Irritating pronounciation

[percheron67]

I have just seen the Tesco steak ad and wish that the woman talking would not use a glottal stop in the middle of words. Perhaps this is regional but it sounds very lazy.

*pronunciation

Have to admit I find poor spelling more irritating.

MeanTangerine beat me to it.

My friend always says baguette as bag et. Tbh makes me love her more!

As someone with an estuary accent living in the estuary region, I can’t get too het up about the odd glottal stop, but do get annoyed if someone’s just lazily doing it because they’re not opening their mouth wide enough.

The one I hate is “almond” pronounced “aLmond”.... it’s pronounced bloody bastard “aRmond” and it says so in the bloody bastard dictionary.

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

This. Plus who doesn't pronounce the L in almond??

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

Perhaps bagwette?

Bag et.

Aw mund.

The L in almond is silent and it gives me rage when people pronounce it.

www.dictionary.com/browse/almond?s=t

Nothing shits me more than "neg-oh-SEE-ay-shun" for negotiation. Where on fuck's earth are you pulling an S from?!

Plus who doesn't pronounce the L in almond??

Many people, in the same way that salmon is "sammon" not "sal-mon".

Which ad? Do you have a link?

YES RedDwarves!

Fucking Theresa May says it all the time and it makes me feel stabby.

I realise I’m lucky to have such trivial problems.

@LadyOdd - how SHOULD she say baguette?

Is she saying BAG-et rather than bag-ET?

Everyone knows the best mn pronunciation bunfight is Evelyn
Inevitably someone rocks up to say ever- linn...

Re the pronunciation of ALMOND...

Who would say AWmund? Sounds like a completely different word!

I say it as al-mund Defo pronounce the L.

The way SALMON is pronounced is irrelevant.

The way SALMON is pronounced is irrelevant.

Except that it's not.

Almond
No I don’t emphasise the l
Ahh.mund as in ahhmund latte please

@daisyinatree

Look at my link - you can actually listen to the audio file - it’s clearly a silent ‘L’.

Almond fits in with palm, balm and alms, their all have an ar sound, the l is not pronounced. It really winds me up.

Ok, so I just watched the ad... it’s Sarah Millican narrating. I’m failing to see the problem OP? What is it that you don’t like about the way she speaks?

It’s just different accents and speech patterns mixed with the ability now to watch tv/Internet of people around the world, the ability to travel more etc nobody speaks ‘perfectly’
What annoys me is when Americans prounce Herbs as Urbs.

Almond fits in with palm, balm and alms, their all have an ar sound, the l is not pronounced. It really winds me up.

Yes, you don't say the L but you also don't replace it with an R.

@merryoldgoat

And look at MY link. The L is clearly pronounced.

There is no right or wrong, and anyone who thinks the way they pronounce it, is the 'correct' way, is breathtakingly arrogant.

Personally I think 'ahhhmund' and ARmund sound ludicrous, but I would not be so arrogant as to say you were pronouncing it 'incorrectly, because I don't pronounce it that way!

And IMO, the way salmon is pronounced has fuckall to do with the way almond is pronounced, no matter how you insist it does @reddwarves

Now how about you stop presenting your opinions as facts? It's making you look a bit twattish.