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.

[EarthlyTent]

ZOMBIE THREAD!

[user127819]

@HerNameWasEliza This is a two year old thread!

But did we ever find out how baguette is supposed to be pronounced?

[HerNameWasEliza]

[quote Merryoldgoat]The L in almond is silent and it gives me rage when people pronounce it.

www.dictionary.com/browse/almond?s=t[/quote]
www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2010/02/almond-joy.html

Think you're behind the times!

[Barrowmanfan22]

Sarah Millican is from the North East. Her lack of glottal stop is part of her accent.

I will never understand how it is acceptable to rip apart someone's accent in a public forum and or think you have the right to judge how someone else speaks.

[nilinu]

Correct pronunciation is 'sec re tree' NOT 'sec re terry' please!

[Ihavenoideaatall]

Mmmm jizz cake! 😂

[longwayoff]

Thank you meredint, never heard of it before, another one for my collection, excellent, thanks

[HMC2000]

Ok, so I haven't read the entire thread, but I just wanted to add that my Greek mother in law pronounces "cheesecake" as "jizzcake". Just as well I'm lactose intolerant, because I don't think I could face it.

[goose1964]

My kids make fun of the way I say cupboard, sort of cuh buhrd, and valley, as va lee, with the gaps being short gaps. Now say them in a Welsh accent

[MereDintofPandiculation]

@longwayoff you friend may be right. It's not that far away from Woolfardisworthy (pronounced Woolsery) after all.

[MonaLisaSimpson]

My last post should have said I definitely don't say funcy but autocorrect changed it to fancy!

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

I can tell the difference between po-lo and pole-o.

However, it was the British who anglicised the name, codified the rules and spread the sport worldwide, so I think we can pronounce it how we like...

[liz70]

^ (imitating my teenaged DDs above, just in case it weren't obvious)

[liz70]

"Fancy dress I have no idea what else you would say here"

Cosplay, of course. What century did you timewarp from - the 20th?

[CountFosco]

Oh, oh. I think I get the Polo thing. Salem thinks we all talk like the queen in the 1950s.

As for funcy...

Fancy dress I have no idea what else you would say here
She fancies him I know this is a British term because I know Americans react to this as well
Do you fancy a biscuit? yes please
It's a very fancy hotel I think this phrase is either regional or class based.

[StripySocksAndDocs]

It's possible that funcy is an archaic word. I think whatsit poster (I'd scroll back but it's on a different page). Was travelling to Britain, accidentally slipped into a wormhole. Ended up in the funcy era. Had her holiday, travelled back through the wormhole to Australia.

She now thinks she was in modern day Britain and everyone says funcy. Evidently not her fault, could happen to anyone.

Obviously was at a funcy pooh-low match when there too.

[PolkadotsAndMoonbeams]

I'm intrigued by "fancy" being archaic! What words would you use instead for:

Fancy dress
She fancies him
Do you fancy a biscuit?
It's a very fancy hotel

[MonaLisaSimpson]

I think of those two pronunciations of polo in the link I say the American one. And I definitely don't say fancy. I'm from Cheshire and, no matter how much I kid myself that I talk "naicly" my flat vowels will out me as Northern English...

[longwayoff]

Ah, mere (ooh somerset pun please excuse me), I agree and that's how I would say it if I had to, but a friend of a friend moved there and insisted it is His ker pis cer pi. Which looks nuts to me but this is England, home to misleading nomenclature.

[MereDintofPandiculation]

@longwayoff I've always assumed it's Hoo-ish, pronounced quickly and elided so it sounds like "wheesh". And the accent on the "pis' in episcopi. What are the alternatives?

I still say "forrid". But I'm increasingly aware of becoming an anachronism myself.

[MereDintofPandiculation]

I can't tell the difference between poh-lo and pole - oh. It sounds the same in my south coast accent. I can't hear the difference (other people might), but if I stick the "l" on the end of the "po" (pol-o) the tip of my tongue is slightly further back than if I put the "l" on the start of the "o" (po-lo).

I haven't a clue which I do normally!

[flowery]

True. Maybe when everyone in the UK says cat mat and bat it sounds to the rest of the world like cuht muht and buht…

[StripySocksAndDocs]

Hey everyone don't be meanie!! Maybe uh has a different sound in Australia (the whole of it all over with its one accent).

It could sound like ah or ar. We shan't argue. (pronounced 'we sh-uh-nt uh-gue')

[liz70]

"I'm still bemused by the information that fancy (however the bugger you pronounce it) is archaic. "

Forsooth, what poppycock and balderdash. Verily, only a nincompoop would fancy such codswallop.

"Mr. Kipling does make exceedingly good Fluorescent Fondant Fancies..."

That's better than the original name!

[BeatriceJoanna]

I'm still bemused by the information that fancy (however the bugger you pronounce it) is archaic.

What are should we designate those flourescent fondant articles as made by Mr Kipling?