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

[Sayyouwill]

Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

Aquapuncture for acupuncture.
Prostrate for prostate; my partners father has prostate cancer, but it is always referred to as prostrate. I have never corrected him.
Akkasseeya for acacia, this from a teacher.
Arr can sass for Arkansas, this from a geography teacher.
Erotic for erratic.
Miss chee vious
New quew lar for nuclear
Harassed with the emphasis on the last syllable instead of the first (american)
Loads more, can't think at the moment.

Feb-ree and Jan-U-ree irks me

But sometimes, it isn't that people are saying stuff 'incorrectly' - it's just the way they have been brought up to say it or their regional dialect. (Obviously chimlee, and hospikal and pacific instead of specific is wrong!) And I used to know someone who said VALCHER instead of 'voucher.' But simply different ways of saying stuff isn't wrong.

Got proper told off though the other week for saying DAY-bree (for debris) and Tuth-paste for toothpaste. One woman laughed at me and told me I was thick. I said 'thanks, you say the nicest things.'

I do say garridge too. And mom (not mum.) Must be regional (midlands here.)

All Americans - 'erb for 'herb'. Don't know why but it makes me

Axe instead of ask
Chimley instead of chimney
Birminham instead of Birmingham
By-ces-tah instead of Bicester
When people jokingly say or spell lager as larger

Onvelope rather than envelope. GRRR!

Oh yes Violet!! I'm from south living in Manchester and liccle, boccle and hospical drive me mad!!!!

Criss instead of crisps

Garridge (garage) makes my blood boil, but skellington makes me smile.

The worst was an old boss of mine who used to pronounce tangential "tan-genital". Not only that, that he managed to say it LOADS! It got me so riled I wondered if I might have grounds for taking out a grievance.

He was a lovely boss in every other way though. He mentioned me in his retirement speech - he thanked me for teaching him how to swear!

There's a few above that are not mispronunciations, they are different pronunciations. Australian and Irish children are taught to say "haitch". Americans pronounce herb without a hard "h".

Skelington
Wendsday
Crips instead of crisps

Die-mentia instead of 'dementia'.

Mental soup instead of lentil.

Got proper told off though the other week for saying DAY-bree (for debris) and Tuth-paste for toothpaste. One woman laughed at me and told me I was thick. I said 'thanks, you say the nicest things.' hmm

I do say garridge too. And mom (not mum.) Must be regional (midlands here

Black Country?!

I loved a piece that Adrian Chile's wrote for a paper. He basically said that because of his accent (Black Country) people had a low expectation of him and it didn't take much to impress people. He said he could go into a job and announce an average idea and people would be amazed by it and if he came up with an even better idea, he was asked if it was his idea, if he had any help thinking of it etc due to copyright laws as again, his accent come across as though he wasn't capable of great things!

Oh and Baff instead of bath. Anything that ends in 'th' and is said with a 'f'

I'm not sure whether this is mispronunciation but why can't people tell the difference between definitely and defiantly?! That one really grinds my gears!!

@donquixotedelamancha does peppa pig say bath really exaggerated or are you making the distinction between the southern and northern differences? I really can't remember how Peppa says it! My welsh father would say baff and paff for bath and path which was annoying because he had a southern accent other than that. Weirdly my midlands colleague is the same. Accent is RP now (she is 50 something and moved to Beds for uni and never went home!) those seem to be the words that don't change.

Onvelope irks me too!!

But skellington??? I haven't heard anyone over the age of 7 EVER say that!

I say garridge ; sorry Everyone does where I come from.

Must be coz we're common.

Crosspost, Ivy. I totally agree. I think it's quite arrogant to assume that any pronunciation that is not in one's own accent and/or does not accord with one's own country's norms is a mispronunciation.

@manctart

My daughter got an email from a solicitor the other day with defiantly instead of definitely. A SOLICITOR.

I am hoping it was a typo, rather than she actually thought that was the correct spelling!

Some of these are truly horrible - I can't compete!!!

eXpresso - always does my nut in!

2tired2bewitty My home ec teacher did exactly the same! Coastal grammar school?

Ivy it was actually emails I have received that prompted me to post as well rather than mispronunciation!! That is shocking, I wouldn't want a solicitor who couldn't spell! The two words don't even sound or look the same?! I am a bit of a spelling and grammar fiend (god hope there are no wrong bits in this post now...) 😂

My French colleague pointedly pronouncing a French footballer's name in the way he thinks it should be said with the definite undertone that I, an English speaker who can just about order a glass of wine in French, am a dick when I say it differently.

Admittedly, it is not a standard French pronunciation (an island dialect). But I know a metric fuck-tonne more about football than he.

A girl I know says 'thinger' instead of 'finger'

Someone says 'cumid' instead of 'humid' 😶

If garage isnt garridge then what is it?
I work with a guy who says alternatively as al-ter-NAT-iveley. TBF English isnt his 1st language so I'll let him off!

@TidyDancer

I am indeed making the distinction between southern pronunciation and the correct one :-)

Though Peppa Pig has a pretty annoying voice.