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 dd came from school having made fruit keebarbs.

We've not had a kebab since we had her so don't use the word much.

Sangwidge is Scottish pronunciation, isn't it? Shortened to sanger instead of sarnie. Or sammidge as they say up here in the North West

Or piece would do!

I say tuthbrush, I'm from south Wales. Sangwidge is also a welsh thing. My exp isEnglish so I have children with vvery Welsh accents who say baaath andpaaath. Lol

I hate people saying 'medsen' instead of medicine. It has another vowel sound in the middle!
And YY to 'lartay'

A "slither" of cake. It's a SLIVER fgs, my toes are curling up just thinking about it!

Rest bite instead of respite.

My DH calls Harrods 'Harold's'. He always wants to visit Harold's when we occasionally go up to London. Who the hell is Harold?

My granny says
Pooohma. For puma

TuuuuuuNah for tuna

God knows why she is as manc as you get! I think it's her 'posh' voice

A friend of mine often declares she loves that perfume 'anay anay'. I get apoplectic trying to explain it's ann-eye-ees ann-eye-ees. She scoffs and won't believe me.
(It's horrible anyway, smells like Johnson's baby powder)

Andrewofgg - No. Chester was known as Legecaester by the Saxons, which is where the name Chester in its present form comes from. The Romans called it Dewa but it was 500 years later that the Saxons renamed it. See this page for a read of Chester's very complicated history:

www.chesterwalls.info/chesterintro.html

I believe that Leicester was actually called Ligeraceaster

Sh-roes-bury would be correct if it were still spelt like that. However, it's now spelt Sh-rews-bury so the 'new' way of pronouncing it is correct. If people want to be stick-in-the-muds about it being all historical pronunciation yada yada yada then fine. But don't diss people who say it how it is now spelt.

Stale, is your granny from Norfolk by any chance? Our neighbour always says, "Tha' mairk me foooom, tha' dew!" when he's angry.

Curly, your mum & sister are correct regarding ciabatta. The Italian pronunciation is the opposite to how we would say it in English so "cia" is pronounced "chia" and "cha" is "ka" (btw, I'm half Italian).

MIL - broccol-eye instead of broccoli.
DH - fustration.

I have a friend that mis-pronounces everything.

Joovay, nuggit, advocado, restauranteur to name but a few.

And the worst of them all - somethink.

I just had to go and google how to pronounce tortilla. Being deaf I have always assumed it was similar to how it was written. I have learnt something new today!

That said, I cannot bear glottal stops, they drive me crazy! Or fing instead of thing, I also know someone that uses slither when she means sliver, interestingly she also says pathing stone instead of paving stone, so it might be a speech impediment, but it does make my teeth itch!!!

I stand corrected about Chester, StillSquirelling. Leicester was Ratae to the Romans. Was I right about whree you are from?

Joo-llery...aargh! Heard this so many times on TV.

It's Jewel-lry, the hint is in the first bit.

im gonna rock the boat here...

sTudent etc drives me mad!

its most definitely schtudent

had a chat with an irish fella in dublin recently, he accused the english of being unable to say 'drawing'... we put an extra r in apparently

'drawring'

Oop north buffet rhymed with tuffet when I was young... and nougat was nugget and the bally was where people danced en pointe.

I've had a sales assistant tell me Anais Anais perfume is 'anay anay' (er, nope) and Hermes is Her-meez. No, again.

Mo-ee for Moet is so commonly used it seems to be acceptable. I'll bite my tongue on that one.

Where do we stand on Envelope vs. Onvelope? (As a noun, not a verb.)

My "D"M says coy-un for coin. Is that regional? Birmingham perhaps? Or Shropshire? She grew up there.

Also she says potatoo and tomatoo. And chickun.

And pronounces all foreign words as if they're English. So maska-pone, eg.

Grrr.

I hate hearing "rum" for "room". OK, you don't have to pronounce it with a massive "ooooo" sound, but to utterly omit the double 'o' is wrong, IMO.

In fact 'rum' isn't quite right. It's 'rm'. Like 'Ms'. No vowels. I hate it.

Moet is Mo-ett. Its Dutch. I will not be moved on that one!

Clerk - the British pronunciation rhymes with 'park' or 'dark' NOT with 'work' or 'twerk' - that's American. Just catching up on 'Peaky Blinders' and they've got it mispronounced, which has annoyed me to an irrational extent! Is the American pronunciation catching on here now, then? If so, it certainly wasn't the normal way to say it in the 1920s - or in the 1980s/90s when I worked in offices as one!

(Unless it's some Brummie thing I don't know about, maybe, like how they say 'Mom' instead of 'Mum'?)

None-stick. It's non. None is a different word entirely!

Haha Curlyhaired, yes they do still do the Filet-o-fish and I once got corrected by an employee for saying fill-it