To be irrationally annoyed by 'Breggsit'

[MissAlabamaWhitman]

Because it's Brexit and actually there are no G's in the whole entirety of the word?

It doesn't even appear to be a north/south pronunciation issue but entirely random.

What induces people to pronounce it in such a strange way (and get away with it)?

See also 'Eggsit' from whence I suspect it came.

It's awful isn't it?

See Soda "sumfink" I can handle, because it's about accent, dialect even. But to hear a BBC accented reporter or commentator come out with "somethink" as if it is a proper word really riles me.

Why is it Brexit when it is the UK exit.
Sickth is just wrong.

OP YANBU and I was thinking the same thing the other day!

Tony Blair's smarmy pronunciation and his extraneous fucking blinking makes me rageful

The one that gets me in people saying link tin instead of linked in.

I hate the word, how ever it is pronounced. It's babyish at best.

Why is it Brexit when it is the UK exit.

I'm guessing because it was made up shortly after Grexit - which does make sense (made-up wordwise). Brexit was a little "clever" copycat word that they thought would die a death relatively quickly.

Guzzbree is horrible.

Don't care how it's pronounced as long as it happens as soon as possible. I've been waiting since 1975 ( the last Referendum) for this!

My posh mil says " bokkle " instead of " bottle " now that's fucked up

. it's a portmanteau

I get that. But to me it is a word created to be a hashtag. And I hate the twitterisation of news. I hate watching newsreaders reading tweets from random viewers. "And bigbob78 says that he 'thinks #brexit is great and Nigel should be knighted' "

If you sing in a good choir then you'll have been told to pronounce x as gg, so you would sing "Gloria in eggshellsis Deo", which always rather amused me (in a very puerile way)

Competely irrelevant.....

Grilled May I throw nausea and nauseous into to the ring because they're words which irk me when mispronounced.

How should they be pronounced? Is "nauseous" nor-ze-ous or nor-shous ? (The latter makes me stabby but it's probably the right pronunciation!)

Jux If you sing in a good choir then you'll have been told to pronounce x as gg, so you would sing "Gloria in eggshellsis Deo"

Why?!

It's one of those weird choir things. When you've got a whole load of people making certain sounds they come through too much - heard children's choir singing Christmas songs and the word comes through as Chrssssmsssss? So you get most people to sing "Chritmat" instead.

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who hates 'sicth'. Even newsreaders are doing it now. What's that all about?

I once asked somebody at work, many years ago before the horrid mispronunciation caught on, why she insisted on saying 'sicth' instead of 'sixth'. I'd had to listen to her say it repeatedly in a series of presentations and it was making me murderous. Her excuse was, it was a bit hard to say 'sixth'. Really? She was a grown up professional and she couldn't say 'sixth'?

Now I can't say gooseberry. I don't know how I say it any more. Arrgghghh. I hate this thread.

Thank you for talking about this op. I HATE it when people pronounce it this way!

Tim Farron always pronounces it in this way, and it makes me shudder. It's Brexit ffs!

Sekretry (secretary) is another that's creeping in on news broadcasts.

Or worse sec u terry

In fact how should you say it? I think I say it in the way you hate
Sec ret ry

Yadnbu ! I've noticed and hate it, particularly when Teresa may says it. It really pisses me off , she really emphasises the imaginary g

" think in R.P you are supposed to use more of a soft double g type of an x sound to avoid a glottal stop."

Genuine question - why are glottal stops a bad thing? I'm not English so maybe I am missing a subtlety

YADNBU. My officemate says 'breggzit'. And he's also a politically-minded person who talks about it a lot. We otherwise get on really well but I get this irrational urge to kick him in the head whenever he says it. It's Brexit you fool!! Breksit!!

Also, my dad pronounces the word 'greasy' as 'greazy'. This makes me murderous.

Yes, I've noticed it as well. YANBU.

Sikth for sixth annoys me irrationally as well.

"I think in R.P you are supposed to use more of a soft double g type of an x sound to avoid a glottal stop. "

How would there be a glottal stop anyway? The glottal stop is usually with a 't' in the middle of the word e.g. be.er for better.

"heard children's choir singing Christmas songs and the word comes through as Chrssssmsssss? So you get most people to sing "Chritmat" instead.
Bookmar"

Never heard of that. In my school choir we were just directed to look at the conductor for th 's' and to leave it till right at the end.