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

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Bunnyfuller · 17/12/2016 20:24

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?

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CaraAspen · 19/12/2016 11:59

Schedule in the UK but as if skedule in the US? I tend to use the latter version but it varies!

BorpBorpBorp · 19/12/2016 12:10

On a seasonal theme, the way George Michael pronounces 'gave' as 'gev'. Then, to make it rhyme, has to say 'sev' instead of 'save'.

BorpBorpBorp · 19/12/2016 12:10

"Last Christmas, I gev you my heart..."

user1480946351 · 19/12/2016 12:38

Sked-yool. It's not meant to be a sh sound, Sch is hard k, like school. It's from the greek, to make a shh sound it would have to be from a germanic root (like schmalz or schnappes).

NotCitrus · 19/12/2016 13:25

I can tolerate 'onvelope' for envelope, but OMvelopes really annoy me.

Bald/bold, salt/solt sound the same to me (southern English).

I have lots of US relatives who don't distinguish between cot/caught. Which is fine, but then why on earth would Don name his daughter Dawn???

CaraAspen · 19/12/2016 13:30

For the information of anyone who is sufficiently bored...

"The word “schedule” can be somewhat confusing, even for native speakers. The reason is that it is pronounced differently in the UK and in the US. In the UK, the prevalent pronunciation is /ˈʃɛdjuːl/ (shed-yool), while the prevalent pronunciation in the US is /ˈskɛdʒuːl/ (skedzh-ool).

However, there is a lot of variety, even when American and British dialects are considered separately. Some Britons pronounce the word with “skedzh” at the beginning, and the final “ule” is often reduced to just /ʊl/ (short “oo”, as in “book”) or /əl/ (“uhl”) in American English. To summarize:

UK: /ˈʃɛdjuːl/ (shed-yool), less commonly /ˈskɛdjuːl/ (sked-yool)
US: /ˈskɛdʒuːl/ (skedzh-ool), /ˈskɛdʒʊl/ (short “oo”) or /ˈskɛdʒəl/ (skedzh-uhl)
Perhaps it will help you remember the British pronunciation (which may sound unusual to someone unaccustomed to it) if I tell you that “schedule” is distantly etymologically related to the English verb “shed”. However, the common root is the Greek word skhida “splinter”, which contains a “K”…

The word “schedule” itself was borrowed into English from Old French cedule (no “K”), which, in turn, is based on Latin schedula (pronounced with a “K”). It seems that it is not possible to argue that any variant is etymologically more appropriate than the other."

ohmygodyouguys · 19/12/2016 13:37

No. He's just a pretentious twat.

GinAndTeaForMe · 19/12/2016 13:39

When I was younger I used to say mashmallow. No r. Ugh.

Also dislike the mispronunciation of espresso.

Bringmewineandcake · 19/12/2016 13:41

I was brought up saying "nugget" although not quite like chicken nugget, more "nug-GUTT" in the midlands. It was only meeting dh that I first heard the other pronunciation. Too late for me to change Grin

iklboodolphRedNoseReindeer · 19/12/2016 16:13

A woman I used to work with would say:

Dracklia
Cackalogue
Chimbley
Hodspickle

SirMixALot · 19/12/2016 16:38

Ah. I'm Scottish and I say it with a k.

mickeyjohn · 19/12/2016 16:41

'Los' Vegas - LAS!!!!!!!!

BellMcEnd · 19/12/2016 17:01

My friend not only says marshmEllow she writes it as marshmellow, too. Drives. Me. Mad.

everythingis · 19/12/2016 17:48

Marshmellons is worse!!!!

BewtySkoolDropowt · 19/12/2016 20:24

How do you pronounce salt if not solt?

The bald/bold thing confuses me. I pronounce bald to rhyme with called. Bold rhymes with hold - I've never heard anyone pronounce bald like that.

Gotten - perfectly acceptable term, used all my life in Scotland. We have always used it in this area, so ya boo sucks to anyone that thinks we say it because of Americans or that it is 'archaic'.

Pluto30 · 19/12/2016 21:23

We say gotten in Australia...

Pluto30 · 19/12/2016 21:26

Also schedule = skedule in Australia.

dayswithaY · 19/12/2016 21:28

The shop Matalan. People will stand in the store talking loudly on their phone "Yeah I'm in Mataland". There is no D and it's not a small country.

BewtySkoolDropowt · 20/12/2016 09:52

While Mataland is annoying because it is incorrect, PC World isn't a planet. Poundland isn't a country.

JoffreyBaratheon · 21/12/2016 10:35

Relatives from a certain city in the SW say "bold" for "bald" - and also say "Malcolm" as "Mol-com". They all do it so I think it is a regional accent thing. Their accent doesn't have that hard, short "a". Also the tendency to add a superfluous "-l" to the end of a word ending with an "o" or "a" vowel sound (which is how "Bristow" became "Bristol"). Still grates on a Northerner. But not a quirk of individuals - it's an accent.

I've always pronounced "schedule" with a hard "K" sound - not sure if that isn't regional in the UK, as I don't think I'm the only one round here.

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