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

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Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

My OH puts an extra L in hallelujah.
halel loolya.
He is otherwise bright and educated .Drives me nuts

I'm a Leonard Cohen fan, not born again Christian BTW.

A lovely friend of mine says tamponade instead of tapenade.

She makes it quite a lot for group get-togethers and I'm still not sure if she says it deliberately or not!

I always feel a bit bemused when people pronounce 'almond' exactly how it's spelled, instead of rhyming with 'calm.' Seems to be becoming the more common form, but it's irrationally irritating to hear.

My other pet peeve is when people say 'I'm not adverse to it.' 'Averse' - please!!

I don't know if this has been mentioned but I just remembered my ultimate, ULTIMATE pet hate when it comes to words. I don't think it's a mispronunciation but I hate when I hear an American (I don't know if it's Canadian too) accent saying "Mirror". Seriously, it sets my teeth on edge. It sounds like "Mir" or "Mi-ir"

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.

No they do not add an r. They use a long 'ahhh', which sounds the same as the 'ahhh' they use for 'harm', 'park' etc, but which does not involve making an actual 'r' sound.

MIssion. I love the way Canadians say mirror and squirrel. I was giving a Canadian neighbour a lift once and he saw a squirrel in the rear view mirror. Not being from London squirrels seemed to be a bit of a novelty to him and he commented on it. Thinking about him saying 'I can see a squirl in the mrrr' still makes me smile.

My DM, until I put her right always called tampons tampoons which rhymed with harpoons.

"Esculate." Becoming so common now. I heard it on a BBC news bulletin the other day. It makes me feel ever so slightly violent!

I love you all. First page got all the worst ones.

Chimbley - but apparently it's an old fashioned yokel local type word rather than a mistake, so it's kind of loveably awful.

My DD's Dad says SAYs instead of sez. And pronounces a hard G in words ending in ing. But again, regional. Still painful to my ears though.

Valentimes Day. NOOOOOOO.

Oh, DD and his sister both confuse bought and brought. In fact, I don't even know if they SAY bought at all. Weird, because I'm fairly sure their parents don't confuse them.

Mercedes called mercredes

Bugatti pronounced 'bug' as in insect

Neither was changed on correction

Oh, one last one:

People who say the L in words like Adele says 'Skyfaw'

People who give a hard T to Britain.

People who do both those things to hospiTaw and liTTaw.

Communi-y. Don't know how to type it. But the dropped letter T in anything.

Also people mispronouncing anaesthetic/anaesthetist.

Any mispronounciations really. I thinks it's an indicator of how little people read.

Have I missed all of you called Naomi who get called Nigh-o-me?

DP works with elderly folk so i requested an anecdotal survey of how to pronounce 'bolero' (on the grounds that boleros were v popular when 80-90 year old son were young) and the unanimous response was 'bol LAIR oh'!

I taught a Nigh-oh-me. I called her Nay-omi on the first day and she was quick to correct me.

80-90 year old son??
*80-90 year olds 😂

In the early 90's when I was a student I had a Saturday job in a large department store. I remember the my department manager
( horrendous woman) pronouncing the word calibre "cal-eye-bear".

Oh just thought of another one. My MIL pronounces vegetables "veggie-tubbuls"

People who say nucular instead of nuclear. I know it's common, but it still makes you sound like you have the intellect of a four-year-old.

Mind you, the last time I complained about it on here, it was because it had been mispronounced throughout an hour-long documentary on nuclear physics, by someone who I then found out held a university position specialising in (something like) the communication of science to the public.

Hang on, hang on - what's the issue with Naomi being pronounced Nigh-OH-me?

I always heard it pronounced thus until I moved from NI to mainland UK when I was an adult. I then came across some called Nay-OH-me, and one (a girl from Wales) who pronounced it NAY-omi. That one threw me.

MIL says Pitza for pizza. I get the rage.

Local habit of calling a roundabout an island. Why ?

Carousel: not getting your "errors" at all! Are you being funny?

You DON'T like instead of sez? And you don't like people prounouncing the g in words ending in "ing"?

You DON'T like the t pronounced in Britain?

Anyone else confused?

Fluff: er, it's mispronunciations not mispronounciations.