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Irritating pronounciation

566 replies

percheron67 · 04/08/2018 23:32

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.

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MeanTangerine · 04/08/2018 23:34

*pronunciation

PurpleFlower1983 · 04/08/2018 23:38

Have to admit I find poor spelling more irritating.

Merryoldgoat · 04/08/2018 23:54

MeanTangerine beat me to it.

LadyOdd · 04/08/2018 23:57

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

ReggieKrayDoYouKnowMyName · 04/08/2018 23:59

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.

HoneyBadgerApparently · 04/08/2018 23:59

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette? Confused

MonaLisaSimpson · 05/08/2018 00:03

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

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

dontticklethetoad · 05/08/2018 00:05

Wait how are you meant to pronounce baguette?

Perhaps bagwette? Grin

FlibbertyGiblets · 05/08/2018 00:06

Bag et.

Aw mund.

Merryoldgoat · 05/08/2018 00:07

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

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

RedDwarves · 05/08/2018 00:07

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

RedDwarves · 05/08/2018 00:08

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

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

daisyinatree · 05/08/2018 00:11

Which ad? Do you have a link?

Merryoldgoat · 05/08/2018 00:12

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.

Merryoldgoat · 05/08/2018 00:13

@LadyOdd - how SHOULD she say baguette?

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

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 05/08/2018 00:14

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

daisyinatree · 05/08/2018 00:15

Re the pronunciation of ALMOND...

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

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

The way SALMON is pronounced is irrelevant.

RedDwarves · 05/08/2018 00:16

The way SALMON is pronounced is irrelevant.

Except that it's not.

LipstickHandbagCoffee · 05/08/2018 00:18

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

Merryoldgoat · 05/08/2018 00:19

@daisyinatree

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

Eemamc · 05/08/2018 00:31

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

Eemamc · 05/08/2018 00:33

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?

Greenyogagirl · 05/08/2018 00:35

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.

WaxOnFeckOff · 05/08/2018 00:36

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.

daisyinatree · 05/08/2018 00:37

@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! Hmm

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.