common mis-pronunciations

[wherethewildrosesgrow]

Since using Facebook, I've noticed a lot of people pronounce things wrongly,
Discusing instead of disgusting
Pacific instead of specific
Brought instead of bought
Tenderhooks instead of tenterhooks
and this ones my favourite....
chester draws instead of chest of drawers

It make me wonder if I'm unknowingly guilty of some without knowing ?
list the ones you've noticed, don't forget to own up to any your guilty of, I will.

Not quite in the same league, but I have recently moved to the North East and was quite surprised to hear the plant Kalanchoe (Kal -en-ko-ee) pronounced as 'Klan-chose'when I said "kal-en - ko-ee"? I got this look: -clearly years spent as a botanist were wasted

I've never heard about Kalanchoe. Is it a common plant? If not, it would be strange for it to have different regional pronunciations.

At work it's a minefield and I spend most days inwardly cringing.. Just yesterday someone asked someone else how to spell embedded.. To describe for instance a nail embedded in rubber.. She confidently went 'it's inbedded'.. And proceeded to spell it - they obviously thought I was totally mad when I tried to correct them..

Also my MIL says Kor-eyes-oh (you need to say it out loud) instead of chorizo..

"Also my MIL says Kor-eyes-oh (you need to say it out loud) instead of chorizo.."

I think that's forgivable if you've never done any Spanish. Not sure she'd be understood though.

I have an unreasonable objection to panini's.

Panini is plural (one panino; two panini) and the apostrophe just adds to the outrage.

But I know I'm probably on my own with this, at least in the UK.

Gwenhwyfar that's true.. But after correction she still does it and recently asking for the chicken and Kor-eyes-oh lingween in a restaurant had me at hysteria level! The problem being is she thinks she has perfect diction and grammar! Bless.. Constantly being picked up by her friends about mispronouncing things which drives her mad as she thinks she's in the right.. Takes all sorts I suppose.

Gwenhwyfar, if it's legitimate to add a letter to the beginning of "aitch" then it should be just as legitimate to change one or more in other words. To be consistent, you could say "Ckey", "Doublewou" and "Yi".

No you're not on your own AdjustableWench. I was once in a place with all Italian staff and asked for a chicken panino and they just looked at each other and smiled. I was so as I think they we laughing at me, but it just seems so ludicrous to use the plural when you only want one, especially when you're speaking to Italians. I assure you that I didn't try to say it in an Italian accent, I'm not that pretentious.

So many on here!
Yy to espresso not expresso.
My very worst is people leaving out the g in recognise and who therefore say reconise. The g is quite quiet but it should be subtly there!
Also 'would of' instead of would have/would've.

Friend once posted a pic of the "snerman" her kids made over the winter.

In general though, I hate lose/loose. Aargh! You lose weight to make your pants loose.

How is homage pronounced:

HOME - ige

or

om - AJ

(I grew up using the first, but the latter pronunciation seems to be the one I always hear on TV these days)

missbishi Was your friend from Hull?

While both pronunciations of forte originate from the latin word fortis, english gets the musical term from the Italian word for loud and the other term from the French word for strong hence the different pronunciations

The french pronunciation of forte can also be used to refer to the strongest part of a sword while the Italian pronunciation cannot

When I was younger and my family moved somewhere very rural DM was convinced it was sheep hurrying not harrying and would refuse to chase them out of our garden whenever they escaped from the farmers field.

I have never, ever heard forte pronounced anything other than fortay. Even if that is not technically correct it is the everyday usage.

Mynest She is, yes!

Oh I'm so pleased with myself for guessing right!
I'm a soft Southerner, but I listen to a radio comedy programme set in Hull and that's just how they would say 'snowman'

NotDavidTennant
Yea, it's like "another thing coming" it's incorrect but it's much more commonly used

splendide swap them out

Why do you need an 'out'? Oh - I've just thought -are you American? They seem to 'switch out' and 'change up' whereas the British English wouldn't use out or up.

Back to forte and the link to dictionary.com. I can't prove this, but it seems likely to me that dictionary.com is US:

-The examples given are for the most part US ones.

• In addition, the English version of a couple of instances, forte being one, is offered as an alternative pronunciation. The other instance, suggested to me by DH as one to check, is bonafide. US speakers would normally say bone-a-fied. UK, bone-a-fie-dee. Both are offered, UK second.

In which case, it depends where you come from.

Phew. Peace can break out.

One of my friends keeps telling me about the 'muriel' she is planning on painting in her sons room.....

My MIL calls gilets gillits

needanewjob I can imagine calling it a muriel for comic effect. Are you sure that's not what your friend is doing? I didn't even watch Coronation Street, yet I can somehow remember that one of the characters had what she called a 'muriel'.

The misuse of me instead of I drives me crazy and it's everywhere now! I reckon people think it sounds naicer. Effing think about it you journalist dicks! "Me and my husband" doesn't annoy me nearly as much.

I love you all! This is my favourite thread ever.

My pet hates are could/should/would of, myself instead of I or me (people at work say it all the time. One of these days I am going to scream!) and my all time worst, sh-i-ro-po-dist instead of K-ir-o-po-dist It comes from the Greek kheir (English spelling cause I don't have Greek letters on my phone) which starts with a hard k sound. Maybe a tad pedantic but it irritates me. 😊