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?

I hate it when people pronounce 'tortilla' incorrectly (i.e. they pronounce the 'll'). However, I equally hate it when people DO pronounce paella correctly (same issue) - sounds bleedin' pretentious!

Unreasonable perhaps, but when I rule the world...

Once heard someone ordering FA-GEE-TAS in a mexican restaurant...

Had a work colleague years ago who had several odd pronunciations for several words - such as TOE-MOT-TOE for tomato and would sometimes use a 'y' sound instead of 'j' such as saying 'yam' instead of jam.

Have also come across lots of people who say 'albayt' instead of all-be-it (albeit)

Oh and don't get me started on "mischevious" which I actually saw written out in full on a Waitrose product at Halloween. Mischevious! Waitrose!?!?!

Thanks Attic, I have blocked out 'tortilllllaaasss'

Brushetta instead of brusketta. Chimbley instead of chimney. Chest of draws instead of chest of drawers.

I've been corrected by the person taking orders when I've asked for "brusketta"

How about quessadillas? I love them quessadillas I do.

I also hate the Paayyyeyyyyaaaa over pronunciation. The same folk who say 'grassius' when they return from they're Spanish hols use it readily.

A friend of mine knows someone who says 'Turk-waar' instead of turquoise. A real life person!

voyages, I used to work surrounded by vv posh people and identified the following pronunciations as Posh Indicators:

'Poo-er' for 'poor'
'Parkistarn' for Pakistan
'Tiss-sew' for 'tissue'

And I once genuinely heard someone ask for a 'cahrrier bahg'.

Oh! And the strange thing people do where they pronounce 'thief' as 'thieth'. I think that's Yorkshire folk getting confused about when 'th' is being mispronounced as 'f' (which doesn' bovver me, it's me accen' inni'?!) and when the 'f' is correct!

Forgot that one buzzard

My dad has some corkers too

Alch-eee-hol
Veg-a-tab-els
Oss (instead of horse)
Aminal
The people at the Black Country living museum thought he was mocking their accents but he is Black Country born & bred.

I am guilty of saying some of these but not in certain company.

My dad says brake-fast rather than breck-fast. I think he thinks it sounds posher. He has a ridiculous telephone voice too. Annoys the bejesus out of me.

A friend of mine too her son "trickle treating" at the end of last month.

George Clarke says 'artytecture' but I think that's kind of cute.

Thelisting - dh does this on purpose (well I fucking hope so)! He'll say 'ow I've hurt my thinger' (finger) it makes my insides churn.

Also can't stand tour-let (toilet)

Scht for st, as in schtupid, Schtreet for street. Prostrate for prostate, even worse...Prosch-trate. People can't seem to be able to say their 's's' anymore. But then I say med-sn!

My mom says kroy-sant for croissant

Oh and the worst! Mischievious It's as if people have seen there is an 'i' in the word and just decided that they can't be bothered to pronounce it correctly, it is WRONG!

Fcukiffa how about toy-lit

Oh my god that makes my teeth itch!

'Miss-chee-vee-us' gives me the rage.

There was a man in our office a few weeks ago telling us about how he couldn't find his Gas Safe Certificate ... By the 3rd time he'd called it a SUSTIFICAT I was ready to scream.

I also can't do with people who are too lazy to say 'th' so say 'f' instead ... Fings, Fink, Firty Fousand (yes, I'm looking at you, Mr Beast off The Chase!)

Oh, and the Eastenders habit of adding the extra bit onto the end of the word "No", turning it into "No-wer".

My DP says 'ice-ning sugar' instead of icing sugar

My Dad winds me up by teaching the kids to say:

Bobbo (horse)
Dicky bod (bird)
WATer (not warter)

He doesn't even speak like that. He just does it because he knows it gets on my nerves.

I keep reminding him that when he's elderly I'll be the one caring for him and then I shall have my revenge by making him watch cBeebies or Nick JR ALL DAY LONG.

DDs and DNeph are going through a phase of adding extra syllables:

Window-er
Do you know-er
Why-er
No-uuhhhh

Any word, whatever the last word of the sentence is., gets -er -uh added at the end.

It makes me want to weep into my Coco Pops.