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

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Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

Should of instead of should have

This, eleventy billionty times

I knew someone once who said I-O-Qua-Shush instead of loquacious.

Not getting the sor thing to me sor saw and sore all sound the same.

My DH insists on calling quinoa quin-o-a. Nothing wrong with it per se except I call it keen-wah and always get a little bit confused (I don't write it down much) before it dawns on me. I'm starting to get used to it though. Oh and Paella-how the he'll do you even pronounce that? Pa-yaya sounds a bit conceited (or like you have only just joined the party ten years too late). Pie-Ella is just wrong on so many levels. Pi-yella is my natural inclination but I think that may just be underlying Eastern European mispronounciation.

Delia Smith pronouncing balsamic as 'ber-saul-mic'- the letters aren't even in that order! Maybe she misread it as basalmic?

Agree with most of the above esp. 'pacific' and 'expresso'. Also adults who use 'lickle' in seriousness, like when I heard someone mentioning the game 'little big planet' to another adult.

In Scotland we shorten vowels which does sometimes sound like dropping them. cukbuk (cookbook), garrridge, buts (boots) are all regional pronunciations. We also lengthen R and shorten T!

My OH says pedistool instead of pedestal as it "to put some on a ..." It drives me bonkers!

Any mis pronaciation of touche eclat (I work next to a tap counter and i cant help it!) The worst being touche clit.. seriously?! That happens a lot!

The absolute worst has got to be 'memay' for meme - cringe!!!

Ysl not tap

Today in Sainsburys. 2 women discussing a Gill-it. (Gilet)

Im.100% sure its Gee-lait?

Maybe Im wrong?

Chorizo as “Cho-ritz-oh”. No !!!

creampie I'm not sure if you're in the UK, but 'specialty' is the US version of the English 'speciality' which is used to mean both particular skills and particular items on a menu. The difference isn't what's being described as special - it's English v US.

Another belated plea as to how "aromatherapy" should be pronounced if not "arrow-mer-therapy"!

And creampie I think in that ad the word they want is actually "specialisms", isn't it? Maybe the people in adland think that sounds too complex

Ha sorry, cross-post with noname.

Ha yes easter - I think you're right.

I hate "sikth* instead of "sixth" but few people agree with me.

Easterholidays I think the aromatherapy issue is that he correct pronunciation is “ah-row-mah-therapy” with the stress on the “row” syllable rather than just “arrow”

Two of my children say they can't 're-bothered' instead of be bothered.

Haitch is not a mispronunciation!

I have known my OH for 48 years, and he has always said lickle - he is from Manchester.....

Ulster instead of ulcer, might be an Irish thing though.

I used to work with a teacher who pronounces coin koi-oi-n......... twitches

I'm so glad other people say "sangwich" my DH does and it drive me mental. I thought it was just him. He also "washes" his teeth and regularly suggest I "take over" slower cars while driving. He is a peculiar one though.

I agree with you clara - I just came to post "sisth"

Also "fith" for "fifth".

Two of my children say they can't 're-bothered' instead of be bothered

If your children are children (and not, say, in their mid-thirties) then this is adorable

I think I can't "hear" the difference between the two versions of "aromatherapy". Which means I probably say it wrong

Not annoying but funny: "advocado", extra comical because the offender is a lawyer