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.

I know a male EEV-lin, and a female Ev-eh-lin.

There was a mn Evelyn thread it ran for days,many pages.got quite irascible
It’s guaranteed to get folk going is Evelyn pronunciation
Every time

I say vyt-amin, husband says vit-am-in. My pronunciation drives him bonkers and now DD corrects him when he says vit-a-min. Cracks me up.

Anyone familiar with the poem The Chaos? Gerard Trenete. Google for ultimate English pronunciation fun and games

DH is from the north west and says oll-mund which is WRONG! Mind you, he also says lolly-ice instead of ice-lolly which is just madness.

One very very posh friend pronounces "really" as "rarely", and "grass" rhymes with "arse".

My Scottish friends laugh at my pronunciation of "pearl" which I say a bit like "purl". they say "peril".

One very very posh friend pronounces "really" as "rarely", and "grass" rhymes with "arse".

The former sounds quite posh to me, but the latter totally normal for my southern area, regardless of class.

It's al-mund. I teach this stuff and thought I knew pretty much most of the normal differences. But ahmond has blown my mind. Are you all posh?

I know someone who has given themselves a very posh accent. They say plastic as 'plarr stick'. I can't lie, it makes me giggle (in my head) a little when they do.

Something that I’ve noticed recently more and more is women (in my mind “wimmin” ) being pronounced like woman (w’muhn). Has anyone else noticed this?

I think it's always been said either way Lemono. Though I had a teacher who said 'woe-men'. Which I feel is fairly unusual.

To think there are English teachers pronouncing Little Women as “little woman” with no difference between singular and plural BLOWS MY MIND.

”ahmond has blown my mind. Are you all posh?”

Blimey no! I just canvassed DH who is way posher than me and he pronounces the l apparently.

Oh sorry. Didn't read your post property Lemono, thought you were talking about different ways women could be said.

Women said like woman is odd.

Don’t get me started on Wetherspoons, moustaches and marsh mallows.

There was a brilliant one on radio 4 a few weeks ago. There was a series called Plastic Fantastic. In my accent these rhyme, but more importantly the program makers clearly think they rhyme. The continuity chap insisted on calling it Plarrrrrstic Fantastic

Laughing at OSStralia and ORstralia for the country when the natives come from Stralia, and don't forget about Serf Efrica and I totally agree the "R" is very important in Norn Iron.

Entirely nitpicking, but they bloody aren’t. In most rhotic and non-rhotic accents I’m familiar with, the vowel sound in ah and ar is pretty similar if not identical - the difference is that the ‘r’ is pronounced in rhotic accents.

I think what I was trying to get across was the length of the vowel sound in the non-rhotic 'ar' but of course we are all stymied by our own accents and where we talk in our mouths! So 'Ah' is a short vowel sound whereas for me the 'aw' represents the longer somewhat strangulated vowel sound I hear when a non-rhotic person drops their 'r's. So e.g. murder said mu'deh is to my ears as wrong as butter said as bu'err is to the OP.

Love the confusion over walk, pork, fork. My kids think it's hilarious that I can't hear the diference between a long and short 'oo'. I come from the north of Scotland and my vowels are all shifted vs RP.

Laughing at OSStralia and ORstralia for the country when the natives come from Stralia

Do we?

In my accent, here, hear, year and ear all sound the same

@longwayoff, thanks for The Chaos.

My late father pronounced ‘pizza’ as pizz (to rhyme with fizz) ah.

Enjoy tooflethe, hours of fun ahead

jcyclops: "Laughing at OSStralia and ORstralia for the country when the natives come from Stralia, and don't forget about Serf Efrica and I totally agree the "R" is very important in Norn Iron"

Whether you're right or not, that opens a different debate as to if a place should be pronounced like the 'natives' or not. 'Pa-ree' v 'Pa-ris'.

Where are you from jcyclops?

Just seen the inner almond thread on here! Brilliant yes it's ' armond'not almond when someone says almond I hear a ' utoh' sound in my head a bit like the sound on family fortunes when they get the answer incorrect! Also can't understand people saying 'lilack' instead if lilac that one just makes people sound thick. Haven't noticed the glottlestop thou will have to listen out for it now.