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 have a fb friend who can't update her status without adding 'lol' at the end.

Today's status is 'at the walk in centre with ***. It's packed so I'll probably be here all day lol.

I do wonder if she's actually sitting there laughing out loud.

Prodgidy instead of Prodigy

Someone once told me they were looking forward to their Nick-oise salad. Think they meant Nicoise.

No one pronounces sixth properly. It's now apparently "sikth"

Another annoyance is the relatively recent phenomenon of making the definitive article into a possessive pronoun. EVERY MORNING on the tube "this is your Bakerloo line service to..." or that twat Dave Berry "this is your Capital Breakfast Show"

Sikth annoys me too.

Another one that gets my goat is the personification of places.

"Brighton, you are beautiful today"
"London, I am in you"

And the misuse of 'were'. I.e. "Were going to the beach today" - I don't even know how people get it wrong, my phone has autocorrected three times and I really had to put the effort in to get this wrong!

Argh! And "Bregzit" instead of "Brexit"...sorry, now you've read this you'll hear it EVERYWHERE!

LilacSpatula my iPad goes through spells where it corrects 'we're' to 'were' and then vice versa at other times - I presume it's to do with which version of the four letters I've used most frequently/overridden its autocorrect with recently IYSWIM. So I can understand that one.

O/T but one of my biggest pet hates with Apple predictive text is its insistence that perfectly valid words don't exist - my iPad refuses to accept 'so' is a word first time around (I just had to correct that) and changes it to 'do', and more bizarrely it invariably changes 'to' to 'yo'. Yet it can understand that when I accidentally type, say, 'coimvidntal' I meant 'coincidental'!

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oh breGzit...it makes me want to cry

there's no fucking g in exit, Brexit is a portmanteau word Britain and Exit brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreXXXXXXXXXXXXXit for the love of god!

Bregzit....

Fucking everywhere Tondelaya!

I've never spoken the word Brexit in English (I have in French, where it's 'le brexit') so I'm definitely not guilty of this, but I honestly can't hear the difference between Bregzit and Brexit (unless the first one is literally broken down into two words with a break in the middle, but I've never heard anyone doing that) when I've just tried saying them to myself now. Has anyone got a link to someone saying it wrong?

Watch the news or listen to Radio 4 for 10 minutes and you'll know exactly what we mean...

Ah yes, weather presenters. In particular Carol Kirkwood (London area), who pronounces northern as northren, southern as southren and so on. It really makes my teeth itch.

Fing there's an x sound in Brexit

Icy I started a thread about sicth when I noticed bbc newsreaders start to do it. I was told that is the correct pronunciation! Not sure why poor old x is looked down on. I suspect it's a similar issue to the hatred of the 'st' sound where people have started to enter an additional h - shhhhhtudents

If you did similar to axe it would become ags

I've been hearing not only 'bregzit' but 'braygzit' as well.

(Question mark, Confused, and Disgusted emojis.)

Stealth, shtudents reminds me of 'thisheer' for this year, 'lasheer', and so on.

Oh "shhhhtudents" drives me up the wall! Which is unfortunate as I work in a university, but at least I now know I'm not suffering alone.

Sikth instead of sixth

Who cares about the pronunciation of Brexit. Everything about the term is loathsome.

Chester draws?

People say that?

Oh god. (Dies)

Fink am not out to get you on this thread I promise but am amazed that you have never had a conversation in English that involved the word "Brexit"! How so?

Ha ha Jessie I believe you!

I'm just generally a bit uncomfortable with new words, not an early adopter. So I don't say 'naughties', 'millennial' 'bromance' etc. I do have conversations about the topic but I would say something like 'leaving the EU'.

Other people say Brexit around me, but I still can't hear the difference in the pronunciation that winds you all up, nor with sixth! I listen to R4 all the time so not a problem with exposure. Could someone write the IPA transcriptions of the right and wrong versions, maybe, if you had time?

To me, Brexit is something like ˈbrɛ.gzɪt (I'm a bit out of practice with IPA so might not be exact). The x in most words I can think of would be an IPA gz, except ones which start with x, which are more like z. Does the rest of the world (MN) think this is wrong?

Brexit is exit with a br, not egg-zitit with a br

Wow or even egg-zit. Silly phone.