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.

Chester draws what?

Chester draws a drawERing.

Defiantly/definitely & quite/quiet. I know it's autocorrect usually, but I still want to reach through the computer & throttle them!

Practice and practise
Affect and effect

As for scone the queen says scone to rhyme with gone. It is the correct term - and not because she uses it.

I also wish that more people knew the difference between palate, palette and pallet.

This applies especially to wannabe food critics.

I.e being used instead of e.g winds me up.

Splendide I might be missing something here, but they're pronounced differently, so the listener would know.

weary - weiry
wary - wairy

I know a woman who genuinely thinks the word 'want' is 'wat'. She says wat (pronounced wot) and on Facebook recently wrote wot I wat (meaning what I want!)

Of course it's scone rhyming with gone, otherwise, how would the "What's the fastest food?" joke work?

"Was/is sat/stood" instead of "was/is sitting/standing" - this really burns my arse!

Pronouncing haitch instead of aitch.

My favourite one ever was someone on twitter advising everybody to 'button down the hatches' during a storm. It brought me such joy on such a grim day.

My favourite was a friend who said her new wardrobe was 'chabby cheek' when she actually meant 'shabby chic' I still LOL about this now.

Might be local to my town but I hate people saying "bokkle" instead of bottle and "lickle" for little.

I won't be saying forte until this is sorted, and I'm not all that confident about nougat, either.

Not quite the same, but I have a friend who gets well know phrases wrong all the time. We were all in hysterics when she to us something had gone p'tong. Took a while to work out she meant Pete Tong.

There's also a very funny buzz feed of fb posts and tweets including the classic quarter roy pants.

I'd quite like to meet Barry the Hatchet
www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/crimes-committed-against-the-english-language?bftw&utm_term=.piWNManWv#.mhX037zQN

When I was a kid in Scotland (a very long time ago, honestly) nougat was nugget, now it seems to be noo-gah...

I see many chests of draws for sale and scream inside. It is drawers!
Forte has me worried though! Espresso I'm down with but I have various people who say defiantly in email all the time and drives me nuts

Well what about this one.
I took my little girl and her friend to the "Lido", in London, it's a outside heated swimming pool with life guards , cafe, sunbathing etc( just thought for those not from London I would give a brief description. Haha.
So can anybody tell me what the correct pronunciation of Lido should be?
Is it sounding like Liedo or leedo,if you follow me.
As my little girl keeps asking me and I said "Liedo"(sounding) for Lido.
Ha ha , well if anyone can follow this and help I would be very grateful .
Many thanks.

You are right: lie-doe.

Forte: pronounced the same way (for-tay) in both cases. The etymology is the same and there is no reason whatsoever why spellings would have diverged. I write about this kind of stuff for a living.

If you decide to look things up online to "prove" your point you have to be aware that the Internet is full of unverified information written by people with no particular expertise, so you have to think carefully about your source and who has written the information you've found. OED, CDO, Collins, Routledge, Macmillan - all good as they're created by lexicographers and syntacticians with years of experience. Random sites calling themselves grammarexperts.com - not so much.

Clique when checked on Google is cleeeq in English but click in American. Depends where you come from!

Who knew that the word 'forte' could bring up so much chat?

One thing I'm not sure of is 'another think coming' or 'another thing coming'. Not sure if it's an incorrect spelling/saying or they are both correct and mean different things.

I think a lot of words or sayings or how people say them are due to different accents.
Like some people say 'paraceeetamol' and some say 'para-set-amol'. My stepdad says 'booook' instead of 'buk' for 'book' I sometimes miss my t's on the end of words. It's down to accents.
I also don't pronounce the d in Wednesday or the first l in vulnerable, I find that quite tricky. Same with February.

The should have/ should of. I actually say and mostly write 'should've, but know how it's written and it does annoy me when it's wrong, usually on Facebook.

My dad died 20yrs ago and his favourite saying was 'you should talk proper like what we does' still make me chuckle even now.
I say 'proper' sometimes instead of 'properly' but then I'm common so it's part of my Lancashiryness.