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.

In French a magic wand is une baguette magique.

I'm pretty sure that the "ss-y" in "issyou" "tissyou" was the standard British English pronunciation for a long time, and the "sh" is an Americanism.

I have a friend who pronounces niche as "nitch". Their argument for this is that it's pronounced like that in a song in Mary Poppins. I remain unconvinced.

I've had to look most of these up, so I'm guessing I must have been doing them wrong all me life

However, we have lots of "Boulevards" in Nottingham, and I can confirm that the correct pronunciation is quite simply: "Bull-eee-vard."

And while we're at it, Siobhan is pronounced - Shi-vonn" NOT "Shi-vorn."

Hmm i live in Scotland, never heard anyone pronounce it "draws".

Me either Time except my sister but only since she's moved down south & now I want to strangle her whenever she opens her mouth with her hybrid Scots-Kent accent

My dad is 85 and a Yorkshireman. He uses thee and thou and a wide range of dialect in his speech. He will pronounce again as 'ageean', road as 'rooad', for example.

He rants regularly about how he can't stand it when he hears Southerners on TV use f instead of th (e.g. 'I went on holiday free times last year').

I've tried to point out to him that he's being extremely pot/kettle and has no leg to stand on, but he insists he's right.

Just to add that I don't mind people pronouncing drawers as 'draws' as long as they don't spell it 'draws' (which I've seen done).

How about 'amachur' for amateur. WHY is the letter t substituted for ch sound? WHY?

Garige for garage

Pacific instead of specific.

They all set my teeth on edge!

Can I have the mumsnet-masses consensus on my-grain versus me-grain (for migraine that is :) ) please? One of them makes me irrationally stabby.

You would just get laughed at around here if you said "garaaaaaaj".

i don't think you're saying any of them wrong whiskey, i totally get that there are regional variations, but my friend and I both say aunt more like aren't than ant, but I say rant like ant with an r on the front where she says something that sounds more like rarnt. if that makes any sense

Brekfust or brakekfast?

I use both pronunciations of migraine :)

A local one to me now but not where I am from, is fore -ward for forward when asking to pass on something e.g. an email but use it normally when talking about something moving e.g. a car going forward a few feet.

My-graine. 'Me-graine' sounds like something Hyacinth Bucket would say.

My-graine

My gran used to say brakefast drove me nuts even as a child.

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

It sounds like a cockney EastEnder telling when the L is removed

time me too. MIL says it and an old friend.

Some pronunciation is regional dialect and some is just lazy/sloppy speech where letters are run together for convenience. I do this. So do lots of people.

What I don't understand is the people claiming there should be a 'r' sound in a word with no 'r' in it and just assuming this is right. Nothing wrong with saying it that way, but do they not realise that it shouldn't be there and that it is their accent which puts it there? I'm from NI and recognise that I pronounce words a certain way because of my accent, but I don't presume for one moment that I'm saying it the 'right' way.

Thank you for vindicating that it's my-grain!

As to the putting in of Rs - it's not that people are putting in an R, it's that people differ in how they pronounce A. Thus how I pronounce A in bath sounds like how someone else might pronounce barth. Its a subtle but important difference in perspective.

"Ah - the glottal stop, the bane of my life. Worse when combined with a habit old fashioned dyed in the wool Londoners have of changing an L to a W"

I do both of these, sorry!

Although I am inconsistent, don't know why. I would almost always pronounce the t in water, or in butter, but would almost never pronounce it in bottle, or in any word ending in t. I drop a lot more 't's when talking fast, and they tend to reappear when I'm talking more slowly. Or when I'm in a meeting

It-alian vs Eye-talian?

My-grain, or 'bastard' when I have one.

You would just get laughed at around here if you said "garaaaaaaj".

This thread is making me increasingly glad that I live where I do.

It’s really making me chuckle how people are saying there’s no R there’s no CH sound etc if we pronounced every letter in a word the English language would be completely different, if we didn’t have accents the U.K. would be very boring. I love the Oyrish accent (Irish) hate the Lesta one, love scouse and hate brummy, but find them all fascinating!