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

[Sayyouwill]

Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

No, not joking! If I could do an audio file, I would! .

To me, Britain is with a softer t. Actually...as in 'softer'. You wouldn't spit out the t in softer and neither would you in Britain (if it were up to me) or hospital. The tongue sort of stays on the roof of the mouth for the t rather than touching the teeth, iyswim.

G at the end of ing, I mean so they say runninGUH, rather than running.

SAYs is just awful when it rhymes with ways, days etc. Sez, is not slangy like Carousel Woz Ere, it's more ses. Hard to explain that if you say the former. But DD's dad reads her stories with SAYS. He's a Midlander.

Also, mentioned in a couple of pp, how the feck does anyone get NIGH from the letters Na in Naomi? It just makes people spell it Niomi.

This word doesn't come up that often but For some reason every single Glaswegian who's ever said the name of the brand Moschino pronounce it as machine-0. Drives me crackers, it's Moss-key-No fgs.

Sangwich

One of my English teachers at secondary pronounced 'mountain' as 'maown-TAYN'. We were studying a book about some kid that got lost in the Alps or something, so my teeth were constantly grinding.

I also knew someone that insisted on pronouncing 'Bach' as 'Back'. We happened to both be students studying for a music qualification...

Ah morbid, you'll feel my pain at the person on my music degree who insisted pronouncing gigue as gig! Grr!

My partner always corrects me when I say in-Ven-tory instead of In-ven-tree.

The supernanny "unasseptable" was awful! How could they let her say it so much on national television?!

My midwife talked me through every contraction during my home birth and was brilliant...except for saying "take them big deep breaths" 😖

I couldn't get past "hospikkle" and "likkle" - fuckers who utter such bastardization of regular English words (often in a baby voice) need to be shot at dawn.

I'm totally with you on this. It's not cute, it's stupid and sounds ridiculous.

Bold instead of bald
Haitch instead of aitch

May have already been said but I've not read all replies. Loving this tho' especially sangwhich .... made me think of my dear old Mum!

Mine are prostrate cancer and tender hooks!

Makes me wince every time.

@sayyouwill I grew up near you.
Dad always tells the story of looking for my school friend's name in the phone book, he couldn't find any "Blewer"s in the right street, how does she spell it? "B-l-o-o-r, blewer"
Current one is my issue, having emigrated. Almond is pronounced "arman" and I get mocked for "al-mond", I say "day-ta" they say "dah-ta"
Expresso, weary instead of wary and one colleague who says AND TYPES INTO THE APP "whatsup" instead of "WhatsApp" really grind my gears!

whatjust aargh yes tender-hooks! So irritating!

This is regional but comes up constantly where I live...

The letter j pronounced as jai instead of jay

E.g. the shop yesterday, assistant taking the customer's name and saying, "Is that Gillian/Jillian with a gee or a jai?"

My mum always says Disco late when she is telling you about a dislocated arm etc. I've tried telling her.
Injin for Engine.

Face-tee instead of feisty.

Harrished instead of harrassed. Not sure if this is a Scouse working class thing. "She's got me harrished, wanting me to do all sorts for her."

Ah, I think harrished is old Scouse dialect, after doing some research. So not really a mispronunciation.

Swash instead of swatch.

Dixie I can spell Betws-y-Coed, Llandudno and Erddig, I was just writing them as my MIL says them.

AmaZON.
Droring (for drawing)
Sloth (rhyming with broth) It's pronounced Slowth because it means being slow.

Sloth (rhyming with broth) It's pronounced Slowth because it means being slow.
Thank you for that mnemonic - I always get it wrong!

No-one with me on ‘vahlent’ for violent, then?
Or ‘fahr’ for fire?
Do you all say it? It seems to be becoming the norm. I hate it!

The correct pronunciation of "almond" is "ahmund". I can't bear it when the "L" is pronounced.

Scocland

Oops, sorry stripy- that makes a lot more sense now.

Lilyargin I’m with you!