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.

5cats I think the "half" bit is what's confusing. The original advert was " glass ( as in Myleene KLASS) and the half was pronounced "haff", as in faff, with the "l" sound missing. (Back to the almond debate again, lol!)
On a similar theme, there was a discussion at work regarding pronunciation of "plaster cast " as in the one you have when you break your arm. Most of us said "plarster carst", our northern ladies said "plasster casst" as in Myleene Klass. How handy her name is in these examples!
It's like the word bath, some people say it to rhyme with Cath. I say it as barth, but if you were called Cath you wouldn't pronounce it Carth!

If you want to be really irritated watch the videos by this man who tells people how to pronounce English words.

NoIsA I see where you're coming from now, I pronounce half like faff, no ' l ' sound at all, so half, Cath, and bath all sound the same, short ' a ' which makes the words sound quite clipped really.

MrsSarahSimmonds I don't normally hate people but grrrr.
And I pronounce the l. Have no idea why. Just sounds right with my natural accent

I know someone who's surname is Almond, she pronounces it Al-mond.

I cant read 11 pages, I will have a cardiac incident. AL MOND. Surely?
Of ten? Or off en? As in frequent. I say offen. Like soften. Right? Wrong?

Path rhymes with bath and Cath.
Glass and class rhyme with Mylene Klass.
Masterchef is Mahstershef
Disaster is Diz-Asster

I pronounce half differently to Cath.
Cath is c a th
A as in apple.
Half is h ar f
Ar as in Arthur.

Half is H-ah-f.

St/Sd as Shd e.g. shopshdeward, shdudent irritates me.
And that R4 newsreader who says Colonel as Kairrrnell. There is no R in Colonel.

I did a quick survey of colleagues today, here in the NW of England, and we all say ol-mund. Not the largest of sample sizes but 14 out of 14 - I'll ask again tomorrow when there are more people in!

Also garage in my accent is sort of gar-edge. And I'm still confused about baguette. I say ba-gett.

Italics fail.

Ol mund
Gar edge
Ba gett

I prononce the l. I also pronounce it in palm, balm, alm, half etc. Is that really unheard of???

I really liked Cauliflowersqueeze, post17:12 so interesting.stuff I didn't know

My mum had a friend called Yvonne who called herself Eeve-ONN So how would you pronounce Yvonne ? - unless you;re saying it was eeve-ONN as opposed to i'VONNE?

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. I thought Barcelona was in Catalonia, and in Catalan the c is pronounced as a soft s not as a th, so Barthelona is wrong and Barcelona is correct?

And that R4 newsreader who says Colonel as Kairrrnell. There is no R in Colonel.

But it is pronounced with one in BrE. How do you pronounce lieutenant? No 'f' no doubt.

Bruschetta. Broo skett a

I say bah-get (French speaker).

The ones that irritate me most are kekkle, chimlee and bokkle

Quarter pronounced corter. It seems to be an ex public school thing.
Did we reach a consensus on baguette? I need closure.

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

Or alternatively, do so if you want. Say it if you like the sound, if it reminds you of the time you were lucky enough to go there, whether you hope it does sound a little bit worldly, or couldn't give two hoots whether it does or not.

Some of the posts on this thread speak volumes, they really do. And probably not in the way they're intended to.

I did a quick survey of colleagues today, here in the NW of England, and we all say ol-mund. Not the largest of sample sizes but 14 out of 14 - I'll ask again tomorrow when there are more people in!

NW here too and I say ah-mond. Sorry to screw up your results.

What really annoys me about Ibuprofen is when former nurses pronounce it 'brufen'. Yes I know you're a pro 🙄

Oops, brufen's already been done.

One of my friends pronounces the (should be silent) L in Rusholme, Holmes etc.

I've always found it strange how certain accents (some Yorkshire and North east) pronounce master/plaster with the long a (ah) sound but would never in a million years use that sound for bath/grass.