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.

Whiskeysourpuss, well I never knew that.driving follow signs for fife
Anyhoo it’s skoon castle
Scone baked good rhymes with gone

lipstick I'm confused about your response to me. I was agreeing that Almond should not have the L pronounced and linked the Oxford dictionary so prove.

Oh in that case I have massively misunderstood,sorry

These threads always bring out the classist twats who think that regional accents are "wrong" in some way

Team almond here, never heard it pronounced armond or ahmond

There's nothing like a MN pronunciation bashing thread to separate the commoners from the posh twats

and yes Almond has an L in it, if you said Ohl-munds where I live you'd get your arse handed to you in between fits of hysterics

With absolutely no sense of irony? Disappointing.

Yes I laughed at the.all the faux im salt of the erf me. Btw heres yer arse on a plate

If you lightly pronounce the l in almond, then you are doing it correctly. Any other way is incorrect.

LipstickHandbagCoffee I'm not sure how it's a brag as none of those achievements are mine. The point I was making is that he is a well-educated professional who makes a grammatical error in his speech all the time in a professional context (ie he is in a position where he really should not be making that error). Still, always better just to be arsey to a complete stranger on the internet, eh. Anyway we Fifers are a friendly lot so next time you're here I'll put the kettle on and make us a brew.

It’s unnecessary doesn’t add anything other than a did I mention he’s well paid & qualified
salary & academic attainment aren’t relevant when discussing accent
Fife,know it well. It’s a Great bit

I'm from the south of England so use far too many 'arr' sounds. Bath-B'arr'th, grass-g'arr'ss etc but my husband (also from the south) weirdly says 'Come-for-tarr-ball' for comfortable. It's really grates on me

There's different pronunciations/words for things within Fife too... I'm forever getting asked to explain stuff at work

Here's another advert pronunciation that drives me mad.
Dairy milk chocolate, with a glass and a half of milk. Anyone of a certain age may remember the original advert, voiced I believe by Cilla Black, in her Liverpudlian accent? If not her it was definitely done in that accent, and "glass" and "half" was pronounced with the "a" sound as in Cath.
I use the "a" sound as in Karl. All good, different pronunciation from different regions, don't shoot me about generalisations!
New advertadvert- glass as in Karl, half as in Cath (think that's the right way round). Makes me stabby! Do either pronunciation consistently but just stop it.
And btw i have a hybrid accent, lived overseas for years, dad's a Cockney, mum's from Somerset, and i quite often get asked where I'm from as little bits of strange pronunciation comes out every now and then.

Oh and I've been out painting the decking muttering "almond, ahmond, armond" for bloody ages. Neighbours must think I'm mad!

NoIsA Your post about the chocolate makes absolutely no sense to me because the words Karl, cath, half etc all have the same ' a ' sound where I come from in Scotland.

5cats how do you pronounce Karl? Ar as in Argos? I can only think of one way to pronounce Cath, as in the short a like apple. Language is great, isn't it?

@Putbiglighton - an ex-colleague would have said:

Dracklia was in hospickle. I didn't pacifically arks why but I finked he miked off felled down a chimbley. I tooked him a cackalog.

(Dracula was in hospital. I didn't specifically ask why but I think he might have fallen down a chimney. I took him a catalogue).

NoIsA Yes the ar is like in Argos, emphasis on the ' r ' and like a previous poster said Karl, Carl, and Carol all sound the same and are pronounced the same up here.
And aye, language is great!

And all with a short 'a ' sound.

nobody has brought up eXpresso yet?

Broosheta.
bru istead of brut.

And for heaven's sake, don't say barthelona when that is the only spanish word you know. It doesn't make you sound worldly at all.

Boulevard is more like boo than bow (as in bow tie) because the oo sound in boo is not a diphthong /bu:/ whereas bow is a diphthong /bəu/ - there are two vowels which slide together.

It’s an approximation though - English speakers find it hard to hear (and harder to produce) a difference between the “u” and “ou” sound in French as they are the same in English. But very different in French (nous/nu; vous/vu; roux/ rue etc).

The word “boulevard” in French has a lot of different sounds - they pronounce the b softer (ours tends to be be plosive or with breath behind it); the “ou” is made with the lips forward slightly as it’s at the front of the mouth; the French “l” is softer as in English we would have a /ə/ schwa sound before the “vard; the “v” sound is quicker and the “a” is a harder “a” like in our “pat” and finally the “r” is uvular and created in the back of the throat. The “d” is silent in French in that word.

I'm from a town in the South, we use glottal stops and don't pronounce the g on ing, sorry to all those annoyed by that! I now live a few miles outside that town and the accent is quite different, a more general South accent. People can tell I'm from that town by my accent. Funny how it's so localised in that small area.

Good description. Cauliflower However it'll all fall on deaf ears.

I tried! 😁

Lartey for Latte. Latte is just milk in Italy.
Expresso is just wrong.