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

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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?

I thought Prezzo was pronounced Pret-zo. Need to check

Gif annoys me the most.

The wisecrack who "invented" it is a knob. It's short for Graphics Interchange Format, but he thinks it should be pronounced jif?

Graphics has a hard G, like goat. Not a soft G, like gin.

Get it right, you spoon.

Yes I was right!

OP you are saying Prezzo wrong!

Lucy The accent described by 3cats would be Kiwi, not Australian.

Australian vowels match the English vowels. Kiwi vowels are more similar to Scottish or South African vowel sounds.

I use most of these correctly but I would still feel a tit saying Pree-mark and sorbett... even though they're right

The one I always judge by is turmeric. Yes it's tuRmeric not TUMERic.

Can we rewind to sorbet, please? WHAT?

Mind=blown re remuneration. I 100% though it was renumeration.

No. it's remuneration. If I could remember my Latin I could tell you why.

I'm very confused about sorbet too. So it should be sherbay, sherbet, sorbette?

Remuneration

DH says "definaNtely" - it gives me the rage

I'm going to communicate by interpretive dance only from now in, this speaking lark is too scary!

I ordered Bru'shetta on Wednesday and I now know I can never go back there!

I've decided I don't buy the sorbet thing. I hate my bruschetta pronunciation being 'corrected' by waiters so much, I can't possibly be wrong if I want a sorbet later on.

THANKYOU! Pretty much everyone I know says marshmEllow and laugh at me when I ask them WTF.

I've found my people :)

My mum says 'chronic' when she means 'really bad'.

For example, she'll say "I have chronically bad toothache" when she means "I have very painful acute toothache."

Drives me fucking batty.

ImprovingMyMH I pronounce it burger-mott and vwahl

I say Genre as geneer

This is awful, I AM a marshmellow culprit!
I used to read these threads with so much smugness and now it's come back to bite me.
Oh well OP, at least you've prevented me from infuriating others in future.

I can't cope with being so wrong about remuneration either, but it's too late at night to deal with it. I'll address it in the morning.

I was taught Moet is pronounced "Mwet." The M and W join together. Used to work in an off-licence and spent years calling it "Moway." As previous poster said, if you don't pronounce it "Moway" everyone thinks you've said it wrong. Fucking hell.

Slightly different but my dad pronounces July as Joo-lie with the emphasis on the first syllable and it drives me up the wall.

I thought maybe it's a Midlands thing as days of the week are Mondee, Tuesdee etc (and I do that myself when not thinking). His accent is pure south England though so these must be quirks from him childhood or something. But Joo-lie? That's just weird, right?

My DH does this with

Oops posted too soon! And have forgotten what I was saying anyway. Nocturnal baby has killed my remaining brain cells

I hate all these radio 4 types pronouncing the work "book" as " bick". Really gets my goat.
But then I am Scottish and we love to pronounce every utterance with gusto.

In Scotland the word book is pronounced " boook"

Both marshmAllow and marshmEllo are perfectly correct.

The first is considered more usual in Britain, the second in the US.

Def marshmAllow here.

Chorizo- my mil said kor-eye-zo the other day took me a while to get what she was going on about.

Tess Daly saying solsa for salsa gives me the rage.
At least SCD is now off for another year.

In Spain, chorizo is pronounced chori th o, in Latin America it's pronounced chori z o.

DH says pompadom instead of poppadom. Does my head in. No idea if it's regional or just him (we live in my part of the country not his).