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

[Sayyouwill]

Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

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

I always thought it was - it is the same according to this:

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/bolero

My Mum and Granddad always annoyed me with how they pronounce "pickles" - they both said "pittles" but denied it when I pointed it out they did though. I haven't heard anyone else say this.

They also miss out vowels - as in b'lloons instead of balloons - and use the wrong vowel sound u in cushion and butcher. I don't know how to show that in print - but imagine something like "bercher" (not quite the same but fairly close).

I hate it when I hear americans on Tv say Carmel instead of Caramel.

I'm in the south east, born and bred, and I say Garridge, people who say Garrarrge must just be posher than me.

I also drop my aitches and use F instead of TH, I'm a common southerner.

When I was a teenager I was trying to buy some aftershave for my boyfriend. I asked the sales assistant for Givenchy, which I pronounced the French way (having never heard it pronounced at that age, but my French was quite good). She stared at me for a second and then said, "Oh, you mean ji-VENN-chee!" I suppose so...

My ds can't pronounce his r's and people often tell him he sounds like he has an English accent. (we are Irish) Thought of another one, archerys instead of arteries.

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

I would instinctively say bio-pic, but the word "biography" is using the same prefix to describe the same thing and is pronounced the other way, so I think you could argue either way.

As pp have said, pour, paw and poor may be homophones in parts of England but they most definitely are not in Scotland (and elsewhere).

Paw is said the way you would say AW as in "Aww your poor thing".
Poor is said the way you would say "Pooh" but with an r sound at the end.
(pooh-r).
Pore and pour are said the way you would say the o in "open" and also have the r sound at the end.
Not saying these are more "correct" but it does sound odd to Scottish ears to hear them all pronounce as paw!

My DM has diverticulitis, and refers to is as dickytitus, to doctors. They always look blank at her.

Not a pronunciation but definitely spelt defiantly gives me the rage.
Me too. Or definitely spelt definately. The number of people who cannot spell definitely is astounding.

Poor, pour and paw all come out the same for me - Notts. I don't understand the poster who said they couldn't stand "pore-lee" for poorly. That sounds correct to me.

According to Collins dictionary, it is "bollerow" for the jacket. I guess it's like "either" - both pronunciations are acceptable.

My mother's friend has triplet grandchildren. She always refers to them as "the triblets". And the builders are currently "guttering" the upstairs of her house - they are decorating bedrooms and putting in a new bathroom, nothing to do with the drainage.

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 may be where you are, but they certainly aren't here. Different accents do not automatically mean incorrect.

My name! Agh!

My friend's mother used to say chicken 'keev' instead of Kiev.

Teacher used to say 'irregardless'.

I understand rhotic and non-rhotic but can't understand adding r where it doesn't exist, which seems to be done by non-rhotic speakers.

'Gar-ahge' was said at home and dropped in favour of 'gar-ridge' when accused of being posh.

Oddly I can cook or cuck something but the person is always a cook, and the appliance is a coo-ker. I luck at bucks, not luke at boooks! Sut in the chimney, not suit, but I wear booots not buts!

I didn't say they were incorrect. I said it's hard to understand how they sound different. I can see how they may be different in other accents but without hearing them said, it's difficult to imagine.

'you've got another THING coming'

Think. Think. Think.

echt I'm also from the north of England (Yorkshire) and Paw, Poor and Pour sound exactly the same in my accent. As do won and one that someone mentioned earlier.

My MIL says ferrara rochaaar
And my SIL says Shapock instead of Shpock (the bootsale app)
Dad calls Ellen degeneres, Ellen de-genre with a posh French accent

Tropical lotion instead of topical.

I hate it when people mispronoune mischievous, and add an extra i to make it MISCHIEVIOUS. I get the rage

@Plump82 I'm giggling away at the thought of The Garage being pronounced "The Gar-raaaaaaaaggee". It'd be a very different place

I remember when Skype first came out and people were mispronouncing it as Sky B and I thought it was the brainchild of Sky TV

Moun - TAYNE for mountain, with huge emphasis on the "TAAAYNE" I've only ever heard it said as moun- tin. I'm now starting to doubt which is the correct way though! And everyone round here says "garridge". If I said "gar-ahge " I think it would be looked on as trying to sound posh.

Register = red-chester.... though I think this is a north east thing only.

Liberry.

I irrationally hate ga-rarge rather than garridge.

I hate it when people say ‘Brockley’ instead of broccoli