

I go to the doctor's to see the doctor! Depends on whether I am talking about visiting the place or the person.

That didnt make sense did it?!

I mean that I would say "I am seeing the doctor" or "I am going to the doctor's" (the place). The former is obvious, the latter could mean I am seeing the nurse, picking up a prescription or sometimes "mind your own damn business!"

Toy lit and choclit
Exh. The janner twat!

Bockle

Hospical

Jewlery instead of jewellery
lettus instead of lettuce
'I cant abare' instead of 'I can't bare'
Tishoo instead of tissue
wosp instead of wasp
aks instead of ask (my boyfriend says this one makes me racist)
Pry-mark instead of Primark
People from west Wales who use a hard 'U' where there should be a soft one e.g. 'ewes' instead of use.

I have been corrected for saying 'aitch' before now. Some stupid cow at the council offices said to me 'oh, you mean hhhhaitch'?!

About 2 minutes ago from DS2 - probberly

I say wosp! Are you suggesting it should be wasp with the "a" as in "hat"??

I really don't like 'Haitch for 'h'.
I got that snobbery from my mother, my dd now corrects kids in her class
I am appalled by her doing that....

LOL at:
"Bokkul
Ickul
Hospiccul" these are terrible crimes!

And please tell me that no one anywhere says "RART" for RAT?
Please assure me! Who would say that?

Also I hate schtudent - who says that?
I was brought up to say 'Tisshew" so I can't say 'tis sew" that would make me feel like Maggie Smith in Downton.

Haitch - I hate it passionately, it's aitch

Garridge - drives me insane, it's not a regional thing, it's a mispronunciation, sorry.

The-etter - it's theatre!

And 'lickle', 'hospickle' etc - grown women seem to think it's cute to say such words.

It's not.

You may not consider "haitch" regional, however it is normal in some regions and it is the norm in Irish English. There are variants of English beyond those of the SE of England.

Lots of these things are regional, I think. That's my excuse anyway, because I do say loads of them - in fact in lots of cases I can't even imagine any other way of saying them!

The English language would be much poorer if we all pronounced things exactly the same. (however "hospical" is a crime against humanity. As is "hospitaw")