...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?

Fuzzywizard rest assured the Italian nation would thank you, as you pronounce latte exactly as they do.

"Nutella" (another Italian brand) is pronounced "nutella", exactly as you'd imagine from its spelling. Most definitely not "newtella".

"bruschetta" has a K but a short U.

My DH consistently says "them" instead of "those" ("Look at them kids" etc) and that drives me bat shit as I'm sure he KNOWS and is just doing it to annoy me. It's an uphill battle to keep the DC on the right track

Surely the best/worst is "pro-NOUNC-iation".

I love you all. I've just read most of this thread to DH to prove I'm right.

An exDP had an insufferable sister who was bragging one day about how one of her friends at the BBC used to check the pronOunciation of difficult words with her before broadcast. How I laughed at that.

Vintage I'm very pleased to hear that!

There's a guy at my work who insists on pronouncing it saus-ah-ges. I really really want to punch him. For this and many other reasons.

I was listening to a talking book the other day where the narrator pronounced accusatory as accuse-a-Tory rather than acc-usay-Terry I couldn't get it out of my head all day!!

Oh and forget the Pry-mark/Preemark debate. For him it's Pree-mar-shay. Tosser.

And in the same book she pronounced riffled as rif-eld rather than ry-feld.

Nutella= noo-tella. That's how they pronounced it in Italy.

I didn't know 'festive' was pronounced like this:

My boss says 'We're' and I're' (?) instead of 'We'll' and 'I'll'.

He writes them that way too...

I say noo-tella. I've spent a lot of time in France over the years and that's how they pronounce it.

I'm just glad my kids are getting older and don't wear PATENT shoes anymore because it drives me mad how many people say 'paintent'!

Oh, what about novel? I say, well, novel, but Radio 4 presenters says nuvel . I hate it!

I would pronounce accusatory as accuse-a-tory, accuse-ay-terry sounds totally wrong to me.

DH say cor-reet-so for chorizo

And I sound like a caveman

Idyll.

Id ill

Not eye dill

God, I hope I am correct on this one

What's Terry done now ?

Italian has diphthongs but no long vowels, unlike English and pronounce nutella with an Italian /u/ which may sound slightly longer than a British one, so it may sound like noo-tella, but it is definitely only a short vowel, not a long "oo" one.

The Italian /u/ is a very "pure" /u/ (like the "oo" in book) hence it sounding different to an English U like the one in "nut".

I would pronounce accusatory as accuse-a-tory, accuse-ay-terry sounds totally wrong to me.

Me too.

Latte is pronounced latty? Well damn it, what coffee has Costa been serving me for past 20 years?

I've been ripped on here for writing expresso. But in Portuguese that's how it's spelt. It's said espresso but not writen that way. I think it might have an X in Spanish too. Not sure.

I get irrational about people saying Salvador Dalí as Daaarli, it's Dal-í ffs.

São Paulo, I love hearing British people butchering that. You get San Paulo Sow Paulo and So Paulo. Amuses me greatly.

Latte= "lattei"

It's usually the A that causes the problems, not the ending.