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

391 replies

Sayyouwill · 20/09/2017 17:49

Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

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pobblewashere · 20/09/2017 18:13

Haitch
cuttelry ( cutlery)
burgulry
summink
A teacher I knew pronounced sandwiches as sangwiches

ProfessorCat · 20/09/2017 18:13

I have a friend who says gruyere as gree (same as Brie).

I've tried. She's not having it.

ProfessorCat · 20/09/2017 18:15

Feb-you-ree!

My English teacher used to say hy-hee-na and it was a source of much mirth.

Oh how I love a mispronunciation thread.

Violetparis · 20/09/2017 18:16

Liccle and boccle for little and bottle said by some people in Manchester. Not sure if it's a particular area in Manchester that this originates from but I can't stand it.

CaoNiMartacus · 20/09/2017 18:16

I once knew someone who pronounced "aromatherapy" as "arrow-mer-therapy". Infuriating!

Someoneasdumbasthis · 20/09/2017 18:26

Anythink that ends with ing having a k on the end!!

Simon Cowell does it. Drives me bonkers.

I knew someone who pronounced the full nes in Wednesday. As in wed-nes-day. Wtf?

Plarstic for plastic is hideous and garridge instead of garage. Urgh.

I also don't like it when people use the American scedule instead of the English schedule. But I think I am alone there as almost everyone does.

Didn't think I had that many but I'm more pedantic than I thought.

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balsamicbarbara · 20/09/2017 18:34

Quinoa. It's not quin-oh-ah fer chrissakes Confused

MissCommunication · 20/09/2017 18:38

ProNOUNciation. I shit you not.

DH says Haitch and I 'ate it.

NoLoveofMine · 20/09/2017 18:39

"Schedule" the American way. It happens far too often now.

minicheddars90 · 20/09/2017 18:39

Breg-sit

Bearcon · 20/09/2017 18:42

Saink instead of something. But then I do live in Essex....

MissCommunication · 20/09/2017 18:42

Ooh ooh this lady once asked me to take a photo of her and her family "for prosperity".

bruffin · 20/09/2017 18:44

Cheshunt pronounced Chesh unt. Tony Robinson kept saying it on Time Team when he was here.
You'd think if you were doing a programme in a town you would learn how to pronounce it properly.

Sayyouwill · 20/09/2017 18:46

SIL says mumth instead of month and I just glare at her.

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Fidoandacupoftea · 20/09/2017 18:48

Sor instead of saw really makes me mad

Fidoandacupoftea · 20/09/2017 18:52

My oh says Mai-oh-naise instead of mayonnaise and ch-ef instead of chef. I have given up after 18 yrs

BrassicaBabe · 20/09/2017 18:55

Choc-lit

Was also offered in a pub once mer-lott or cab-er-nett 😄

FluffyMcCloud · 20/09/2017 18:57

I think I say a few of these Blush

How DO you say aromatherapy if it isn't arrow mer therapy? Is it the "a" in arrow? Should be Uh row mer therapy?! I'm so confused!

GemmaCollinsBabes · 20/09/2017 19:00

Res-of-wire for reservoir. We live close to a reservoir and this is how my husband mispronounces it on a daily basis. I'm all for offing him to be perfectly honest.

Whosthebestbabainalltheworld · 20/09/2017 19:03

Sangwitches (hang sangwitches are even worse)

ProfessorCat · 20/09/2017 19:04

PoMpadom!

MissionItsPossible · 20/09/2017 19:06

Supernanny used to annoy me with her "that's unasseptable behaviour". Angry

donquixotedelamancha · 20/09/2017 19:07

Southerner. All of it.

My DD pronounces bath as baaarrth thanks to Peppa bastard Pig.

afrikat · 20/09/2017 19:09

Pacific for me too. So fricking annoying

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