...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?

I always use howjsay.com if I'm ever unsure!

DH says okshn for auction. Drives me nuts.

Okshn is an accent thing, surely?

There was a funny (but ultimately informative) article about vowels in British English the other day. I read it with my students.

It noted basically that posh people don't use vowels. So "auction" would be "orkshun" (sort of) for non-poshos but "ukshn" for poshos.

Is your dh a posho?

Some mispronunciations you just have to go along with. I know that panini is the plural but I would never ask for a panino in Costa, I'd sound a right twat.

I do say Bruske-tta in Pizza Express though. And I wouldn't say choritzo.

DH says cuh-lender for colander.

Going back to the OP, I pronounce Prezzo with the zz sound like in pizza as I just assumed thus was how to say it - given that it is a pizza restaurant. The one friend I ever meet there pronounces it the same. It took me about two years to realise that nobody else says it this way! Does anyone know how the owners of prezzo pronounce it??

prezzo should be pronounced like pizza, mozzarella etc. /ts/ /pretso/

Whether the owners are Italian or not might make a difference!

(Italian dp finds it very bizarre that a restaurant chain calls itself "price")

the -e- in latte is a short, almost -i- sound. a bit like the -i- in 'drinks and nibbles'

My ex used to say pompadom too. And volumptuous. He refused to believe that it wasn't correct.

Bundao, you forgot Say-oh Pow-lo.

Oh yes, finally. At last. Calling out the people who say 'marshmEllow'. Wtf is that about anyway? Have they never seen it written down?

Online, I hate seeing the multitudes of people who spell "queue" as "que"... What planet are you on? (Unless you're dyslexic in which case - fill yer boots).

I also loathe "gotten". It's American/archaic British English. It is no longer a word. Makes me shudder.

dp finds it very bizarre that a restaurant chain calls itself "price"

Tell him that zizzi means willy in French and see what he has to say about that

He knows. He's Italian!

Ah, sorry, French.

I think (though not sure, he's out, will ask) it means something equally icky in Italian.

The E in latte is definitely not like an I.

Unless said by my Mum who is not Italian!

It's a bog standard E. Like the one in bed. Slightly different vowel attribution in Italian so sounds slightly longer (like the U in Nutella) but is definitely just a full bodied E.

People from the south of England who say "mustosh" for "moustache" WHYYYYY?

My husband (from Bedfordshire, wherever that is) says "chocklack" instead of "chocolate". That is just ridiculous. I've corrected him every time he says it for many years and he's still clueless.

He lived in the East Midlands for a while and picked up the equally stupid colloquialism, calling people "duck". I hated that so much that every single time he ever used it I'd quack repeatedly, and point out I wasn't a duck. That stopped him. I can't stop the chocklack nonsense, though.

venusinscorpio oh yes!

This is where people go wrong. Why give two fucks what people think? Especially strangers on the internet?

I do feel really wanky pronouncing words correctly. Saying "No, it is Mwet not Moway, the name is dutch not french" makes me feel like a cock.

Also, thanks to DP I learned Conchiglie pasta is pronounced con-keel-ye. When he offered to make conchiglie with pesto I was like "you WHAT love?"

DH and I argue about envelope. He calls it an onvelope.

On the official Girl guiding website someone has written marshmEllow
Why would you pronounce it as E when it's written A, unless in your accent, ALL As are pronounced E??

Also can't stand licorice pronounced shhhh at the end

I always post this when the Pry-mark/Pree-mark discussion comes up, but when I was a child, the ad on TV said 'Pree-mark' and I'm inclined to believe that when the management at the company approved their TV ad with the advertising company, they were happy with how it was pronounced. So Preemark it is. .

Anyone saying 'marshmEllow' should be put in the stocks though.

It is Liquorish isn't it?
or are my ears befuddled?
Definitely marshmallow though.
My DDs have been correcting my Preemark-ing for years, feel a bit smug now!