What's the most annoying mispronunciation you've heard?

[Sayyouwill]

Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

Las-ag-nay instead of lasagne. I have to bite my tongue to stop myself from shouting.

Rainbow

The carn't thing is an accent issue. I'm Irish, I don't add an r to words when I speak. Cah-n't.

Not yet rift, and it's not exactly a mispronunciation, but "as of when" instead of "as and when". Grrrr.

The jacket is pronounced "bollerow" though, isn't it? And the dance is "bolAIRoh."

I once chatted to a woman at a posh do who told me how difficult it had been to find 'bay-gea shoes'.
I looked down at her feet, confused.
They were beige.

DH had to kindly point out to me not me definitely some other person that a set of three linked books/films etc was a trilogy. Not a tree-o-logy as I not me some other person had been saying all my their life.....

Hospittuw

The carn't thing is an accent issue. I'm Irish, I don't add an r to words when I speak. Cah-n't.

Non-rhotic English speakers don't add an r sound either. There is no actual rrr sound in it, it's just a long 'ah' (which sounds slightly different in different accents).

If anything, non-rhotic speakers miss out r sounds. Because in words like 'harm' and 'third', we say 'haahhm' and 'thuuuhd'. Not 'harrrm' and 'thurrrd'.

Rapunzel it isn't really "foy" for millefeuille, it's more like this

And I'm with MrsSchadenfreude on bolero, it's not pronounced the same as Ravel's Bolero when it's a jacket.

I've only recently realised that biopic is pronounced bio-pic and doesn't rhyme with myopic.

Poor, paw, pour and pore are taught in English as homophones so should all sound the same. I really don't understand how they can possibly sound different.

Most of these are just different accents and don't bother me. The thing that makes me wince is expresso instead of espresso.

Poor, paw, pour and pore are taught in English as homophones so should all sound the same. I really don't understand how they can possibly sound different.

They sound different in my accent. I'll try my best here.
Poor - puwa (sort of rhymes with kahlua)
Paw- paw (rhymes with saw)
Pour- pour (very similar as above but rather than ending with the 'w' sound it ends with the 'r' sound. It's a subtle difference but it can be heard. Slightly long emphasis on the 'ou')
Pore- pore (shorter work, more emphasis on the 'r' at the end. Again, easier to differentiate when heard)

And then of course there are the non-rhotic speakers who don't add extra r sounds where they don't belong, and also don't miss them out where they do belong! Harm and third definitely have an r in them when I say them! (as do they when most Scottish, Irish, northern Irish speakers say them)

Poor, pour and paw sound completely different to me and would never be taught as homophones in NI or Scotland, but pour and pore ARE homophones.

Poor - p-oo-r
Pour/Pore - p-o-r
Paw - p-aw

I always find the confusion and disbelief about 'how things can possibly be pronounced like that' on these threads really weird. It's almost as if some English people have never heard an Irish or Scottish accent, or vice versa! How do people not notice these things?

I haven't RTFT so probably already mentioned.
Lickle, keckle and hospickle. (Little, kettle, hospital)
I grew up in an area where this appears to be part of the local dialect but it always sounded very childish to me.

For clique do you say click or cleeek.....I was having this discussion with someone the other day

Ladylove agreed! Tricky to spell phonetically

I'm from the north of England, and poor/paw/pour have distinctly different sounds.

I've just practised speaking RP - all different again.

They are not homophones.

Haitch
Mischeevious
Asseptable (supernanny)

However the prize goes to my MiL. I know chorizo is pronounced a number of ways but she is the only person i know that says kor-eye-zo. Took me a while to figure out what she was on about.

Not a pronunciation but definitely spelt defiantly gives me the rage.

Interpretating. It's not even a mispronunciation, it's a made up word.

Mischeevious is accebt though so that's commen around here, brum. the other sounds wierd to me.

My sil says kay pol for calpol.

I say binoclears for binoculour drives dh mad

Frazzled, I heard a BBC reporter on the national news say 'mischievious' a couple of days ago!

Its innocent ignorance but it makes me smile when people say petit 'poise' rather than the french word pois!