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.

[DarlingNikita]

erb for herb really annoys me but, as someone else says, is probably older than 'herb', deriving from Elizabethan/Jacobean times, so I feel I have to let it off!

What really annoys me is people getting words/names slightly wrong: Kirsten Scott-Thomas, remenants for remnants etc.

[bluebeck]

Everyone I know says Fann - see. No uh sound in it at all

[SalemBlackCat]

"What annoys me most? is the way? that Aussies? make everything? into a question?"

Fair enough. Queensland, the state I live in, has a habit of doing that. Basically ending almost statement with a rising inflection, so it sounds like as if they are asking a question all the time.

See? It doesn't bother me, I don't take offence if someone knocks my accent. Which is why I said 'have at it'. Tell me how we pronounce things that piss you off. I'm not personally offended or defensive unlike many on here. It is supposed to be a light-hearted thread.

[SalemBlackCat]

@FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast Wow. So sorry you are taking this so personally and getting so offended.

Backs away slowly and exits door/thread slowly.

[ElsieMc]

My late dm used to pronounce Miama - My-Aarmy as though you were joining the army. At first I didn't get what she meant but she never changed. When I was at school our English teacher pronounced food as "Fud". We all used to laugh at her but she didn't care.

I pronounce yoghurt as yog-urt rhyming with jog. I have heard it pronounced on tv as Yowg-urt.

On holiday in Cornwall I thought we were going out for the day to Fow-ee (as in Wow). Seems I was wrong and we were in fact going to Foy (Fowey). Oh dear.

[WarPigeon]

The very fact that people (including Teachers 🤦‍♀️) believe that ‘pronounciation’ is a word and not a mispronunciation of the word ‘pronunciation’.

[AnExcellentUsername]

@salem we're not getting overly defensive but you keep harping on about UK accents sound like x and can't seem to accept they're not all the same. Unless by "UK accents" you actually mean "English accent like the one posted in the link".

[FourFriedChickensDryWhiteToast]

great discussion tactic ?- when someone points out you might be wrong or inaccurate? - start acting as though they are weird and say passive aggressive things? like
'backs out slowly' or whatever?

[SalemBlackCat]

It is rather hard to have a discussion when some are quite hostile and are very defensive. Very passive-aggressive in itself. So rather projecting.

Bye.

[liz70]

Ta ra (sounds like "tuh rah"), Salem.

[whiskeysourpuss]

I'm stood in my kitchen saying fancy over & over again & demanding that the kids also say the word so I can listen to them they think I've finally lost the plot but none of us say funcy wee all say fancy

[longwayoff]

Crying out loud chicken, go and eat your lunch. People are entitled to voice their opinions without being ammered for it .

[whiskeysourpuss]

It is rather hard to have a discussion when some are quite hostile and are very defensive. Very passive-aggressive in itself. So rather projecting.

Bye.

Nope posters are just pointing out that there is no UK accent there's thousands of the bloody things & they all sound different but you are insistent that every single person in the UK pronounce a word the same when this thread has already proven exactly the opposite

[flowery]

Rofl at “funcy”

Never in my life heard anyone use anything other than a short ‘a’ sound in fancy, like cat sat bat map etc

No idea how anyone’s hearing an ‘u’, or what accent that would be in!

[liz70]

Funcy thut!

[ChuffingNorah]

I might start using fun-cy just to annoy Salem. Not that we're ever likely to meet.

[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?

[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!

[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')

[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…

[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!

[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.

[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.

[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...

[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