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.

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.

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

"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.

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

Backs away slowly and exits door/thread slowly.

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.

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

@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".

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?

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.

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

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

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

*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

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!

Funcy thut!

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

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?

"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!

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')

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…

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!

@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.

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.

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...

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