...if I judge you for saying 'marshmEllow'

[Bunnyfuller]

It's spelt 'marshmAllow' where's does the 'E' sound come from?! It really grates on me.

I also just the use of a soft 'X' in Prezzo. As in saying it prezzzzo, and not with the same hard z as Pizza.

What are yours?

Not a pronunciation thing, but people on MN who use when they are angry and should be using the really wind me up. It's really not that hard - or shouldn't be - to understand the difference

^ See??

Theproblemofsusan- you've just reminded of another one that really grates on me. I'm not even sure if my pronunciation is the correct one but when I say latte the first syllable rhymes with fat, but so many people round here seem to pronounce it so that the first syllable rhymes with fart. It drives me mad. I don't even care if they are correct and I'm wrong it just sounds dreadful.

I say marsh- mellow

If I'm being real common I might even say marsh-mella

I pronounce a lot of words wrong. The majority of the time it's because I really really struggle with certain words.

Marshmellow is the correct pronunciation of src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fPTv7yOYxKc" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen> Marshmallow

My mum calls prosecco "that preskewtio thing" I think she is possibly confusing it with the word prosciutto or possibly she is mad.

Watching Countdown and hearing 'continant please' instead on 'consonant' grips. My. Shit. Every time

Another Kiwi here... For me, pear, pare, pair, peer and pier are all homophones. I can't hear or pronounce a difference between Ellen and Allan. You stand no chance at all with 'mallow'.

We call them mashy-mos.....

Jalapeño with the hard 'J' sound. Arghhhh!! Oh, and at a party "ooh, I've never had AXparagus before".... errr, it's not bloody axparagus, and how have you not eaten it before??!

I am reeling after discovering that Nutella is pronounced newtella

I know they pronounce it like this in the US, but who says it's right? They say Nut-ella on the ads and surely since the premise is that it's made from nuts, nut-ella makes sense?

Dd calls them marsh-oo-mallows. I will be sad when she learns the correct word.

The problem with moet, 'mow-ette' / 'mow-ay' is that if you say mow-ette people will snigger or "correct" you to mow-ay and you sound like a total bellened explaining the Dutch pronunciation. Best just to order gin instead.

3cats That sounds more like an Australian accent than American..

ungoogleable how do you pronounce Prosecco?
I'm not from the UK, how is St Pancreas pronounced? I assume like the organ

Lucy it's St. Pancras, not pancreas. No "e".

I went to the Moët vineyard in Australia and they said there it is pronounced Mo-et not Mo-ay as it is a Dutch name.
'Chor-it-so' drives me bonkers. It's Spanish, not Italian. I lived in Bilbao for a while and there it's pronounced 'chor-ee-tho'.

Moët vineyard in Australia???? AUSTRALIA... as in most definitely NOT Champagne?

WTAF - how does that work?!!

ungoogleable how do you pronounce Prosecco?

With an S. Pro-sec-co

pRehaps bugs me. It's said all the ducking time on TV and radio(as well as TL) Why... just fucking why??

Proe-sec-coe

but there is no difference (to my ears) between e and a in marshmallow?

Marshmellow is the correct pronunciation of Marshmallow

On that link above, I hear it as MarshmAllow. Just with an American accent the A is less pronounced.

Just like 'Maam' in American sounds softer / more like an E than with an English accent.

Marshmallow as in Fallow

Not Marshmellow as in Fellow.

Fallow and Fellow sound completely different to me.

Sorbet.

Arabic word, not French, with the same origin as sherbet. When did you ever buy a "sherbay fountain"?

The one that really bugs me, and I know it's an Afro-Caribbean cultural thing, but still annoys the hell out of me is

"Aks" instead of "Ask"

I get that there are differences in pronounciation, but to switch consonants around in a word makes no sense to me.

Same thing with Stevie Wonder when he sings Mr Knowitall. He says "Mistra" and it bugs the hell out of me!

I'm going to help you out...

MarshmAllow
ProSecco
BrusKetta
MoeT (Mowet)

Hth