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

[Sayyouwill]

Mine has to be pacific instead of specific

When ibuprofen was first released as a drug it was branded brufen. It took me years to learn to call it ibuprofen as when I first had it prescribed it was brufen.

I'm over it now.

Sang-wich instead of sandwich.

Brought instead of bought.

when I was younger I would call a family friend Jan-it instead of Jan-et (spelt Janet too obviously...) I still say Janit now and I think my mom just sounds posh but again it could be a regional thing...

Bit like Mom and Mum...

Porelee for poorly is common where I live, as is the inability to say the numbers nine and five without causing anybody not local to die of laughter.

Thankfully I worked in a call centre for a while so managed to very quickly get shot my local accent.

With you op for specific and pacific. A big one for me is the American cooking shows and the use of Worcestershire sauce. I'm guilty of 'pompadom'

All of them

Runs and dives for cover

Chester drawers 😱😂😡

Brufen is a brand of ibuprofen in Ireland.

Didyou I'm not from the south.

I really dislike tuthpaste instead of toothpaste with a proper oo sound.
My DH says proply too instead of propERly. It drives me mad.

Mary Berry says lairs instead of layers and it physically hurts me.

My DD had an altercation with his teacher over haitch and aitch too. Teacher now says aitch

On his daily LBC show, James O'Brien persists in calling Nigel Farage 'Nigel Farridge'. However, when he presents Newsnight on BBC2, he manages to say 'Fararsje', the usual pronunciation. Irritates me because he's just being perverse in mispronouncing it. I'd love to phone him up and confront him with it, but when he controls the fader you're never going to get anywhere in an argument.

Sayyouwill
I'm totally with you on that!! It's my pet peeve, I get so angry when I hear someone say it I imagine hitting them on the head with a very large rock!!

Garridge in Scotland.

On the definitely/defiantly typo - some people who have a very broad west of Scotland accent pronounce that word deff-inn-ATE-lee with stress on the "ate". People who speak that way therefore assume there is an "a" somewhere in the word. So they type "definatly" and their spellcheck assumes, incorrectly, that they're trying to spell defiantly.

All of the above (I've found my peeps), but especially brought for bought.

When someone would say axe for ask my mother would turn to me and whisper "no, it's ahx" in a faux posh accent.

Um, is it Eye boo profen or eyeboo pro fen?

Years ago one of my midwifery tutors used to say ee so phagus instead of oesophagus. Drove the class mad and caused lots of sniggers.

MisproNOUNciation

Marshmellows [bangs head on wall]

Re-literate as in “please reliterate to her...”, instead of reiterate

Pour, poor and paw are all the same.

They're all very different in my accent. (Edinburgh).

Ooh and box standard, not bog standard!

A pp suggested that there are no r's in the word 'drawer'. I think though that if you look more closely, you'll find that there are, in fact, two (2).

I'm Irish and my BF is English, and we're frequently all " WTF, dude?" about the other's pronunciation. We Iive in a third country with a completely different language which is no help to either of us.

I thought I was seeing things. There's a near identical thread running on Chat for the last few days

EllenJanethickerknickers I say eye-byoo-pro-fen

Genuine question how do people say Wednesday if not wensday

Do people actually say it like wed nes day ??!

I say Wed ens day, with a schwa sound, not "ens" as in "pens".
I had it drummed into me at school.

The correct pronunciation of February was similarly insisted on.