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?

Get a book from the liberry.

I live in the US and they are made for elongating vowels. So far the most egregious example was an advert I saw the other day for Nutella, pronounced Nootella.

So far nuts are just nuts, not noots.

I think it is the glottal stop, thank you :)

And of course you can use the glottal stop to say Glo--uhl!

Fillum for film is another one

My ex used to call a tooth brush a tuth brush. I could understand it if he was Welsh but he wasnt he was born and bred in the Midlands!

Seketery.
Arghh can barely being myself to write it

Love the chinzano for chorizo though

Bogey, I don't hear an 'r' in any of your links?! Is it my ears? I'm definitely hearing caLm

Perhaps exDP being broad Cornish makes the 'r' more pronounced when he said it (wrongly) than the way you might say it. But I'm pretty broad Cornish too ...

I need back up here

That "noo" for nu or new sound in American speech is regional. I am a Southerner; we don't do the "noo" thing.

I definitely hear an R.

I have never heard anyone pronounced the L in calm or palm!

Not so much an rrr now I think of it, more an aaahh. So cahhm, kind of like almond is ahmond.

Perhaps we are talking about the same thing, I assumed you meant that you said it as carlm with a definite L in there.

Seckatree anyone? Heard on the BBC news. As in Health Seckatree.

And I might be wrong but the expression is 'set foot' not 'step foot' isn't it? 'I shall never set foot in your establishment again' versus 'as soon as I stepped foot out of the door I trod in etymological bullshit'

I'll be happy to be told both are accepted. not really

(D)H pronounces vs like fs so expensive becomes expensif, adhesive becomes adhesif.

You lot would hate me in RL ...

I say dressing gownd .. Can't help it , I know how to spell gown , I just say it with D .. And I say buzz for bus ..... I've got loads of them ..

Is it floor..ral or flol..ral ... Or neither ??

I'm from the midlands ... This is my only defence ...

Ha ha, no - I say it with no 'r' at all!

I guess I say it more like 'half' - no emphasis on the 'l'.

I just found an old MN thread with the same ballsed up words (including calm )

Just remembered favourites of my MIL - pabloba and protiferoles. Oh and prostrate for prostate

"Is it floor..ral or flol..ral ... Or neither ?? "

Why would it be "flol..ral"? Where does the extra 'l' come from?

Oh and window seal instead of window sill

Really Bogey ? I've never thought to check, I don't use it but when any of us hear Dm use 'fruiterers' - we often ask her to repeat :)

I say Flor - al

Flol ... To rhyme with doll .....

vulgarwretch nu-tell-a is the Italian pronunciation (I still pronounce it nut-ell-a anyway!)

I know someone who calls a nativity play a nay-tivity play. Is this a Glaswegian thing?

Buzz for bus
ba bee for baby
batch for bread roll
nufink for nothing
All of these things drive me bloody crazy, daily. I'm not from where I live and I get looks and comments for my accent then have to go home to not take the piss out of these daily wince inducing phrases. The Midlands. Not a welcoming place.

Sangwidge

Americans/Canadians saying herbs as 'erbs, and herbal as 'erbal. Argh, there's an 'H' there, you can't drop it unless you're doing a french accent!

Latte not lartay
Thee (soft th) ATTER instead of THEE eter (I don't actually know if it's me that pronounces this one wrong so I'm willing to be flamed for it!)
Chimbley instead of chimney

We've had quite a lot of work done to our house over the past few years and EVERY single workman that has come to do stuff, from roofers to plumbers, brickies to plasterers, has pronounced the word ARCHITRAVE (you know, the stuff that goes around the door frame) as ARCHITRIVE. Drives me insane. Ditto with decorators' caulk said as chalk.

One of my friends, who was one of my bridesmaids, kept calling the top part of her dress the bodOIce instead of plain old (correct) bodice. Was like fingernails down a blackboard every time!

I live in (or just outside actually) a town that has two different pronunciations (or three if you count the very lazy local one too). It appears to be considered 'posher' to say it one way and more 'common' to pronounce it the other way. I personally say it as it's now spelt (which happens to be the common one) because the only reason it is pronounced the other way is because of how it was spelt many hundreds of years ago, in medieval times. The name has now changed in spelling and therefore so should the bloody pronunciation. We don't persist in calling London 'Londinium' because that's what it used to be called FFS. Ditto for York and 'Eboracum', Chester and 'Legacæstir'