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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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NaughtyHiccups · 20/09/2017 21:29

A teacher pronouncing it 'vocab-ul-ry' 😡

PuppyMonkey · 20/09/2017 21:31

My lecturer at uni used to always pronounce ideology as "iddee-ology" and not "eye-di-ology" and that used to get on my nerves.

TinyTickler · 20/09/2017 21:31

Register is said almost like regchester in the north east and it makes me want to do a murder.

RainbowPastel · 20/09/2017 21:34

I hear use here a lot. Are use going out? Have use eaten?

JumpJockey · 20/09/2017 21:34

I'm a bad person, but at church there's a prayer where we say sorry for all the naughty things we've done, through our 'grievous fault' and every week I immediately judge all the people who say it Greevious.

SignoraStronza · 20/09/2017 21:36

'Crate' instead of 'create. I think it must be a southern/London thing though.

LadyLoveYourWhat · 20/09/2017 21:37

Those home ec teachers were saying margarine the right way, it should be a hard g in the middle, not j, because it's not margerine. I only say it properly to wind people up though.

00100001 · 20/09/2017 21:38

I nearly forgot.

Veggetables Angry

echt · 20/09/2017 21:41

Lately, "mischiev-i-ous" by a tv presenter on a serious news programme (ABC in Australia). I emailed in to complain about that one.

NoKidsTwoCats · 20/09/2017 21:42

I don't even know if these are mispronunciations but... cuttle-ree (instead of cut-luh-ree) and burgle-ree (instead of bur-gluh-ree)

Didyoumeantobesorude1 · 20/09/2017 21:43

Sekkertary
Bu'er instead of butter
Drawring instead of drawing
Paw instead of pour
Paw instead of poor
Mischeevious
CommUNal instead of COMMunal

NoKidsTwoCats · 20/09/2017 21:44

Shockthemonkey is he confusing it with advogado? 😀

woollychimp · 20/09/2017 21:44

mannafacturing instead of manufacturing, yes Alan Sugar I'm looking at you,

RainbowPastel · 20/09/2017 21:46

Pour, poor and paw are all the same.

Lilyargin · 20/09/2017 21:46

Vahlent for violent.
Lots of MPs seem to pronounce it that way and I hate it. Makes me want to do some vahlence to them.

Mxyzptlk · 20/09/2017 21:47

I've heard lots of people say Ibrufen for Ibuprofen. I've never known if they're wrong or if I am.

woollychimp · 20/09/2017 21:49

My DCs insist on listening to Capital Radio and last year they were promoting the film Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children..

Except the presenter pronounced it Pecular - and i don't think he was joking.

Lilyargin · 20/09/2017 21:50

I know someone who pronounces it ee-BU-profen with the stress on the second syllable.

NoKidsTwoCats · 20/09/2017 21:50

Mxyzptlk are they from NI or nurses by any chance? I'd never heard 'brufen' until I met two NI nurses who both said it. Assumed it was a dialect or nurse thing.

Pretty sure 'ibuprofen' is correct 🙂

Lilyargin · 20/09/2017 21:53

But is anyone with me on vahlent? And fahr for fire?

pineapplehead48 · 20/09/2017 21:53

Chimley instead of chimney

Wardrove in stead of wardrobe

Didyoumeantobesorude1 · 20/09/2017 21:53

Grin Rainbow Pastel No they're not, but I knew some South of England person would assert that they were!

easterholidays · 20/09/2017 21:56

Brufen is a brand name for the drug ibuprofen. Maybe that's the cause of the confusion?

Mxyzptlk · 20/09/2017 21:56

Pour, poor and paw are all the same. GrinGrinGrin

Mxyzptlk · 20/09/2017 21:58

Thanks, easter, that could be it.

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