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?

Showy - go on, gives us some links to non-rhyming pork and fork! I can't imagine any accent where they wouldn't rhyme, which I'm assuming is down to my lack of imagination so please put me out of my misery.

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

:o

Also fascinated to know how pork & fork sound when they don't rhyme .

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - I love her and agree with many of her views (not all, but many). She pronounces 'stupid' as 'stoopid' rather than the correct 'styoopid'. She was on the television the other day, and said the word so many times, I lost count and had to switch off in the end. She's lived in this country from a young girl, why do people adopt an American pronunciation over the correct one?

Also a bit bewildered by "pork and fork". I pronounce them the same way, as in 'walk and talk'

I hate the way my MIL says my name. Her accent makes it into a completely different and incomprehensible word.

Marshmallow. Drives me to a ranty rage when I hear it pronounced marshmellow. Why? There's no e in there. Is it an accent thing?

I'm Scottish and could never say marshmellow.

Muslim squares instead of muslin. Urgh.

I can't imagine pork and fork rhyming! I say poark and fohrk. Short o as in dork. Or do people rhyme dork with pork too?!

I have a scottish accent.

Pork, fork and dork all rhyme for me.

I think pour-k type pronunciation is regional maybe where pork rhymes with port.

Pork, fork, and dork rhyme perfectly in my accent (Southern American).

On marshmallow; it's primarily an accent thing. In some accents there is less distinction between the a sound and the e sound in words like this.

I agree that sometimes US accents can be surprisingly different - I watched nearly three seasons of a show featuring a girl called 'Carrie' before I actually watched the credits and realised she was called 'Kerry'. Similarly, I thought that 'Creg' (or possibly 'Kreg') was a name only popular in the US until I heard someone talking about 'Craigslist' and put two and two together...!

I live in SE England, and marshmellow is regularly said (and quite audibly, the 'e' rather than the 'a'). I don't understand it either. I'd never heard it before moving to this area, and just put it down to lazy-speak.

(Oh and yes, Scone - does most definitely rhyme with gone)

Yes, Scone should definitely rhyme with Gone.

Saying it the other way shows delusions of grandeur!

My mother says 'arsed' for 'asked'. Quite bizarre.

My stupid ex always said 'pacific' instead of 'specific', and 'pillowette' for pirouette.

Grrr.

Evans and Ginny, have you just come from the Grumpy thread?
There was a dust-up there about scone (rhymes with bone, obvs) and we had to agree to differ.

My DC take the piss out of how I say cow. Like a yokel, apparently, which is fine by me.

When people consistently insist on saying 'Westminister'. Where did the additional syllable come from!?

Shodan I thought it was Eye-beetha (Castilianised) working on the basis that the Catalan is Eivissa - how do you pronounce 'ei' in Catalan, then?

There's a Grumpy Thread?? eyes light up - Where???

Varse not vause.

Three not free!!

Tong not tung (tongue)
Toooooth not tuth.

(Also in Midlands, Angel)

Pronouncing the g on the end of something that's meant to have a silent or soft g sound.
As in Tongue.
I know someone who says Tung Guh.

I say "tuth" tonguebiter. I'm from the Black Country. When I say toooooth it sounds stupid! I have largely lost my BC accent but I can't shift tuth!

I worked in Westminster for ages babycham and I never heard anyone say that!

It's scone to rhyme with cone.

"Melk" for milk is acceptable. It's a London thing.

Moo-er and poo-er for moor and poor aren't. Neither is no-ah instead of plain "no", and don't get me started on "a-one" as in, "She liked the dress so I decided to buy her a-one".

Yes, Bitoutofpractice, it's not common amongst the people that actually live or work there. Head South or East to zones 3 and 4 and you'll hear it frequently.

People who make the "h" sound when they are saying "H" or say "hash" when it's "ash".
People who say "aks" instead of "ask".
People to use "impact" as a verb instead of a noun.