To get wound up by slither?

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Why? Why do people say they'll have a "slither" of cake/pie? It's "sliver". It annoys me unreasonably

I'm a bit further north than Angus Tondelay

I'm Aberdonian

I really haven't heard it used here

Fltofg, but it matters that people say slither for sliver because they're two words with totally different meanings, and actually we need those separate meanings. If Slither comes to mean the same as sliver, all we will have achieved is endless confusion.

Yes I've noticed an increase in "I wasn't phased by the look she gave me" etc.
does anyone else not have any clicks at the school gates?

Phased/fazed really annoys me, I forgotten about that!
All this nonsense is partly why I no longer go on Facebook

Yes, Stealth! Clicks for cliques really winds me up. And 'clicky'.

BTW, as the original 'don't like to hear the "d" in Wednesday' poster, it's not a Scottish accent which gets to me. It sounds fine in Scottish because it goes with the rest of the accent. It grates on me specifically with a group of people from the east Midlands (don't know enough of the area to know if it's a general thing there or just the small group I know infecting one another) who also say 'yesterday' 'today' etc. with an extra syllable on the end: yesterday-ee, today-ee.

Guesstimate?!

Makes me see red every time.

Guesstimate, crafternoon, glamping etc are a whole other ball game. Oh, and Nom.

I think guesstimate is different from crafternoon (which I've never heard of) and glamping. With the other two, although I wouldn't use them, they do make sense as a combination of two things to make a third thing. Guesstimate is horrendous because it's either using 'guess' as a synonym for 'estimate', in which case it's tautologous, or it's using 'guess' as 'an almost random choice' and 'estimate' as 'a scientifically reliable choice' and puts the two opposites together as though there were some kind of mid-way point between them, which there obviously can't be. Oxymoron.

"drawer" is not universally pronounced "draw". It is said that way in RP and many southern English accents but as a Scot I most definitely enunciate the "er" at the end. I also pronounce the "d" in Wednesday.

There is a huge difference between regional oronounciations of words and just saying the wrong word, like slither or Pacific.

Time and time again people on this site purport to state the definitive pronounciation of something, seemingly forgetting that the world has a breathtaking variety of different accents in English (even within the U.K.). Stop it!

Phased and fazed: unbelievable that supposedly educated people do not see the distinction.

Probably the same reason as people say armond instead of aLmond, drives me fuckin' barmy!

Almond should be pronounced as am-mond. No letter L and certainly no rogue R.

No, it's ahmond. Definitely.

TV weather forecasters wind me up by speaking Numptyese: 'chemmichers' meaning temperatures; 'I'll divide the country into two' (What are you, a nuclear bomb?) when a simple 'in this part of the country there will be jargon-free weather conditions'; 'wall to wall sunshine' - if they mean indoors that's impossible, if they mean outdoors it's nonsensical.

Think Americans say click instead of clique. In the UK, the use of click smacks of ignorance.

Almond is definitely ahmnd.

I hate "all the while" or "temperature-wise" as used by weather presenters. Ugh

Ok - AHHHHHHH-MND.

JessieMcJessie My point was specifically that I didn't have a problem with people pronouncing words differently from me in line with their own accent (Wednesday in particular) but that I did dislike it when people whose accent wouldn't naturally pronounce the word like that did so. It sounds a bit ridiculous if you've got a Nottingham accent for almost every word and then pronounce two or three words the way a Scottish person would. IMO that is a case of an incorrect pronunciation rather than a matter of regional variation.

But surely accents evolve, Fink? Who is to say that this stress of the "d" is not an acceptable variant of Wednesday amongst the people you hear saying it? It might slowly become the norm, in the same way that many words we say now are not pronounced in the same way as they were in Shakespearean times.

However if they were saying "wooden Day" or using some other word that actually had a different meaning, that would be more objectively unacceptable.

I can see how annoying it must be, by the way, but deeming alternative pronounciations correct or incorrect in any context is a huge can of social and linguistic worms!

I think it might be because some of the work I do is with lexicography. I couldn't get away, on a professional level, with telling people they're saying things wrongly, I just note variants. And yes, it's possible that they're early adopters of a newly evolving prounciation.Then, on somewhere like MN where I am not representing any official body or trying to be a neutral professional, I am free to say that it annoys me and they are wrong!

Do you ever catch yourself pronouncing a word strangely and wonder, WTF?

Although I would never pronounce the 'l' in 'almond', apparently I am fine sticking it in where it doesn't belong, in 'both'. I don't know when I started saying 'bolth' but I have to make an effort to pronounce it properly.

But it's ok because I am very embarrassed by it.

That car belongs to you and I.

Wrong.

I'm wound up by too many already listed to repeat, but one that I haven't seen mentioned yet is "exasperate" instead of "exacerbate".

Sorry but if slightly off topic, but on MN, people increasingly using instead of a question mark.