Don't say it like that. Say it like this!

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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?

Schtudent drives me fucking nuts. Especially when it's adopted the minute you step on campus. Get real. I know yous from Merthyr Tydfil.

Coleslaw being pronounced coldslaw.

My oh says dyoovett for duvet and kerroopond for coupon. Think he does it to annoy so I then get his back up with chickerrn and innertt. (Chicken and isn't it)

Lots on my facebook went trickle treating this year.

My DH says onderstand for understand it gives me the rage.

I love watching UK Top40 etc on the music channel. I've noticed that many American singers are starting to use what I call a 'London Black Cockney' accent. (Plenty of glottal stops and far fewer 'r' sounds usually heard in American speech) Fascinating. They sound more like Dizzy Rascal than Eminem. Anyone else noticed this?

Mataland makes me want to kill people. It's not a country, it's a shop!!

Just read the whole thread. I don't get the calm thing. I say carm and can't think of any other way it could be said. It rhymes with farm, harm etc.

No one has yet said - 'Aks' instead of Ask.
I hate hate hate it, to the point of switching off whatever I'm watching or listening to.

FIL is so lovely but every time he says "liccle" instead of "little" it makes me want to punch him in the face.

God, I'm never going to open my mouth again!

I do loads of these, though I think maybe don't do them all the time.

Do other people really pronounce 3 syllables in medicine though? Everyone I know calls it med'sn. (and I used to work in a Medical School, so I heard lots of people saying the word a lot!)

Similarly student - everyone says schtudent, don't they? Schtudents studying med'sn.

I say "restron" instead of restoront, or however strange other people say it too.

And I say fee-lay o' fish in MacDonalds.

So clearly I have no right to mind how other people speak, but it does make me flinch when people say brought instead of bought.

My brother's going through a pretentious stage whilst at uni so for instance "status" isn't stay-tus, it's "stat-us" like the how the Americans pronounce it.
Pees me off a treat!

Oh god yes - arks instead of ask. Horrible.
And miss-chee-vee-uss. I shout at the telly when people mispronounce stuff.

Oh and my mum says "coal" instead of "Carl", and "self explan-a-tory" as opposed to "self explan-a-tree". I always repeat the word after in a sentence, in hope she'll realise that's how it's pronounced, but nope.

My lovely (now late) grandma used to pronounce cereal as 'surreal'.

Eyebeefa/Eyebeetha for Ibiza. I note that there is some question over the pronunciation of the third syllable (according to whether you're going for Spanish or Catalan pronunciation, for example), but one thing is absolute- it is NOT Eye-anything.

Pleess for police.

Tor for tour.

Currently, Ds2 keeps asking if we can go 'temple bowling' instead of ten pin bowling. He lives only because I quite like him.

DH says Pew-zho for Peugeot. He may not live very long.

Surely Mataland is a country

It's Levi-O-sa not Levi-o-sAh

I knew someone who said Mozzart instead of Mozart (Motesart).

The first time I said banal out loud was in an English lesson at the age of 17 & I pronounced it baynal. Oops.

But the one that really gets my goat is (for example) 'As much as I like xxx, I prefer xxx'. No, it's 'Much as I like xxx, I prefer xxx'. I realise I've gone a bit off-piste with the last one but, sorry, it hurts my ears.

FatherDick

Why would 'As much as' be incorrect? I have had a quick google which seems to suggest that 'much as' is actually a shortening of 'as much as' rather than a more correct version, but I know what you mean about how it sounds and I am wondering why..

A restaurant isn't "Mitchelin" starred, it's "Meechelan" starred. Although I don't quite know if it would sound right asking the garage for "Meechelan" tyres, even though that would be technically correct - it is a French company, after all. Luckily, I get round this by always going for the generic cheapie tyres .

helenemo - HA! thanks, you have made me chuckle.

My H says: 'tuth' and 'tuthbrush'

which his mother brought him up to say,

His mother is originally Black Country (though would deny it to her dying breath and brought her children up to think of it as: " that nasty place where all the black people are"
she is not only snobby but racist too, lovely woman [NOT!]

so, petty of me, but amusing to know that 'you can take the girl out of the Black Country'...

We also found a v funny site on YouTube and taught the kids lots of BC sayings, so next time they spoke to her on the phone from Scotland we said that, given she'd been saying she couldn't understand their 'Scottish Accents' we thought we'd teach them some of her 'home sayings'

They were waffling on about wiffy rammels and the like and she was

My dd was born and bred in Scotland and rolls her 'R's a treat.

The boys in her class are: 'norrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrty' every day

Amanda Lamb (I think she used to present A Place in the Sun, or similar, years ago) regularly appears on Channel 5's 'The Wright Stuff' always pronounces 'working' as 'wucking'

And Matthew Wright himself: "Call this number if you've got sunnink to say"

and

My son and his friends regularly leave words out of sentences, so, for example "We're going to the Gym" becomes "Going Gym"

DP - 'I am hungry' becomes one word 'Mungry'
Oh, God!

Grrrr!

If you rhyme calm with farm and can't hear the difference it's because you're a non-rhotic speaker (which I am too). What you're essentially doing is ignoring the 'l' in calm and 'r' in farm and replacing them with an aaah sound.

If you took the word hard and asked a range of people from round the UK to say it, some would pronounce the r, some wouldn't. The majority of people in England are non-rhotic speakers so would say it h-aaah-d.

It's the reason pork doesn't technically rhyme with fork. The way I say them you'd never, ever hear a difference because I stick an 'oar' sort of sound in the middle of both but with almost no 'r' to it at all. If my Scottish friend says them, they don't rhyme at all.