about people who pronounce cayenne "kye-ann"

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They should all be shot.

See also: chewmeric, cardamon, and cummin.

Yes I know this is unreasonable. Especially for cummin.

*Noticed, of course.

Teeste and floella yep, singular = blln, plural = blini. Words morph as they cross borders, I get that, but 'blinis' is so wrong! Guardian + Independent, BBC Good Food website, Dan Lepard, Delia, they're all at it. Grrrr. (At least Nigella, bless her, gets her Russian grammar right.)

I want to punch dh every time he says choreetso. He, in turn, maintains that I say 'almond' weirdly. How is it even possible to say 'almond' in more than one way?

I think quite a lot of mispronunciation came initially from pretension and snobbery a generation or two ago. "If I say it in a different way than the standard English then I sound more knowledgeable, well travelled and therefore rich and better". Sadly, if the chosen forrin pronunciation is the wrong forrin, as in ptumbi's example , it just makes on sound like a prat.

Chewmaric has had me shouting at the tv often over the last few years. That's just illiterate imo.

And yes to those tv chefs who say Ollivol. It's Marco P White on the awful ad I think. Greasy, sweaty, grubby, unsavoury looking bloke. - Iwouldn't want him cooking for me. And those stock things he's advertising are so salty there is no other flavour to them perceptible. Revolting stuff.

Advocado is very annoying.

There used to be a cosmetic ad for something with dead sea minerals in it where I would swear on my life and a million pounds that the voiceover person said "semen oils".

clear something up for me would you

have skimmed thread and none the wiser

I SWEAR in Mexico chorizo is ccccchorEEEzo (where the cccchhh is a gargle rather than soft, and the zed is just a zed)

but here it seems to be shor ITZ oh [BOGGLE]

where is that t from? Is it Correct?

i know in Spanish spanish it would be with a thththth -but that shorley showing off

I blame Delia and that bloke out of CDWM

(blin, not blln )

My mum says ah-mond, my dad says al-mond, like al Jazeera or Al Capone. But then my dad calls nougat nugget, so there you go.

Oh Delia is no arbiter. She pronounces potatoes with a B, houmous as hooooo-mooooz, and gooseberry as GUZZ-bry.

My neighbour came round to tell me - amongst other things- that they'd had ciabatta for lunch. Pronounced 'See a batta'.

Now I got a D in Italian, but I'm still PMSL.

can't stand the posh English pronunciation for the words "book" and "look".

Clipped tones make it sound like bik and lik. Yeauchh.

Oh. Em. Gee.

I have lived in blissful ignorance for 34 years before realising there is an M at the end of cardamom.
I've been pronouncing it wrong all these years!

Delia also says 'groundnut oil' weirdly - she emphasises the 'ground', so it sounds like it is so-called because it is made of nuts which have been ground, rather than groundnuts (a.k.a. peanuts).

Oh Uterus -I always say 'anenome' (ann-en-omee) rather than Anemone

If I concentrate and say Anemone, I go into the banana splits 'mana mana do do be doodoo'

Oh!
I think I might too, ptumbi. :(

I've just said it so many times I'm not sure anymore.

So, is Won pronounced Wun or One?

I've argued with a friend for years.

He says One instead on Won and it makes me want to punch him.

MIL pronounces guacamole as 'goo-ah-cam-ole' which is what we all call it now.

Just remembered another cheffy pronunciation crime: the way Gordon Ramsay says 'restrunt'. Why does he do it? Is it to make himself even more annoying than he already is?

blini and bellini is a pet hate of mine...

you cannot drink a blini.

I do really like to mispronounce wine names though when in the privacy of my own home, savage-yon blank, MerLOTT, cabernett savage-yon, sham-pag-knee. :o

Shabb-lissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss :o

My mother and some friends were discussing Poison perfume, no says her friend it is pronounced 'poisson' as in french. They still laugh about it now.

When i was a runner at a post production company, i once had a guy ask me for an eh-mental sandwich. Took me ages to work out what he meant!

bigbluestars I say BOOOK - very stressed OO but quick.
Look sounds more like luck - 'I'll just luck in here' :)
Damn you! part Geordie accent.

It's wun (won) for me.

I had a row heated debate with a colleague over Moët & Chandon. He was being really sneery & insistant that it's 'moway'. It felt so good & some convincing to make him admit he was wrong!

Has anyone watched 'dinner date' on TV? The voice over woman does not know how to pronounce anything! Drives me nuts.

Bartlebee You...you mean Freddie lied to me in Killer Queen?!

Yup, 'fraid so!